The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-12-12
NOT INDORSED.

The attempt on the part Of the
crank portion of the Hennepin County
Peoples Party League to commit that
organization to a condemnation of
Mayor Eustis' efforts to discover the
murderer of Catherine Cling through
the so-called Sweating process is not
Endorsed by the bulk of the Peoples
party.
The effort of the Minneapolis Times
to hold the party responsible for this
action is unjust. Its statement that
the Penny Press and the Saturday
Spectator. papers which have con-
demned the conduct of the mayor in
this matter, are Peoples party organs,
is also untruthful. Neither one
of these journals is Peoples
party paper, nor do they profess to be.
The Peoples party believes in the
enforcement of laws impartially. 1t
believes in using all reasonable means
to ferret out crime and the punish
ment of the same. The plutocratic
organs seem to favor the punishment
OF some criminals and the release of
others. In this city within the past
two years there have been committed
crimes by men in high position which
these plutOcratic papers have never
by a single word condemned in any
manner. Some of the men who have
been deeply mixed up in the commits
sion of these crimes have been elevat-
ed into high positions by the aid of
these papers, while others are still can
didates and are receiving their aid.
That all if this is true is so patent
that it needs no demonstration. Such
being the case, how can we wonder
that crimes of bloody character hav-
ing gain in view, have followed? The
murderer of Miss Cling has seen promi-
nent criminals in this city escape the
meshes of the law through the con-
nivance of the authorities. Is it to be
wondered at that his weak brain con-
ceived the idea that he, too, could es-
cape? Not at ALL It is the natural
sequence Of the failure to administer
the law mpartially as regards all Grim
inalS.
Take the case of Streeter. of Guar
anty Loan fame. After two failures
to convict, all of the indictments
against him, on all but one of which
he had not been tried, are dismissed.
Contrast this with the case of Leo
Heilpern, the defaulting bookkeeper
of the Columbia mill, whose convic-
ton was secured only at the end of the
fourth trial. 1t is not necessary to
multiply cases. They are legion.
What is required in this city, and, in
fact, all over this country. in order to
stop this carnival of crime, is an i'm
partial enforcement of the laws
against all, high and low, rich and
poor, and the administration of gov
ernment on principles of justice and
equality. This is what the Peoples
party aims to bring about. The chief
stumbling block in the way of this end
is the influence which the plutocratic
press Yields in screening criminals of
high rank, either for money consid-
Grafton direct or because their manag-
ers think that their profits would be
diminished by taking the other course.
The Peoples Party Lincoln League,
of Hennepin county, on Monday even
ing last. adopted the following resolu-
tiOn:
Resolved. That we, the members of
Lincoln League of the Peoples party,
heartily indOrSe the work of the CITY
officials in hunting down the guilty
parties in the late Cling murder.