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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
Waldo "ReaI Head" Of Police.

The Mayor denied emphatically that
| the Police Department was run from
the Mayors office, and paid a high
| tribute to Commissioner Waldo. declar-
! ing that he was the real head of the
department Nevertheless, he admit
ted that he was responsible for the
| introduction of the present method or
handling the gambling situation, by a
special Central Office squad of 100 men,
commanded by three leutenants. Of
which one was Lieutenant Charles
Becker. now charged with instigating
the murder Of Herman ROsenthal.
The Mayor painted Becker in tho
blacklist terms. without any compunc-
ton. He referred TO that police off,
ciaPs plight as a great misfortune
which had recently befallen Commits
sioner Waldo, in that one of the Com
missioner's trusted lieutenants had
proved false to his trust and was
found TO be CRATER" Speaking OF
the strong arm" squads and Becker,
the Mayor said:
"a suppose il is impossible to get one
hundred and fifty men and three lieu
tenants without getting certain per-
centage Of tho grafters among them.
Do you think it is possible? When il
happens that Becker turned out to be
qrsfter Immediately surmised that he
himself was the head and front of the
grating, and | have since learned to
my satisfaction that this is so, that he
held no place of being an underIing,
and while | was awfuIly hurt ! Mas not
bit surprised. had been expecting
all along to find some person in the
Police Department guilty Of that kind
Of craft. They have been at It for forty
wears to our common knowledge"
Sorry for Any DereIiotion.
The Mayor declared he had for
warded lot of anonymous letters
complaining of Becker's grating to
Commissioner Waldo year ago. He
declared he was bound 10 admit that
the Commissioner had full say In Sc
lecting the men on the strong arm"
squads. and that if he. the Mayor, had
been derelict in that respect, he was
sorry.
The Mayor denied that his policy
toward the disorderly houses had been
one Of outward decency and order"
but in expatiating on his views on that
subject il was evident that he had Inn
messed the Police Commissioners with
the idea that policemen should not he
permitted to go into these resorts to
get evidence.
The Mayor conveyed the impression
that the obtaining of such evidence
was a matter for the Central Office
squads almost entirely. In this respect
the Mayors testimony would seem to
support the contention of Inspector
Hayes, In his controversy with Com
missioner Waldo, that orders might
have been issued for the inspectors
and their men to keep hands OFF, the
disorderly houses unless acting under
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
THIS GUEST UNWELCOME
Walks Into Summer Hotel and
Delays Outgoing Patrons.
tBy Telegraph 70 The Trlbul

Breton Woods. ". H., Sept 1o.-A fine
snecinen of the American skunk delayed
the departure OF guests Of the Mount
washington Hotel to-day by walking
calmly into the baggage room dispers-
ing the porters and ensconcing himself be-
hind q pile of outgoing baggage
Work on the baggage was stopped and
the local authorities were called on to
arrest the invader The call to arms
caused the Breton Woods police force
"a turn in their badges and resign rather
than attack the enemy. The oHender
onally solved the problem by seeking the
woods for himself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11

Impatient and uncCmplimentary at
first toward his inquisitor and the al
dermanic committee graft inyestiga-
ton as a whole, Mayor Gaynor became
condescending and loquacious towari
,he end of his three hours examination
as witness before the committee IN
the aldermanic chamber at city HAN
Yesterday. For long time the Mayor
refused, with almost show OF oosu-
macy. to answer the repeated questions
as 70 his policies and relations toward
the administration of the Police pe-
partment.
He frequently threatened to retire
from the room unless Emory r Buck
ner. chief counsel to the committee
confined himself to questions on spe-
cifc facts. Again and again he de-
clined 10 express a mere opinion or
20 discuss his policies. Mr.. Buckner
smiled through It all, however, and oy
kid glove methods and unfailing cour-
tesy succeeded in notifying the wit
ness's attitude and drawing from the
Mayor a fairly good symposium OF the
Chief Executives idea as to how the
police should handle the gambling si,-
uation. tho excise question, the prop-
lem Of the social evil and other mat
ters pertinent to the inquiry.
That was all the committee expected
TO get from the Mayor, Mr.. Buckner
said afterward, and he was well sans
fed with the result. The Mayor IN
| iacted considerable humor into the pro-
| ceed,ngs at times by his characters
t,c. homely answers. He made several
| "stunp speeches" on the moral issues
| involved toward the close Of his eX-
animation. raising his voice in excited
| tones and eliciting long applause on
each occasion, despite the repeated
raupings of the gavel in the hands OF
Alderman Henry II. Curran, chairman
| OF the committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
Says Rich Men Oebase People.

The trouble is that there are whole
lot of people i'm this town who can't
swill enough beer and whiskey before
| o'clock, and they bribe the saloon
keepers TO keep open longer. ! think
they ought to get enough to drink be-
fore 1 o'clock. Some of the wealthy
men who think / am derelct in not
keeping the poor man from getting a
glass of beer on Sunday are selling
poisonous drugs, cOcoaine and the like
to the stores on the East Side and de-
basing and undermining the health Of
our people,
Mr.. Buckner asked the Mayor if he
would consider it impertinent to ask
if the policemen might not misunder-
stand his policy of unnecessary ar
rests" and police lawlessness." as the
Mayor termed it, and be inclined To
wink more at crime and vice. Tho
Mayor declared the question demanded
a civil answer. He said
81 think the policemen understood mo
very well. IL l were to go by what I
heard from the newspapers of the city,
and the cutthroats, the newspaper pro-
pretors and others. | would vacillate
every hour in the day. But / pursue
my own course even in the boiler shop
of the city now, with every ex-convict,
or newspaper proprietor, or whoever
wishes-attacking me. i have not
varied an iota up to this time, and I
hope l shall not until get through"
Mayor Gaynor appeared before the
aldermanic committee yesterday with
out being subpPnaed. When he had
failed to appear the day before the
chairman of the committee said he
would subpoena the Mayor unless he
put In an appearance yesterday. The
Mayor entered the big aldermanic
chamber promptly at . o'clock, the time
scheduled for the inquiry TO begin. He
was accompanied by Lieutenant Will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
Admits Responsibility for System Of Handling
Gambling Situation-Seems to Favor
Segregation Of Vice.
IMPATIENT, THEN LOQUACIOUS
Says Refomers Cause More Graft Than Any One Else
and Attacks Newspapers Which, if Needed,
Would Make Him Vaclae Every Hour
Of the Day-Buckner Satisfied

special instructions from the Commits.
sioner himself.
The witness said he had no set policy
in regard TO the disorderly house situa-
ton, except to keep the streets as free
from prostitutes as possible and to
prevent policemen from going into the
resorts and obtaining evidence under
the debasing and graft breeding cir
cumstances, as they used to do. He as
serted that there We're not one-tenth
as many Of these resorts I'm the city
as there were few years ago. when
certain so-called reformers drove the
dlssolute women into thousand fats
and houses all over the city. lie ad-
mitted he had no statistics 70 prove
the assertion, but declared II was
matter Of common knowledge.
Seems to Favor Segregation.
He thought police graft might be di-
vorced from the disordery house ques-
ton by following the methods pursued
in London, where the police are not per-
mtted to deal with the problem at all,
he said; but did not venture TO say the
London way was the proper one TO
sions in general on this subject the
Mayor appeared to favor segregation Of
the social evil.
The Chief Executive Of the city de-
oil hnt
a death blow TO. graft in violations OF
the excise law in keeping saloons closed
on Sunday. He declared that any
saloonkeeper who paid graft now was
fool" The old days when police
man would enter a saloon and put
dollar bill on the bar for a drink and
! receive $40 90 in change each month,
had passed. The Mayor paid his COM
pliments to the reformers ON this sub
ject, and said they had caused more
graft by their methods than any one
else.
Mr.. Buckner wanted to know II the
Mayor would be surprised to learn that
out of four hundred saloons visited last
Sunday about three hundred and fifty
of the back rooms had been found open
and doing business. The Mayor said
il took great deal to surprise him,
but that he did not believe II. He said
Mr. Buckner was probably referring to
the back dining rooms" of the pro-
prietors Of the saloons. He didn't be-
leve in the police spying on the saloon
men, he said, as it led to corrupting
the police and to certain graft. He had
little time for conditions where the
rich man could get a drink anywhere
on Sunday. but the poor man could not
get it, he said.
Speaking of the Ranes law sandwich.
the Mayor said:
It's only the hypocrites down in this
city vino practise these miserable eva
sions Of the Sunday law. All the hotels.
from the Waldorf Astoria down 10 the
little hotels in Brooklyn and Coney ISL
and, have sandwich in sight az aa
excuse for evading the law Every
time | see one of those sandwiches
think it is only teaching tho example
how easy it Is to evade the Taw. Go
outside of the city limits, and from
one end of the state TO the other there
isn't a sandwich in sight and the people
are drinking all they want to.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
POLITICAL.
GENERAL.

D~hche Bates's Fiance Indicted. q
o@st and Mcfarland Can't Fight
pa.A '"'''.'.s ........
auSefs ,s Urged TO Work for Reforms. s
rams for Naval Review a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
IhIs Mornings News
LOCAL.

LOCAL. Page
c,s c,as'r appears in Graft Probe. ..... l
s.DsOnS Arrest Probable To-day. 1
rsmps and Dies az F1remen Come. -.
V,sion RESERVED in Hayes Trial. -. ,
y.piOinst Nearly Loses Bail. .Is
loorowsk viii Contest off. .1s
c'ofu' Bank Thief, Dies. .le
'eVs Cock Of the Rock" in Colombia 1e
POLITICAL.
pose'elt In Enemys Country ....... 4
v,SyIVania's Tangled Politics 49,. 4
w"ae wHtine Quits Indian Bureau. 900. 4
u 'On 10 Spanish War Veterans. 49,. 8
wo,y and Perkins Give $4,000. -. 5
me M. frogressives Prepare to Fight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-11
FOREIGN.
MISCELLANEOUS.

seAlcan Troops to Cross Texas.
'V'y NJ. P's Disdain Payment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24
DEMOCRATS HUNTING &NlSSUE

In times past our Democratic friends
have been hard put to find Issues upon
which they might appeal to the voter
and with which they might bolster up
their HOPELESS cause. This year is no eX-
ception to the rule and we find them
claiming credit for practically all that a
Republican Congress has done and
trying to minimize the mistakes the
Democrats have made. Only the other
day their candidate for the highest
office in the land made the mistake of
telling Workmen at Scranton that a
Democratic Congress had passed bill
for the benefit of miners and establish
ed the bureau of Mines. When the
facts were looked into little, it was
not hard to see that at the time this
bureau was established Congress was
Republican and that the measure was
originated and passed by the members
cf that party. The Democratic claim
for this proved TO be just about in line
WIN tllIil OlilCl 1SSSl NiOil0 do " Nl4dl
they have done and would do were they
given full power. We know what they
did do a few years ago when they had
full control and figuring from this it is
rot hard to imagine what might take
place were they put in power again
But they are not at all bashful or back
ward in assuming credit for what the
Republican party has done. They seem
to delight in taking credit where credit
does not belong and in making false as
sertions and claims, 1t ali goes very
well until they are caught at the game
In line with this usual tendency is
their wish to bolster up their cause es-
pecially among the old soldier vote with
the assertion that they should have
credit for the recent Sherwood pension
bill. To win the soldier vote would be
a feather in their caps, they think, and
seemingly they do not falter in any
attempt to get praise for bill they did
not pass. Facts do not bear out their
claims in regard 10 this act. Altho Con-
gress was Democratic when the bill was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24
High School Notes.

Joseph Foley of Gortner, has enrolled
in the freshmen class.
Harry Weimer was absent from
school last Wednesday, on account Of
the illness of his father.
The Freshmen class continues to
grow. 1t now has thirty four members.
Miss Leary gave a very interesting
talk to the school, Tuesday morning.
Her SUBJECT was. Some Ways in
Which we May do Good Unconscious
Iy".
We are indebted to the senior and
junior domestic science class for real
good treat in the line Of candy. We
expect the girls to come every week,
and bring good things to eat.
We are glad to hear of the arrival of
the chemicals for the Laboratory.
The High School Taft and Wilson
clubs are both increasing in members
and in information. The Wilson club
now has twenty-seven members. Each
CLUB has received politcaliterature and
have mailed it over the county where it
will do the most good.
Roland SchiI has been elected vice
president of the Wilson club and Frank
NJ. Ross. of the Taft club.
The literary society held an excellent
meeting Friday. The president, BERNARD
Faherty, delivered a good inaugural ad
dress showing that he realizes the i'm
portcnce of the work of the Society.
I Norne Taggart gave a pleasing vocal
solo. The audience was charmed by the
music furnished by Mrs. Bender and
her brother, Master Ross Isenberg.
Miss Marie Riker gave a humorous
account OF her experiences in France
and description of many places of in
terest in that country. We shall be
glad, at any time to have her tell US
mere Of her experiences.
/ Among the visitors were Mrs. A. B.
Rlker, Mrs. lsenberg., Miss BERTHE
Carscadon. and Mr.. and Mrs Brodericb
Fred. Peddicord was asked to give
his opinion OF high school girls. He said
that he could not find words with which
to express his opinion
Miss Daisy Hanna spent Saturday and
Sunday at Westernport.
/ Miss Helen Barns spent Saturday and
/ Sunday with friends in Cumberland.
Three of the sophomores enjoyed a
boat ride Sunday
The different classes are very busy
selecting pins.
The election committees are arrang-
ing ticket for the election of officers
of the literary society, to be voted upon
at the next meeting.
Roland Schill and Joseph Rathbun
made trip to EIisha's Cave on Back
bone Mountain Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24
WHY WAGAMAN SHOULD Sc
ELECTED.

The unfortunate division in the Re
publican party exists in Western Mary
land as well as elsewhere, but the fact
that, even when united, the Republi-
cans have only carried the State but
twice, has served somewhat to divert
Republican interest from the Presiden-
tlal situation and center it upon the
fight for Congress. Republicans are
united upon Mr.. c. d. Wagaman for
Congress. This is as it should be. He
was nominated as Republican before
there was any split; he is making his
campaign as a Republican; and as Re-
publican he will be elected. He deserves
election because he is a man of mature
years, seasoned judgment, capable, hon
est and hard worker.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24
Mr.. WAGAMAN THE LAWYER.TH
FARMER. THE MAN OF HONOR

Charles D. Wagaman the republican
candidate for Congress IN this district,
is farmer as we'll as a LAWYER He
not only owns farm, but personally
conducts it. which means that he knows
what legislation will benefit the farmers
of western Maryland and especially
what legislation will be hurtful to them.
In large sense, Mr.. Wagaman's cleo
ton will mean the sending of farmer
to Congress. And this certainly will
please the farmers of Montgomery
County, since they know he has the
trained lawyer S accomplishments with
which to back up his farming hard
sense.
Mr.. Wagaman is lawyer of the first
class, if We may take the opinion of a
judge a man whom we all know and
honor in this part of the state. Some time
ago a citizen of this county made in
quiry of this Judge as to Mr.. Wagaman'
qualifications as a lawyer. "Wel, said
the judge, 'if had an important case to
be tried in court, would want Waga-
man as my attorney
Moreover, Mr.. Wagaman is the kind of
man the people can trust. He aspires
to place and preferment, rot for the
mere exercise of political power, but
for larger opportunities to serve his
fpIIOw man. In CONGRESS- he will he the
representative of the rich and poor, the
aristocrat and the lowly, the strong and
the weak, conscious that all parties, and
all creeds, and every race, stand equal
before the law.
From reliable information, we believe
Washington county, where MIR. Waga-
man lived all his life, will give him the
largest majority ever given a congress
sional candidate in that county, which
shows that those who know the candid
ate best esteem him most.
Garrett Allegany and Frederick,
largely republican, will come into line
with handsome majorities, and We be-
lieve Montgomery county will make
splendid showing for the republican can
dldate. He is fit, he is capable, he is
trustworthy, and he would conscien-
tjously, courageously and efficiently rep
resent a great district in the Ameri-
can Congress. From The Montgomery
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24

ton Mr.. Lewis tried to dodge voting on
its re-passsge unless his vote should be
absolutely necessary to make it safe.
He absented himself in the cloak room
where he might keep an eye on matters
and yet be out of danger. He knew to
vote to pass the bill would be to vote
against those who had elected him, hence
the scheme to dodge. But for once it
didn't work and to save his partners in
the business from losing out he had to
assert that he was IN the Hall when his
name was called, when in fact he knew
he was absent under the rules of Con-
gress.
And then when he failed in his dodge,
he did thing that should lose him the
votes of his farmer constituents, for
he voted directly contrary to their in
terests. To take the tariff from wool
means a lower price for the farmer just
as to take the tariff from his other pro-
ducts means lower value for them.
To dodge and then when caught to vote
against the interest of his people GER
tainly is not a showing of such ''sterner
stuff" as the people of the Sixth Dis
trict believe in.
Mr.. Lewis, consistent?
No, he is an ardent dodger and party
Hopper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24
Mr.. LEWIS AS A DODGER.

The Journal of last week in an editor
ial attack on the Republican nominee
for Congress charges him with being a
dodger and then goes on to speak fay
orally of Mr.. Lewis, the Democratic
candidate. by saying that he is made
of sterner stuff and tells in PLAN and
unvarnished language what he stands
for.
We wonder if this assertion will bear
up when considered IN relation to Mr..
Lewis record during the last session of
Congress? Some of his votes, or rather,
we should say, his failure to vote on oc-
casion, brand him as an ardent dodger
To take two specific Instances: When
the Sherwood pension bill was before
the House for final passage last May,
Mr.. Lewis wus not sure whether a vote
for or against it would be of greater
benefit to him. He didn't decide in
time and so did not vote at all. He was
anxious enough to win the old soldier
vote of his District but there was also
a fear that he might lose some votes
among those opposed to the bill. So he
lodged and showed by so doing that he
did not have the courage to take a
stand on this measure. The pension
act was passed by Republican votes and
became law of great benefit to the
rightly claim any credit for its passage.
Accordingly he is not entitled to the
vote of the men most benefited by the
act. He lodged them and they should
dodge him on election day.
Another dodge was attempted, but
failed, on the Wool revision bill After
it had been vetoed by President Taft,
and sent back to the House for final ac-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24
Nr. Wagaman in AIle6any.

To an impartial observer of politics it
is evident that Allegany county will give
Mr.. Wagaman, the Republican candidate
for Congress, safe majority in No
vember. The friends of the Democratic
candidate, Mr.. Lewis. are basing their
hope of his success on the result of two
years ago. However. an analysis of the
vote of Mr.. Lewis in 1908 and 1910, does
not not warrant a prediction of victory
for him in 1912.
Mr.. Lewis received in Allegany
county, when a candidate for Congress
in 1908, total vote of 474l, as against
4534 votes cast for his Republican OPP
ponent, and then Mr.. Lewis was defeat