The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-18
| G Q N TIL u F. D
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P A G E O N E
PERSECUTION OF HIS
OWN ENEMIES

has speWed the venom of his own
hatred UPON those unprotected by
party shelters, while his friends and
friends of the higher ups" have
been allowed to bide their time in
the obedience of his mock regula-
tions or to go on altogether unmo-
Tested.
In his own department he has
exercised the same discriminating
rule, Expressing those who will not
| bow to him as serfs to the car and
favoring others with soft snaps and
advancements unprecedented.
Men Of long service, ability and
experience, who have been tried
and found true, men who have done
their duty we'll for years in the
rightfuI expectation Of advance
ment, he has held down to the
ranks, while he has recruited his
plain clothes department with anna.
teurs and men whose right to a
vote in the city elections Is ques-
toned.
While perhaps more competent
men are kept in uniforms at patrol
mems salaries, he has allowed other
men under the command of Captain
of Detectives Martin j. Burns to be
appointed to plain clothes after less
than six months service in the de-
partment. placing them in line to
receive $50 month more than the
salary to which they are entitled
under the provisions of the city
charter.
Sullivan began his reign with a
personal attack upon the admins
tration's enemies in lower Howard
street, pretending to have the well
fare of the city at heart and declar-
ing his determination was to en-
force regulations to the last letter
OF the laws. He was oppressive in
his measures here. logging men of
this locality day after day in the
early part of his reign: tearing out
saloon screens and banishing all
semblance of distractions, real and
imaginary, and at the very same
time the management of the Spo-
kane hotel barroom and other
places about the city were not even
forced to make so much as pre-
tense at obeying the order for
weeks. In fact. they never were
forced to obey the orders carried
out against the administrations
enemies by Acting Chief Sullivan.
One of Sullivan's earliest guns in
the mock cleanup campaign was the
rounding up of half hundred
women of the restricted dis
trict. These were thrown
into Jail. denied the right to
counsel and herded into court in
kangaroo fashion and from there
they were fined and "railroaded"
out of the city. In effect this might
have been good move, but wait
The old Occur d'Alene saloon and
variety theater was cleaned from
cellar to garnet. and this was an
other goo dmove. had 1t been made
In the right spirit and the proper
intention, but from all indications
| to date that was only the settle
ment of another personal or admin
istration score. so, just an instant
| III VNiuNht hpPt anu
that under this rule this part of the
city was destined to become the
new home of respectable class of
people and place of clean and
legitimate pursuits. Dutch Jake's"
| Occur d'Alene resort was remod-
eled at heavy expense into a first
class hotel for clean and respect
able men. women and children-but
now. what is the result? Here II is:
Acting Chief of Police John Sulli-
van has allowed a new restricted
district to spring up all about IT,
He has allowed the scarlet rank of
society's outcasts OF about every
color and nationality to congregate
there again. Disreput able negresses,
Japanese and white women have
once more taken II up as their
haunts and abode. Respectable
women blush to pass down that
part Of the street and, welI-who is
the man with respect for his wife
and children, or even respect for
himself, who would 90 there In that
section OF the city. now. to live?
Under police protection, half
dozen places of this character have
been allowed to open within a
block of the city hall. and nearly as
many more are being conducted
down the street little way.