St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-08
WHEN WILL HE RESIGN ?


The Pioneer Press yesterday morning
divided its editorial page into sections,
and devoted its space to anathemas upon
the GLOBE for our exposures of the in
efficiency of Mayor Wright's admins
tration.
The burden of the p. p. song was the
old, old story that it hurts the city to
tell the truth. AS the P. P. was never
known to injure the city in that manner,
it cannot speak from any personal ex-
perlence.
1t is not the GLOBE, but the imbeciI-
lty OF the city administration, which has
invited the thieves. the thugs, the MUIR
derers and the criminal classes gener-
ally to make st. Paul their haven of
refuge and operations.
The GLOBE has done more in the past
few weeks than all the combined de-
tective and police force Of the city since
Mayor Wright began.to protect our citi-
zens. 1t is publicity which the criminal
classes fear. When a community is
aroused against that class it circum-
Scribes the work of the criminals, and
makes them more cautious in their
deeds.
AS to the efficiency of the police, the
z. Z. cites the swift discovery and cap
ture of the gold thieves in the lobby of
the First National bank"
That claim will bear little ANALYSIS.
These alleged thieves first went to Min
neapolis, but the police in that city.
recognizing them as professional GRIM
lnals, took their Photographs and drove
them out. They came to st. Paul, and,
so far as Mayor Wright's employees were
concerned, were welcome visitors. They
took rooms here and visited the lake
resorts, attended the theaters, gave sup
per parties and enjoyed life generally.
When they got ready they stole 5000
and decamped, and the Pinkerton de-
tective agency captured them IN Chi
cago and New York.
The great work performed by our
detectives was going in force to
New York to bring one man back
after the Pinkertons had captured him,
and they charged the county SIS per day
for this service while drawing full pay
from the city. To show their further
skill as detectives, they included in
their bill TO the county street car fare
and tips to the sleeping car porters.
The next claim for the efficiency of
Mayor Wright's police put forth by the
p. P. is the capture of the murderers of
Herda.
Here, too, little analysis is in point.
Two men are under arrest for that
crime. The third man and supposed
ringleader, who is still at large, is no.
torious criminal known as Reddy
Hackett.
He has been sent to the penitentiary
both from Minneapolis and st. Paul,
and every detective in this region who
knows anything knows him and his des-
perate character. He was allowed to
make his home in st. Paul unmolested,
and when he got ready to commit a
crime he perpetrated his deed and de-
camped. If the authorities had done
their duty, he would not have been per-
mitted to remain to do a murder or any
other crime.
When the next murder is committed
the st. Paul detectives will be looking
for some other fellow they have allowed
to live under their noses, and if per-
chance they catch him, the P. P. will
herald it as great feat accomplished.
But the poor victim of the crime can
not be restored to life. 1t would not do
to give the protection before the event,
for then the P. p. could not point with
pride" to the arrests.
But the citation of these two cases is
puerlle in the extreme. Citizens have
been held up by the score, dwellings
have been burglarized by the dozen, and
even the safe in the chief of policies Of
flee has been blown without any arrests
whatever being made.
There has been more undetected
crime committed in st. Paul under
Mayor Wright's administration than in
any ten previous years of the existence
of the city.
The citizens of the First ward have
held two meetings to make some ar