The daily sentinel., 1907-01-10
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looms. This second petition. explain
ed Attorney Greer. is signed by &
/ large number of business men of the
city. showing, so this attorney and
\ his clients believe. that the business
men were to large extent in favor
of the revokal. This list of petition
ers did not by any means embrace
the larger proportion of the city
business men. Attorney Greer ask
ed that action be taken at once, that
the license committee report the mat
ter settled.
Mayor Bunting then opened the
matter for general discussion.
Rev. James A. Becker. most active
in the fight against Purcell. made
very impassioned appeal to the
council to revoke the license, setting
forth a large number of reasons why
such action should be taken He de
clared that several times in the past
few years Purcell and ]. e. Dulmaine
had been arrested for selling liquor
to minors and he believed the Ii
cense of the former should be revok-
ed and that the latter be not allowed
new licebse.
In the course of his remarks Rev
Becker took occasion to deal with the
dangers that surround the moral well
fare of the young men and women of
the city. He spoke of the contents of
oil laff Aa h. gfa To
ment that the daughters of certain
prominent citizens had visited
house of i'll fame. The way the min
lister talked left an impression that
moral purposes. Mayor Bunting in
terrupted the speaker, having been
shown the letter on former occasion
and told him that he should explain
fully and asked him if 1t was not ,
fact that these girls went to the back
window of the house to leave let
ter for a former companion of theirs
that had gone wrong but did not en-
ter the house nor did the letter state
they had gone there for immoral pur-
poses. Rev. Becker stated that this
was so. Rev. Becker did not men
tion the name of the person that
wrote this letter but City Attorney
Coles arose and declared that the
same was written by an inmate of
one of the houses who had been in
jured in fight. Attorney Coles did
not mlnce words in handling the mat
ter Alderman John O'Boyle in n
strong talk declared that Rev. Beck
er and his associates We're attempting
to make "butting post" of the coun-
ell. He and Alderman Smith de-
nounced to a certain extent the meth
DDS employed in this crusade by Rev.
Becker and others.
James Purcell of the Senate sa-
loon, and j. f. Dulmaine, of the st.
Regis Bar, also made short talks
in defense of their actions.
The discussion of these matters
were responsible for some pretty
dramatic scenes and situations.
The following report. refusing to
revoke the license, was presented by
the license committee signed by every
member of the committee. and the
report was adopted by unanimous
vote of the council:
Hon. Mayor and Gentlemen of this
Council
Your license committee respect
fully begs to report in the matter of
the petition to revoke the license of
James Purcell: That without any
desire to shirk their plain duty, nor
to protect those who are accused of
shirking theirs, We recommend that
the license of said James Purcell be
NOT revoked at the present.
We further recommend that the
prosecuting attorney and the police
force of our city be and are hereby
commanded to do their full duty by
enforcing the ordinances of this city
without fear or favor.
We respectfully submit that II is
the duties OF our police force to de-
vote their whole time to patroling
the streets, protecting life and prop
erty and guarding the morals as well
as the material interests of our city.
Therefore. we recommend that the
chief of police be requested to in
struct those under his authority to
perform their full duty as laid down
in the city ordinances.
We further recommend that this
council take such measures drastic If
necessary. to COMPEL all concerned to
enforce the laws as they exist.
JOHN o. BOYLE. Chairman.
f. IL. ALKIRE.
]. A. McCULLoCH.
Alderman o'Boyle in his discussion
of the campaign Rev. Becker and his
associates are carrying on used some
pretty cutting sarcasm in showing up
the inconsistency of the action of
some of these people. He declared
that the same men who are making
fight against James Purcell and
houses OF III fame signed petition
three weeks ago asking the city coun-
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