The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-08-21
TAYLOR BEGINS
WITH OUST|NG
POLICE BOARD
Scf1raitz Commission Re-
moved Because It Has
Stood by Dinan
SAYS CHIEF IS UNFIT
Vice Shall Not Rule City,
Announces the New
Executive
OLD MEMBERS UGLY
Force May Be Used to Keep
Successors Out of
Office
OLD MEMBERS UGLY

Mayor Edward R. Taylor removed
the Schnnitz board of police commission
ers yesterday on the sole and suficient
ground that it had stood by Chief Of
Police Dinan, who. the mayor says, is
notoriousiy unfit for the ONCE
Secretary Harry e McKannay sf
Taylor's Office served the notice on
Commissioners A NJ wsllen, Thomas
f. Finn and John l.. Moore, and fled
the charges against them with the
board of supervisors. Commissioner
William r. Hagerty lodged service, but
will be located today.
1t may be confidently expected that
the first act of the board that Mayor
Taylor will appoint will be to remove
Dinan and select a new chief OF police.
In, stating his reasons for removing
Dinan's sponsors Taylor practically de-
clared his policy in regard to policing
the city and sounded knells for the ten
derioin in the residence district, for
the issuance of liquor permits to ques-
tionable resorts and for the continuance
of gambling.
Today, it is expected, Mayor Taylor
wifi name his new board. The decapi
tated commissioners are holding their
heads in place with one hand and fight
ing for Office with the other, surrounded
by a staff of ready attorneys. Should
Taylor name his commission today and
the new members seek to take office
in the rooms at 81 Eddy street, they
will be met, in all probability. by fore
ible resistance from Dinan and his
trusty men.
Taylor admitted yesterday that he
had under consideration for appoint
ment as police commissioners Joseph A.
Leggett. the attorney and single tax
advocate; A. d. Cutler. vice president
Of the Metropolitan trust company;
Charles A. Sweigert, an attorney, and
Hugo d. Keil. retired merchant who
was formerly with Goldberg. Bowen
& Co.
OMAN TO RESIST NEW BOARD
Dinan knows that as soon as the
Taylor board takes its place his star
will set, SO he will fight hard to keep
the duly appointed men from the places
of the legally removed gangsters. That
will furnish the new San Francisco
paradox of police force preventing its
superiors from assuming control over it.
The notice that Secretary McKannay
served on the three commissioners. and
which contained Mayor Taylor's views
on public morality was as follows:
Pursuant to law and to- the pro-
visions of the charter of the city and
county of San Francisco l do hereby
remove you from the Office of police
commissioner in and for said city and
county and as a member of the board
of police commissioners IN and for said
city and county. The cause for said
removal is as follows:
you, with youroassociates in office,
have retained in Office as chief of police
of said city and county jeremiah f.
unfit for said office. He has shown
himself to be lacking in. that character
and efficiency which are necessary for.
one to possess in order to discharge
properly his duties in office.
'He is now and has been ever since
he assumed the duties of his ONCE an
associate of persons Of slow character
and does not possess either the respect
or confidence of his subordinates: he is
utterly lacking in either the disposition
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