The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03
Cmyvent Evemts
By T. J. O'FIGherts

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AFTER long rest from public OPP
IA probium William J. Burns, often
referred to with IMMUNITY in the
papers as "the king of perjurers" has
blasted his way on to the front page
thru the medium of his activities in
bribing jury engaged in deciding the
guilt or innocence of Messers. Fall
and Sinclair, defendants in the trial
which has just been wrecked by Mr..
Burns. The notorious detective dis
patched corps of his best stool
pigeons to Washington and but for
the loose tongue of one of the jurors,
Sinclair at least would probably have
walked out of court free from any
threat of punishment.
both Fall and Sinclair should be
~ satisfied with the results. The
be given short shrift in all proba-
bility. 1t being Burns business to fix
juries and since his business is legal
in the United he is not liable to suf-
fer, 1t will take as much time to
connect Sinclair with the new con-
spiracy as it did to bring him to court
for the old, and by that time the i'm
portant witnesses may be dead. We
suspect that behind the indignant
frown on the face of the federal gov
eminent because of the attempt to.
tamper with it's court there is re-
lief.
THIS Teapot Done scandal was not
disposed off by the suicide of Jess
Smith and the strange death of Presi-
dent Harding. The ousting of
Daugherty and DENLY and the suits
against Fall, Sinclair and Doheny did
not eliminate the smell of crude
petroleum from the White House. The
noticeable twist in the Coolidge nose
may be attributed to the constant eff
fort on his part to prevent the dis
agreeable political odors from the
Teapot Dome cesspools to penetrate
to his upper sinuses.
COMMENTING yesterday on the
case of the two Chicago women
who were sent to Jail for monopolizing
all the votes in one precinct, we did
not finish the story. Chicago is s
probably the most typical city in the
United States and should set a good
example to Mexico, Nicaragua and
other countries in the way to conduct
themselves. So they should follow
the Chicago case closely and see
whether the federal government shall
send marines to the Windy City to
see that elections are openly arrived
at. After the democratic judge
sent the two women to Jail for, steal
ing votes this is what happened.
A REPUBLICAN judge who knows
IA as much about law as the Demo-
crat looked up the statutes and dis
covered that there is no such thing
as woman vote crook. 1t appears
that in the days when the election law
was placed on the books men were
men in Chicago and chivalrous to
boot. Perhaps they believed that a
woman's place was in the home and
therefore not having a vote she could
not possible be vote thief.
ANYHOW a law is a law and this
"A judge issued writ on the sheriff
ordering the delivery from Jail forth
with of the two women. But this is
game two can play at and the
Democrat issued another order equally
powerful which had the women back
again. They did not stay in however
and the Democrat threatens to have
the sheriff locked up in his own Jail
unless he obeys his orders. The "out
again in again Finnegan" business is
rather a relief from the threatened
book-burning spree of Mayor Thomp-
son, but you can depend on Chicago
to make itself wondered at.
CTILL, we have our fun here with
" the city administrators. A news
sleuth in need of copy went on a
statistical spree and learned to no.
body's surprise that the police had
killed an unusually large number Of
innocent citizens this year while both
the citizens and policemen-Were
in the performance of their duty. And 4.
strangely enough the reason for tho
increased casualties among the inno-
cent bystanders was more police eff
ficiency in the art of shooting.
BEFORE Commissioner Warren as
~ sumed office the figures showed Z
that the officers only succeeded IN
killing eighty out of one hundred
law-abiding citizens fired at Their
holidays We're reduced and they wers
ordered to do more practice. Now
it is almost a certainty that when
policeman shoots at burglar escap-
ing from Thorn McAnn shoe store
with his loot-an almost daily &C.
currence-a street car conductor,
a hot dog dispenser or, most likely,
the shoe store clerk, will bite the dust