St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02
MINNEAPOLIS
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Minnesota delegation to st. Louis
will probably be able to get together
when it reaches that city. but not be-
fore. Most of the delegates will get
away from the Twin Cities Sunday
evening, but not on the same train, as
arrangements have been separately
made in each city for special train.
Mayor AmeS packed his valiSe and
started yesterday morning, going by
way of Chicago, where, it is presumed,
he has business not disconnected with
his vice presidential boom. The good
doctor is very reticent on this subject,
but it is not improbable he has read
without disaffection, the newspaper re-
ports to the effect that at least three
candidates wilscome up with strength.
This talk of citizens ticket for Min
neapolis is not without significance. A
citizens ticket means compromise,
and as the talk comes exclusively from
Republican quarters, the presumption
is the Republicans are willing to
compromise. They do not use the
term, non-partisan, this time. That
term has an unpleasant ring in Demo-
cratic ears. and HUNDREDS of the Jack
sonians have taken dreadful oath
. never to vote ticket so labeled. The fact
is that the outlook in Minneapolis and
Hennepin county is not very favorable
to the party of high license and high
morals. The Democracy is ram
pant, and is claiming everything.
The ProhibitiOniStS are well organized
and aggressive. The Labor party is
threatening to fight its own battles at
the polls. Among the three, the Re-
publican chances are not as bright as
day, and they show their appreciation
Of the fact by proposing a compromise.
The SUNDAY GLOBE will have some
interesting matter in this connection.
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1t looks very suspicious that an at
tack. from the quarter from which 1t
came, should be made on the admins
tratiOn of the committee of the striking
girls, and there may be some interest
ing developments. The girls make
clear, clean financial exhibit of
their affairs, and are at once
acquitted on that score. If
any girl has been omitted or over
looked in the distribution of the fund,
it is certainly her own fault. and cannot
be laid to the committee. 1t is strongly
suspected there is another influence be-
hind these charges, and the outcome
may be interesting. i not sensational.
There is no good reason why the
Trades assembly should not prefer what
charges it has to make against Engineer
Rinker i'll the usual form. He is
sworn officer of the city and holds most
responsible position and is warranted IN
demanding complete observance of the
forms. The assembly, if it has any
thing it can Substantiate, has the right as
individual taxpayers, to be heard. MIR.
Rinker says he will insist upon full
hn
should be satisfied with nothing less.
There is no room for trifling Oh either
side in a case like this.
Aid. kerr'S sewer ordinance went to
pieces i'll the city council yesterday, the
simple report of the city attorney that
it took away from the engineer powers
vested in him by the city charter being
sufficient to settle any dispute. City
Attorney Smith is becoming a
sort of a legiSlational mentor,
and the announcement that the
city attorney advises so and SO, is
about the strongest argument that can
be brought i'll favor of a measure. His
opinion appears 10 be sought upon al
most every conceivable subject, and he
is apparently becoming somewhat
weary. AT any rate he turned in
highly sarcastic report yesterday
in reply to the inquiry as to
whether the janitor of the city hall
should have an assistant in which he
said be knew of no legal objections,
but as to whether the janitor needs an
assistant he had no means of knowing,
as he was not familiar with the work
incidental to that necessary but not al
together ornamental position.
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Loren Fletcher is evidently not max
ing furious love to the coy S. p. Snider.
He remarked the other day with a sniff,
'These people who go around with a
patent smile just before election won't
do, and Snider is going to find it out
this fall"
Judge L. L. Baxter, of the Seventh
judicial district, who is kindly trying to
help the judges of the Hennepin district
court out of the whole into which they
have been dragged by the weight of ac-
emulation of business Occasioned by
Judge Rea's absence, is pleasing the at
torneys vastly by the businesslike man
ner in which he disposes OF the cases
before him.