The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27

doing business.
Some years ago there WA great outcry
in Toledo because the Sunday closing lave
were not enforced. Thereupon JonsA
who was then Mayor. enforced every SUN
day closing ordinance on the city books
Not q shop was open. not a glass of sofa
water. q newspaper or a cigar could be
purchased. not Q show Of any description
be ssen. AZ the end Of three weeks the
Council repealed every Sunday closing
ordinance in Toledo. and there has never
been ono there since.
One day last winter . young man was
arrested and sent to the workhouse as
. vaGrant. Not long after the amount OF
his fine and transportation 10 his home
arrived from his parentS. in another
State. Chief Knapp tel~phoned out tn
the workhouse to send the hoy in. hut
found that he was working on n distant
part Of the boulevard. where he could
not he reached before the close OF the
day.
The chief ordered hia buggy and drove
nut and brought the boy bark in time 70
catch the ? O'Clock train for home. That
is the spirit that prevails throughout the
Toledo city administration.
the Police Magistrate has given a dinner
TO all the persons paroled under the pro-
hation officers of his court. NJ which the
probatiOners were among the after din
ner speakers. along with clerGymen.
Judges and other representative citizfns.
The same Police Magistrate sentenced him
self and his probation officers in per-
fectIy formal and legal manner TO one
day in the city workhOuse in order that
they might 20 through the exact routine
and So just What prisoners were sen
fenced to.
There was q strike of 600 employees
in one Of the factories in Toledo three
years ago. II was partly a sympathetic
strike and partly q mad strike There
vas anger and had blood on both sides.
The morning the men went out repre~en-
tatives Of the company called upon the
Mayor 10 demand protection for their
plant and for their strive bre' kers.
The Mayor said: Your works and
any one working IN them will be pro-
teCsed The police 81 Toledo have al
ways been able 10 maintain order in the
streets and they will do Il now. II they
cant then some other maans will have "a
be found No slugging or disturbance
| will be allowed on either side. But u
You bring a single Pinkerton detective
into this town we will arrest him and put
him in Jail We're not going to have any
Homestead riots in Toledo. and you
cannot use the police Of Toledo To break
your strike Am the Mayor - the whole
people. and I will not permit the police
20 take sides
The representatives went away dis
pleased. asserting that there would he
riots around the factory az the closing
hour The police we're masss.d at the
factory gates AZ that hour and the Mayor
himself was on the ground Order Wa
preserved. but the Mayor felt that IL vas
up TO him to end the strike.
He got a very popular and we'll known
citizen who had no interest in either side
to work with him and for days they held
alternate meetings with both sides. Al
the end Of one week the men were back
az work on terms accepted 10y both sides
The non-partisan movement which
elected Jones four times in Toledo and
has recently elected Whitlock for ths
third time never assesses its candidate.
Friendly persons make voluntary con
tributions for necessary expenses. and
after election the candidates send IN a
hill for their campai gn expenses AfteI
one 81 his elections Mayor WhltloCk' .
hill was ~ cents for carfare
He has never one. a. ked any person
to vote for him or his party In ms
speeches h. always explains the politica
situation a. he $685. ~ and then SAYS
Now. is your business 10 vote for this
persons that Won think will protect your
81 a. kaN AZ "a,
are for
The affection 81 the masses of tbs
voting population IN ToleSio for Whitlocl
IL exhibited in several ways. The non
partisan movement always has bis
tent where ~ holds nightly NESTING
during the campaign Mr.. WhrtlocI
il known to b@ Of delicate constitution
and when he gets up to speak in the ten
there are always cries % Put On you
hat. Brand Ioull catch cold -Pu
on yuur hat. Brand has become a cam
. pAiRn joke IN Toledo.
Everybody IN Toledo calls h" Mayo
Brand and the extent to which habie
are named Brand. or Nell after Mrs Whit
, lock. among the foreign population b
amazing Mrs Whitlock goes to ever!
campaign meeting aud accompanies tn
Mayor whenever he goes away from hon'
to make a sp~ech In fouTte-n year
81 married life they have never spen
an entire day apart
Despite her absorption in her husband
career Mrs Whitlock IL n suhrRgis'
and th. Mayor often makes Sp.~ch''
for the suffragists A. he did for Mrs
MackAy'- leagu" recently.
Mr.. Whitlock IL continually Calle'
!. upon to perform wedding Ceremoni"
" and to preach funeral sermons for HI
y constituents This II compatible witt
his legal rights. bu, when young for
eiRn couple appeared AZ his house on
:. morning befor,. breakfast and insiste'
that he hAptixe their first infant tn
! Mayor Of Toledo was faxed for ono
:. In his life.