St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

If Frank NJ. Nye were to don mask
some dark night, come down town and
interview the police officers on their
opinions of Frank NJ. Nye, he would go
home with diminished idea OF his own
worth. The word "opiniOn" is used ad-
visedly in this connection, for there is but
one opinion among all the 225 employees
of the police department. That opinion
is that Nye, in his structures upon the
police, delivered in the district court,
out-Nved Nye and did it in no
way creditable to himself. His remarks
concerning the personal attributes OF
the "blue-coated guardians OF the Jaw
are termed by members OF the force
false and malicious" The "coppers"
are not saying much about this, put they
are doing heap OF thinking; 1ney are
human, and woe betide Frank Nye
should he run afoul of them. A few
months ago Nye was trying cases, and
depending for the proof upon these
same men who are now held up to de-
nunciation as bruteS and perJurers.
But for lack of votes he would still be
doing the same thing and, in the case III
which all his powers of language were
summoned to traduce policemen. ne
would have expended all his persuasion
in an effort to prove that the same
policemen were paragOnS OF human VIZ
tue. Many of the men to whom Nye re-
ferred in such OutrageouSly brutal
terms are personally unknown to hlm.
He has never spoken to them, never
had dealings with them, never
even seen them. Yet ne Jumps
them all as brutes and perlurerS.
Lawyers are supposed to have the rlgnt
TO say almost what they please in max
o,.orup,ant hafOrp iurV Knit is
it right that lawyer should so wan
tonly abuse his opportunities as to libel
an honest man? Libel is the word; no
other would fit this case. Police othcers
are not angels; neither are they fendS
incarnate. Some few officiouS police
men there may be, but the majority OF
them are as honest, as upright, as con-
scientlous men as Mr.. Nye Will
find in any circle of men
In which he may mingle. His
diatribe against policemen was not
alone an insult to the men at whom 1t
was directed, it was an insult to the
people of Minneapolis. The municipal
ity is accused of intrusting the preser;,,
walton of law and order to gang"
worse, according to Nye, than the most
VillainOuS aggregation OF criminals ever
created by the fecund brain of the
WIllGI
the old proverb has it that there
is honor even among thieves. while
Nye holds that honor flies.
as the lightning flash, from
the breast upon which repOseS police
mans star. Mr.. Nye long since estab-
lished his reputation as dealer III eX-
pressive words. He is now able to add
to his other titles that Of cable Sian
derer." Mr.. Nve says the police are
brutes and perjurers. The police say
Mr.. Nye is a perverter of truth. MIR.
Nye is one individual. There are over
200 policemen.
An evening paper conveys the inter
esting information that Donnelly has
been hit hard. 1t may be taken for
granted that John Day Smith had moth
ing to do with the punching.
The afternoon papers sent out news
bows who cried: Full count death
Genr'l Sherman This was the full
account: ''Gen. Sherman is dead"
Foreigners accuse American neWSpa-
pers of fostering untruthfulneSS.
The society columns of the local
papers begin to TEEN with accounts of
''soap bubble parties" One who is
not of the 400 wants to know if council
meetings are not meant.
Lecturer Raglan advertises that he
will speak on The Barney Stone"
He probably has reference to A. j.
Boardman's quarry; that is, if A. j. has
q quarry.
The men who are so anxious to build
bridges over the Mississippi could en-
ploY their time more profitably by de-
Vising a scheme to bridge over the de-
preston in local municipal finances.
Golightly Morrill, is said to have a
When did Tommy Warren return to the
scene of his former ''fakeS?"
The Y. P. S. c. E. society has been
giving an "Orange social" yet how
they would howl if collection of choice
spirits were to advertise rye social"
All vegetarians are not to be count
enanced.
If Stepniak, the Russian, looks any
thing like the picture of him published
in the journal. any government would
be justified in imprisoning him as
suspicious character.
A whte-souled young man around
whose head plays the aureole light of
Hope dropped into the GLOBE office last
night and touchingly expressed the
pain which st. Valentine and the post
man had caused him, thus; =
Il watched for his coming at early morn.
He came, and | felt a thrill
OF keenest deliget trot up my back,
But he only brought a-billn'
Why should Nicollet avenue, just
above Washington avenue, be turned
into barnyard-the sidewalks lined
with hacks and cabs, while the drivers
fill the air with the noise of their 'beau-
tiful language" Of which Gus Williams
sang a few weeks ago at the Lyceum.
Is there no place for hack stand but
the most prominent point in the city,
and have the merchants and pedestrians
no rights,
MUSICAL SHARPS AND FLATS.
The Grand opera house last evening
held large and fashionable audience
that was admitted by invitation to hear
the home concert given by Carl v.
Lachmund'S private classes. The pro-