Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-22
reform IN ST. LOUIS
Shake Up Of the Police Depart
ment of the Missouri Metro
polls Begun
CHIEF KELLY A MARKED MAN
Governor Folk Wants the Department
as Near Model as Human Nature
Will Permit-st. Louis Police Said
to be Corrupt and Part Of Political
Machine.

st. Louis Jan. 22.-The most search
ing investigation and far-reaching re-
form ever attempted in large city in
the country has been planned and is
to be put into practice in the police
department of this city.
Governor Folk said to Andrew 6.
Mawney last month, after appointing
him to membership in the police
board:
Make the ST. Louis police depart
ment as near a model as human nature
will permit. majority of the board
will back you up. Use your own
methods; but clean up the depart
ment."
Maroney is lawyer. He had wide
knowledge of practical politics, knew
four-fif of the 1900 police PERSONAL
ly, had been Folks right arm in the
Doodle prosecutions and knew nothing
but his oath of office in his public
work. He shut his eyes, steeled his
heart and started down the police
RANKS III d straight IOuoy liz
force, which for years has been an adj
junct of a corrupt political machine
is in a cold sweat. A score of grating
policemen have been officially guiflo-
tined. The work has only begun.
Scores Of others are on the list for de-
capitation. The political and business
interests that have tried to protect dis
honest policemen are learning that eV-
cry attempt to boost this kind is q
knock with the Maroney administra-
ton.
Chief Marked Man.
Chief Kelly is marked The ways
on which he is to be skidded out Of
office are being creased. He has a
commission that runs three years yet,
and under the law he can be removed
on charges only. The police board is
the arbiter Of what constitutes suffc-
lent cause for removal. There is no
charge that Kiely has profited pecuni-
arily from his office beyond his sal
airy. lie was selected by the police
board that was dominated by Henry
H. Halves and owes his job to his will
ingness to do Halves bidding. Halves
was the paid attorney Of the TILES
Cella-Adler gambling trust-the in
fiuence that has done more to corrupt
St Louis police and politics and poll
tics than any other. The Tilles-Cella-
Adler crowd, thru Halves and Kelly,
was, de facto chief Of the police. The
exit of Kiely will follow the finding of
a man to take his place. AS soon as
Folk was elected governor Chief OF
Kiely sought him out and asked to be
retained. The governors answer in eff
feet was:
"Why should you be retained?"
Kelly gave his reasons.
The governor said:
you have done the bidding Of poll
ticians heretofore, but you were fol-
lowing the system that had been in
vogue for years. I'll give you trial"
Tried; Found Wanting.
The test soon came in the form of
the fight made by Governor Folk and
Circuit Attorney Sager to close the
race tracks Of the Tilles-Cella-A Adler
crowd. Kelly declared the police, al
though under the metropolitan" sys-
TEN, had no jurisdiction outside the
city limits. Then the governor began
to put the screws to the chief and
pressure became strong enough to force
him into action. BY following this
policy Kelly wrote his official death
warrant.