St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-02
chief element in the Democratic success
In Illinois, as elsewhere.
A DIsCREDIrEO DEFENDER.

A DISCREDlTED DEFEN De II.
The Pioneer Press is at all times a
source of infinite merriment to the en-
lightened. The only people who suffer
from it are those who take it seriously.
Its knowledge is as thin and cracked as
a mill ponds ice on November morn
ing, and its ignorance is as deep as the
ocean whose bottom has never been
explored.
Yesterday, in spirit of consumptive
frenzy, it suggested that the GLOBE
might with justice have been indicted
by the grand jury for drunken and dis
orderly conduct. The charitable have
construed this as intended for joke.
But it was not. The Pioneer Press
never jokes. Its proprietors exc out a
living as promoters of graveyard in
surance company. People in such a
trade never smile any more than the
undertakerS.
When the Pioneer Press SAID that the
GLOBE might with justice have been in
dicted by the grand jury for drunken
and disorderly conduct, it actually
thought that drunken and disorderly
conduct was an indictable offense.
Such amazing ignorance might perhaps
be pardonable III Iayman IMMERSED in
the machinery of courts and the penal
code. But the Pioneer Press is not
without experience in litigation. Ac-
cording to the testimony of its proprl-
etorS, it has seen so much of law that it
has been brought to the door OF bank
rupt's tribunal. 1t has surely had OPP
portunItieS enough to learn about such
things. But the Pioneer Press is not
capable of learning.
Ii drunken and disorderly conduct
were an indictable offense, however,
and the GLOBE were arraigned to plead
to such charge, one thing, at any rate,
would be certain. Whether it were ac-
quilted or convicted, it would have the
money and the honesty to pay the at
torneys who had defended it without
putting them to the annoyance of a legal
action to recover what they had fairly
earned. A newspaper which is found
guilty by Ramsey county jury of
seeking to Iepudlate the debts it has in
Cured for services rendered it only
adds to it's established reputation for
hypocrisy when it presumes to pose as
a moral teacher OF a defender of our
municipal honor.
MR.. MASON's DISMISSAL
The dismissal of JOHN II. MASON as
chief of the local police detective force
will occur today. The GLOBE had already
announced on several occasions that
this event would take place, but the
authorities and their organ have all
along as strenuously denied it. These
gentlemen probably have some way of
reconciling their consciences to perver-
sions of the truth like this, but the av-
erage citizen will find little to commend
in such duplicity.
The motive of this concealment and
these falsehOods, how ever, is apparent
to every one: The GLOBE has openly
charged that the management of the
police department under the present adj
ministration was inefficient, and that
crime was rampant and unchecked in
the city. 1t mas not attempted to fix
the responsibility below the head, be-
cause it is his duty to select subordi-
mates of the proper ability and expert
ence. Mayor WRIGHT and the news
papers through which he speaks have
insisted that these accusations were
utterly without foundation, and that the
organization and personnel of st. Paul's
police force left nothing to be desired.
In the midst of this controversy came
the dismissal of Mr.. MASON to supply
the vindication of the GLOBES course,
if it needed any vindication. The
GLOBE has no knowledge as to who is
most to blame for the existing eondi-
ton of affairs, and it does not know with
what Justice Mr.. MASON has been made
to answer for it, But his retirement
under compulSion is conclusive adj
mission on the ADMINISTRATORS part
that change of some sort was neces-
sary as response to popular COM
plants, and in order that the safety of
property in the city might be secured.
The GLOBE feels that it has per-
formed patriotic and valuable service
in bringing about this result. 1t does
not mean by this that it takes any pleas
ure in the removal of Mr.. MASON. OF
that all cause for criticism Will be elm
mated now that this has been accom-
plished. But it hopes that such will be
the outcome. and if it is, it will be en-
titled to no small part of the credit.
The notion that newspaper ought TO
keep still while thieves and thugs are
at work unmolested on our streets is
the delusion of maniac. Under Chief
CLARK regime man cOuldWalk abroad
in st. Paul at any hour of the day or
night without fear of danger. Since the
advent of Mr.. GARvIN things have been
far different. The GLOBE has demanded
continually that the earlier happy order
should be restored. The administration
has yielded to its demand by the change
it has effected in its staff of detect
ives. Should this move prove sufficient
and effective, no one will be reader
than the GLOBE to say so. Should it
prove otherwise, the GLOBE will not
desist from It's agitation. 1t is not ami
mated by any foolish spirit of partisan
ship, but by sincere desire to sustain
the fair name of our city as a place of
residence, and is glad that it has been
able to contribute something to this end.
FIGURING PLURALITIES,
Those newspapers which offered trips
around the world, to South America
and the worlds fair to the person who
should come nearest to guessing the
exact plurality of the candidate winning
the presidency are having an unex-
pectedly serious time in coming to a de-
cision. The usual rule, and the one
hitherto accepted by everybody, is to
make candidates plurality in state
the difference between the highest