St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-16
FOR The POLITICIANS,
Some Gossip Which Will
Doubtless Prove Interest
ing Reading.
The State Leagues Finances
Still a Topic of Fruitful
Discussion.
Charlie Pillsbury Is Not Stuck
On Making the Race for
Mayor.
A Scheme to Have the Police
Commission Work Both
Ways.
Jogging along together, HE boys,
Me Ould gray mare and l."


A few days more, and all that is NOR
tai of that long to-be-remembercd or
ganiZation, the Minnesota State league,
will come together and discuss unpaid
bills and the best means of making up
that $1,000 deficit. In view of the fact
that monkey-and-parro time is eX-
pected between President Tim Byrnes
and the balance of the league, it is said
that the committee having the matter IN
charge will issue tickets for admission
TO the hall. In this way they expect to
raise little money and thus help the
creditors out. Though Tim Byrnes
has given the matter great deal
of thought and study during
the past month he has not
yet been able to see any way out of the
hole except by paying toll, and though
his friends in Minneapolis are credited
with having made quite an effort to
raise the necessary amount, they have
not been very successful. AS is always
the case when money is wanted to pay
political debts, it is very hard to collect,
and those who were expected to ''come
down." such as ''Uncle'' Loren and men
OF his style, have positively refused, it
is said, to shoulder any of the debts or
contribute cent to their liquidation
They say the young fellows organized
the league, made great spread and
carried everything, and they are willing
that the hOnors should remain where
they are. Even Congressman Snider,
who owes his seat in congress largely to
the juvenile branch of the party. has
been credited with saying that he cam
not do anything for the league or it's
creditors. He said the congressional
committee had nothing to do with the
league. and the inference can be drawn
without the aid of force pump. It is
too bad for the party that breaches such
noble (O doctrines to find itself handi-
capped by such leech as the league
proved itself to be.
A happy thought occurred to some of
the members of the league during the
week which may yet solve the problem
of financial embarrassment that it is now
trying to remove. Gov. Merriam's
name has been connected with the
scheme to wreck the American Build
ing and Loan association, and it is said
that some of the league members have
called on him for assistance, promising
in return that they will see that he gets
all the support necessary from Henni-
pin county when the time comes. 1t is
a good scheme; the Governor to ''give
down" and help out the league and in
return get the Hennipin county sup
port. This. it is said, is the reason why
Uncle" Loren would not con-
tibute anything. He is not
working for Merriam's success.
and has no time" for the man who is.
Loren thinks. however, that public OPT
Mon will not vote Merriam into the gov
ernOr's chair again in the fact of the
charges made against him, unless they
be cleared up in some way. That was
barrel of nuts for Merriam, and Lang
don is as happy as COW in clover.
Everything looks well for Langdon now,
but like the weather, public opinion
may change when least expected. If
the Minneapolis end of the state league
want to redeem themselves, they must
not bore the city for the necessary
is worth good deal, but the GLOBE
will not put in any bill just now, but
will wait and see whether the auditing
committee can find any bottom to the
sinking fund.
Charles A. Pillsbury is not tickled to
death over the prospect of being
mayOralty candidate next fall, and will
probably not be unless a softer chair
and cooler pillow are guaranteed for
him for the following two years than
what Mayor Bahb put up with for the
past year. The fact of the matter is, he
does not want to have anything to do
with so small an office; besides. as he
says himself, there is no great honor in
running for an Office and getting de-
feated. He thinks that next year the
Democrats will get everything from
mayor to dog catcher in Minneapolis,
and that his surplus cash could be put
to better use in improving the water
power at Spirit island than paying CAM
paign expenses for party that must go
down like McGlnty. Those who have
this great task in hand will not accept
any refusal from Mr.. Pillsbury. They
are determined to force him into an ac-
ceptance of the empty honor, and he is
just as determined that they shall not
When G. NJ. Loring returns, which will
be very soon now, he will be requested
to give himself up as sacrifice on the
political altar, but it is doubtful if even
he will condescend to make the fight.
That august body, the police commits
sion, has another year in which to live,
after which it will be non est. The Re-
publicans have already defined for
themselves, but not for the public, what
course will be pursuen i'll the police de-
partment after the commission has 'de-
parted this life." Ii the Republicans
elect their mayoralty candidate, the
legislature will abolish the commission
entirely and put the police department
| in the hands of the mayor. On the other
hand, if the Democrats elect their can
| didate, which, of course, they will, the
| present police commission act will be
abolished hnf will In i1,4E
| duced and passed placing the mayor
and the council committee on police in
charge of the ''force." This is their
| little scheme, and it is good one. 1t
| practically creates new commission,
| but with less powers than the present.
| The committee will have nothing to do
| with the police except in the matter of
| appointments, while the entire man.
agement of the department will
fall on the mayors shoulders. The
| council of course will be Republican,
the president of that body will be a Re-
| publican. and he will see, as a matter
of course, that the police committee
| is largely Republican. In this way one
can see how Democratic mayor would
| be fixed. He could not make any ap-
| pointments or promotions; neither could
| he discharge a member of the force
without the consent of the committee
at the same time he would be held re-
| sponsible tor good order in the COM
munity. He could not even have the
appointment of his own chief, and, of
course, tied down like that he could not
accomplish anything. A Republican
committee from the city council will
preside over the police department a
year hence, and then we may look out
| for squalls. If that committee will know
as much about police matters as the Re-
| publican members of the present coun-
Gil know about ''retrenchment and re-
FORM" our police force a year hence
will be bigger farce than ever.
"Mayor'' Baker, who was once clothed
with little authority while acting as
! police commissioner, and who worked
hard last winter to get the commission
reduced from five to three members,
with the view of getting one of the new
chairs himself, is said to be very busy
talking himself up for alderman from
his ward. A year ago Baker looked