St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-10

days of that time he has had control of
the police department, and in that he
made no changes except for cause. Had
Potter been successful there would have
been many changes in the police de-
partment by this time, if the way he
distributed the council chairmanships is
any criterion. The Republicans got all
and the Democrats got none. Still such
men as eX-Police Commissioner Giert-
sen believe that Potters defeat was
a public calamity. What queer optics
some people have!
Carmen n. Smith had aspirations for
national committee honors until he
learned that the local Republican press
would oppose him, particularly the
Journal. and so he has withdrawn be-
hind his law library not to appear in
two years more. The trouble with
Carmen is that he never got over that
$500, which the journal claimed for adj
vertising Babb's good qualities, and
which that paper claimed Carmen had
agreed to pay. AS chairman of the city
committee Carmen might as well do
something to appease the Journal, or
forever drop into political oblivion, at
least that is what the Journal thinks.
Tim Byrnes has got more nerve to
the square inch than those Italian bears
that tried yesterday to turn a somerSault
on Second avenue south, but only sue
ceeded in frightening couple of car
riage horses so badly that two runa-
ways were recorded at police headquar-
ters at sundOwn in Consequence. Tim
wants to be the Minnesota representa-
tive on the Republican national COM
mittee, in place of Bob Evans, whose
ponderous machinery is difficult to put
in motion. Tim, perhaps, thinks that
without his finger in the pie some of the
ingredients would sour and spoil all.
The trouble is there is no pie left when
he gets through.
The street railway company has is
sued another bulletin. in which it says
that the schedule time between the two
cities will soon be reduced to forty-five
minutes. Following on this announce
ment was quiet order given by Gen
eral Manager Goodrich, that the num-
Der of complimentary car checks must
also be reduced. This will be cold COM
fort for some Of those deadheads who
the company. Such stool pigeons are
like old shoes now with the street rail-
way management: they are better off
than on,
The people of the Eighth ward make
great pretentions to sObriety. They
glory, as it we're in the realization of
the absence Of the saloon there. They
talk it on the cars, in their homes and
on the streets, and, according to them,
there is not more sacred place in Min
neapolis than that same Eighth ward
But Notwithstanding all this, the local
breweries are doing fine business
there. The family trade is excellent,
and as one Eighth warder expressed it
yesterday, 1.-THE beer wagons in that
ward every day are as numerous as flies
at the rendering factory"
Rev. T. T. Allen, who stirred up the
people of the Eighth ward last Sunday
by amounting that the upper floors Of
the principal business blocks on lower
NicoIlet and Hennepin avenues were
nothing but dens of vice, evidently
leaped before he looked. He stated that
his informants were Police Matron
Paine and a couple of officers at the
central station. Mrs. Paine denies that
she gave Rev. Allen any such informa-
ton; and as for the police officers in
question their names have not been
published yet. Mr.. Allen-is now in hot
water. Mayor Winston interviewed him
! as to where he got his information, and