St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-31
TANNING OF THE sHREW.
Pool Selling at .Hamline VS.. the
Skin Games at Minnehnha,

LII the Minneapolis Times of Sunday
there was page containing articles
he AIDED swimming as a Fine Art"
"Nimrods All Agog," ETC., SO it is COLI
jectured that this was the department
of the paper given up TO sports. The
leading article Oh the page was devoted
to racing. and contained bitter attack
upon Secretary Cross and other officers
of the state agricultural society. The
attack was couched i'll the whining
style of argument that is characteristic
OF the Journals editorial page, and but
for the signature ''R. f. j." it would
have been fair to presume that Deacon
McJ4ain had been devoting his personal
attention to the subject i'll the morning
edition Of his paper, or else that the re-
ligious editor was filling the sporting
editors place while the latter was on
his summer vacation.
The par ticular point of complaint
against the off GERS of the agricultural
association was that all extension of the
racing meeting at Hamliue had been
allowed.
In an absurdly babyish way the article
went OH to talk about 1.-The whole state
being besmirched by the acts of the
outlaws and the little college town of
Hamiine, within whose corporate limits
is the Methodist university of the
state, is pOwerleSS 10 prevent being adj
vertised as the seat OF vice, where bad
men and bad women are congregated
day after day in most disgraceful. un-
lawful proceedings"
1t develops that the article in question
was not written by deacon McLain. the
religious editor, hor woman -reformer,
I,t,t INx-n - Yt.N III
manager of wicked horse races at
which betting is allowed. This sis learned
from yesterdays issue of the Times, in
which appears communication from
j. Newton Mind in which he vigorously
defends the agricultural society, and
clears Secretary Cross from the insiuu-
atoms made by the holy Mr.. Jones TO
the effect that he Cross is thoroughly
in sympathy with the outrageous pro-
| ceedings on the grounds"
After showing that the extension Of
the racing meeting has been made in
accordance with contract held by
Frank \. Shaw with the agricultural
society-a contract. by the way, not en-
tered into by the present officers of the
society-Mr. Mind goes on to give Mr..
Jones Ills status as race horse moraliSt
and cold day purist. The conclusion
| drawn by Mr.. Minds reasoning is un-
| avoidably that If the little college
| town of Hamline be smirched" because
pool selling is allowed at the running
races. then the puetical spot made ip-
mortal by Longfeilow's '.Hiawatha" is
also everlastingly dlsgraced by the race
meetings that have been conducted by
Mr. Jones at what is known as Mime
haifa driving park.
Mr.. Mind further reasons "that 1t
| comes with bad grace from Mr.. Jones
to make this attack ON the state agri-
| cultural society for the sins of Mr.
| Shaw. 1t is a. case of the skillet calling
the kettle black. Mr. Jones is practic-
ally the manager of a race meeting
| himself. l cannot speak from personal
! knowledge, but have it from valuable
| authority that wheels of fortune and
other Skin-games, including q push
| button wheel, which is nothing short of
/ robbery, were permitted on the Minnie
| haha grounds during the recent trotting
meeting. Pools on outside races were
not sold, but games were licensed and
| protected by MIR. Jones' association, the
managers of which would have
| been mobbed at any county fair.
| Liquor was as freely sold OH
the Minnehaha grounds, which is out
| ST d ethe patrol limits, DIS on the Hamline
! grounds, which are outside the munic-
| lpal limits or both st. Paul and Minnie
apoIis, and no complaint made. Mr..
Shaw agreed To build ii grand stand az
cost Of So 900 on the Hamline grounds
| Ill consideration of the privileges ae-
corded him during term of years. He
expended 100000. and never whined
| about IL either. Under all the circum-
| stances there has been no diSpoition to
make war upon him, although the re-
greet is common among all the officers of
the state agricultural society that their
| predecessors entered into the arrange
ment and subjected thereby the associa-
ton to the criticism just and unjust,
of which there has been considerable in
and out of the board lately"
In reply TO these direct charges as to
how the Minnehaha meeting was cGn.
Quoted the holy Jones bobbed in last
evenings Journal with lot OF personal
abuse OF Secretary Cross and some
quotations from the Chicago Inter
| Ocean and the Chicago Dispatch. two
papers with whom Fran k n. Shaw has
had controversy for two years past
The Journal styles the faying which
MIR. n lind gives Jones a controversy, bui
from the weakness of the answer of the
Mlunehaha moralist, the term hardly
applies.