St. Paul daily globe., 1890-07-31

about sisterly cooperation has been the
mereSt bosh-a bait to catch gudgeons
and build up md-city property in st.
Paul. This has been shown in many
ways, and especially by the way in
which you thrust your venomOus fangs
into Minneapolis the moment she de-
clared her independence and the ma
liciousness with which you have assailed
her day by day since she withdrew her
patronage from the columns of your dis"
ruptaDle paper. l do not mind confess
ing that have suspected for years that
st. Paul. instead of being the affection
ate twin city sister she pretended,
would turn out at a critical moment to
be an old harlot in disguise, and, there
fore, | am not much disappointed at
the course she has taken. In any little
past differences between the cities
aggressO-, but before this cruel war
is over st. Paul will get enough of
1t. want to confess, too, that did
recently preside over county cOnven-
ton of my Republican fellow citizens at
Minneapolis, Dy their unanimous choice.
on which occasion l cautioned them
not to be influenced in their action by
the census troubles, but to act from
high motives for the best interests of
the party and the state. The deiega-
tion elected at that convention has per-
formed its work, and that it honestly
and honOrably represented Hennepin
county in the course it took there can
be no possible doubt.
And you charge me with being party
to proposition-a leader, in faet-look-
ing to the withdrawal of the census
prosecutions by ST. Paul, Minneapolis,
in turn, to support Merriam'S renoml-
nation for governor. What miSera-
BILE old liar you are, anyhow. is there
no truth in you at all? The facts are
that an effort was made by few OF the
ardent Merriam men to inyelgle some OF
our people into Merriam'S support by
promising in that event to see that GER
tain prosecutions were hushed up.
1t was represented that st.
Paul parties had sufficient ev-
idence to send some of our
''prominent citizens" to the penitenti-
airy; that they would exhibit this evil
dence if we would go to st. Paul to in
vestigate it: that the arrest of ''promi-
nent citizens" would be terrible thing
and all that-something that should be
avoided at all hazards, ETC., etc. 1t was
further represented that two leading
citizens of st. Paul could thumb the
nozzle of Attorney Baxter, as he was a
creature of their making, and thus they
could save certain of the prominent
citizens from prosecution in case GER
tain things were done, etc., etc. The
scheme didn't work. 1t was regarded
as gigantic gag and as very thin. But
the proposition did not come. from
Fletcher or his friends, or from any
anti-Merriam man. and no one knows
this fact better than you. 1t was
that
Baxter manipulators, the McCaffertys,
and st. Paul would-be guardians of
Minneapolis citizens, the sleuth hound
detectives, the Pioneer Press and the
whole lot of them could go to sheol, but
they couldn't work their st. Paul racket
in Minneapolis. And so the ''promi-
nent citizens" are left unprotected.
Why don't somebody go for them? Or
is the scheme to be dropped because
there is no longer an occasion for
trade?
What a precious set of humbugs you
are! Rattle your tin pans, cry stop thief
and go on with your own paddingl But
you will yet come to grief.
"Whom the Gods would destroy they
first make mad;" and how mad you all
are, especially since a recount of your
city has been ordered on account of dis
covered frauds. You don't seem to like
the medicine you have in ghoulish glee
tried to administer to others. What
sweet saint you are! How you bubble
over with kind and gentle teelingsl 1t
is wonder to me you live at all with so
much goodness in your carcass. Per-
hapS 1t would have been better. for the
community had you been slapped in the
face AS your distinguished partner was.
But for your pusillanimous physical in
significance this would have been done,
no doubt, long ago.
Time is not long enough nor space
wide enough to characterize you as you
deserve, so | will be excused for aban-
doning the subject, for time at least,
with the FOREGOING few remarks"
When your frauds have been duly ex-
posed and new and honest count OF
both cities is given to the world, let us
know what st. Paul has gained by its
malicious prosecutions of Minneapolis,
and what you personally have gained
by your attempt to besmlrcb, through
your disreputable, dirty paper, great
city and all its people. In the language
of distinguished colored man-"ShOO
fly, don't bother me-"
LOREN FLETCHER.