The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-10

followed. Shortly before the last city cleo
ton / was instructed to catch Philip Hon.
bauer, Hill avenue and Arsenal avenue, II
possible, in the violation Of some low and
If we found him open ten minutes after IL
O'Clock to run him in. a night or two after
I received that order I called the attention
of Sergeant Lowe TO the fact, and showed
him on the ground, that the saloon OF jim
mic Malloy, across the street from Hoff-
baueris, was then and there open and run
ming at twenty minutes past ! O'Clock in
the morning. and when he looked in at the
window at the time there were three men
standing at the bar drinking I told the
sergeant that We ought TO go in and get
him. but he said no. it would be better TO
make a report of IL. / did make the re-
port and never heard anything further
from 1t. Since Mr.. Quigley has been su-
perintendent the laws governing saloon
keepers. against gambling, dice-throwing,
policy-playing and other like offenses have
been enforced only spasmodically and ir-
regularly and against certain persons and
places. but there has been no pretense OF
enforcing IL regularly and systematically
and impartially. / have seen beer wagons
unload beer on Sunday at Maurice Donnel-
ly's saloon, within thirty feet of Superin-
tendent Quigley's office. and since said sa-
loon has been opened it has been wide
open every Sunday
extracts from several other ~affidavits
were included in the report of Mr.. Milli-
gan.
ALL QUIET PLACES.
1.-The places thus singled out were. as Is
shown, among the quietest and best places
of the kind in the city. and their offense
was not in violating the law, because other
saloons were violating the law at the same
time openly and publicly. At the very time
these men were being hunted and laid for
there was a saloon run wide open within
the shadow of the police headquarters.
This place was constantly open after hours
and open on Sunday, and beer wagons
openly drew up and unloaded beer there
on Sunday, and the police officers, in go
ing out with these slips, passed by the door
of this saloon, and the superintendent OF
police passed the same every time he vert
TO his office, and yet 1t was not molested.
The reason was, it is owned and operated
by a member of the beer trust.
"A lot of Jew saloon and barrel mouse
keepers bought outside beer; they were ar
rested and harassed for offenses that were
overlooked In the saloons handling trust
beer. They were threatened with the en-
forcement of the pure food law on account
of the bad whisky 1t was claimed they
handled. What was the result? Simply
that the independent saloon keepers sur
rendered. Did they obey the law better?
Not at all. They bought peace by shutting
off the independent beer and by buying the
trust beer. Their ~offenses were forgiven,
and whereas, when they bought beer In
the open market, the police laid on them,
when they bought MY trust beer the
police laid Off them. The man VINO mao
fifty customers for Dayton beer, among
whom were the places named above, CHAR
ley Sites, James Madden, Charlie Schef-
fendecker and Frederick Hinnekamp lost
all his customers. and whereas, before tne
city administration took up arms In the
beer war he had a fiourishing business,
after that his market was ruined. he closed
his business and his place is now idle.
HAD TO LET GO.
1.-THE Jews became frightened and had
to let go of the Chicago beer and buy from
the trust, so that the traffic in independent
beer was almost entirely stopped by the
aid of the police department. The beer
trust not only shut off competition by the
assistance of the police department, but
it or some Of its prominent members seem
to control the collection of the license fee
due the city. One saloon on West Wash
ington street was open about five months
and never took out any license, but paid
81 per week to the Terre Haute Brewing
Company for license. The city has a IL
cense inspector whose business 1t is to see
that no saloon is run without license, but
in this case at least the brewery collected
s145 solely, as shown by it's receipts, for IL
cense, but no license was issued and no.
money was paid to the city.
These matters have nothing to do with
the ordinary beer question nor with any
controversy about how far the State should
regulate the liquor traffic. They have to DO
with the impartial administration or the
law. which is a Fundamental principle OF
government, and the astounding lengths to
which this city administrator mas USED
the police department to aid a trust organ
lied to crush out competition must shock
the sense of any one who cares about free
government. 1t Is the same thing as has
prevailed so largely in New York city,
where blackmail was collected from law
breakers and when license to do business
was granted by and the price therefor was
paid to the Tammany society and not to
the city.
WITH RELENTLESS FURY.
"The police department. which pursued
with relentless fury the saloons using In
dependent beer. has given greater latitude
to gambling and policy playing; the old
system of granting indulgences has been
revived by this department.; those who
stand i'm with the administration are per-
mitted to violate the law. This is especial
ly true of a form of gambling known as
policy playing, which is carried IN largely
among poor people. Some instances lave
come to light where the police superin-
tendent has been notified of the persons
and places where and by who the games
are carried on in which husbands and sons
are dissipating the money necessary for
the support of their families and where
wives and children in distress have ap-
pealed to the police department. The only
result of such notice or appeals appears
to have been a mild admonition by the SUI
perintendent to the operators to be more
careful The order quoted above reqCir-
ing patrolmen to keep out of saloons has
given a free hand to policy players, crap
shooters and gamblers generally, and IL is
a notorious fact that these games lave
fourishe6 under this administrator with
the apparent approval of the police de-
partment. / quote from the affidavit of
Charles II. Thurston. made Jan. 5, 1900:
I'm the last of January or the first of
February. 1899, l played three numbers in
a policy game conducted by Ollie Lanham
in the old Sentinel building, corner of Me-
ridian and Circle streets, in Indianapolis.
These numbers were officially reported to
me as having won. Ed Foil was the
carrier in connection with the game. On
receiving this report j went up to the head
was due upon the numbers. L saw Ollie
Lanham and he refused TO pay, claiming
those numbers had not been played. / told
Lankam that / would report the matter
to Superintendent Quigley n he
answered: See Quigley and be damned;
We don't care anything about Quigley." /
then reported the matter to Quigley. and
he asked which place IL was and / told him..
He then said: TIL see Ollie about il and
you come back in a few days" In a few
days / went back to Quigley and he said:
Il haven't had time to see Ollie yet. but
you go over there and tell him / said he
had better pay you" L gave Quigley's
message to Ollie Lanham and he told me
tc go to hell; that he wasn't going to
nav it' y .
POOL ROOMS.
"For years, with a brief interval, a horse