Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-05
QUE "LOADED" 1fAYoR.

WIN LOdOGD III n On.
When that celebrated knight Grant, Don
Qulxote, was travelling in search of adven-
| ture, his vivid imagination was always con-
Jurlng up imaginary foes who were anx-
lous 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-
lls 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
30 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 revolt
yer. The special apprehension of the
Mayor seemed to be Mr.. P. T. Kavanagh,
one of our prominent and reputable
buJiness men, whose alleged opposition
to the moral reforms of the Mayor render
ed the hip pocket arsenal necessity.
The windmills which Don Quixote imag-
med 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 very just and fitting re-
buke to Mr.. O'Brien, by refusing his
(OBrien's) urgent request to go upon the
bail bond of a disreputable woman who
was being defended in the courts, by the
present Mayor, for the violation of the
famous ordinance No. 10.
Col. Allen, the president of the council, |
Is another imaginary foeman of the |
Mayor, who seeing in him contestant of |
dire dimensions, requested a 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 Quixote by placing him in the cate
CORY of martyr to moral reform.
1t YVES simply gratuitous and impudent
insult which the loaded Mayor accorded
'he council when he sent his appeal for
help to the churches. He is neither
IN danger personally or otherwise, and his
public announcement that he is loaded"
S simply ridiculous reflection upon him I
elf. He need give himself no uneasiness {
'bout his personal safety or his "moral"
eform. The council is composed of a
BODY of honorable men, who, to put it {
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Welfare of the city and its good name +
IS the pastors who were bamb oozled c
nto firing their alarm guns last Sunday /
light. The honor and morals of the city 8
an be good deal more safely tru sted in t
heir hands than in thoss of our "loaded,"
nd pompous Mayor, because they are T
DOL headed, intelligent, sensible gentle t
'en, to whom the public interests can be s
afely Entrusted. n
The sooner our "loaded'' Mayor ascer- Il
AIMS that the movements of the plane
ary system do not depend upon his nod .
nd wink, and that he is not =,
1perlor to the combined wisdom of r,
seturies, the sooner will he cease to erect ft
lndmilis on which to SILVER his lance. Ell
God people lived before he was born, and fl
9 might modestly express the belief, even
the risk of mortaliy offending his ma
site Mayorship, thas there are at least -
W of contemporary existence who are or
lually as earnest in genuine morality. as So
% attorney who broke friendship with nc
T. havauagh because he would not go al
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