St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-19
A CITY'S WRATH.
The Flour City Angry Over
the Arrest Of the Seven
EnumeratopS.
William Pitt Murray and the
City of St. Paul Roundly
Roasted.
The Act Of Deputy Marshal
Daggett Denounced as
an Outrage.
a Long Series Of Resolutions
Growing Out Of the
Seven Arrests.
Many Prominent Citizens
Speak Their Minds on the
Situation.
A Day Of Wild Excitement
Which Mill City People Will
Never Forget.

To say that Minneapolis is stirred up,
wild with excitement and indignation
concerning the arrest of the seven CEN
Sus enumerators who were arrested
the rooms in the Vanderburg block
Tuesday night by United States Mar
shall Daggett upon warrant sworn
out by William Pitt Murray, of st. Paul.
and taken to st. Paul, where they were
arraigned before United States Com
missioner j. j. McCatferty, but feebly
expresses the situation. Even the con-
troversy that arose between the twins
over the Willard reception seven years
ago, the effects OF which are only now
beginning to die away, did not arouse
the
Intense and Bitter
feeling that has been excited. Even
conservative men, who have within
year entered heartily into movement
looking towards the amalgamation of
the two cities into a single great
metropolis, are offended and angered to
a degree which leads them to declare
that they will have none of st. Paul
hereafter-whilet the partiSans, the little
minds that are Swayed easily by preju-
dice, are excited, or rather have been
excited, to point that borders upon
frenzy almost.
To Take Events in Sequence
leading up to this stuation-the public
mind has been wrought up over the
taking of the census since the first day
Of the month. The fear that the enumer-
alton had not been we'll taken was be-
ginning to spread, which was confirmed
on Friday morning when E. j. Daven-
port, the census supervisor, acknowl-
edged in the papers that perhaps
quarter to a third of the pOpula-
ton of the city had not
been enumerated. Within an hours
notice, almost, meeting of the business
mems union was called, and several
hundred men were securing the city for
the names of people who had been
omitted. The work was carried Oh with
will and enthusiasm that is character
lstic of Minneapolis energy. Factories
were visited, resident portions of the
city canvassed, people were stopped and
enumerated on the street, while "Have
you been enumerated?' became the
Watchword of the hour. Saturday
An Extension of Three Days Time
In which to complete the census was
secured, and the work continued to be
pushed until Tuesday, when a system
attic re-canvaSs was begun TO ascertain
how careful a count had been made.
The result seemed to be fairly SatiSfac-
tory, and congratulations were In
order. That night came the arrest
1hich has caused the great cOmmOtiOn
and done more TO create an antagOnistic
feeling which will tend to separate the
two cities, even when common interests
are concerned, than all previous contro-
versies and disagreementS combined.
The fact that the Warrent was sworn
out by st. Paul man, and that COM
plants tending to secure the surveil-
lance of a census detective had been
lodged with the census bureau at
Washington by ST. Paul men. naturally
created the impression that an endeav-
Or was to be made to dis
credit the authenticity of the
Minneapolis census, aud besmirch
its character before the whole county.
This fact alone was sufficient to arouse
bitter resentment, but the methods
employed in the arrests, the hour at
which it was done, the carrying of the
men arrested to ST. Paul, and taking
away of the census blanks they were
working with when arrested, were cir
cumstanceS that famed the flames to a
fever heat. The lurld color in which
the Tribune and Times painted t:the
outrage" did not have soothing
effect by any means, and when
the tale of woe recited by the
attorneys and members of the
Business Mems union, who had followed
the prisoners to st. Paul to secure their
release, had been disseminated popular
feeling was still further inflamed. The
circumstance. however, that
Capped the Climax
and raised the mercury in all the ther-
mometers in the city, was the manner
in which w. H. Eustis and the police
officers who attempted to reclaim the
census returns at st. Paul upon search
warrant were alleged to have been
treated. Mr.. Eustis spent the morning
and arousing them in the high.
est pitch of excitement. He
was fairly beside himself
and his sonorous voice rung the
changes upon the devoted heads of the
st. Paul people IN way that was 9
caution. ''It was the most damnable
outrage ever committed in the North
west" he said. 1--WE went to st. Pau
quietly, and when we entered Room 81
Court House block. there was one police
officer present, aud he was engaged il
looking over the papers taken from the
Minneapolis bags. Capt. Helm stopped
and took the warrant from his poke
and proceeded to read it in an ordinary
tone of voice. We were sitting in chairs
The officer whirled, called for officers
and five rushed in the room. They
pitched on to us, exclaiming:
Get out of here you Cd id Min
neapolis 20 - l said, For God'i
sake! is this the way st. Paul treat
Minneapolis officers?' The six police
men drew their revolvers on us, and ont
of them grabbed me and kicked me fo
at least sixteen feet. was lame an(
could not help myself. 1t was the mos
damnable assault l ever knew. W.
were handled in the ugliest manner"
A big crowd assembled IN front of th'
Boston block, which soon developed
into
An Indignation Meeting.
The story of the assault gave colorinl
to the idea that the st. Paul people in