St. Paul daily globe., 1890-09-19
INTO THE MUD
That's Where Z. B. Walker Saws
the Pioneer Press Is Running ST.


That's Where 7. B. Walker Says
the Pioneer Press Is Running ST.
Paul.
To the Editor of the Globe.
1t would appear sufficiently plain to
any one but the inStigatorS aud perpetu-
ators of this senseless census fight
that it had been run about long enough
''Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" Minneapolis mas had
to stand on the defensive from the be-
ginning; has been lied about in the
most outrageous and insulting manner,
ana every issue of the Pioneer Press is
filled with falsehoodS AID misrepre-
SentaliOnS.
The last two issues of that paper have,
through most diShOnOrable perverSion
of statement of mine, endeavOred to
twist it into an evidence that Mr. Kruse
was lax in his method of taking the cen
sus. l said, after reviewing his methods,
that they were probably more infiexible
city of this country; THAT he was very
accommodating, upright and fair i'll his
decisions" This was so printed in the
Tribune, and was the only source from
which it could have been obtained.
The Pioneer Press quotes me as say
ing that Mr.. kruSe twas very accommo-
dating in his decisions" which amounts
to an absolute perversion and false
hood. ] said that Mr.. Kruse twas very
accommodating, upright and fair in his
decisions" l did not say that he was
accommodating in his decisions" The
misquotation is intended to deceive. as
is done in every statement made by that
paper regarding our affairs.
I said that his daolSiauS yarn tsup
right and fair" would like to know
what kind of decisions the Pioneer
Press thinks appropriate for govern
ment agent to make. DID Mr.. Wardle
do less literally by st. Paul than to
make upright and fair decisions? Kruse
and Wardle were especially selected as
men of tireless energy. rigid in their
methods and infieXible in their allegi-
ance to the tasks assigned them.
OF the two methods that of Minneapo-
lis was the least favorable. The essen
tial difference was in the fact that the
st. Paul committee selected its own
enumerators, and used up nearly two
weeks in carefully picking out those
who would best suit their ideas of ac-
complished experts. On the contrary,
KruSe, from large list of names. Sc
lected his own men. In the next place
he subjected the work of his special
enumerators to second rigid scrutiny
ana acceptance by the regular who
enumerated the district This Mr..
Wardie did not do. In addition to this,
ST. Paul had about ten days more time
to hunt up and verify absentees and
those who mad been overlooked. The
ST. Panl enumeratOrS were far mole
liberal in their coun ing than ours.
Some time ago [ said in an Interview
in the Evening Journal that considered
it the duty of the people here to patron
iZe home industry and trade. | recon-
Iuended that the merchants and manu-
facturerS located in this city should be
patronized in preference to any others;
that as between st. Paul and Minneap-
oils we should always give the prefer
ence to our own city; but as between st.
Paul and any other trade center we
| should always give the preference toSt.
| Poul. In commenting OH this The Pho
| neer Press reports me as recommending
| to the people mere mot to patronize ST.
| Paul merchants if they can help it. :"
| They made no farther explanation of
| my statement. l wrote to the editor
| asking if be would publish a card from
| me on that point, but he did not have
! time to answer. The prOprietors of
| that journal have refused to purchase
| paper from the paper mill here because
| it was made in this city. They have
| also publicly recommended to the peo-
| pie of ST. Paul not to patronize the -four
| ing mills of Minneapolis.
Can any man within the limits of st.
Paul assign the slightest reason for
their intense bitterness towards this
city? | know that great many of the
business men of that city are not pleased
with the men who are running st. Paul
into the mud. L. B. WALKER.
Minneapolis. Sept. IS.