St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-20
HERE'S A RARE RIB ROAST.
ADMINS TERED BY AID. ROLLINS TO
THE MAYOR.
is HARsHLY TURNED DOWN.

The Padding Business In Counec.
ton With the Twelfth Ward
Engine House - The Hospital
Site Deal Receives q Toast
fng-The Soup Racket and
Banquet to Lord Mayor Shanks
Aid. Rollins. who has been turned
| down by the mayor on several occasions
recently, is sore. In fact, he is not only
sore In spots, but he is sore all over, and
| from this time on he will not only insert
the knife, but when opportunity offers
he will push the dirk clean IN to the
| lily-white handle and then proceed to
break it off. This time he comes out
with rib-roast on EustiS for alleged
extravaganza during the visit of Lord
Mayor Shanks, the potentate of Dublin,
and incidentally the city hospital site
| and other matters are handled without
| gloves.
All these matters Aid. Rollins intends
to yentilate at the meeting of the COM
| mlttce appointed at the last meeting of
the council to consider the mayors re-
| port OH his contingent fund expenses.
Yesterday Aid. Rollins indited the
! following letter:
80 the Editor of the Globe.
"Will you allow me little space in
! your paper to explain to the people of
! Minneapolis the facts in the case of the
| Twelfth ward engine house site, over
| which the three papers which always
sustain Mayor Eustis, be he right or
wrong, have made such fuss?
hin his last Vptn the m1VOr saws hn
| has good reasons to believe that A.
Adams paid only 5000 for the property
i'll question. instead of S1.050. as shown
in the deed. Now, he simply judges
| others by himself, and thinks that
| every one is in the padding busiuess,a as
| he was when he was set up in the
| boat business in st. Paul. He also
| says one Of the prime duties OF public
officials is to see that all public transac-
tons shall be carried on in such man
ner as TO avoid even the appearance or
suspicion that any interest is being
served except the interest of the city.
"He has evidently changed his mind
since the purchase of the new city hos
! pital site. He talks ABOUT economy and
hard times, and then goes and spends
| $1,000 of the peoples money on big
drunk with Lord Mayor Shanks, then
| claims it was his horses fault because
| lie got his mead cut.
Another sample of his economy was
| allowing the Seventh ward to get 81, 600
| for grading Cedar avenue and $1,000 to
| pay F. E. Sprague. He was not man
enough to either veto or sign the reSolu-
| ton, for he has two additions in that
| ward.
"Ihe mayor is a regular mountebank,
| always posing for effect, first carrying
! around wOman's stocking and tin
| pail. Then the steamer Minneapolis
| could not have been properly launched
| if our lord-mayor-chlef-jU tice-grand-
| inquisitor and general Pooh-Bah had
not been there to be photographed dur
| ing the job.
| office, sending men out to Dakota, so
they could have chance to walk back.
Then he eats soup with the other
| trampS.
''Al this is made much Of by some of
the papers, but not a word is said
against his protecting burglars (when
their people have property nor of his
being the champion of gray-headed
llbertlnes (When they have money!. not
word about his not being able 10 close
the pool rooms, because it would cut
| off so much revenue, and he doesn't
like to lose the 10 per cent rake Off.
"He tells the ministers and temper
ance people how he is holding the sa-
looms down; then when a man takes
out a saloon license he is called into the
mayors private Office and treated to
lecture which amounts to about this:
You know, Mr.. Saleonkeeper, that l.
have to stuff these old buffers and make
Them think am almost prohibitionist,
but, all the same, am one of the boys;
but we will have hill of good time
for two years, then, of course you will
support ME for Office again.
And this is the man who thinks that
seven members OF the council are not
capable of selecting lot for an engine
house, and that the whole twenty-six
do not know enough to decide as TO the
purchase of one, but should allow di-
rector of the Guaranty Loan company
to do their business for them.
MORTIMER B. ROLLINS"