St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-05
MINNEAPOLIS.
Additional City News or Page 4.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT.
The disposition of every one to give
Che old hulk of retrenchment and re-
form a parting kick on its way down
the hill Is noticeable. The Republican
papers do not seem inclined to defend
the administration, save the Tribune
and the Pioneer Pr SIS. The edito-
rails of the former paper are writ
ten by gentleman VINO
more familiar with the munlclpal gov
eminent of Glasgow, Scotland, IMAM lie
is with Minneapolis, and those OF tne
latter in Minneapolis affairs SO CLOSELY
resemble in appearance stereotypeu no
tees of spring millinery openings tliaI
they receive but little attention. Really,
the administration seems to be III need
of q champion some one who, int1u-
enced by the instincts of common hu-
manjtv. will raise his voice in It's de-
Tense.
And now comes the Tribune-Star,
which cruelty admits to its columns
roast upon the administration, written
bv Ed A Stevens, which, if published
in the GLOBE, would be hailed as an at
tack upon the good name of Minneapo-
lis. Mr.. Stevens, after stating that
Mayor Babb drinks whisky III large
doses in barrooms, and should not,
therefore, be held up as a teetotalerr,
goes on to guy the aldermen unmercl-
fully for their ignorance OF Inc pro-
visions of the city charter. Then ne
takes a shot at the saloon policy; wants
to know why the poorer classes OF
SaloOnkeeperS are invariably prose
cuted for violations of the laws While
the well-to-do saloon keepers are al
lowed to disobey the same laws. MI.
Stevens says faro bank gambling is al
lowed to run and cOlOred men are ar
rested for shooting "craps," ana,
finally, he concludes THAT there has
never been a time in the history OF Min
neapOliS when there was greater
difference between theory and facts and
between the preaching and the practice
of Oh Observation-Disclosures time
when there were more licensed and un-
licensed houses of designation and
prostitution or more gambling and SKIN
games, to say nothing of prize fighting,
blind pigs and other violations OF law,
known to and winked at by the authol-
ties, than at present. under an admlnlS-
tration which was to have made Mime
apoliS pure. but which is and has been
all things to all men,"
When DR.. Ames spoke of the Irish as
being uneducated and incapable of self
government, there were not terms III
English language strong enough TO eX-
press the condemnation which certain
MINNEAPOLIS papers felt called upon to
shower upon him. DR.. Burrell has SAID
that certain Chnaman. probably an
average Chnaman, according to the
reverend doctors views, is better man
90 per cent of the Irish. What will be
said to the minister? Will his not
being in politics make any difference?
1t is queer how unanimous the Re
publicans are Oh the statement that
Babb spoke in haste and stopped
over" Only a short time ago there
were any number of Republicans VINO
believed that there was not enough III
him to slop over.
Ore more will be added to the num-
Der of unseemly scraps" between the
members of the r. and Il. adminlStra-
ton when the council committee on
rules for CaiderwOod makes its report
It. S. Varnum and City Clerk Haney
sat in the same room all yesterday aft
ernoon and not blow was struck.
Verify, the age of arbitration has super
coded the age OF war.
The political campaign has begun in
earnest. The sweepers and scrapers are
at work upon the streets.
Babb's Stop Over-A good joke on
Giertsen, wasn't it? Here the Republl-
cans laugh.