St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-19
MINNEAPOLIS "JOSH."
W. R. Guile's Candidacy for Police Com
missioner---His Name Defined.
A FEW HITS ON THE SIDE.
Some Peculiarities and characteristics
Hinted at Let-'er-qO Gala
CHER Style.

The passenger agent Of the Milwau-
kee, is candidate for police commits
Sl0ner. Mr.. Guile's name is said by his
friends to be a misnomer of the nest
pronounced type. Webster defines
guile as being the embodiment of
''craft, cunning, duplicity, fraud, in
sldlouS artifice and VILE" but those
who know him say that Webster did
not mean Billy Guile, but some ether
guile. and point to the fact that, al
and man who has hustled in
politics even the Republicans have
never been able to bring a more serious
charge against him than that he was a
good fellow and worked for a railroad
company. Mr.. Guile is the gentleman
who reduced the great Republican ma
Jorlty in the Second ward to 10 votes,
and SO nearly defeating E. NJ. Johnson,
the intellectual giant who pulls the Re-
publican aldermen in the city council
around by the nose. When Mr.. Johnson
sized up his meager majority with the
AID or magnifying glass he remarked
that he wished to heaven that he had
never run against Guile, az he would
quite as soon have been defeated as to
have received such a ridiculOusly small
iiioJOt ioy oICSl llic y Cal0 VI SCl tlCC III
the city council.
Mr.. Guile, according to his name,
should be lean, hungry and cadaverous,
but he isn't. On the other hand, he is
fat. jolly and the soul of good humOr.
The numerous friends of Bert Nye,
who has been SO seriously sick with an
acute attack of inhammatOry rheuma-
tism, will be glad to know that he is
we'll on the way to recovery. Although
nearly worn out by his sufferings, he
is as gamey as ever, and yesterday
whispered that as soon as he
could get out he should devote his en-
ergies to having law passed prohibit
ing people from having rheumatism.
"Just think of it," he said, ''no notice
was served on me at all by the rheuma-
tisln, and was certainly entitled to
three days of grace. 1t amt fair, that's
all there is about it,"
A new Whist club, called the"Elite,"
has been organized with the following
members: w. A. Tanner, Willie Cur
ran, Frank Bfllister, Daniel O'Keefe,
John Flanagan, Patsy GarrIty, Harry
Jones. Dick Jones, Charles Brown,
Johnnie Turner, Mike Flanagan, Mike
Shelly, Carl E. Blake. The club also
intends to include progressive euchre
and authors in its list of games.
1t would be too bad if it should be
proven that H. G.. Hicks has no right to
district court iudgeship, and ''a man
Of the same ability and character as the
hOnOred Democrat who now occupies
the third place on the bench" should be
installed in his place.
Doc. Mobiles. who has had the winter
cholera in his feet, is now able to be
about and swear at the weather.
1t is the general opinion that Judge
Lochren ''got on to himself" as it were,
if so profane an expression is admissi-
bic in connection with the attitude of
district judge, and his charge to the
jury, as well as his rulings in the Bar
rett murder case, are recognized as fair
and impartial by both sides for once.
Mayor Ames led delegation of
about twenty Minneapolis Elks last
night who went over to st. Paul to visit
their brethren of that city.
The picture of A. j. Boardman in the
Evening Journal of last candle light
was very fair likeness of W. A. Dol
liver.
Aid E. M. johnson might take a few
lessons in French from Aid. L'Herault
and be none the loser.
"Old Hem, why don't they put him
OH the stand?'' is the reverential way in
which w. w. Erwin alluded to the es-
teemed superintendent of the police de-
partment in the Barrett trial yesterday
Jacob Barge has returned from his
European trip, and the GLOBE hastens
to return thanks for handsome New
Years card sent from Berlin. 1t was
printed in German, and its meaning
was naturally something of puzzle.
George K. Shaw, who once spoke of
Mayor AmeS' retirement from office as
fhn InCf u yIn1y nf ON Nsrita
has changed his opinion of the mayor
evidently.
Aid. Gilman is nursing a badly
sprained ankle, and will, probably, be
an ardent advocate of the sidewalk
cleaning ordinance.
Judge Rea's friends say he does not
want to go to congress. He did not
want to be judge, either, but was finally
prevailed upon to accept.
There were three mayors in a bunch
Friday Fight at little supper-Mayor
AmeS, of Minneapolis; Mayor Sutphin,
of Duluth, and Mayor DUNCAN, of OF
tumWa.
Uncle Selah Matthews is good man
to get up city directory. He has lived
long enough in Minneapolis TO know
considerable about the town.
The Journal has not yet interviewed
Warren o. Douglass and Charlie Hunt
as to their views Oh the tariff reform,
and an anxious public fOams with i'm
patience.
Some one should telegraph Congress
man Rice and Plat Walker at Wash
ington that the Mississippi river at
Minneapolis is still confined to its bed
with winter cholera.
10 Paige Smith is still in Milwaukee
and his poStofiice address is still with