St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-19
THE INDIGNATION MEETING.
Feelings of Minneapolitans Voiced
at a Monster Demonstration.

Feelings of fMinneapolitans Voiced
at a Monster Demonstration.
Never was there such crowd in
Armory hall as there was last night, and
there was, probably, never such crowd
assembled within any building in the
city. The meeting had been called to
protest against the arrest of seven
Minneapolis census enumerators by
United States Marshal Daggett on
warrant sworn out by William Pitt
Murray. The large size Of the assembly
demonstrated as nothing else could the
feeling of the people OF Minneapolis
on the matter. There was not a
vacant inch of space within
the big drill hall. The stage was occu-
pied by prominent citizens of the city,
and all of the interior by indignant res
idents, They crowded through the
doors, filled every seat, blocked up the
aisles, hung upon the edge OF the plat
form, came in through the windows,
and Waited-a seething mass of human
publish to the world, and especially to
st. Paul, how the arrest of those emu
merators and the subsequent actions of
st. Paul police officers are regarded in
Minneapolis.
The speeches made and the reception
of them by the audience were, by no
means eQuivocal. The arrest was de-
nounced as nothing had ever before
been denounced in Minneapolis. 1t
was declared that this one action had
widened the slowly-cloSing chasm be-
tween the two cities to such an extent
that it can never be bridged. William
Pitt Murray and j. j. McCafferty were
scorched and roasted and denounced as
men are seldom spoken of. And to all
this the audience responded with cheers
as if never before were it's individual
members so happy. The Pioneer
Press was also numerically lashed, sew
eral Of the speakers declaring that it
had fostered the movement against the
enumeratorS, as, SO far as they could
ascertain and to the best of their belief,
the story which it published yesterday
morning of the arrest was written be-
fore ever the arrest was made.
Mayor Babb presided, and when,
shortly after 8 o'clock, he raped for
seven arrested enumeratOrS be invited
to take seats on the platform. With
cheers the seven we're escorted thither.
Mayor Babb then introduced Hon. +. +.
Davis who, between vOciferOus roarS
of applause, read these resolutions:
The Resolutions.
The citizens of Minneapolis, in mass meet
ing assembled to assert their rights in the
presence of unwarranted wrongs, declare:
Whereas. at the unreasonable hour OF 3
o'clock on the night of June II, 1890, seven
census enumerators. legally employed by the
supervisor of the United States census for
! a - Il -, tIlO
peaceful and legitimate exercise of their
duties, we're arrested in the city of Minneap-
oils OH the complaint of one William Pitt
Murray, residing in the city of st. Paul; and,
Whereas, Such arrest was made by an
armed marshal, with loaded revolvers pre-
sented, and with an extravagant display of
force; and
Whereas, Without authority Of law or pre-
tense of right and at the same time and
place and by said persons, the official papers
in the custody of said supervisor were taken
from his possession and his office forcibly
and with loaded firearms ralded; and
Whereas Such arrested persons and pur-
loined papers were Immediately thereafter
summarily conveyed to the city OF st. Paul,
and not before the United States commits
sioner residing in the city Of Minneapolis,
before whom the same should legally have
been taken; and
Whereas, All said acts were done at the in
stigation, by the connivance, and with the
| committee of St. Paul residents, aided and
| abetted by United States commissioner res
| ident therein, and without the knowledge OF
consent of the United States district attor-
| ney of the district of Minnesota or any OF
| his subordinates or assistants; and
| Whereas, On the appearance OF said ar
| rested persons before said commissioner the
| United States government was represented,
not by the United States district attorney or
| his assistants, but by private lawyers, unau.
| thorized and undelegated by the govern.
ment, and in the employ of said self-consti-
| tuted committee; and
Whereas, Said arrested persons were ar
| bitrarily and summary compelled to plead
to the charges against them, without oppor
| tunity to consult or avail themselves of legal
! and friendly advice; and
| Whereas, Said arrested persons were com
| pelled to enter into recognizances for theil
| future appearance before said commissioner
| OH the insolenC, arbitrary and unjustifiable
threat of instant committal to the common
| Jail in case of refusal; and
Whereas, The said purloined papers Of said
supervisor were turned over to the custody
of irresponsible St. Paul policemen to rifle
destroy OF alter; and
Whereas. The officers of the law of the city
of Minneapolis armed with legal papers, an6
peaceably demanding the custody and pos
session of said stolen records, were, at the
kicks and curses, forcibly driven and elected
from the premises where said papers were
unlawfully detained by said disreputable
and unauthorized persons; and
Whereas, The said self-constituted citizens
committee of st. Paul has for weeks pa
trolled our streets and dogged our censu.
takers with paid Pinkerton detectives; an6
Whereas. THESE acts of insolence and vic
lation of every principle of common decency
and law are direct attacks upon the spirit Of
harmony SO long publicly and earnestly en-
couraged by Minneapolis between the Twi1
Cities; and
Whereas, the clear and unmistakable pur
pose Of all said acts is maliciously and
| wantonly to destroy the records of the census
of the city of Minneapolis; enviously to at
tack her business growth and prosperity, and
is an assault upon the honor of her every
citizen,
Therefore, RESOLVED, that in the coasegYa