St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-24
HE CITES PRECEDENT.
COSTELLO SHOWS THAT
WRIGHT GRANTED PERMITS
To Unlicensed Peddiers to Peddle
Gave Them to Mira. Rebel
and Forty Others. XXI

The chief justice of the municipal
court is evidently hurt. In the language
of Mercutio. "the wound Is not so dee u
as a well, nor SO wide as church door
but tits enough. twill serve" 1t serves
at least to cause the chief Justice to,
rush eXcltediy to the two organs Of re-
form for aid. yal
And the organs grow wildly excited,
sort of sympathetic strike, you know.
and they arraign. of ali men OH earth,
the mayors secretary. The implication;
doubtless. is thai the mayors secretary
is reaping golden harvest, IL not in
shekeis, then in capital of political
nature. The Implication seems to be
entirely warranted. judging by the
beaming light on the secretary's ex-
pansive brow when accoSted yesterday
by GLOBE man.
Mr.. Costello was examining the fac
smile OF his handwriting reproduced in
the evening organ, and remarked in a
casual way to the reporter:
NOW, doesn't it seem wonderful that
the writer of that beautiful fist should
have been damned by every typo thu
has stood at case in st. Paul for the
past seven or eight years. OH account Of
the rotten copy which he has turned in?
But it's SO, just the same"
''Weii. what Is there new in this per-
nit trouble. Mir. Costello?"
''Oh, nothing, absolutely nothing new
not even. that permit Of mine to Mrs.
Rebel, for which the poor woman was
condemned to fine or imprisonment. l
find that in Issuing that permit had,
If not higher judicial preeeden t. at
least higher executive precedent, for
the noblest reformer Of them all, the
Colonel Freddi himself, has played the
good Samaritan toward this same Mrs.
Rebel. If 1t isn't unfortunate, 1t is at
least, at times. decidedly uncomfortable,
that there should be such things as rec
ords. The record in this case shows
the Colonel and his secretary granting
a permit to peddle, TO Mrs. Rebel, under
date June 6, 1898. Indeed. their Of
Tending was much greater than mine,
since they granted the old lady a per-
init to peddle with a wagon"
''Is there any record that Mrs. Rebel
was ever hauled up under that permits"
None And you will permit me to
add thai, Notwithstanding my high adj
miration for Judge Orr as an expounder
of charters and constitutions. l doubt If
he would have treated the authorization
Of his personal and political protege, Mr..
Handy. with the same degree of irrever-
ance that he bestowed GU my unfortu-
nate document" 81
lis there any record Of any further
permits having been granted to ped
dler So"
You mean in this Office? On. my,
yes. The woods are full of them. There,
look for yourself" k1.
The reporter looked over the records
and found at least forty of such permits
10 peddle, issued during Mayor Wrights
administration. Among the first or
these wac that granted to Mrs. Vein
stein, Aug. 2, 1892. Among the lastsof
the lot was permit to peddle notions
and lacework. given to Mrs. Rosa Hal-
lex, on April last.
As the reporter was about to depatt
on his way, Secretary Costello called
out: =
"If you meet Judge Orr in doing your
run, give him my compliments, and say
that | am indebted to him for making
public what beautiful hand / write !;
but add that records are sacred things.
especially judicial records, and that
nothing short of an order of court, given
after notice to the other side, ought to
have warranted a jurist like him in
giving my permit to a newspaper. espe-
cially for any purpose savOring of poll
tics. to have it photographed and repro
duced in such a public manner. The
Judge should know that che permit was
part of a record OF his court at the time
he handed d. it over to the Dispatch
Good day. Call again."