Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-05
OUR "LOADED", MAYOR.


When that celebrated knight Grant, Don
Quixote, was travelling in search of adven-
ture, his vivid Imagination was always con-
juring up imaginary foes who were anx-
ious to test the proves of his lance In all
of his visionary engagements he was ably
seconded by his companion and servant,
Sancho Panza, who invariably saw the
same sights and recognized the same per-
lis as those which confronted his master.
The Mayor of st. Paul is evidently de-
sirous of playing the part of Don Quixote
to coterie of Sancho Panzas. Having
set himself up as, par excellence, the great
moral reformer of this community. he has
impudently assumed that all other Off
Gals, and especially the city council, are
in favor of vice, and his own personal
deadly foes on account of his distinguished
virtue. The wonderful contest which he
is waging-in his minds eye-has
so wrought upon him that he re-
Gently announced, at an official meeting,
that he had armed himself in self defense,
and proposed to valiantly defend his re-
form principles at the mouth of the revol-
yer. The special apprehension of the
Mayor seemed to be MIR. 2. T. Kavanagh,
one of our prominent and reputable
bu.iness men, whose alleged opposition
to the moral reforms of the Mayor render
ed the hip pocket arsenal q necessity.
The wiudmills which Don Quixote mag
ined were desperate and deadly foes, have
their counterpart in the morbid retina of
our reform Mayor. Instead of Mr..
Kavanagh being an opponent of the
Mayors On the moral reform question, he
administered a very just and fitting re-
buke to Mr.. O'Brien, by refusing his
(O'Brien's) urgent request to go upon the
bail bond of disreputable woman who
was being defended in the courts, by the
present Mayor, for the violation of the
famous ordinance No. TO-
Col. Allen, the president of the council,
is another imaginary foeman of the
Mayor, who seeing in him contestant of
dire dimensions, requested gentleman to
notify the pastors of the leading churches
last Sunday, that their congregations must
be on the alert to repel the coming on
slaught of Col. Allen and his fellow coun-
cilmen, upon the bulwark of onr liberties
known as ordinance No. 10. The male
members of the respective congregations
were accordingly called into secret council
last Sunday evening and requested to ap-
pear, for the purpose of moral effect, at
the council meeting last evening.
A goodly number responded to
the note of alarm sounded by
our ''loaded" Mayor, only to find out that
the city council have not the slightest idea
of coming to the rescue of our modern
Don Qaixcte by placing him in the cafe
CORY of martyr to moral reform.
1t was simply a gratuitous andimpudent
insult which the loaded" Mayor accorded
the council when he sent his appeal for
help to tho churches. He is neither
in danger personally or otherwise, and his
public announcement that he is ''loaded,"
is simply ridiculous reflection upon him
self. He need give himself no uneasiness
about his personal safety or his 'morap
reform. The council is composed of
body of honorable men, who, to put it
AofO e5Og AuuCu 1HISIcst III tllo
welfare of the city and its good name
as the pastors who we're bamb oozled
into filing their alarm guns last Sunday
night. The honor and morals of the city
can be good deal more safely trusted in
their hands than in those of our ''loaded,"
and pompons Mayor, because they are
cool headed, intelligent, sensible gentle
men, to whom the public interests can be
safely intrusted.
The sooner our "loaded' Mayor ascer-
tains q, vt the movements of the plane
tary system do NV diss.seud upon ~.
and wink, ana H.
sulerior to -.aV he ID noC
lie combined wisdom of
.Ies, the sooner will he cease to erect
windmills on which to shiver his lance.
Good people lived before he was born, AID
we might modestly express the belief, even
at the risk of MORALLY offending his ma
jestic Mayorship, that there are at least
few of cotemporary existence who are
equally as earnest in genuine morality, as
the attorney who broke friendship with
Me-. Kavanagh because he would not go
bail for Kittie Smith.