St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

NOTE AND COMMENT.
Some Democrats are indignant that
Mayor Winston should say the Henne-
pin delegation would have done we'll to
have let the patrol limits alone. AS a
matter of policy, outside of the merits
of the measure, the truA of this asser
ton has been demonstrated. Outside of
certain interested property owners who
want the extension and the radical tenn
perance people who fancied that great
moral issue was at stake, no one has
really cared much whether the limits
were extended or not. AS matter of
fact the proposed extension would not
have resulted in a dozen more sa
looms being started, as saloons paying
$1,000 license cannot thrive except in
business portions of the city. Still this
proposed extension has given lot of
partizan Republicans the opportunity of
binding the public to the merits of the
new charter, by beating of drums and
the ringing of fire alarms as if the
whole city was going to be set on fire
and burned up. They have succeeded
in centering public attention largely
upon this one point, and a weak and
Facilitating governor has been influenced
by this mock parade of public senti-
ment which Amounted to nothing. Yes,
it can be said that the Hennepin dele
CATION would have done well, quite well
in fact, to have let the patrol limits eX-
tension alone.
Editor McLain yesterday morning
found, upon going down town to work,
that the street car upon which he
Glanced to ride was crowded, and
writes a quarter of a column editorial
about it. The Journal is great moral
paper, and the street car company
would do well to supply its editor with
a private street car for his especial ac-
cOmmodation.
Speaking of the greatness of the
Journal and its mighty influence, it
raised terrific row recently because
cantor of the Everett school bad been
discharged. The affair was written up
at as great length as though it was la
BILE to occasion war between Italy and
America. Some of the detectives
employed on the paper found out
that brother-in-law of mem
Der of the school board had
been appointed to the place of the de-
posed ianitor. The plot was then laid
bare before the public in all its hideOus-
ness. Now committee of the board
has investigated the complaints against
the former janitOr, and find that they
antedate the election Of the member of
the school board, so he could hardly be
the author Of the deep and h-ish con-
spiracy to have the janitor lose his
place. Still, the Journal is a great
paper.
Manager Wilbdr to illustrate the
idiOcy of the McHale bill to prohibit
the wearing of tights on the stage is
arranging to have the ladies all wear
boomers IN the presentation of the
"ChimeS of Normandy" The chimes.
too, should be mutfied, and none of the
papers should be allowed to tell the
naked truth about the merits of the per-
Torrance.
How would it do for the council COM
mittee on wOrkhouse to extend the cen
sure of Driver William West to some
one above him? He is not wholly to
blame for the carelessness manifested
by him. Men in positions like William
West do not grow careless if they fear
detection and its consequences. Do not
the persons under whose direction
William West works have any means of
ascertaining whether the number of
prisoners receipted for by him reach the
Workhouse? Is it not manifestly their
duty to know whether the receipt
and the number received correspond?
If they have means of know
ing, and if it is their duty
to know. why shouldn't they be cen
sured for negligence too? If they have
no means of knowing these things, the
system is wrong and should be correct
ed. 1t is hardly fair to make William
West the scapegOat when there are 9TH
prS biObpr in authority than bp who COR
tainly seem so culpable.
Carter Harrison is making overmuch
noise in Chicago about leaving the De-
mOcracy to its fate. If Carter will
come to Minneapolis and commune a
few hours with Col. NJ. w. Glenn, he
will never do anything cruel.
Many persons have noted that Aid.
Rollins, in speaking in the council,
always goes through the motions of a
swimmer. He probably realizes that
an aldermanis atloat in sea of troubles.
Aid. Loye, when arising to address
the council always begins, Now, Mr..
President, just wan word''. 1t is sus-
pected that when LOye went to school,
lone" was parsed as a collective pro-
noun.
Aid. Parry said Friday, In council
meeting, that he wanted to change his
vote, but didn't know which side to
take. The public has made that charge
against Parry before now, but this is
the first time he ever acknowledged its
truth.
Manager Wilbur announces that he
will put his opera company into bloom
erS" next week out of Difference to the
McHale anti-tights bill. If McHaie
chances to have an ear for music. and
comes over to note the effect of his bill,
he may put the whole Wilbur company
into jail.
Beside the achievements of S. l..
Richards, consummated before he
reached his twenty-tirst birthday. the
deeds of Napoleon" Ives, Ferdinand
Ward ct al. pale into insignifcance.
Jay Gould should take in his world
nights and hang it behind his bed room
door or he will lose it.
The curb and gutter question has
gone where it should have gone several
weeks ago-to a Reimbursement for
bids. Slowly but surely Mayor Winston
is forcing il uDOn the minds of tho aldar