The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
TRIED TO WIN IRON.
Reach Promised to "Open" Town il
He Would Support HOFFMAN.

OF the lis persons arrested by the police
yesterday afternoon in the Kingston sa-
loon in the raid on the poOlroom. it is
known that many were innocent onloOkers,
who. as one person expressed it, do not
know a horse from a rabbit. The police
department is generally criticised for sub
hitting many of these to the ignominy Of
4 ride in the patrol wagon and the subse-
quent annoyance and embarrassment Of
detention at the police station until they
were bailed out 1t is stated that many
who were ARRESTED were strangers in the
city who were in the saloon with the Sat
urday afternoon crowd. preliminary to the
big football game that scheduled to
take place at Washington Park at PAS.
The impression is general that by the
raid on the pOolroom and the arrest OF
more than hundred persons found in the
Kingston, the administration is revenging
itself upon William Iron, Michael w.
Toomey and others who refused to sup
port Hoffman for mayor, but stood stead
fast TO the Republican cause in the heat of
the campaign
which the arrests were made. had the fol-
lowing 10 say last night: I'm a spirit of
fairness 4 had no criticism to make of the
administration before the action taken last
night. L assert, however, that the raid yes
terday was made not for the purpose of
reform but simply in revenge for the fact
that Mr. Toomey, myself and others con-
nected with the National District Tele-
graph Company refused 10 pay any heed 10
the inducements held out to us by Reach,
Polster, Hoffman and others connected
with the Democratic organization.
KEACH MADE PROMISES.
"Jim Reach came TO me before the cleo
ton and said, Iron. you are 4 good fellow,
and we want to stand well with you. 1t
would not pay us to get in bad with you
or with your friends. 1 have just this much
to say, that If you will do the right thing
you can go ahead with your saloon at any
old hours you want to; you can run your
poolroom and you can do business upstairs
and there won't be n word said about it
by Mr. Hoffman or his police superintend-
ent or anybody else. You will be 1t IL you
will do the right thing by us All this was
said to me ut Fair Bank in the summer.
had not II word to say TO MIR. Reach be-
cause / am "A Republican and was an earn
est supporter of Mr.. Bookwalter, who had
no such suspicious proffers 10 make.
"A little later Elmer Long, bartender
nj English's Hotel, came TO Henry Can
non and told him that Mr.. Holtzman want
ed TO see me and have talk with me. Gan
non told me about the conversation and /
replied that / did no. think IL was any use
to talk TO Iioltzman because everybody
knew where | stood. that l was for Book
walter and that no promises Of Democrats
to let the town run wide open would have
the Invitation OF Mr. Hoffman and turned
his implied offer down. as l did the one
made by Reach
''The cold facts about the matter are
that while these fellows were telling the
people OF indianapolis that they were
going to reform the city, they were COM
ing to me. saying that they would let me
or any of my friends, violate the law in
any way We saw fit, and we would not be
interfered with. ! am not saying this in
anger. but simply because there is use
to conceal these nasty truths any longer.
LAS TO the Injustice of some of the ar
rests made yesterday afternoon they are
manifest. For instance, three men came
into the front of my saloon and asked
me where the toilet room was. / showed
them and they went to the basement. The
police arrived. closed the place, refused
To listen 10 anybody and arrested these
men with the rest, refusing To listen To
their explanation.
More than that. I am prepared to tes-
tify that they treated people with unnec-
esSary rouGhness, threatening citizens with
their clubs, and ordering everybody around
as IL they were arresting - set OF crimi-
mails.
This case will be fought out in the
courts whore il belongs. L have no threats
OF any kind To make. but i insist that sim
pie justice shall be done il it takes so. 0JC
OF my money to accomplish it,"