The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-19
MIGHTAS WELL QUIT
The Journal Overtaken by Mayor
Ames' Wrath.
NO MORE POLICE NEWS FOR IT
That Is, Through Customary Cham
nels-The Doctor Seeks Revenge
In "a Novel Manner.

The administration has declared lock-
OUT against ournal.
Mayor Ames has delivered himself of
an edlct which Is designed to prevent T e
~, Q T. from obtaining police news.
Inc Times is also under the ban. The
tribune, the administration organ, is
not. by the mayors veto the following
sources OF information supply have been
taken from the free list:
Ine Dlotter" at the lookup, which has
Deen open to public inspection since that
time when the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary.
Inc tab at police headquarters.
Inc record at the police telephone desk
Oh tne tnlrd floor of the city hall.
All OF the plain clothes men have also
the strlctest instructions to look the other
way When they see a ournal reporter
approach.
AS Journ al police reporter was
gong down lookup alley yesterday he
was met at the door of the central station
Win command to halt, that rang with a
true sense of duty. This was the order:
HANDS up He's on T h Journ a |.
hey, sergeant, chain up the blotter'
Inen Jallor Wilson explained that or
GERS had been issued from headquarters
tnat no ourn a reporter was to be al
ioweo access to the daily tab.
Chief Ames' Explanation.
Chief Ames, when questioned as to the
attitude OF the administration, referred
the matter to Mayor Ames and said
nave received my orders and l must
carry tnem out The mayor has been great
~ annoyed at the deliberate misconstruc-
tlon placed upon his every act. T e
has assumed such an un-
friendly attitude that suppose the mayor
mas decided to deny it access to any ave-
nue. OF news, as it seems determined to
controVert all the acts of the administra-
! ton"
Last evening Captain King called all Of
MS detectives into his inner sanctum and
Iurnlsned the fly bobs with an accurate
ana tufl description of all the members of
j ournal staff The utmost pre-
caution will be taken to prevent com
munlcation between the detectives and
u ur n reporters.
1t is said that the police department will
oHer a liberal reward for the arrest and
conviction of any person giving out news
OF any description to the reporters of T e
] ournal.
Mayor Ames' Remarks
It is mistake, Mayor Ames says, to
tnlnk tnat he isImaking any distinctions
between the different newspapers in the
- ~SNOoo " luC QOllc6 Q6pdTlm6uI
RECORDS. The new rule is intended to ap-
ply TO all the local papers, he says, but
ne says 1t In such a halting, ambiguous
fashlon as hardly to carry conviction.
ana rather suggest the suspicion that he
is not entirely ingenious in his statement
| Inc doctor is nightly stirred UP over
some things the newspapers have been
SAYING about him and his administration
OF late and he proposes now to begin to
/ hast = 81
this noon:
| My order means that hereafter the police
department records are to be kept from the
newspapers and the public. No news will be
given out in this department except by the
chief of police and myself The police tabs
ana records are not public property anyway.
and 1t is only by courtesy that the newspa-
| per men have been given access to them.
The records win hereafter be kept out of
sight and the public will have no knowledge
/ OF arrests until the accused are arraigned
in court, unless the chief or myself chooses
TO give the facts out. The newspapers have
been blackguarding me and seeking in every
way to belittle me and my administration
/ with the people, and now I propose to take
hand IN the game myself. I am not going
TO continue to do them favors and get only
abuse and Misrepresentation in return.
The Mayors Policy.
/ am mayor Of Minneapolis and I am going
| to run this department as / id please and
there is nobody to say me no SO long as I
| keep within the law. l have no personal en-
nifty against any newspaper man. | have
been in the business myself and understand
its dif1culties and privileges. But am not
| going to play into the hands of the newspa-
pers that abuse me. The Tribune has treated
me fairly. The Times and Journal have not.
and don't propose to stand for it any longer.
AND II things go much farther I'll get back
at them in way that they won't like.
haven't any newspaper to print what I know
| about. some people, but l can hire hall. and
| guess l could tell some things that would
be pretty interesting news to the people.