St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-16
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT.
1t is hoped that no one will be so If
reverent as to speak of r. G. King as
Cattle King. merely because he has been
elected superintendent of the stock
yards.
The White case against the South side
police has ended. The GLOBE has re-
Trained from commenting upon this
matter until it should have been settled
in the courts. Ii has now been settled.
At last the methods of the present adj
mnistration of the police department
of Minneapolis has had a hearing and
all exposition in the courts, and as good
jury as ever sat upon case in Henne-
pin county has pronounced against the
police. The five officers whose names
appeared as defendants in the case of
Nels White VS.. nj. r. Mclean ct AL,
we're not the only ones that were on
trial. 1t was the whole Minneapolis
police department, especially the heads
OF departments, including the immediate
police commission, which was brought
before the bar of Justice in this case.
and the outrageous manner in which
citizens are put upon by DULLES wear
ing the dress of officers is now potent to
the understanding of every one. But
the patrolmen are not wholly to blame.
Their activity and perseverance i'll con-
Quoting themselves as the worst of
tyrantS and their skill in Outraging
civilization are the necessary prerequi-
sites for the securing commentator
from headquarters under the present
system. Last winter George KEENAN,
devoted good deal of time to telling
MinneapoltanS of the Outrages which
the Russian secret police COM
nit upon subjects of the car.
Let the present police administration
of the police department pursue It's
present course, and the world may
see a correspondent of the NOval
Vremble, of st. Petersburg, detailing to
the readers of that journal how the
much Wanted free American SOver-
eign'' is Inundated and terroriZed by
his own servants. who are called police
men. ThiSWhite case is but one which
has come to light among scores which
have been huShed up or buried by the
threats of the city's tyrants.
The outrage which gave rise to this
suit at law Just closed occurred nearly
wear ago. The heads Of the police de-
partment have long known of the facts
in connection with it. The action in
the courts was begun nearly six months
ago. What has ever been done to free
the police department from the stain
which rested upon it in consequence?
Nothing! The men who would pose as
the possessOrs of GOd-gIven powers for
the conversion of governmental Sar-
tarus into political Elysium, have all
this time been in possession OF all the
facts which show that Mcleod and his
companions acted in a manner wholly
unjustiliable, they have known that
while home, that place which, above
all others, should be sacred. was in
vaded; they have known that Mrs.
White was Well-nigh killed by the &C.
currences of that night; they have
known that police officers who had con-
Quoted themselves like pack of hood
lums were still acting as guardians of
the peace, and likely, at any moment to
repeat their former actions; and they
have still done nothing. There is more
than that to it. One of these men who
appeared as defendant in this White
case, James Allen, sergeant of police,
holding a responsible position as
the supervisor OF the perfor-
nance of their duty by patrolmen,
went to the employer of this man
White, after the lawsuit had been insti-
tuted, and boldly threatened to injure
that mans business unless White, the
injured the abused, the iDsulted, the
almost widowed. be Immediately dis
charged. Furthermore, the evidence in
this case showed that Whites employer
had been so prosecuted because. for
Sooth, his employe had dared to object
to the outrageous conduct OF men call
off
the heads of the police departing
knew or should have known. And yet
they did nothing. These men, who had
so far transcribed their duty as to be-
come lawbreakerS. we're allowed to con-
tinue their pleasant tasks of preserv.
ing % the peace.
These pirating policemen now have
judgments, obtained in a fair and i'm
partial trial and because they violated
the law, standing against them. One
of them boosted. the GLOBE is reliably
informed. that never cent can be col
lected from him. What will the powers
that control the police do now? Judg-
nothing. Ii they wish to purge them
selves of the charge of fostering sys-
TEN of espionage upon laW-abding citi-
Zens, and of approving the constant out
rage of public decency. they will imme-
diately take such action as will remove
from the police department the
suspicion that it is but the means of
disgracing the city instead of preserv-
ing the dignity of its laws. This act,
which has been SO prominently brought
before the pnblic, is but the OutcrOp-
ping of The Observation-Disclosures
system which has been inflicted upon
the city since the advent of the Babb-
-Gjertsen-Bracke system. 1t be-
hooves the men who stand at the head
of the police department to take some
cognizance of the facts revealed by the
White case.
If a new Congregational church be
built on the triangle at Hennepin and
Lyndale, it will be very likely to give
rise TO the cruel suspicion that the
church is not ION the square,"
When Minneapolis ladies miss their
pet dogs this summer, and are heard to
remark in consequence that lit is just
lovely" don't hastily infer that they
are pleased. They are thinking of the
new canine capturer.
1t is rumored that while John M. Rees
was addressing the jury in the White
case, one BeelZebub was heard to re-
mark that he was mighty glad he had
never been a Minneapolis policeman.
James Connolly has discovered that
even workhouSe is not an easy place
to work.