St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-13
ADDITIONAL MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.
A VIGOROUS PROTEST.
Commercial Travellers who DOn'i
Like TO be Misrepresemted.

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Like to be MisrePresented.
A delegation of commercial Travellers
who are prominently identified with the
Travellers Protective association, yesterday
called upon the GLOBE to request state
ment to the public in behalf of the travel
ingmen of the Twin Cities concerning the
publication of series Of articles in the
Minneapolis Tribune that are calculated to
create an erroneous and unfavor-
able impression concerning them.
The articles of which they
complain appear regularly in the Satur-
days issues of the paper under the caption,
'DrummerS' Delight" to which certain
officiOuS correspondent over the appropri-
ate nom de plume of Jack" presumes to
speak not only for the commercial travel
ers as a class, but for the Travellers Pro-
tectve association. He goes further and
attempts to convey the idea that the paper
is the recognized organ of the ''craft" and
that his statements, maudlin attempts at
wit and ungrammatical ScreedS, should be
understood as authorized and sanctioned
by the T. P. A. Appeals to the Tribune
to cease the publication of the articles or to
change their nature, or even abolish the
Objectionable heading, have been in vain,
and the following statement is made simply
as defense against systematic course of
persecution that has been kept up without
the slightest cause or prOvOcation. Com
mercial Travellers" said the spokesman of
the party, "Object to being stigmatized as
drummerS' upon the same grounds that
ministers might have for diSiking to be
called gospel sharks Commercial tray
elerS, as class. are composed of men who
know their business thoroughly and we'll
think it Can easily be seen that they must
of necessity be those who possess unusual
ability and experience. They must,
also. be men who can be trusted
with their employers money and
reputation when they are away from
home. They are direct representatives of
the houses that employ them, and we
object to the term drummer as incorrect
and belittling. Most of us are men of
family. and are not altogether boys" as
we are often denominated. We therefore
object to having the Tribune represent us
in the column of SenSeless drivel it prints
weekly as either idiots or bummerS. The
person who kindly furnishes that paper
with these alleged humorous cracks at
the profession he disgraceS, signs himself
Jack" probably abreviating his name for
convenience sake. l wish to tell him
that he is not a gentleman.
nor do believe that he is a member of the
T. P. Al should regret to find that he is,
at any rate. He works over lot of stale
and senseless jokes makes a few personal
filings that are prompted by malice. and
then gives his personal views in way that
leads people to imagine he speaks for the
whole fraternity. In last Saturdays paper
he compares our parade upon the occasion
of his visit to the Exposition, with the ap-
pearance of the Salvation army. Here is
dirty fling at j. F. Meyers, one of the best
men on the road. f. j. Jungsen is &C
cused of doing up" his customers, A. IL.
Cole is called fatty" W. S. Stockdale.
the ''parSon," ETC., etc. Now | leave it to
you-how do you suppose any business man
of family who has any sort of social stand
ing like to be slobbered over in this nauseat-
ing way? What we especially object to.
however, is the fellows impudent assump-
ton to speak for the T. p. A. The asso-
citation was organized about four years ago
and now has about fifteen thousand men,
bers. The objects it seeks to accomplish
are the securing of the repeal of unjust
laws imposing license upon commercial
travellers as though they were peddlerS. or
'drummers, as the Tribune calls them; the
securing of recognition from railroads as
profession; to adjust complaints against
hotels or by them against commercial
travellers; to elevate the social and moral
standing of members. The association his
been of great benefit. and its popularity /,
atteSted by its rapid growth. 1t has hau IA
strong tendency to elevate the standard of
the tOileTS, and has helped railroads and
hotels by exposing attempts at imposition.
In the East it has secured week end tick
cts, which enable travelling men to return to
their homes to spend Sundays with their
families. If the association had done no
more than this, Iwould feel that it had full
filed a noble mission. But it has done and
is doing greataleal more. We are under
taking to secure reforms in a quiet gentle
manly and conservative way. Each state
has a division, and each division has its
committee, to which is intrusted the work
sought to be accomplished. Now we
are not seeking to do this by blackguardism
through the columns of any daily paper
nor by attacking either hotels or railroads.
No one is authorized to do this in our name
and whoever pretends to so represent us
grossly misrepresentS us. This ''Jackn-ass
has set out to roast the hotels
of the Northwest. If he would do
this on his own responsibility
we would not object. The Minnesota
division was started about year ago, and
having been so lately organized has not
been able to accomplish all reforms At
the same time for one object to the state
ment that no benefits have accrued from
it, or that we must look to the Tribune as
the bureau through which we must seek
redress for grievances. Another
10 oh; oh r Oh, -
the insinuatiOn that John r. Stone. the ma
tional secretary and treasurer, should be
held RESPONSIBLE for what committees of