Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-05

lstratloa. General Bingham expected
to get some post where his ability rs a
civil engineer l.:ight be employed. 10
his surprise, when he arrived in New
York the mayor offered him the police
commissionership- that autocratic Of
fee once held by the other Theodore,
now in the White House.
About tie als. tAing Commissioner
Bingham GIG after be took the oath OF
Office was to abolish the ''s,ioo fly"
squad ESTABLISHED some years before
by Commissioner Roosevelt to SPY up.
on policemen and see If they were do
| ing their duty.
Then lie called together tie police in
spectoGs. captains and othe: command
ing officers AID made u little improIp-
tn speech which would 50 doN'a to as
! tory az; classic Of common sense We're
it not for the fact that it contains
tinker's dam and several stronger ex-s
pletives which render it unfit for repro
duction in any great religious journal.
Stripped of most Of its epithetical
verbiage,. this speech runs about thus:
"Men, I'm glad to meet yoa. You
look like a manly lot of officers. l love
a man. try to be u man myself. I've
been sent fo- to come here and do a
certain piece of work, and I'm going to
do it N I can. and If I've the strength.
l want to talk to you heart to heart.
We are strangers now, and I come here
with nothing against you, no sns-
picions, and we start on the level; but,
by the nine gods of wa", you've got to
deal with ne. on the level, as shall
deal with you. You know what that
means. don't care tinker's dam for
pull. 1 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 a 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, sportsmanlike 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 it 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 10 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 it meant. And it startled
them, honest man and CRATER alike
Here was a new sort Of head on the
police department. He was no orator
as Brutus was, or McAdoo, his i'm
mediate predecessor. but only plain
blunt man-yes, exceedingly blunt
And every police commander in tina,
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. II. 5sss
q The Verb ITO Bingham
/ For time the newspapers had fur
with Bingham because of the Gus:
words in his inaugural address,. They
coined a new verb, ito Bingham
which means to talk as if you mean 1t
Commissioners Bingham appointed :
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
man who knew something about tn,
police force, which he himself did not
The new commissioner was SO reticen
! as to his plans that one Of the news
papers announced that his favorit
motto was. Tread softly and carry
big gag" - VI
General Bingham now has had lii
tie more than a year in his new role
= He had neither friends nor enemies i
: New York when he arrived there. NOV
he has plenty Of both and probabl
, some to spare in each class. But b
a still has nearly three years to serve
!. and circle of observers vastly large
than New York is watching with inter
. est the novel experiment Of putting
! non-New Yorker, nonpolitician, a
ex-soldier and an ex-society autocra
q at the head Of the metropolitan polio
force ~ z1
, General Bingham is a graduate g
8 both Yale and West Point He ha
e been military attache Of our legation
= at Berlin and Rome He has see
d years Of service on the plains, partic,
|. larry in Arizona, of which territory b
made a minute and remarkable maj
) He married Miss Lucille Rutherford {
3 st. Louis in 1881 and has one son. Fl
is Yankee from Connecticut, but use
'. the s'you all'' language of the south /
le his ordinary conversation and smoke
a big bulldog pipe that looks like a
10 Arizona pocket gun. He has etiquett
i on tap for any function from camp I
y court, and we have seen that he ca
d make speech when he has somethin
. to say. s
& The people Of New York expect tt
20 Black Hand to be pretty stifiy Bin