St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-31
POLICE PROTECTION.
Minneapolis Will Want Much of 1t
and Get Mighty Little.

New faces-that is what the conven-
ton will bring to Minneapolis. They
are beginning 10 appear on the streets
already. But these faces that have ap-
peared so far are not of the type that
bring joy to the heart of the loyal Min
neapolitan, who sees in the selection of
his city as the convention meeting place
only the benefit of having the beauties
and advantages of his city noted by the
intelligent, right-thinking man of the
world Not at all. Most of them belong
to those classes that are universally
looked npon as the baneS and pests and
sceurges of society in the abstract.
Some of these new faces that one meets
on Nicollet and Washington avenues
these days belong to women. That
is enough to say about this one
class. No minute explanation IS
necessary to make it clear that they are
not yirt1OuS maids and matronS. Others
among these faces have the sinister eyes
of the man who is on the lookout for
chance TO establish bond of affinity
between himself and your property.
The local detectives are running them
into the central station every day. but
they still come. 1t is comparatively
easy for the detectives to watch these
fellows now, while but few people are
on the streets. But wait until the ave
nues are crowded from curb TO doorstep.
Then there are the gamblers and the
confidence men, and all the others
whose sole creed it is that "a sucker is
born every minute" You will not
notice these gentlemen, for they do look
like gentlemen, if you be not curious
enough to watch for them. They walk
up and down the streets, dressed la
mode, swinging their canes and appear
ing for all the world as If they had just
dropped in to look over the town with
view to buying it, should it suit their
tastes.
If you do not want to suffer from the
operations of these people during the
convention, keep your eyes about you.
The Minneapolis police will De unable
to render much assistance in watching
them.
Minneapolis has but small police
fOrce-225 men, or thereabouts. 1t is
not i'll the nature of things that 225 men
can properly police city of 10000 peo-
pie with the added burden of 10000 Wis
ltors, who must be directed and guarded.
The police have all the work they can
do i'll Minneapolis every day in the year.
The department should not be blamed
if it proves unable to cope with the
ton. And it may as well be set down
as fact now as to be acknowledged
hereafter that the police department
will be well nigh powerleSs during this
convention. The thieves should find
Minneapolis a fruitful field next week.
This condition is but the natural re-
suit of having men in control of the
city government with whom the public
veal is as feather when cast into the
scale against partisan spite.
For years and years the leaders of the
Republican party and the editors of
Republican newspapers have sung the
old familiar song of Democratic cities
being the hotbeds of political eorrup-
ton. These same leaders and editors
are coming to Minneapolis to this con-
vention. No, they will not see Re-
publican city in which official corrup-
ton has become All ineradical cancer.
They will, however, see Republican
city left absolutely defenseless against
the vultures of society that the true
principles of Republicanism may pre-
vail. Should Chauncey NJ. Depew lose
his watch, he should address letter TO
the Republican majority of the city
council thanking it for its devotion to