St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-08
Rev. William wilkinson Stirs
Up the Animals on Spuri-
Gus Responsibility.
Rev. H. NJ. Simmons Traces
What SO-Called hereSieS
Do for Religion.

! uiAANA bOOh W pay lGdQCi. IAlLOk YOU
have it all pictured out in your mind
! you have a fairly clear idea of the pO-
sition in which the Republicans of Min
neapolis, especially some of the city
officials, now find themselves. In this
case the cow with the excited nerves is
the crusade movement. The rope is
fastened securely about the waist OF the
Republican small boy, and the COW has
her horns i'll the air and her tail over
her back, and she is throwing up more
dust than was ever found around the
lobbles OF state house during a session
of Farmers Alliance legislature. The
worst feature of this case is that the cow
shows no indication Of getting tired
and her excitement increases with
| every moment.
When the crusade movement in Mn
neapOlls was started the Republican
press hailed it with beat of drum and
clash Of cymbal. The Republican party
stood along the wayside and applauded
| itself hOarse. Republican city officials
became members OF the council of war
OF the crusaders. That was before the
cow had tasted of the mad delight of
running away and showing her heels to
the man in the moon. A change has
come over all these parties except the
cow. She continues her MAD career.
The sound of the drum and the cymbal
still rings IN her ear. The applauding
spectators, the leaders on the end of the
rope and tail tWisters behind are way
ing their arms and shouting at the top
OF their voices in a frantic attempt to
''head her off, but she will not be
headed. She is out to have some fun of
her own and she will have il
1t is an open secret that the crusaders
were backed by City Attorney Russell
when they first started on the war path.
They were assured that all they would
have to do would be to look after getting
the evidence against tine saloonkeeperS.
They were told that the city attorneys
office would see that all saloonkeepers
against whom there was evidence would
be convicted. The crusade was a new
toy then and it made the childish politi-
clans of the city hall shout with glee.
They could not get enough of playing
with it. Then the crusade f1Ourished.
The leaders of it were interviewed
every other day by the evening pa
pers, and it is wonder how
they prevented those same papers
from publishing their portraits as am
pIitied and embellished editions Of
Peter the Hermit. The law enforce
ment league, that was to make Of Min
neapOlis the model city of the earth,
was organized, and every day the col
umnS of those same evening papers con-
tanned interviews with the officers of the
league and outlines of their plans. But
the children who hold the offices
around the city hall are not the main
supports OF the Republican family. The
old folks had their attention attracted
to this new toy called crusade, so much
was said about it and so much time was
devoted to manipulating it by
the little fellows. They examined
it carefully and soon found it
covered with certain anti-pubic-
opinion paint that was becoming in
! furious to the whole family-was en-
rendering a disease that seemed about
to atfiict the whole Republican house
| hold; for this crusade is directly opposed
10 public opinion. The American pub
| lic-and the Minneapolis public par
takes in measure of the characteristics
| Of the American pubIic-is opposed to
persecution. That is what the crusade
has become. 1t is no longer the out
cropping of an honest desire on the part
of the people to make the city better.
The people know that the city is better
now than it has been for years. They
elected mayor by the biggest majority
ever given i'll the city to govern the city
| just as it has been governed.
Every one who knows enough about
the city of Minneapolis and the manner
of its movement knows that during the
| administration Of the immaculate Babb
there were as many back doors open
| Sundays as there are now or have been
at any time since the present admins
tratiOn came to the helm. The public
does not demand The crusade any more
| than it demands that the sun shall shine
twenty-four hours at a stretch. The
| Republican leaders-aDd by Republican
leaders is meant the men who pay the
! bills and who hold few Of the Offices
! have discovered this too. They see that
! his plan of persecution must be
topped or it will react with ten
fold force against the party that has
! adopted it. All the talk about the cor
ruption fund OF the salO0nkeepers is to
| hide the fact. Meanwhile the leaders
mentioned above have quietly signitied
to the children OF the party in the city
! hall that they must let up on their en-
enlargement of the crusaders.
To the credit of the crusaders let it be
said that they undertook this plan Of
NSAl iI'tA-ii VI NllCAl OWn LICE VIII. anu
probably from an earnest desire to do
what they thought was right The men
| who backed them up with the encour-
agement of great party were actuated
by no such honest motives. The cru
| saderS have tasted of the intoxicating
| fruits OF success. They have seen saloon
keeper after salOOnkeeper dragged into
court and assessed heavy fine. Their
hearts have beat high with joy at the
sight. And OF course they have ever
been willing to accept any aid from the
strong hand of the municipal Office
holder. But, as before stated, the mu-
nicipal OfficehOlder has been given a
quiet tip that 1t would be Just as we'll to
let the crusader paddle his own canoe
and not trust to having it "toted'' along
the bank, a la sedan chair, by the serv-
ants Of the Republican party. And here
is where the story of the boy and the
cow applies with greatest force. The
Republican boy is crying: Somebody
stop me; am running away No one
hes been able to stop him yet, for the
COW has inst got her second wind and is
out to break few records.
The manner in which the cases
against the saloOnkeepers have been
conducted the past week is an indica-
| ClOIi bldb Tile ABOVE Is GEAR eXpOSlblOn
of the status of the relations between
the crusaders and the Republicans in
the city hall. The crusaders have
openly limited that the city attorney has
not been giving the time to the lfquor
eases that their Importance demands.
He. or his assistants, have been letting
a good many saloonkeepers get away
without serious punishment. The cru
S aders do not hesitate to say that this
attitude on the part of the men in the
city attorneys Office is political atti-
tude. But they, the crusaders, are not
politicians. They are working for
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