The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-23
MAYOR DORIAN WILL PUT NONE BUT
REPUBLICANS ON POLICE
DUTY.
EVEN FOR THE ENCAMPMENT.
PARTY LOYALTY, NOT EXPERIENCE
IN POLICE WORK, THE ES-
SENTIAL NEEDED.
A Score of oily Bobs" VIII Watch
for the Advent of Visiting
Crooks.

One hundred tin stars which, during
the first seven days of September, will
be pinned on the left side of the coats
OF the same number of special police
men, were delivered to Chief Goss yes
terday. 1t was announced some time
ago that the specials to be used in rein
forcing the regular force would be Sc
lected as far as practicable from those
who had done duty as policemen on
the regular force. 1t was suggested
by one of the police officials that a
large number of men had been let out
OF the department since Mayor Doran
took control of the city and that the
specials should be selected from the
discards so to speak. This seemed to
be practical as the men or a great ma
1crity of them were let out purely for
political reasons and not because they
were not efficient officers.
Mayor Doran, however, had not been
consulted about the matter and it had
not occurred to the officers of the police
department that an election was to be
held this fall. These two things will
prevent the selection of any but faith
full followers of the G. o. P for SER
vices as specials during encampment
ficiency will secure position as special
policeman. Mayor Doran, seen yeSter-
day, said the men had not been as yet
selected, but the names would be con-
Sldered during the coming week. Asked
ii it was understood that the specials
would be selected from those who had
been removed or resigned from the
force in the past three months, the
mayor said he thought not The men
a
wards, and only good men appointed.
There was not great deal of money
applicable to the purpose, he said, and
1T had been decided to appoint only
one hundred specials for the week COM
mencing Aug. 81. Other cities where
the G. A. r. encampment had been
held had deemed it necessary to en-
ploy a much larger number, but it was
anticipated that only hundred would
be needed in st. Paul If it was found
more than one hundred were needed,
they could easily be selected and ap-
pointed, but in any event the force of
specials would not exceed one hundred
and fifty men.
Chief of Detectives Schweitzer said
he was not advised as to the personnel
of the detectives who would assist his
department from other cities, but he
knew that there would be twelve of
of the larger cities sent here In ad-
dition to this number, three or four
Of the picked men from Pinkerton's
agencies at New York, Boston, Philadel
phia and San Francisco would also be
On the ground. The detectives would
be quartered at the principal hotels
during their stay in the city and would
assist the members of the local staff in
protecting the city and visitors from
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practice of attending the G. A. r. en-
campments.
Each of the special policemen will be
fitted out with a tin star, belt and
club, fire alarm and patrol box keys
but will not be uniformed They will
be used for patrol duty in the sub-sta-
ton districts and the best men in the
sub-stations brought into the central
part of the city for duty. The regular
force will not have very pleasant
week of it as each man will be ex-
pected to do eighteen hours duty out
of each twenty-four, and to look and
act as if he really enjoyed the work.