The Washington times., 1905-02-13
MACHINE MEuACEO
BY VICE CRUSADE
Philadelphia Boss to Try to
Save Police Director.
MAYOR MAY BE IMPEAcHED
Ministers Demand Resignation of
Smyth-Sermons Preached in All
Churches Yesterday.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13.-Israel W.
Durham political boss of Philadelphia,
has returned from Florida III response 10
frantic kilograms from his followers.
The vice crusade has split the Repub-
lfcan organization wide open and from
more than one hundred pulpits yester
day as many ministers called for an up
rising of the people.
In some of the wards the machine
workers are in revolt and the greatest
and most corrupt political organization
in the world is in peril of dissolution.
Convinced that the people will not per-
nit David j. Smyth, the director OF
public safety, to continue in his Office,
Mayor Weaver is seriously considering
the advisa bility of demanding his resig-
nation.
The mayor can remove the director at
will, and need do nothing more than
notify the select council of the action
taken. The select council cannot reverse
mis- act.
To Save Smyth.
| Durham was called i1cme for the ex-
| press purpose OF saving Smyth. On the
one side the mayor faces a genuine up
rising of the people and on the other he
| is threatened with refusals By the or
ganiza ton.
The outspoken threats against the
mayor are given peculiar significance at
this time. in the presence of $50 men
Judge Rush Jermon made the following
| statement last night:
''In my official capacity. L have had
| many opportunities OF learning things
| politically on The inside. One evening
| | was summoned to q large Office build
ing IN the city by man who had served
| or the jury that acquitted Samuel Saltef
-, ft.,r In. 1ba aTG
o. five other men this juror made the
| sworn statement that he had known
| two weeks before the Saiter trial thai
he was to serve on the jury, and that
his orders were to vote for acquittal.
no matter what the evidence,
He swore that ne was paid for his
services 800 IN cash, receiving IN addi-
ton an order on a furnishing store for
/ SO, a yearly pass a railroad. and a
promise that he would be taken care OF
for the rest of his life
Smyth the Man.
The SaIter case IS always recalled
more and more vigore as.y every tins
Mayor WeaV~r threatens to remove
Director Smyth, who has been identified
as the man wf1o really selected the Jury
to try Salter. Meeser, and Rodgers. the
officeholders accused of ballot-box stuff
ing who were acquitted by packed
jury.
Secretary Gibboney, of the Law and
Order Society, related the ciFcum-
stances of the raid made on the White
| slave. house conducted by Morris
Schwartz at 700 North Third street.
when Schwartz was arrested, Mr.
| Gibboney said, his first act was te
send for Daniel Frey, who is secretary
OF the Eleventh ward school board
Frey entered bail for the man, and as
the two returned from the station they
saw q knot of people in front oi
Pushing their way into the house
| Frey and Schwartz made their way up
stairs and in q room at the head of t1t
first flight they saw a frail little gir
of sixteen years beating the air ane
tearing her flesh. The girl was mad.
! Sights for a Child.
1T was brought out later that this
child for months before had been daily.
almost hourly, witness to the most re
voting and bestial performances in thi:
house, and that she was forced to par
| ticipate therein. After d time sht
seemed TO have conquered her natura
revulsion of these performances and did
as she was told without complaint Th'
raid awakened her to the possibilitie.
of her plight and her reason fed.
Frey entered bail for six or, eight o
the other girls in the house and StooG
by while this one Was being removed
TO the Philadelphia Hospital. where sh
e Is now raVing maniac
over 81 800 has been subscribed L
further the vice crusade, and unless Di
rector Smyth is removed by the mayo
proceedings in Impeachment VIII be. il
| all probability, resorted to.
Any thirty citizens may demand tn
Impeachment of the mayor, who, unde
2 the law, Is responsible for the goo
order and efficient government of tn
= city"
More than 100 clergymen of all de
nominations have adopted a resolution
e calling upon Mayor Weaver to deman
$ the resignation OF SmyIh who, the
. assert, is responsible for the preva1enc
of vice.