The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1918-03-16
WELL KNOWN CITIZEN SCORES
= CITY DADS
Some Facts You should Know Con-
cerning the Present Adminis-
tration

They have hired over 1855 police
men; over 60 of them being non
resident. Not 1875 a; one time, but
as they come and go. Less than
twelve of these have been appointed
and confirmed by the board OF com
! missioners. as provided by law.
II cost more than $4,000 to run
the department last year. which is
more than II cost to run the police
departments of the six next largest
towns all put together. namely Bart
lesville, Enid. Guthrie, shawnee Me
Alester and Muskogee, combined
The Daily Democrat has signed state
ments to this effect.
More men were killed by Tulsa
policemen than We're killed by all
the above named departments COM
bined.
The two women from Terre Haute
who run the Denver rooms have not
been molested. although they have
been chronic law violators ever since
the killing of Tommy Murphy by Of
ticer Powell. They were the star
witnesses in favor of Powell and
swore that he. Murphy. had threat
ened the policeman i'm general Ac-
cording to other witnesses Powell
shot him while he was laying pros
trated under box car. He was in
his shirt sleeves and Powell knew
he was unarmed.
Chief Lucas rented a building be-
longing to his aunt on First street
to Bill Baber and accepted the rent
from Bill Baber. Overbay and pix
ington found a lot of whiskey in the
building but no effort was made to
place an injunction on II.
Simmons rented his little building
at 1191a North Main to the motor
ious Belchmer bootleggers. raid
was made on the place and a guam
tity of liquor found there and the
whole thing was hushed up before
trial. You can ask Belchmer him
self.
The salary pay roll OF the police
force at the close of the season a
year ago for December was S2,S75.OO
and for December of the year Just
got this money by an illegal occupa-
tion tax They went down on First
street and held all of the old poor
baggagemen up for $12.O0 license I'm
advance. and then went TO Frank
White, a well to do man and com
promised, taking whatever they
could get. They have threatened
every one with this tax, but they have
not sued a single lawyer because they
know 1t wouldn't hold up in court.
over a month ago a man by the
name of Reese. who works for the
water department. said that they had
planned to turn on good water just
before election, like the Germans al
ways have big victory just before
the socialists get busy. Now they
are turning on the water, but 1t is
only Temporarily cleared with chemi-
Gals and will come back after cleo
tion. The streets have been cut W
with big unnecessary trenches al
winter, and now just before election
they say they are going to fix them
II they have so much money as boast
ed by Simmons, why don't they spend
- 4. L.. Il.
truth of the matter is the money
they spoke of is bond issue and they
haven't got to 1t yet, when they do II
will fade fast enough Simmons
boasts about having over a millior
dollars on hand. why shouldn't hi
have 1t, the people voted 1t. The,
have raised the levy, and increased
the valuation and put out a crooked
occupation tax by which they arr
able to get 100000 per quarter
from people who are fool enough
to fall for 1t.
The silk Stocking Crowd" don
care anything about the working
mans interests. They were for tn,
City Manager plan of one man gov
ernment Oike Germany's) becaus
they say the men who own the tow
should run 1t. In other words the.
would like to eliminate the voter wh'
does not happen to be a propert.
owner.
The silk Stocking" bunch dom
= care anything about reform, ant
nearly all of them are drinking men
They think to shout reform is a pop
ular wave to get their men elected
Under the guise of war, they tried
to close the pool halls because o
fuel. 1t costs the pool halls less thar
one dollar per month for lights dur
fnn hn 90 a..