St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-03
MINNEAPOLIS.
VENTS FOR SPITE.

The following communication, pub
lished in the journal Thursday, is
all illustration of the care with which
personal spite can be vented through
the columns of supposedly reputable
newspapers:
To the Editor of the journal
| would like 10 know what Is the matter
with cur police force. Are they hired only
TO draw their salary. or are they hired only
Tor their good looks? It's shame that the
buns and the roughs of this city sit on the
windows of the saloon fronts. 1t seems ever
since the Democratic party has been in
power that the buns of the city have been
sitting on the windows. II is about time
that business was stopped. This is the
only city i'll the United States of its size
where the buns are allowed on the main
business streets to sit upon the windows.
They ought TO be compeledto move on, II
they have got any business TO attend 10. All
that they do is To throw slurS at people when
they pass. The chief of police here ought 10
be compelled to enforce the laws of the city.
We don't want the next mayor 20 spend
three fourths of his time III the South We
want man whose home is in Minneapolis
The year round so that he can run the city as
ii ought to be run. ii. Ii. kruger.
The Journal published this, commune
cation without giving thought tn the
correctness of the statements made in
it. But MIR. Kruger visited the GLOBE
Office last night with copy of the com
munication in his hand and request
that it be published in the GLOBE on
his tongue. One minutes inquiry DEM
onStrated the injustice of printing such
communication without word of eX
PLANTATION.
For example: Mr.. Kruger was not in
clined to contend that the sitting of
buns on the windows of saloon fronts
= anV mora common updpr the prpSPnt
administration than under former adj
ministratiOnS; yet he made the state
ment in his communication that the
practice had become common ever since
the Democratic administration came
in;o power.
In his communication Mr.. Kruger
says: This is the only city in the
United States where buns are allowed
Oh the main business streets to sit in the
windows" But he would not deny. that
Minneapolis is the best-gOverned city OF
Its size in the country.
Further along his communication
says: I'VE don't want the next mayor
to spend three-quarters of his time in
the South" Even after that broad
statement Mr.. Kruger did hot attempt
to contradict the statement that Mayor
Winston has not in the past year spent
in all one month in the South, not to
speak of nine months or thrce-quarters
of his time. He was not prepared to
deny that Mayor Winston has spent
more of his time in the city hail than
any preceding mayor. All he knew
about the mayors absence was that he.
had visited the mayors office four or
five times anu found him out. From
that he deduced the conclusion that the
mayor was spending three-quarters of
his time in the South. Mr.. Kruger made
other equally as wild ana inaccurate,
statements.
Mr.. Kruger said that his business with
the mayor had been private business.
He seemed piaued because the mayor
was not ready to transact business
whenever he was. AS he drew conclu-
sions, one may be pardoned for drawing
a conclusion from what he let fall
that Nj. Kruger has a personal spite
against the mayor because the mayor
was not in when Mr.. Kruger called.
MIR. Kruger, then, had a personal
grievance against the mayor. lie sur
rounded it with inaccurate statements
and found the journal ready 10 assist
him in venting his spleen.