St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-13
4 HYPOCRITICAL SWIVEL.
PRE- TERDiHC a vol UvTaRy" EFF. RM''
WHICH WAS COMPELLED
BY FORCE PUBLIC SENTIMENT.

THE Sale OF Beerat Market Hall
81! Masquerade Bails-pisgra ce-
&c fuFOrgies Such as Were Never
sGBefore Witnessed In sthe His
-rtory of the City-Begus Claim
! of Virtue. tas
! -Noswonder there is a blizzard abroad.
JFhe refreshing GOODNESS Of the PiO-
meier Press in claiming; a crown of glory
fer'tne city administration in refusing
toioallow beer to be sold at Market
house ball last Saturday night was
enough to send the mercury into tue
bulb. Here is p. z. paragraph for
iuErance:
ttPubiic sentiment has been able to
fad expression under Republican adj
ADMINISTRATION, and the improperly of
allowing liquor to be sold in building
owned by the city has been recognized
by the passage of resolution directing
the police to break up this old Demo-
cratic evil and to enforce the law
rigidly."
And when, pray. does the public sup
pose this spasm of virtue relative to
democratic evil" took place? The
prOhibtory resolution was actually
approved by the mayor Oh the sth of
February. 1t was introduced in the as
sembly on the 25th of January, but it
seems peculiar coincidence that ON
Jan. 30 the American Citizen gave this
account uf masquerade ball at Market
hall just previous:
The last occasion of this kind was the
most notorious that has taken place in
this city for number of years. The
SCENES enacted on the floor were dis
grace to our civilization. The conduct
of the bulk of those present should have
secured their arrangement in the mu-
nicipal court the following day. Those
who otficiated were made up from diff
ferent sources. There were the members
of the Black Crook baheI.and the finest
of the fine of that notorious creation
was reproduced on that floor. ~
Among the prominent attendants of
the occasion were at least five of the
reformed detectives, and two of them
were III an advanced state of intoxica-
ton. One of them is now carrying
around on his pugilistic countenance
the physical marks of his hilarity. He
came i'll contact with the fist OF one OF
his fellow roiSterers, and, together with
HIS aSSOclateS HAS SLICE Ueeu SOiileWidl
out,of repairs.
The memorable occasion was one
night early in the week. The so-called
masquerade was given by some one Or
other Of the fake associations which are
gotten up from time to time for the
purpose of making money for their
projectors and selling beer and whisky
for the saloon keepers who stand in on
the arrangement. There were, it is
said, some eighty barrels of beer sold
and corresponding amount of whisky.
Whether the enumeration of the NUM-
Der OF barrels of beer and quarts of
whisky which has been made was cor
rect or not, the results show that there
was good deal of both fluids disposed
Of :, that was not necessary for the
comfort er enjoyment OF those engaged.
Everybody was more or less drunk, and
the women in tights and otherwise alb
breviated costumes, who graced the
OCCASION with their presence, were the
very Off-Scourings OF their sex, and SO
demeaned themselves on the floor.
Chairs and tables were smashed either
from sheer WantOnneSS or over the
heads of those who were engaged in
lighting. Worse orgies have never been
Witnessed in this city on any public oc
caSion for all indefinite number of years
past, anu OH the last memorable Occd-
sion, as we'll as on all previous occasions
of the kind. were carried ON up to the
early hours of the morning.
Was that Democratic evil" which
the Citizen So graphically describes?
AS matter of fact, no such orgies
ever occurred under a Democratic adj
ministration, and never would under
any decent administration, whether
Democratic or Republican,. The coun-
Gil was obliged to pass restraining
resolution simply because The executive
officer of the city boasts of the fact that
he never promised to enforce the laws,
and calls any one liar who says his
oath of Office contemplated any such
thing.
The. general police authority of the
city, if properly exercised, as it formerly
was, prevents such scenes as the p. L.
. bewallS, and the necessity of the eoun-
Gil directing the mayor to exert his au-
tbOrity is the seyerpSt reDuke which
could be given the reform administers
ton.