Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-01

with nothing against you, no sus-
picions, and we start on the level; but,
by the nine gods Of war, you've got to
deal with me on the level, as shall
deal with you. You know what that
means. don't care tInkers dam for
pull. I shall treat you on the square.
Any promotions will depend on your
selves. If you do your work you'll get
along with me, but you've got to be ON
the square with me. Any man who
sends man, woman or child to me for
him knocks himself. That settles that
right here. That's straight tip You
have fine, manly men among you. You
look manly, and I'll treat you as you
appear. Count on that. We won't
start out suspecting you. There will
be no spying on you. If you are manly
men, sportsmanllke men, treat me the
same 1t does me good to look at YOU
Men. If you only show up as you look
this town will get what 1t wants and
pays for. See to.it that you do your
work, and don't go back on the hand
I've stretched out to you"
There was no whipping the devil
around the stump in that little GRAFTON.
1t was straight cut from the clavicle.
1t went biff, bang, bing Bingham.
The men understood it without, asking
for an explanatory diagram. They
knew what 1t meant And 1t startled
them, honest man and CRATER alike.
Here was new sort of head on the
police department. He was no orator.
as Brutus was, or McAdoo, his Inn
mediate predecessor, but only plain.
blunt man-yes, exceedingly blunt.
And every police commander In that
group knew that each Of those nine
gods of war thus invoked, whoever
they might be, would stand by the
man OF war who was now their abso-
lutte commander.
The Verb ITO Bingham"
For time the newspapers had fun
with Bingham because Of the cuss
words in his inaugural address. They
coined a new verb, ITO Bingham"
which means to talk as II you mean 1t.
Commissioner Bingham appointed a
New York police reporter, Daniel Stat
terry, as his private secretary. He new
er had seen Slattery until the new sec
rotary reported for duty. He wanted
a man who knew something about the
police force, which he himself did not
The new commissioner was SO reticent
as to his plans that one Of the news
papers announced that his favorite
motto was, thread softly and carry a
big gag"
General Bingham now has had lit
tie more than year in his new role.
He had neither friends nor enemies In
New York when he arrived there. Now
he has plenty of both and probably
some to spare in each class. But he
still has nearly three years to serve.
and a circle Of observers vastly larger
than New York Is watching with inter
est the novel experiment Of putting a
non New Yorker, a nonpolitician, an
ex-ssldier and an ex-society autocrat
at the head Of the metropolitan police
force.
General Bingham Is graduate Of
both Yale and West Point He has
been military attache Of our legations
at Berlin and Rome. He has seen
years of service on the plains, particu-
larry in Arizona, of which territory he
made minute and remarkable map.
He married Miss Lucille Rutherford Of
ST. Louis in 1881 and has one son. He
is a Yankee from Connecticut, but uses
the you all" language Of the south in
his ordinary conversation and smokes
a big bulldog pipe that looks like an
Arizona pocket gun. He has etiquette
on tap for any. function from camp to
court, and we have seen that he can
make speech when he has something
to say.
E The people OF New York expect the
Black Hand to be pretty stifly Bling
banned before the Bingham police adj
ministration goes out. and great
many other people elsewhere cherish
the same>expectation. II General Bing
hams efforts in this direction shall do
something toward making It more diff
cult for European criminals to break
into the United States, all Of us must
give him thanks, whether we be ma
tives or foreign born citizens.
And this brings to mind the reply
General Bingham made when some
body asked him his politics: 4:
my politics I'm an American"'