St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-03
NYE AS BOMBASTES.
Utterances Which Prove Him
Unfit to Serve as County
Attorney.
Has Outrageously Slandered
Hen He Must Depend
Upon II Elected.
Yesterdays Registration and
What It Shows for DEM
ocratic Success.
News From the Courts and
Round Up Of the
City.


convicted himself of being totally unfit
70 handle the legal business of Henne-
pin county.
Frank Nj. Nye has at his command a
vocabulary that is at oEce the wonder
and admiration of all young Would-be
public speakers. But right there his
ability ends. Like allme who have a
copious vocabulary and nothing else to
back it up, lie seldom makes speech
that his tongue does not run away with
him. Resembling sentences fall from
his lips like water from casks bung-
hole when the vent is open. The stream
of words that flow through his mouth
intOXicateS him. He becomes drunk
with his own utteranceS, and ends by
making a spectacle of himself as man
without Judgment. He has proved it
often. One instance will be sufficient to
show how he does it.
Nearly two years ago a man named
Albert Meyer was Oh trial in the dis
trict court for biting off the thumb of
Officer Void. Meyer was drunk. re
sisted the officer and ended by biting off
his thumb. Frank M. Nye defended
Meyer. The newspaper reports of the
trial show that it was Nye'S address to
the jury that secured an acquittal for
Meyer. In his address to the jury Nye
made use of language and statements
that no man in his right mind would
use, and unwarranted even by the
license of the court room, where a law
yer can say almost anything against the
character of an opposing witness. Here
is one of the choice sentiments that fell
- &C "a
jury in that trial:
"Why," said he, "I'd rather trust my
life to the biggest. toughest gang of
highway robbers that ever stalked
Gods footstool than to a big, brainlesS,
br ss-buttoned. burly ruffian who stalks
the streets with aclub as apollceman to
aSsaii me-"
Nye was, presumably. correctly re-
ported on that sentence as it appeared
in newspaper which has always
pushed him to the front, and which is
now advocating his election, the Mime
apolis Journal The Journal reporter
then followed with resume of what
Nye said further about policemen in
general as follows:
The worst injustice" lie said. twas
often done by the police officers. AS Ill
this case, they only had to snap their
fingers to get the whole list Of ser.
geants, lieutenants and captains to file
into court and swear to anything to
back up the complaint, no matter what
the circumstances might be. His client
had been cruelty maltreated by big,
burly lubber of policeman. He be-
lieved that the whole lot of brass but
tons lied when they said he was not all
jammed and bruised from August
Wod's attack. A teacher had sworn to
the butchers bad condition, and he
would take his word against all the
blue-coated, braSS-buttoned patrolmen,
sergeantS, lieutenants and captains on
the force. He referred to the police
man as "a brutal rutfian,' "A lubber.' "a
great-l-am of policeman "A brute
and a coward"
Frank NJ. Nye now expects to be
elected county attorney. The county
attorney is the prosecuting attorney
against all criminals. Nine-tenths of
the cases he will he called upon To pros
ecute. should he be elected county at
torney. will come 10 him through the
municipal court. The bulk Of the evi
dence upon which he will have to rely
to secure conviction of wrong-d0erS
will be furnished by the members OF
the Minneapolis police depal tment. If
Nye believed what he WAS saying on
the 18th of February, 1891, as quoted
above, how can he cOnScentjOuSly pros
ecute any criminal, no matter how deep
his crime, when he must depend for
much of his evidence upon men whom he
calls brainleSS ruffians, brutal ruffians.
brutes, towards. born liars, perjurers?
II he did not believe what he said about
policemen, he should not have said it,
for he was lying i'll that case. Can
man who utters ISLANDERS when he knows
them to be ISLANDERS be trusted to attend
to the legal business OF Hennepin couu-
ty? Nye says that all policemen are
bruteS. rutfians, towards and liars, and
within a year after saying that he
stands up before the people of Henne.
pin county and asks to be put in posi-
ton where he can employ these brutes,
ruffians, towards and liars to swear
away the liberty and lives Of American
citizens. These two positions of Nye's
stamp him as either dishonest or un-
scrupulous, perhaps both.
Nye's eloquence has been commented
upon as one of the qualifications that
entitle him to an election as county at
torney. Does Hennepin county want a
| county attorney who Will depend upon
| his lung power to convict criminals
without regard to evidence? 1t would
not seem so. Nye has been prosecuting
attorney in criminal trials before, when
| he was assistant county attorney. In
spite of his great eloquence, he and his
chief together did not make so good d
record then as the present county attOr-
new has made. Since Louis r. Than
has been in office, the people have not
| heard of a man being convicted by elo-
| quence alone, when no evidence of his
| guilt existed. Mr.. Than took up the
work of county attorney with a
legacy Of untried cases from his prede-
cessOr One OF them was the noted
| HeiIpern case. He tried them all on
| the evidence, and he has always been
successful. He does not take a case
! into court, and pile up the expenses Oh
the taxpayer, depending upon eloquence
| to win 1t. When there is sufficient evil
dence to warrant the trial of a case. he
tries it. and wins it. Contrast his record
with Nye's.
With all the strength of his bovine
lungs, and with all the polish of the
oratorical school elocutionist, Frank f.
Davis is going about the city OF Mime
apolis telling the Republicans what
desperate characters these Democrats
are, and how they arc plotting
to plunge the United States into
all sorts of disaster. He talks of
Henry George ana Senator Roger @.
Mills advocating Democracy from the
same platform, and wonders thereat. He
weaves from the web Of his luxuriant
fancy long sentences of consideration
for, and ridicule of, the honest adyo-
cafes for economic reform, and throws
them into an audience to provoke that
| applause which is so dear to the heart
| of him who never said word that was
! not uttered for the purpose of winning
/ applause.
All this is but notwithstanding from
Frank f. Davis.
Frank F. Davis, the man who went
upon the stump in the state of New
York twelve years ago and worked for
the election of Gen. Hancock to the
presidency, the man who made speech
after speech i'll support of the platform
on which the Democratic party stands
today; who fought day after day for the
same principles that Henry George and
Roger @. MILF are advocating, the priu-
J ciple of tariff for revenue onlyi who