sluggers and ran things with
high-handed lawlessness, Arthur
Burrage Farwell, president of the
Law and Order League, was ap
pealed to by labor leaders, and
asked to get busy.
But he didn't. That wasn't
the particular kind of lawlessness
he was fighting. His real meat
was the saloonkeeper.
And you qan hardly blame Ar
thur for that, because saloon
keepers don't advertise, and it's
easy to get lots of publicity on a
fight against them.
If Mayor Harrison understands
municipal politics, he must know
that there is generally some poli
tics back of a vice crusade, and
that some cunning politicians are
getting ready for the next city
election, and preparing to spring
a candidate for mayor.
Doubtless he also understands
that the political preachers will
get the women all stirred up, but
that most of the men will keep
quiet and vote the other way.
When the preachers start a real
crusade against poverty, vice and
crime by attacking the economic
causes, chief among which is
starvation wages, The Day Book
will join hands with them; and
so will a great majority of the
voters.
But we have seen too many of
these sham battles, labeled moral
crusades, to waste much time on
them.
When the real thing comes
along then we're for it strong
o o
Let father do the Eastern shop
ping early J
FIND POKER PARTY ON
IN TOMBS PRISON
New York, Jan. 7. Investiga
tors from District Att'y Whit
man's office entered the Tombs
prison in search of gambling evi
dence last night and found it.
Whitman's detectives made
their appearance unannounced. In
the cell of John B. McNamara,
claimed to be one of the most no
torious bank burglars in the
country, they found a poker game
in full swing.
The other men in McNamara's
cell were Percy Davis, convicted
and sentenced Republican alder
man, about to serve a term in
Sing Sing for extortion; Jack
Sullivan, under indictment for
complicity in the Rosenthal mur
der, and two alleged "wire tap
pers" recently arrested.
Cocktails are brought in and
the men settle down for a quiet
game. McNamara also had an
electric stove on which he made
Welsh rarebit for his "guests."
At 4 o'clock every afternoon all
prisoners are supposed to be
locked in their proper cells.
Unless Commissioner of Cor
rection Whitney takes some dras
tic action District Att'y Whitman
will bring the "prison poker par
ty" to the attention of the grand
jury.
o o
Officer I was struck very
much by your ignorance in drill
this afternoon. Why, confound
it, you don't even know where
your front is ! Recruit Yes, I do,
sir. It's gone to the wash with my
shirt