The Washington herald., 1913-08-31

possible would have been undesirable be-
cause it would have made him a martyr.
The proper thing to do was to make him
ridiculous. Accordingly I had detailed
for his protection a Jew sergeant and a
score or two Of Jew policemen. He made
his harangue against the Jews under the
protection OF some forty policemen,
every one Of them Jew! 1t was the most
effective possible answer; and inciden-
| tally II was an object lesson to our peo-
| pie, whose greatest need is to learn that
| there must be no division by class hatred,
whether this hatred be of creed agains!
creed, nationality against nationality, sec
| ton against section, or men of one social
or Industrial condition against men OF an
other social and industrial condition. We
must ever judge each Individual on his
own conduct and merits, and not on his
membership in any class, whether that
| class be based on theological social, or
industrial considerations.
Among my political opponents when 1
| was police commissioner was the head OF
very influential local Democratic organ
iZation. He was a State senator usually
known as Big Tim Sullivan. Big Tim rep
resented the morals of another era: that
is, his principles and actions were very
much those of a Norman noble in the
years Immediately succeeding the battle
OF Hastings. (This will seem fiattery only
to those who are not acquainted with the
real histories and antecedents of the Nor
man mobiles of the epoch in question: His
application Of these eleventh century II E.
ories to our nineteenthscentury municipal
democratic conditions brought him into
sharp contact with me, and with one OF
my right-hand men in the department. In
spector John Mccullough. Under the old
dispensation this would have meant that
his friends and kinsfolk were under the
ban.
Jerry Was Promoted.
Now it happened that in the department
at that time there was a nephew or cous-
in Of his. Jerry D. Sullivan found that
Jerry was an uncommonly good man, a
conscientious, capable officer, and 1 pro-
NOTED him. 1 do not know whether Jerry
or Jerrys cousin CSenator Sullivan) was
more astonished. The senator called on
genuine feeling of appreciation. Poor
Jerry died, think, of consumption, year
or two after I left the department He
was promoted again after left. and he
then showed that he possessed the very
rare quality of gratitude, for he sent me
4 telegram dated January 10, 1895, running
as follows: Was made sergSRt today.
thank you for all in my first advance
ment." And in a letter written to me he
said: ''In the future, as in the past will
endeavor at all times to perform my duty
honestly and fearlessly. and never cause
you to feel that you were mistaken I'm me,
so, that you will be justly proud Of my
record" The Senator, though, politically
opposed to me, always kept a feeling of
friendship for me after this incident. He
served in Congress while I was President.
The police can be used TO help all kinds
of good purposes. When I was police
commissioner much difficulty had been
encountered in Locating illegal and fraud
ulent practitioners of medicine. DR.. Maui
rice Lewis called on me, with a letter
from James Russell Parsons, secretary
of the board of regents at Albany, and !
asked me if I could not help. After Ques- |
tiOning him / found that the local au-