St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-01
THAT CITY COUNCIL ROAST
DENOUNCED BY THE CITY OFFICIALS
IN GENERAL.
MAYOR SAYS AT DOESN'T Go.

And Defies McAllister to Bring
on the Proofs--He Has Aimed
to Conduct a Clean and Hon
est administrations of
Police Smith Hot in the Collar
Bill of Particulars Wanted.
To say that Mayor Eustis was dis
gusted yesterday on reading the council
resolutions bearing OH gambling and
houses of ill-fame, passed at the meet
ing Friday night, would be drawing it
very mild. The mayor has prided him
self on conducting clean administra-
ton. and while he did not expect to
reyolutionize the conditions of society
or change human nature in the brief
term of two years, still the vices were
hedged about with such restric-
tons as would result in
the least harm to the community.
In the face of such endeavors, it was
pretty tough TO / ave bomb shell ex;
ploded in me camp like the McAlIlstrr
resolution, and which placed the moral
status of Minneapolis little better han
that OF SOdom. In explanation of the
passage of the resolution. good many
of the aldermen now explain their votes
by saying that the whole thing was re-
garded as joke. and that they wanted
to give the author rope enough with
which to hang himself.
But this does not do away with the
bad impression created by the pubIica-
ton of resolutions which herald the
city as hotDed of vice and sink of
uniqutty, and this is where the shoe
pinches.
The Indignation against Aid. Meal
lister III official circles yesterday was
Intense. and he was subjected to a
mercileSS caStigation. 1t is claimed by
officials high up in the roster, that being
new man, who has never been in pub
lie life before, he therefore could not
compare the present condition OF affairs
with preceding administrations, and had
no right to criticiSe. These same Of
ficialS question the aIderman's motives,
and Intimate that publication is not the
only thing he is after. 1t is asserted
that his onslaughtS on the Casino and
Jumbo were made with the same viru-
lence. and that they as suddenly ceased.
In speaking of the resolutions Chief
Smith said that it was not so that
houses of designation were increasing,
and that so far as the candy store at
tachments are concerned he made a
vigorous warfare on these questionable
places when he first entered the Office,
and that they are now thing of the
past. In some cases they had been
pulled twice a week until the pro-
prietors were driven out of business.
TO dozen existing when he took hold
there are comparatively none now.
Regarding the roast Mayor Eustis
said he had little to say, as he felt con-
SciouS that he had done all in his power
to give the people a clean. honorable
and economical administration. free
alike from crank notions and partisan
bias. AS to the charges, he said he
would refer. for their correctness, to
the members of the press who had
especial opportunities for knowing
whether or not the city is being run
wide open and reeking with vice. He
would be pleased, lie said, to have
the council give him bill of
particulars. and, when this is furnished,
he will use all the machinery in his
power to suppress the evils as fast as
they may be pointed out. In sub
stance, his honor emphatically denied
the truth of the allegations, and his re-
marks being supplemented only in
more vigorous manner by Chief of Po-
lice Smith and Secretary Joe ManniX,
both of whom did not mince words in
commenting on the assault on the cIty's
honor