The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-28
Thompson Calls on New Chief
of Police to Garry Complete
Reform Program Into Effect
CORRUPT INFLUENCE
rs VERY MANIFEST
Sunday Saloon and Handbook
Gambling Must Be Suppress
ed and Criminals Driven Out
of Business.

Chicago, Ill, Dec. 27.-Declaring
that the crooked hand of whiskey''
has laid its blight on the police de-
| partment, and that this same crook
ed hand" Is extended toward the in
coming legislature and may be med
ding with the courts Mayor William
Hale Thompson has laid down the
program the new chief of police will
be asked to carry into effect. The
salient points are:
l. Complete suppression of the
Sunday saloon
2. Complete suppression of hand
book gambling.
8. Complete suppression of GRIM
inals.
Herman F. Sehuettler. first deputy
superintendent Of police. is to be Of
fered the head post in the department
with the retirement of Chief Charles
c. Healey the first of the year
While the mayor would neither ad-
nit nor deny that he practically had
decided to offer the place to Schuet-
tier it was learned on reliable author
ity that the first deputy now is on the
slate, and unless something develops
to upset the plans in the meantime he
will be Chicago's new chief of the po-
lice department.
Attacks Whiskey interests.
after the 'whiskey interests with bare
knuckles, warning the Incoming leg
islature to be on guard against such
influences" and declaring that these
interests, insofar as they stand behind
the Sunday saloon, are outlawed at
the city hall for good.
The crooked hand OF whiskey," he
| said. has got to be struck down in
this town and In Illinois. This crooked
tr1f} 1n i1l ha ~
of Chicago for many years. ] don't
know whether it has got to the courts.
1t has been an influence at Spring
field for many years
Il want to say to the whiskey crowd
right here. too, that they had better
not try to use the kind of influence
with the next legislature they have
been In the habit OF trying to use
down there in years past.
When | announced that we would
ask the next Legislature to pass a
law whereby crooked saloonkeepers
who persisted in violating the Sunday
closing law could be sent to jail the
whiskey interests Immediately defled
us. They told the public that they
had some friends in the legislature
and that they would be there to block
any such law.
Calls 1t Anarchy
mat Is anarchy. mat Is what Is
sealing the doom of whiskey influence
in this country. They not only defy
the law by breaking it Sunday after
Sunday, but they boast that they con-
troll the General Assembly Of Illinois.
Well, We'll find that out before very
long. Wen find out publicly so the
people may know all about il whether
Illinois Is electing a legislature that
takes its orders from the whiskey
ring.
I'VE have situation here in Chi
cago that is not well understood. A
brewery trust owns hundreds Of the
saloon licenses and puts anyone in a
saloon who can sell stuff. This COM
biration does not hesitate to place an
ex-convict behind the saloon bar il
he is a good salesman Of booze. That
| is crooked influence that reaches the
police department in a few cases.
Anyone who has studied munich
pal history In Chicago knows that in
the end it is most generally the police
| department that gets an administra-
ton into trouble.
II want TO say for the present de-
partment that it has shown big i'm
provement in the last year. Crime
has been reduced so per cent. But
what l want to know Is why hasn' t
the other so per cent been suppressed? ?
why can't the Chicago police depart
ment wipe out handbook gambling?
| Why can't this great department of
strong and courageous guardians OF
the peace close the saloons on Sun
day7 Why can't this organization