Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-06-24

G.OOO licensed saloOnkeepers. Why
should the salOonkeepers in other dis
tricts be compelled to pay license
fee Of $500 per year and high-toned
Blind Pigs in the Hyde Park district
sell liquor without any license at all?
Inspector Nick Hunt Is always a
Republican when the Republicans are
In power; always a Democrat when
the Democrats are in power-so far as
the pay roll is concerned. He is al
ways Republican with Republicans.
and a Democrat with Democrats mt
all times. So that no matter who
wins he Is the man who did the trick.
This is getting to be a Joke.
The idea of turning the whole Chi.
| cago police force over to the tender
mercy of the Blind Pig Division is
abhorrent to all good citizens.
Police graft and police grafters are
doomed under the present city admins
| tratiOn.
Both must go, and go quickly, and
those who have been engaged in the
levy of the tribute of vice will have Il
hard time of 1t covering up their tracks
IL the investigation into police graft
methods now said to ue on foot is car.
ried out along the full and sweeping
lines of inquiry reported to he in con-
temptation by the city authorities.
| The men who have made of the 20.
lice Department for years. simply
means for the accumulation of wealth
and a stepping stone to political power
without regard to the means or meth.
DDS employed. have, as everybody
knows, worked injury TO the great Chi.
cagO police force that Is almost IRE.
parable, and sudden halt Is to be
called upon them aud their methods.
These men. most, IL not all. of them
officials of the department. will, 1t Is
said, be fortunate II they escape with
an opportunity to step down and out
of their positions, for II the invcstgn-
ton is to go the extent now said TO be
contemplated, the police force grafters
may find themselves subject to a
storm of public indignation, which
may result In something much more
severe than dismissal from the force.
The investigation of police graft and
police grnfters WILL II present reported
plans are followed out. be carried on
without any brass band arrangement,
and will be therefore all the more
thorough ana successful.
Its results will he all the more sur
prising and beneficial both to the force
ana the public when they are made
known ana go into effect.
1t IL the unanimous opinion OF good
citizens that 1t Is time such action was
taken.
The people demand that the Chicago
police force be purged of grafters, and
a reprOach that has been a stain upon
the escutcheon Of the city thereby
wiped of.
The people look to Mayor Dunno for
this reform. and he could do nothing
that would please them better or add
more to his own popularity.
The spectacle of police officials ac-
cumulating great wealth upon very
moderate salaries Is one to which the
public has not been blind. Neither
have the heads Of successive city gov
ernments Of the past been ObliviOus Of
the incOngruity of the thing. but while
this extraordinary condition Of affairs
had been either ignored or winked at
In the past. 1t IL reassuring to the pub
lie to know that Chicago now has a
city administration that will do neither
the one nor the other.
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Mayor Dunno. 1t Is declared on good
authority, is determined that the pub.
lie Of this city shall no longer be
amazed ana disguised mt open graft
Ing on the police force. with its cOnse.
quent detriment to the public morals
as we'll as the business interests Of
Chicago.
1t Is claimed that information of a
definite character Is being received.
showing that among the methods
which are said to have rOtted the 20.
lice force Mt the top and permeated It
to Its very roots, paralyZed Its effi.
cheney ana rendered Its name a by.
word throughout the country are:
federation Of blind pigs, which are
run In open violation of law without
let or hindrance and In large numbers
In certain police districts.
The unrestricted sale Of liquor to
minors In blind pigs and other Illegal
ly conducted places.
Handbook making I'm various re.
sorts said to be favored by certain high
police officials.
Overfrlendly relations between 20.
lice officers and prominent gamblers.
who pursue their avOcations without
Interference on the part of the police.
Gambling of all kinds from crap
games ana stud poker to horse racing
In protected" resorts of vice In cer-
tain police districts.
Active participation in politics by
certain police officials. to the extent of
these officials assuming and dscharg.
Ing the popularity understood functions
authority and other attributes of n DO.
litlcal machine boss.
Nepotlsm in the department where