The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-31
a SUCCESSFUL REEoRMER.

Mayer Ames appears in a new role
when he engages in the delivery Of
homilies for the benefit of the saloon
keepers, and arrays himself publicly as
director-in-chief of the keepers of dis
orderly houses. But he has appeared in
so many different characters since his
appearance as the reform Moses of Min
neapolis Republicanism that the public
mind has reached that condition in which
1t is prepared to accept any new develop
ment in his case, however startling
Mayor Ames has publicly invited the
discharged policemen to meet him in
court. and they have accepted the in
vitation. The result may be the REIN
statement of these men in their positions,
although the likelihood of such an oc-
currence now appears quite remote 1t
would be of but little avail even if they
were reinstated, as means will as
suredIy be found for disposin5 of
them by the doctor. as his
political enemies, or those he re-
CARDS as his political enemies, should
be disposed of. Civil service regulation Is
not known to have been extended by law
to the police administration of Mime
apolis; and while Doc Anes is a genuine
Republican statesman, and has the nat
ural attachment for civil service ideas
which springs therefrom. his personal
choice will never occasion his putting the
principle in operation toward those men.
even though the court should order them
reinstated.
The G OBJ has ventured the pred!c-
ton that the administration of DR.. Ames
will prove altogether acceptable to the
Republican brethren in MINNEAPOLIS. The
prediction has thus far been fulfilled to
the letter, and the indications are that
the reforming doctor is still further
strengthening his grasp on the machinery
of the organization. Republican papers
are either silent Or mildly acauiescent
Our familiar friend and contemporary.
the St Paul Pioneer Press, which as the
world knows looks upon the ST. Paul
board of police as the wiekedest official
body extant, because. having the full
warrant of the law, and the law design
ing that the police department shall be-
reorganized, for the public welfare. that
body thought proper to remove a few
police officers to that end, has never a
word to say about the doctors fell swoop
One-half of the membership of the exist
ing police force is thrown out of Office
without the slightest intimation that they
are not capable men, while yet our con-
temporary is in spasms of offended yir-
tue; but never a whimper proceeds from
it. So far as the world knows the action
of Doc Ames in throwing out JOG capable
police officers because they were not sup
posed to be friendly to him Is accountable
to the Pioneer Press as an entirely com
mendable official deed But the action
Of the st. Pau police commission in re-
moving men to whom the former jncou-
potency of the st. Paul police force was
In great measure chargeable, remains in
the estimation of our devoted contem-
porary an act which calls for the Bit
terest denunciation of the members of
that body individually and collectively.
Why is this? Our contemporary should
dig down into its own non-partisan soul
and enltghten wondering community
how it comes to regard blllingsgate as