Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1926 — Page 5

APRIL 21, 1926

MAYOR KENDRICK CHANGES FRONT, FAVORS BUTLER ‘Reconciliation’ Is Brought About by Leading Citizens. Editor's Note—This is the thirteenth installment of General Butler's story of his work as head of Philadelphia police and his dismissal early this year. The articles will appear daily. The Times owns exclusive rights to the articles in this territory. By Smedley I). Butler The reconciliation was rather dramatic. I was still 111, in bed. The newspapers were Tilled with stories of the “break” and predictions of my dismissal. The police were on the fence, ready to jump. The mass meeting was scheduled for Monday night. Sunday night the doorbell rang and four citizens asked to see me on an important matter. Despite my family's objection, they insisted, and when told their identity I agreed to see them. They were Judge Edwin O. Lewis of the Common Pleas Court, a Tare henchman; Charles P. Vaughan, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Nathan H. Davis, a gentleman and a real friend, and Fred A. Rakestraw. They said they had come voluntarily to see whether the breach be-

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tween the mayor and myself could not be healed. They felt the interests of the* city demanded a reconciliation. Peacemakers Confer I explained that any differences I might have with the mayor were personal ones and that I would not let such differences interfere with my duty to enforce the laws. They asked permission to repeat this to the mayor, saying that the public demanded that work begun by the police be continued. I agreed. They departed at midnight and returned within an hour with a message from the mayor that he desired peace in his cabinet and wanted my work continued. He asked, however, that no publicity be given this reconciliation after the mass meeting Monday night. Later I was informed that the reason for this request was that the mayor wished to see what the mass meeting amounted to; that he was prepared to repudiate the reconciliation in case the mass meeting proved a failure. The night of the mass meeting, Congressman Vare snooped around the edges of the crowd, heard it hiss the mayor and hurried to the mayor’s office, where the latter, Charley Hall and other close advisors were closeted all eve-

ning, Throughout the night the various editions of the morning papers were carried into this little conference by the mayor's messenger. Refuses to Sign Letter The afternoon before the meeting I had had another call from Judge Lewis and Vaughan. They wished me to sign a letter to the mayor, saying he would send me one in return and that the peace could then be made public. Judge Lewis had a letter already written and asked me to sign it. I refused, for it was a silly letter. Whether he wrote It, or the mayor, or the organization, I don't know. It read: “Dear Mr. Mayor: I very much regret what took place at the Academy of Music last night. (Note: It hadn’t taken place yet.) “I would much prefer to have asked that the meeting be called off, but this I could not do on Monday without disclosing what transpired between you and me late Sunday night, and this disclosure you did not desire. You have acted bravely and manfully in insisting that nothing be said before that meeting of the fact that on Sunday night you and I had come together to a basis of renewed understanding, through the intervention of kind friends who called upon me and then upon you With my full consent." “Regrets" “I told these gentlemen, and say to you now with increased feeling, that I sincerely regret anything that has occurred which has given you offense, and I realize my mistake in remaining away

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from your office when I should have followed my impulse to confer with you and I am delighted that when the mutual friends called upon, you after leaving me, you expressed your willingness to thus hear from me, and that you sent me an invitation to meet with you as soon as I recovered. “In view of the fact that existing differences were composed on Sunday, it has caused me much distress that the unjust publicity reflecting upon you has continued. I would have been glad to announce on Sunday or Monday that was in your confidence again, but respected your wishes as my superior officer.” When, rather angrily, I fear, I declined to sign It, Vaughan, president of the Chamber of Commerce, took his pencil and edited the letter. It remained a humiliating document and I again refused. Then I dictated a brief formal note and gave it to them for the mayor, with the proviso that the mayor was to submit to me his statement before either was made public. Agreement Broken. The mayor did not abide by the agreement. He made my note and his statement public simultaneously, leaving me to read the statement of his side of the controversy In the newspapers. Later, when I was able to be up, though still ill, I called at his office to thrash the matter out. He was extremely cordial. We discussed our difference and agreed to forget them. I decided the Mayor had changed his spots. A day or two later, talk-

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