St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-04
A FLOUR CITY SUNDAY
Elder Stewart Continues to
Have Fun With the Min
neapolis Tribune.
The Swedish Prohibition
Clubs Rally Proves a Graf
flying Success.
Death Of Mrs. Helen M. Davis,
One of the Pioneers Of
Minneapolis.
Several Sermons Delivered
Yesterday--News of the
City on the Sabbath.

One of the chief characteristics OF
Levi nj. Stewart, or ELDER" Stewart,
as he is sometimes called, is tenacity
OF purpose When he once gets hold
he never lets go. He is set in his ways,
and has followed his own notion for
many years, never caring, apparently,
what people might say or think. The
ELDER as applied to Mr.. Stewart, does
not imply that he is preacher, but is
simply a nickname. Some time ago
MIR. Stewart became involved in dis
pute with the Tribune, and in the
course of the trouble that paper picked
out some of MIR. Stewards peculiarities
and cartOOned them most Extensively.
The paper became so offensive that
Mr.. Stewart began bringing libel suits,
and now has sixteen against the paper.
The Kansas City Times. in comment
ing OH these suits, inferred that Mr..
Stewart was clergyman and so stated.
This struck the Tribune as funny. and
an article was printed in that paper,
and stated that if the "editor of the
Kansas City paper would follow Mir.
Stewart around for one day he would
find out that he was not church man."
This was stated in such way as to
make it appear that Mr.. Stewart was
not a respectable gentleman.
This drew out libel suit from Mr..
Stewart, being the sixth he brought
against the paper. A. j. Blethen was
then running the paper, and when re-
traction was asked for it was not made.
Yesterday it printed a retraction, and
| moraliZeS upon the folly of the suits
against it in the following way:
NO one now connected with the
paper had anything to do with the
rumpus or cared anything about it in
any way. We presume that Mr.. Stew
art has resolved to stake his reputedly
large fortune against the proverbially
| small means of a newspaper, and by
sheer persistence wear out and exhaust
the latter. OF course in such a con-
test 1t is a mere question of finan-
cial endurance, and the Tribune will
endeavor to take care of itself.
But beyond this view OF the mat
ter, which is entirely one concerning
only the Tribune and MIR. Stewart. it is
| a public question concerning all tax
payers, and the Tribune desires to
apologize to the taxpayers of the city of
Minneapolis, the county of Hennepin,
and the state at large, for being un-
Willingly the cause of SO large waste
| VI tilC w q dtC
by MIR. Stewards attorney that he has
some sixteen causes of action (of which
| this is the sixth one begun in the
courts) against the Tribune. of which
the above is sample. Not one of
them will doubtless cost less than
$500 in district and supreme court ex-
penditures. We probably do not over
estimate when we say that upwards of
$4,000 of the county and state taxes
will be absolutely wasted in the num-
berless hearings, rehearings, appeals
and motions involved in this choice col
lectionS of suits at law. The Tribune
is perfectly willing to defend the suits,
and will probably be engaged in that
pleasant occupation until the beginning
of the next century, but it wishes it
distinctly understood that it is not to
blame for so foolish waste of the pub
lie money"