St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-21
POLES ARE TORN up
N,KINLEY ELEPHANT RIPS UP THE
STAKES OF JOHN GOODNOW,S
CIRCUS.
FRANK GRYGLA'S POSITION
Is ENDANGERED BY HIS ACTING AS
INTERPRETER FOR M'KINLEY
ORATORS.
BY Reason of the MeddlesOme Inter-
ference of Menage,s Nemesis in
Their Politics.

The Mckinley boom in Minneapolis
has exploded, and while it is not as
yet knewn whether any people have
been killed or not, 1T is apparent that
the fra gmentS of the death-dealing
missile have been hurting in exciting
proximity to the head of that faith
full satellite of Ohios sum- Frank
Grygla. The Grygla comfort was not
endangered by the shooting of rotten
eggs and dead kittens from the ram
parts of the Davis element, but by
nothing more or less than an attack
upon his bread and butter; an effort
to have him ousted from his job in
the immigration department of the
Great Northern. The story is not ex
actly a short one, but it is some time
until election, so it can easily be told.
John Goodnow and eX-Congressman
S. P. Snider took Mr.. Grygla last Mon
day night into the First ward, that
shoe-string district which borders the
east shore of the Mississippi, from the
steel arch bridge to Anoka county.
InaSmuch as the ward has always been
hopelessly Democratic, it was sup
pOStu lIldI lIlIS WOutU ne q SOOu pace
to try the Mckinley bacillus, there be-
ing no especially luXuriant growth of
Reed, or Davis, or other rival Repub
lican bacteria. But at the last cleo
ton the Democrats SsA,it on local issues,
and instead of going to the polls to
vote the party ticket, they camped on
the trail of the nominees with knives
unsheathed, and the Republican nom
lnee for alderman succeeded in getting
a tie vote. The law provides that in
such case the seat shall be awarded by
lot, and when it came to shaking dice,
the Democrat was not in it, of course.
The lucky alderman is Roman Alex
ander, born Dabrowski, but changed
by custom or the court. He is a Pole.
So are many of his constituents. The
meeting which the Goodnow-Snider
combination visited Monday night was
q Polish club. Neither Goodnow nor
Snider talks Polish in the idiom, and
their use of the classic language is
somewhat slow and uninteresting. So
they took Grygla along. He was born
in Poland, and left the country for his
health, which was seriously menaced
by local political conditions. He has
also mixed some in American politics.
But he is a good interpreter, and
Goodnow and Snider were sure they
had a find. They made their eloquent
spiels in favor of the Napoleonic son
of the Buckeye state, and Grygla trans
lated them into the musical and
polysyllabic dialect of the eXiles from
Warsaw. But it is now charged that
Grygla departed from the straight and
narrow doctrines of McKinleyism, as
exploited by the fine-haired leaders
from over the river, and dabbled
little in local issues on his own ac-.
count. Just what he said is probably
a matter of little moment, compared
with the rise or fall of nations, but
it acted in the nature of an emetic
on the Polish club, which has been
trying ever since to throw off the I'M
assimilated McKinleyism and other
acids which the visitors poured down
it's throat
The leaders of the club decided that
Grygla must be properly disciplined
and they appointed a committee of Six
headed by a man with a euphonious
name, which is given to the G o b e
as Ejurek This committee called on
Land Commissioner c. H Babcock, of
the Great Northern, in whose depart
ment Mr.. Grygla is employed, and eX-
pressed to him their gravest displeas-
ure with the course of his subordinate.
They did not want him, He lived
over in the Eighth ward among the
aristocrats and the silk stockings, and
had no business over there when he
ought to be out selling land. Mr.. Bah
cock, with the diplomacy of a Disrael,
suggested to the gentlemen that they
should do nothing while Mr.. Gryg!a
was absent, and while they waited the
return of the wanderer the commits
sioner gently interested them in the
highly colored literature with which
the road sets off it's special settlements
for the Slavonic races. Mr.. Grygla
came, in turn accuses Ejurek of hav-
ing designs on his (Grygla'S) job and
so 1T goes. Grygla also charges that
the club is really a Democratic one, and
is evidently Stimulating Republicanism
for purpose. 1t refuses, he says,
to recognize Alexander, the recog-
nized leader of the party in the ward,
and its sincerity is doubtful to him.
All of which goes to show that the
Republicans of Minneapolis can get
into more kinds of trouble in a given
time than any we'll regulated organi-
cation on the face of the earth and not
half try.
John Day Smiths modesty in shying
his feathered crest into the congress
sional campaign has aroused the SYM
pathy of a Minneapolis evening paper,
which refers to the G o b e S article
On Mr.. Smiths aspirations in terms
not less ironical than they are uncon-
vincing. Mr.. Smith practically admits
the soft Impeachment, which was only
to be expected by any one who is
familiar with his record. If you see it
in the G l o b e, it's so.
While on the subject of congressman,
it might be remarked that Oil Inspect
or Hy Foote has hustled on to Wash
ington in order to get few more
packages of garden seed and some