St. Paul daily globe., 1891-10-03
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

When the wild-eyed reporter wants to
tell the world a sensational tale OF the
workings of the police department, why
does he not hunt up some criminal who
will say that the police treated him,
when he was arrested, as if he were
distinguished visitor from abroad?
That would be a sensation because it
would be new. This ringing of the
changes on that old, musty tradi
tion that police officers treat their
prisoners as if their cattle is about
played out. 1t is almost time that law
yers, in the courts, found some other
plea for their criminal clients than that
they were maltreated by the police. But
that is potent argument with the mod
ern juryman, and that is why the law
yers cling to it regardless of truth. The
average man is opposed to every police
man OH principle. He resents anything
savoring of power. He does not want
to have his precious right to create
diSgraceful disturbance menaced by any
man who wears a blue uniform. When
that man gets into the jury box he
looks upon every policeman as a per-
lurer, until the officer cOnclusively
proves that he is truthteller. In that
habit of mind of the average juryman
IS found the reason why so many men
that practically confess the commission
of crime are acquitted. The jury
SympathiZeS with man who has been
arrested. The lawyer bellows about the
cruelty and tyranny of the police. Then
some new reporter gets hold of that
lawyers talk and paints it as discov-
ely of horrible state of affairs III
civilized community. The result is that
the police department has to deny
whole lot of falSehoods, and some more
people, who read the charges and never
see the denial, get the idea that police
men are all second cousins of murder
ers. This has been illustrated in Min
neapolis within two days.
Some of the Minneapolis Republicans
and their organs seem to be very much
exercised through that the Democrats
may think that all men of Andrew Jack
sons way of thinking will be debarred
from the blessed privilege of working
for that Republican convention. 1t
would be too bad if the Democrats were
to get that thought into their heads.
1t would be so unjust to the nice
Republicans, you know. The Democrats
are not gong to be shut out entirely.
OF course none but Republicans must
say anything to the members of the
national committee about bringing the
convention to Minneapolis, but as soon
as the convention has been laSsoed and
tethered ill the back yard the Demo
Gratis can come over and cut grass and
carry water and do all the work con-
nected with looking after the beast.
That Will be nice.
The memorial volume published by
Rev. DIR. j. Ii. Tuttle for his people of
the Church of the Redeemer has been
issued from the press. The contents
have been mentioned before. The book
is issued in style in every may worthy
of the contents. The Typography is ex-
cellent, the binding simple and rich. 1t
makes au elegant souvenir volume.
The breath of the public will come
easier now that the police have solved
the mystery of that murderer's identity.
Everybody is glad to know that he is
Buda, and that he has not been lying
all the time while telling about his pri-
vate graveyard down in Illinois. He
has killed a man, but he did it while he
was crazy. That is unfortunate for
Buda. He will not receive so many
bouquets from morbid young women as
he would were he real murderer, with
malice aforethOught and bad reputa-
ton.
Since Harlow Gale was so unkind as
to really begin the erection of market
and spoil perennial source of news for
evening papers, the city engineers
office and the street railway company
have come 10 the front nobly with the
Cedar avenue sewer and electric line.
1t is announced that the Cedar avenue
sewer is almost completed.
Local papers are again printing ed
itorials on a new bank system. If some
of these fellows will invent a system |
that will convert the percentage of the
dealer into percentage for the buyer
of chips, they will confer lasting favor
upon the thousands who have beeu re-
duced to free lunch diet through
system S."
Kate Field has written about a thou
sand words to tell the readers OF her
paper how she enjoyed the harvest fes-
tival parade. Somebody must have
provided cushion for Kate to sit on
while she watched the parade.
A Minneapolis distilling company has
made an assignment. What a regular
old board of trade-business mems
union fight there will be between the
w. c. L. u. and the bi-chloride of gold
people to settle whose is the honor.