The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

taking plain common sense view
of the matter glad for the In
dams and white settlers as we'll.
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FRANK MIsAD,s LETTER.
The Twin, City Census Row-A Word or
Two in Defense of Mr.. Hay-A Demo
cratic Lawyer to Prosecute Demo-
cratic COnspirntors-The Politi-
cal Conspiracy to Defeat the -as@i
Republican Ticket. HI
UNION Special Correspondent s 81
The census fight is still sson.'' Not
"on" after the cyclone fashion as it was.
last week when Minneapolis was tearing
her virgin hair at the attempted rape Of
St. Paul, but "on'' sohbingly and spas
medically Little By little the storm is
dying away. The Pioneer Press lies a
little less luridly, The Minneapolis
Tribune sWaggers and bullies with a
smaller amount of that intense self-con-
/ fidence which is the specific Characters
tic of Mr.. Blethen. The other twin
| city dailies draw inspiration from these
two Falstaffian heroes of CORY Journals
i tic warfare, and all of them now bark in.
minor key. The thunderstorm has
nearly subsidized, and it is to-day com.
paratively safe for any NlinneapoAtan
i Except Ed. a. Stevens) to visit st. Paul,
and almost any reputable st. Paulite
!. (save only Bill Murray can come to
Minneapolis without there being any
danger Of instantaneous assassination.
/ q
3. lord! what fools these mortals be!''
i Did anybody on the face Of tile wide,
j green earth, ever hear Of two commune
i ties, each with more than one hundred
and fifty thousand population, getting
4 by the ears about matters so small and
n insi gnlficant, as these quarrelsome twins
|of Minnesota? I. 4 ,,s
i Now suppose Minneapolis did stock
the cards in the game to a small amount
and lsgness she did, but will probably
not be caught in the act. If St. Paul
4 had just been patient, there would soon
have been consummated real municipal
marriage; and then, after the union, all Of
j the wealth of population stolen by Min
neapolis would have become the common
heritage of the united city, and nobody
would have had any more pride than the
people Of st. Paul in the fact that lin
4 nesota could boast a larger metropolitan
centre than any Staten the Union ex-
,|cept New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania
land Missouri. Let it now be thoro ughly
Understood, that If st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis and their suburbs were Joined to-
i gether under one name, and one munich
pal charter, the only cities in America
that would surpass them in population
and wealth would be New Y ork, Brook
! lyn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and
L /. &. =
st. Louis possibly Baltimore.
The status Of affairs at this writing is
4 that the eastern papers are proclaiming
/ the fact that Minneapolis has about ,2OO,-
900 populations, and that st. Paul has in
tho the vicinity Of 100000. This would
seem to indicate material lack Of vim
and enterprise on the part Of ST. Paul on
the census roposition-and the Capital
City, Of which we are all so justly proud,
has not il her past history been found
wanting when it comes to hustling.
X
1 Since my last letter to the UNION the
st. Paul committee of leading citizens
has horned up the earth all around in
the vicinity Of Washington city, hunted
the pension commissioner in his native
1 lar, stalked the attorney general in the
jungles of central New Y ork, and even
laid for Presid ent Harrison in the wilds
fof the white house grounds. They.
hunted their game with a brass band, to-
be sure, but that was only to let the
world know that Messrs. Castle, Mum
and LaWler were great classical hunters.
was glad to note that the editor Of
the UNION had the manhood ! and indie
1pendence to stand up for bat much