St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-21
MINNEAPOLIS.
ION THE ROM'RY."

ION THE OW'RY."
The Democrats OF the city are 10 he
congratulated upon having made so
wise choice i'll candidate for the
mayoralty. They may rest assured that
III electing Mr.. Than the dignity OF the
city is safe. There will be no scenes
similar to the one witnessed Wednesday
night at the Y. NJ. c. y. building, when
Reformed Gambler Quinn and the city'S
chief executive, William Henry Eustis.
eNemplilied the term "aSS' in the
plural. The spectacle of the mayor and
gambler-evangeliSt swapping and
snarling at each other on 4 public plat
form, ana before an Intelligent au-
dlence, Is one not soon 10 De forgotten.
Mr.. Babb, by his narrow way of deal
ing with municipal affairs, caused a
wave OF appropriately 10 sweep over his
administration and was partly RESPONSE
BE for the landslide of % in favor of
tie Democrats and p. Is. Winston. But
II remained for the present mayor TO
make Minneapolis the laughing stock
OF the country. lie has played harle
Quln for TWO years and endeavored to
make the pu0lic believe they We're lot
OF rag babies without sense enough to
think for themselves. 1t is said by
charitable folk that his faults are of the
head and not of the heart, which is
granted. 1t would seem, however, that
most of the trouble Mayor Eustis has
fallen into has come about through the
wagging of his tongue. lie talks too
much, and il is SAID lie admits it, From
early morning-or as lbsen says in the
original, Il morsengry''-until the sky
Is star studded and the gas lights flicker
on the street corners, William Henry
sits at his task of talking.
lie talks himself to sleep,
Then talks himself awake again.
At the meeting Wednesday night,
Mayor EuStis called Quinn Cheap
thief" a confidence man" and applied
few other choice epithets to him,
much TO the delight of the hoodlum
element and TO the disgust of the in
telligent auditors. He vowed that the
dignity of the city must be upheld and
all the time he was dragging it dow IN
himself. He was dramatic, sensational,
fearful. 1t was without an effort that
he informed the audience there was no
gambling going on In the city, qualify
ing the remarkable statement by adding
THAT | can prevent"
That gambling, open. public gam
bling, is and has been i'll progress in
this city. there is no question. 1t is all
very well for the mayor to deny the
allegation, or beg the question. yet the
average Minneapolitan knows that
gambling is going on IN the regularly
Mt 4
gambling houses. When he says he
"cannot prevent it, he places himself
IN the light of pulling infant whose
efforts to kick of the swaddling clothes
are prevented by nurses hand. He
evidently forgets that as hiefeXecutive
of the city, all that is necessary for
him to do is 10 order the places closed
and see 10 it that his orders are carried
out.
1t Is evidenced on every hand that the
people have grown tired of the so-called
reform" administration, which did not
reform. but placed IN ridicule the city
and all its Offices. Mayors with pol.
icy have been weighed and found
wanting. Mayors whose secretaries"
Oificlate as administration press agents
and run the shop" are not sue
cesses. Mayors who talk too much and
conduct the affairs of the city through
the medium Of newspapers make them
selves ridiculous, subiimely so. What
the people want is mayor who is above
being petty, and whose caliber is such
he can be great even in small things
mayor who will enforce the laws as he
finds them.
Such mayor. it is believed, Mr..
Than will make.
The following section from the mu-
nicipal platform, adopted Wednesday
by the Democratic convention, demon-
strates how popular the present ''pol-
icy" and reform administration is
with the Democrats:
No mayor of this city should ever
adopt policy in violation of and above
law. And we condemn the present
city administration for openly and pub
licly advising opposition to law and
upholding immortality as advisable and
necessary. Such public advice from our
chief executive has cast reproach on
our city wherever newspapers are read,
and not only made his own party reject
him and his policy, but has made our
citizens ashamed OF his administration.
Apropos of the side show in which
the mayor ana the eX-gambler took
part, it seems strange that religious
Institution after the manner of the
Young Mems Christian association
would allow such buffoonery to take
place under its auspices as INDUCED in
by Messrs. Quinn and Golf. Quinn
performed each meeting night with
cards, full faro Layout" and the par
aphernalia the cheating" gambler is
supposed to operate with. After show
ing the guileless youths how to play
faro, aud how to skin" a man by
cheating him, Quinn invariably 20!
down on his knees and prayed that nc
one in the audience would daily with
the nine spot.
Why wouldn't it be just as consistent
to put on the ''danse du ventre" before
an audience of women, and, after the
dancers had displayed their legs and
other parts of their anatomies, fall
down and pray that no lady in the au.
dlence woulo ever do likewise? 1t will
pay some enterprising manager to lay
hold of good-loolling Young fellow
and parade him before the religious
people as "A reformed Asiatic Wh,
formerly kept harem.''
Reformed gamblers are chestnuts.
Yesterdays Divorces.