South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-14
Get Ready No1c for More Camonfzage
Raids on Vice to Fool the VirtuOuS

II remains TO be seen whether
or not Mayor Carson. as titBiar
head Of the city sdmiRistration
will move now TO a cleanup ~
moral conditions. the rams
horn" of his party, driven 20 rage
by outside exposure having gOrsd
him, perhaps, from his siumbers.
We said "titUisr" head Of the city
administration, because his
psFty's organ admits that he has
never committed an Improving
act, except under pressure, and
this might lead ore 90 stOOp 10
wonder if he IT, really the head"
or maybe only the tail
We have had other specimen
within the past few days Of "titu-
lar heads" in city hall circles, be-
ing ostsnsibly transformed into
mere "pigeOn-stOOls;" the case OF
Chief Of Police Kline, for in
stance, his assistant chief" Will
IAN Cassidy, having announced
himself the real chief" that
power behind the throne. great
or than the throne itself" is
there somebody, or some hing be
hind the mayor, that makes Of
him only a stool pigeon" Ia the
administration organs now con-
fessed mismana cement OF city af-
fairs. and il so, again. who, or
what is il?
But this is only passing COM
ment Everybody knows that
Mayor Carson took into his Off
cial cabinet. one OF the shrewd-
est, and most unscrupulous Of
politicians: a man of dominant
force in carrying out his. designs,
when he appointed his city at
torney; a politician Of the old
sc Io0i, 10 whom the preservation
of public morals is an unknown
quantity. IL such preservation is
to interfere with his political as
pirations. That he has been the
constant advisor" of the mayor.
not alone in matters legal. but
in matters executive. only the
blind, as they have moved about
the city hall, have been unable 70
see.
or if not the city attorney, per-
haps il * the sanitary en-
sineer. '-Alois-another of those
old school politicians whose
training naturally circumscribes
his advice. almost never spurned,
into line with the thought that
government is for the officials.
not for the public; for the Off
Gals and their henchmen. with
the city as concurrently their
prey
But tbs is also only passing
comment Regardless OF the in
dividual. or clique of individuals.
responsible for conditions as they
exist in South Bend, admitted by
the administra tons organ as 10
haWdy houses and gambling hellS.
after months OF pressure and eX-
posture, these conditions could not
exist for a moment, were the man
upon the throne. or the power
behind the throne" either one.
tit to be there,-and this con
ceded condition of rOttenness. is
by force of circumstances con
fession OF all the other rotten
nesses that have been charged
against them.
Bawdy houses without booze,
Never They wouldn't last over
night without 1t. Such institutions
are blind tigers as a matter Of
course: always have been, and
alwaps will be. even from the
days Of the licensed saloon until
the last drop of the stuff has
been wiped from the face of the
earth. Yes, they were blind
tigers" when We still had the
saloon. but they had different
source of supply in those days
agOne. and source more difficult
20 handle. The lioentiausness of
such resorts, is only one of the
commodities. and both-"wine
and women"-in dry" town
like South Bend should be, are,
10y force of affinity, mere by
products Of maladministratiOn.
misfeasances and malfeasances
in office, running perhaps To
graft, or maybe 10 some other