St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-01
ALL IRISH MUST GO !!
This Is the Decree of Ed Rog-
ers, Clerk Of
Courts,
WHO TOOK HIS LITTLE AK
And Cut Down the Budding
Hopes OF Celtic
Blood.
A WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER
From Which a Swede, a
Frenchman and Two Ger
mans Escape.
A WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER

The Irish must go! 1t was Ell Rogers
decree, which, although not SPOKEN III
so many words, was made manifest by
his actions yesterday when he made ar
engagements to assume control OF the OF.
fee OF clerk of the district court. Every
person employed In the Office who was
known TO be of Irish descent, or who
had any Irish affiliations of any kind,
was picked out and slaughtered. Had
but one IriShman remained, even tenn
porarily, there might have been some
question as to the crusade against the
WearerS of the green. But the sweep
was so clean, and such discrimination
was practiced, that there can be no
doubt as to Mr.. Rogers intentions and
his antagonism to the Irish people.
He came into the office early in the
day and was accorded every courtesy in
his efforts to get on to the hang OF
things. Mr.. O'Connor politely eX-
planned the general workings of the
office and gave him an insight into the
books, records. files, etc. This little
task accomplished, Mr.. Rogers asked
for the personnel of the office. which
was furnished by Mr.. OConnor. AS
each Irish clerk was named, Rogers
scratched him from the list. When the
German name of Gus Lem6erg was
pronounced, Mr.. Lemberg was sum-
moned into the presence Of the real
estate dealer and told to report for duty
as usual. Then the Irish name of Mi Ike
Redding was called and a wide pencil
mark wont through it. Mr..
O'Connor called the German name
of Louis Naumann, and Louis was
favored with summons from the inner
office and also told to hang on to his
char. And then came succession of
Irish names like II. j. Egan, M. j. Don
nelly, Tom Darragh, Richard Sneehy
and P. NJ. O'Conmor, and the pencil
was worn to the very edge through the
vigor put into it by the fist of one Rog-
ers. When he had satisfied his BUTCH
ering propensities. and was told that
the last Irshman had been named, he
sighed a heart-broken sigh which re-
minded one vf the sigh of Alexander,
whom history says sighed for more
worlds to conquer.
Frank Olivier, of French birth. and
as far remote from the little isle of the
sea as man possibly could be, was
Summoned o the Front
of the potentate's desk and politely res
uueSted 10 stick to his job.
"Oui oui," muttered Frank in his best
French, "all feet"
George Johnson" yelled the call boy,
''his anner's waitin' fer ye."
George responded with alacrity, aud
with everything else he had, and, timed
by Reddng, he made the distance in
:01. Rogers gave him an ear full of
pleasant information about sticking to
his position. and when George emerged
he glanced about him and said:
LAY tank Mester Rogers, nae ben a
hal dam guide faller."
Louis Naumann," Shrieked the call
| boy, yer iXpicted insoide."
Naumann did an eccentric hop, skip
and Jump as he fed towards the inner
Office, and when he came out he wrung
his mtts, and said III voice OF mingled
! pleasure and pleasantly:
| "DaS ist ausgeichnet."
IliCIl al al VI SIOOih OCGlJCu ONOl liiS
| other part Of the room. and there were
heard short grumblings which sounded
suspiciOuSly like:
BE tn powers av OF didn't think til
J ovid bhoy wud appint me an tn shtatf
| Begorra, whin git th' chance Oi'll Gre
| ayte dishaSter in tin mOind av thin
| divls in there"
And thus it is. The wide-mouthed
traitors OF the Democratic party who
| protested greater belief in Roger;
than in their own leaders. and got on
! on the sidew walks and in the boulevard:
! and hurrahed for him, now have unltm'
! tied opportunity to see what Rogers
proposes to do for the Irish.
NJ. w. Fitzgerald, the long.haired
| chieftain, has an Irish name and is pos
sibly patriot, but he never belonged
| to the land league and was never known
10 be anything but a Republican.
| He goes in as chief deputy because
Rogers is obliged to have HIM, owing tC
! certain little circumstances and int1u
ences which Ed cannot afford to over
! look. And the same is true of Jim
| Kings son, for did not Jim have certain
! dealings with Rogers? Ed Bean will &c
I i'll and have charge of the upstairs
! iuries at the salary Of eighty bucks pei
month, and Joe Bacon and man named
| Filter will occupy other positions at g
similar or less amount. The changes
are made, and few days will see the
last sign Of the old crowd around the
Office Of the cler Of courts.
1t was amusing to watch the antic:
of the boys when the calls of Next
we're coming thick and fast. DounelIy
from long practice in the barber shop
was half on his feet awaiting the sum
mons which never came, and. Settlins
back in his chair. he seized his pencil
and wrote a vigorous poem on "Th'
Falling of the Green" The others eX
pressed their approval of the poem, ant
went home to speud Sunday-and othe
days.