St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-04

Member of foreign consulate:
What other reason can there be!
VAST IN the midst of revelry,
And jocund laugh or rlbald snour
That you SO cruelty coulo hoat
Your whilom friends. the G1ertsenese'
And place your party in squeeze.
All! who shall bridge the chasm woe
You've opened up? The Norseman's PRIDE
You've fiouted, TO his very teeth'
Nor needed dangers hid beneath
The statements telegraphed the press.
How TO elude the dire distress
The statements you must cen explain,
Nor count ele Swedish vote again.
The grand Jury has taken cogniZance
of the stories of corruption and boodie
which has attached itself like halo
lowering over the retrencilment ana re-
form council. and the charges made by
the Times are to be the suoIect OF an
investigation. Enough was brought
ont in the so-called investigation before
the committee of the council to make
many people believe that if A. j. Elliott
would testify he would make serious
charges against the city clerk and two
of the aldermen from the First ward.
Every man who was accused OF mis-
doing OF against whom the finger
of suspicion was pointed de-
clared that he wanted
full investigation. The grand jury
is a body armed with all the power OF
the court. and it is to be hoped that the
attendance of witnesses Will be com
PEELED and the matter probed to the Dot-
tom. An innocent man Will nave noun
ing TO fear from an investigation OF TINS
character, but guilty dne may have
much to conceal. Justice to those now
under suspicion demands the fullest III
curry into the allegations. and should 1t
be shown that any city official has pros
tituted the trust confded In nm Dy the
people for his own ggrandlzement ne
should be punished as his crime de-
serves.
WHY is it that the dirtier the teStl-
mony in cases before the municipal
court the greater the crowd of Specta-
tors? The Judges have done well in en-
forcing the rule and barring out every
body but those connected with the case.
Minneapolis is to have game pro-
tective society. What a good many OF
the sportsmen would like would be
society which would find the game with
in a reasonable distance of Minneapolis
TO shoot.
To be consistent the retrenchment
and reform administration should
"dock' Mayor Babb's salary for the
time he has been absent from the city.
During the Democratic regime there
was a great row by certain Republican
aldermen. because Alexander Mullen,
the printing expert in the city clerks
office, was absent on few weeks Vaca-
ton, and even the threat was made
that the courts would be appealed to II
he was allowed pay for services he ala
not actually render the city.
Charlie Cornman's appointment as
an assistant secretary of the exposition
will give good satisfaction doubtless,
but what in the world has become of
that $4,000, 600 building and loan aSsocl-
alton Charles was going to spring on
the public?
The grand Jury might accomplish
some good if it investigated the 'pecu-
liar performances of the weather. and
indicted a few street commissioners tor
drawing salary under false pretenSeS.
Comrade George w. Marchant has at
last been provided with another office,
and one more political promssory note
long since past due has been taken up.
Wing, Wah and Hoy were the partici-
pants in a row yesterday, but they were
not all Chinese, as the names might in
dictate.
There are times when candor is pc
culiarly refreshing, and especially SO
when coming from source from when
it was totally unexpected. The Tribune
takes occasion to state that young
man has been making himself oDnoX-
iOus by passing himself for a Tribune
IC
in the admission alone, but the article
goes on to say that "he has been gong
to social gatherings aud entertainments,
and demanding such cOurteSieS as no
self-reSpecting newspaper man would
dream of expecting. Genuine news
paper men have no time to indulge In
such offensive practices" etc. If the
young man was as consistent with his
assumed character as Is represented Oy
the article, it is wonder how the fraud
was ever discovered.
Some of the architects are bowling
because the council has declared that
hereafter no buildings over 100 feet III
height shall be erected in Minneapolis.
OF what use are the skyScraperS, eX-
cent as a monument to the man who
made the plans? There is plenty of
available land in the city of Minneapo-
lis vet, and if in years to come the city
grows so that it is impossible to accom-
modate all of the necessary buildings
inside the present city limits there IS
no reason why the examples already set
by New York, Philadelphia and Chicago
cannot be followed and the limits eX-
tended. Hennepln is big county, and
there is land enough within It's bound
aries to accommodate all the people
lityn hnCInnCC
Minneapolis. The architects naturally
advance the theory that handsome
buildings advertise the city. Very true,
as long as no accident occurs they are a
credit. The Tribune fire was big adj
yertisement for Minneapolis, but it was
not the kind of an advertisement the
citizens generally want. Should fires
occur in the imitation tower of
Babel structures some of these peo-
pie would like to have their names
attached to The fire department and all
modern appliances for fighting fire are
powerless to cope with it, and the only
thing the firemen could do would be to
wait until the fire burned down to where
they could reach it with the appliances
at hand. A cyclone, such as visited
Louisville recently. striking one OF the
skyscrapers is apt to create great loss OF
life, especially as the upper stories,
where rentals are low, would naturally
be we'll peopIed; Some of the capital
lists declare that Eastern capital will be
driven to other cities. Minneapolis is
abundantly able to take care of itself,
and capital will always 60 where it
finds the best Investment. To say the
least, the arguments advanced by the
architects are selfish in the extreme.
RIB. Langdon says: "If should re-
ceive the nomination, of course would
accept it." Of course he would. No
one ever had the remotest idea that he
would not.
The statement comes from an authorl-
tative source that L. S. Varnum, alias
sPeacham Teddy" is soon to leave the
field of journalism and dramatic crlti-
cism or of farce comedy criticism,
rather - in the city hall for q
more congenial field. The open
ing of Scandinavian playhouse
in the city gives Mr.. Varnum the long