The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-15
Great Cleanup Cam
paign Is Started at
Cooper Union.
DENUNCIATION
PILED ON SYSTEM
Historic Hall Crowded to Doors
and Thousands Clamor for Adj
mittance That They May Ex-
press Indignation Over Con-
ditions That Have
Been Revealed.

New York. August 1.-THE resolutc
determination OF the citizens Of New
York to rid their police force OF its
system OF graft aud blackmail was
given forcible expression tonight at
a meeting held at the historic
nall OF Cooper Union. when they APP
pointed vigilance committee OF prom
inent men ana women to see that the
public officers now engaged in expos
ms tho reasonable alliance OF the
police win organized crime do their
full dury
The mass meeting. which typined the
public Indignation aroused by the rev
Citations OF police corruption growing
out of the murder OF Herman Rosen-
tnal. was attended by crowd that
overlooked the hall. There were 1000
people in the auditorium. with hundreds
standing up. while blocking the streets
outside We're thousand more WHO clam
ored for admittance.
Police system Denounced.
There was no m!staking the earnest
ness which pervaded the gathering as
II voiced its approval OF the denuncla-
ton OF the police system" which the
prominent speakers OH the program
employed when Speaking OF existing
conditions.
The resolution appointing the vigl
lance committee. which was given the
power to increase its NUMBER TO thirty
and TO solicit funds and to engage
counsel called upon the police de-
partment to put forth additional efforts
looking to the arrest OF all those !mpli-
Gated IN the Rosenthal murder; upon
at
energy OF his Office, as he has been
doing to the apprehension and con-
N!ction OF those guilty OF the crime:
upon the aldcrmanic investigating
committee TO make a thorough. non
partisan examination into existing
conditions and into causes which give
rise to systems OF blackmal ana gratt.
and 10 propose remedies by which these
causes may be removed. and upon the
CITIZENS and officials having information
on these conditions TO lay IL before
the district attorney or the alaermanic
committee IN the fun confidence that
they VIII he protected agains, terror
Ism and oppression OF every sort"
Inc members OF the committee were
Eugene H. Outerbridge. Jacob II
semi Eugene y Philbin. Henry Mos
koWliz. Allan Robinson. r. : Toml.n.
Raymond V Ingerson, Mrs Charles
s.ee!S ana George & .iSncW
On the platform sat representative
men ana women in all walks Of life
Inc speakers Included District Attor-
ney Whitman, DR.. Lyman Abbott.
Ranbi Samuel Schulman. Henry H.
Curran. chairman OF the aldermanic
police investigating committee: Emory
h Buckner. counsel for the commit
tee Henry De Forest Baldwin ami
Mrs Charles II Isracls who IS a
prominent social worker.
District Attorney Whitman was "tha
hero OF the hour" and received tro-
mendous walton when he arose to
speak.
Mr. Whitman referred to the murder
OF Herman Rosenthal as a crime that
has shocked this city and shocked this
nation as few crimes have in the his
/ tory OF the city or in the history OF
the nation"
Challenge to Civilization.
He declared that the murder In the
light OF all the circumstances was n
challenge to our very civilization IL
self He said In part.
II Is not a question OF who or what
Rosenthai was. or who may be Mayor
or may be police commissioner or who
may be district attorney: 1t is not =;
question OF Becker or few mon who
may or may not have been accom-
plices II is a question OF whether
1t is possible for four hired mnr,lerers
to commit an atrocious crime i'm the
heart OF this city and get leisuroly
CONTINUED on Eighth PareN