St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-02
HUM0R IN POLITICS.
How Certain Minneapolis Peo-
pie Worry on Winston'S
Account.
Much Idle Talk Of "Guerillas,"
"Splits" and "War to the
Knife"
Woes Of a Good Old Man Who
Wanted to Be Minneap-
oils Mayor.
j. Frank COLON Will Escape
PpOSeeutiOn--Fall Of
Handy.

Some persons who live within the
corporate limits OF Minneapolis are ex-
erciSlng themselves heedlessly over the
question as to who will be the next chief
OF police. This anxiety approaches the
ludicrous. 1t seems that the people are
more excited than Mr.. Winston, the
man who, above all others,is most inter-
ested in the appointment. As the result
of this fear and trembling. one evening
paper last night published column ar
ticle on this, OF which the following Is a
BRIEF condensation, conveying all Its
meaning.
THE struggle for the appointment of su-
perinendent OF police has bee me some
thing terrlnc. IL is SO fierce, in spite OF The
efforts 10 suppress its publicity, that 1t
threatens To disrupt the local Democracy.
There are, in fact, two factions. One of
these factions calls the other ''guerrila
baud" Ii says that the guerrillas are i'll poi
iIies for the plumber they can get out OF Of
nee: not legitimate plumber, either, snch as
good fat salaries and nice easy jobs, tut
plumber of Il kind that decent people know
nothing of. They only ask for The control
of the police To complete their felicity.
1.-The oeeent Democracy, who 10 large
eXtent-almOst wholly to the exclusion of
the guerrilla element-managed the cam
paigD in Uennepin county. see what their
Toes IN Inc party arc dItST. tnef are light
ing tooth and nal TO offset them, and that is
what makes the fight so bitter. The strug-
gle, of course. centerS in the selection of a
chief # lolIce. The guerrllas, so say their
opponents, want Maj. X. L. Henderson APP
pointed chief The guerrlllaS are opposed 10
a man To eX-Ald. Bernard Cloutier. One
ground of their opposition is that Cloutier is
d Catholic sympaIhizer But the guerrilla
element don care ABOUT Clouuers Catholic
ity. They may be of that ilk themselves. but
care ~ V.
hence the cry against him.
From one of MIR. ClOuuer's friends it WIS
learned that Mr.. ClOulier is, in fact, mem
Der of the Catholic church. Being OF French
descent, he could not well be any Thing else.
But he is q broad gauge American.
'Out of the whole matter is likely 10 come
a surprise 10 everybody-but the few that c
working il They say that the fight between
80 hot that as compromise the place of
chief OF police will he offered 10 c. NJ. Foote.
Mr.. Fuote says he does hot want IT.. But
Mr.. Foole Is human. He was little Cesar
during the campaign. and it is given ont Us a
cold historical fact that the original Cesar
thrice refused a crown, then accepted 1t.
Mr. Foote may do likewise.
But behind all this squabbling and thi
speculation stands the Hennepln delegation.
The Hennepin DELEGATION are in favor If
Cloutier's appointment. and will do their
level best to get him appointed. They have
made up their minds not TO have Henderson
at any price. If Henderson IS appointed then
The police commission will still remain Il por-
ton of the municipal machine. But il
Cloutier is allowed TO wear the chiefs but
tons, then they will undertake 10 see that the
police commission is abolished. As things
stand at present il looks very much as if G..
NJ. FUote would be the compromise head Of
the police department.
hat is all there is in it, butt S
enough. Mr.. Cl0utier is happy TO know
that after living here f0rty-three years
he is bruad-gauge American citizen.
MIR. Foote is glad to know that he will
yet be chief of police. Who are the
guerilias? The men who should know
something about it have never heard Of
them. Foote will not accept the super
iniendency of police at all, no matter
what might arise. MI. CIoutier would
The same might be said of Maj. Hen
derson. But there is no fight
over it. Some people have an idea
that P. 3. Winston pledged himself to
give il to Maj. Henderson. Mr.. Win
ston never made pledge before or dur
ing the campaign. That is all there is
to it. When Mir. Winston enters the
mayors Office he will appoint chief of
police. and not until then.
So
Owing 20 the small attendance at last
evenings meeting of the Cleveland
club no business Of Importance was
transacted. The club Will hereafter
meet on Monday evenings, If possible,
but the sessions will not, in all likeli-
hood, begin until after the opening Of
the next legislature.
r."
A meeting of the Democratic alder
men-elect was held last evening in the
office of Aid. MCGOWAN. The new al
dermen were called together to consider
some matters which they will be called
upon to consider in an official capacity.
The deliberations of the new members
of the council were devoted to strictly
party interests, and the Democrats of
the city may rest assured that they will
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