St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-02

But again he retrained from giving par
ticuIars. He did not say to what Otfl-
cial he made his appeals, nor what otfi-
ciai had told him that there was tacit
understanding that the laws should not
be enforced.
1t was then declared that another
peril exists IN the city that is even more
dangerous than the saloons. and then
it was alleged that the gambling denS
make the business men of the city
uneasy. They are troubled because
their sons are little by little led into the
gambling dens and are ultimately
ruined. So much was said in general
way, and then the good man deviated
little by particnlarizing. He said he
wanted to speak of place on Robert
street, the fremont exchange, and to
show how horribly iniQuitOuS it is he
cities, would not tolerate such wicked
gambling den. Who owns it? Some of
the men in the ''gang," he asserted, as
the records at the court house will
show.
Il can give the name, If l wish," he
said, "the name of the man in the
gang who owns a third of this place. l
can show it tonight"
There is another vice." he pursued,
"of which l cannot speak, The busi-
ness blocks and the houses he declared
are infested, and his wife and the wives
of his congregation are not safe on the
streets. They cannot walk the streets
without the jeerS and insults of i'm
moral men. This is another deplorable
state of affairs. MIR. Stemen asserted
that he was not guessing, for he knew
what he was talking about. Moreover
he was armed with sworn affidavltS to
prove that the most alarming conditions
exist. He wouldn't deal in glittering
generalities, he said, but he abStalned
from making definite charges, however.
Then the mayor was numerically
scored for being the consort of disrepu-
table people. He is found in bad COM
pany. although the divine would not
have his congregation think the whole
court house is infested by band of
thieves. because, perhaps, it is not. The
Hall-FitZSimmOns episode was re-
hearsed. and the divine declared that
Mayor Smith had said:
1--we will have great prize fight, be-
cause it viii! bring wealth and people to
the city, and, when the governors
manifesto went out, the mayor said the
fig h. shall go onP"
Then the mayor was painted as a
weak and ductile official, and not to
blame. The men who hover
around him and lead him are
to blame. Mr.. Stemen explained
that he had pronounced against
the pernicious things that be to remind
those who can vote that they should
have the interests of the city in hand.
His object was to show how to bring
about condition of purity-Christian
manhood and Christian WOmanhoOd. If
Col. Wright, or the other side, as he de-
scribed it, is elected, we will have a
change: the city will be cleaned up and
better state of things will exist. This
was pronounced a great crisis, a battling
against the perils that beset the city,
and for law and order, for the en-
forcement of the laws; a crisis of
right against wrong; licentiousness
against good, pure love. Mr. Steman,
in pleading for the Republican ticket,
said he was pleading for the homes, and
for the sturdineSs of purity and virtue,
and simplicity that our grandfathers
had. He pointed with alarm to the
vast amount of property that is in peril,
and menaced by the nultitudinous In
famieS of the city. Men had told him
that they lost heavily in rents because
of neighboring denS of vice.
In closing, he bes0ught his congrega-
ton to have prayer behind their bal
lots prayer for their homes and for
the young men, that they may not have
the hundreds of Snares behind them to
tumble into.