The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
SOME INFORMATION FOR MAYOR
DORAN AND HIS APOIOGIST

DURAN AND HIS APOLOGIST
The Pioneer Press, with accountable
reluctance, has finally obeyed orders
from the city hall; and. placing a
clothes-pin deftly. astride the editorial
nose, comes staggering forward to. the
defense of the poor creature who is fur
nlshlng to the people of st. Paul the
present caricature of municipal govern
ment. Under the circumstances. 1t
could not be expected to evolve any
rational explanation of the disgraceful
| conduct of the police department. Tt
therefore falls back upon the ancient
baby act which it has pleaded so often
and shouts to the skies that abuses
ought not to be exposed because it will
damage the city" That was what the
Pioneer Press and all the brood of tax
eaters said when the Globe more
than year ago began the analysis and
publication of the cost of government
IN st. Paul and in other cities of corre-
spending size throughout the country.
out of the movement which the
q o e inaugurated, and which was
taken up and carried to completion by
our citizens, came municipal retrench-
ment and the reduction of taxation. 1t
is the old, pitiful plea Of the wrong
doer and his willing or unwilling ac-
completes that you must not expose
him, lest the name of the community
suffer. We believe that it suffers in
nnltely more when rascality and cor
ruption are allowed to go unexposed
and unrebuked. And the G | O b pro-
poses to do its duty by the people of
ST. Paul in this as in all other cases,
however strident rise the shrieks of
those whose incompetence is revealed
and whose misdoings are held up to
the execration which they deserve.
We are content to leave to the Pioneer
Press the proud position Of advocate of
the colonization of houses of ill-repute
on frequented business streets and the
/ Haunting in the eyes of decent people
of the red rag of social shame We
commend it's argument to the men who
have business interests on Third street.
utation of the city which would pre-
| fer that one of the largest business en-
terprises of ST. Paul and the largest Of
its kind in the world, whose employees
must walk the daily gauntlet of inde-
! cency, should be compelled to remove
from this city rather than that the
dirty deal by which this administration
has brought the drabs of the town
down into the orchestra chairs should
be disturbed. We only beg leave to
suggest to it as a stroke of enterprise
that there are several other streets in
| the city, both in the residence and the
business sections, where there are a
number of buildings placarded ito let;'
and that it might advise it's client to
see what could be done in the way of
allotting to- these their fair share Of
social outcasts. 1t might not be quite
as profitable as the other transaction,
but there ought to be something in it,
for those who are familiar with the
trade.
The assertion that there has been
less burglary under Doran's admins
tration than usual is only an ordinary,
plain, unvarnished falsehood 1t is con-
tradicted by the knowledge of almost
every householder in the city; who has
but@te inaui1se among his friends and
neighboEs to find out the facts. The
treatn1en Of the habit Of making ar
rests OF innocent people is perhaps ac-
counted for by the interference with
reasoning processes which wearing a
clothes-pin induces. For the Pioneer
Press first denies it, and then says it is
solitary incident" The G 10 b has
already given enough cases to show
what the reality is. In one of those
which it referred to without specific
charges, all the facts came to It's
knowledge long ago and were con-
firmed by one Of the leading business
men Of the city. They were suppressed
at his earnest personal request, out of
consideration for the innocent victim
who asked to suffer in silence rather
than have the fact of his arrest made
public. 'Unquestionably," says the apol-
ogist, "such lapses, arising from care
lessness, stupidity or errors of judg-
ment on the part of individual police
men, deserve severest criticism They
deserve much more than that When an
innocent man, whose friends are within
call, is taken in charge with every spe-
cies of insult and shut up for hours
before he is allowed to communicate
with them or establish his identity,
CRITICISM" hardly fills the bill. Men
who are capable of that could not re-
tain their places for day on any
well-ordered force under any compe-
tent government.
OF one. other matter we are pleased
to speak. Since the Pioneer Press pub
fishes certain untruths regarding what
! the G 10 be was asked to consider q
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