The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-05
MIDWAY OBJECTS To
BUOY AND THE
BLIND PIGS
Asks the Police Commission
to Transfer the ''Finest on
the Force and to Suppress
the Sightless Swine Which
Seem to Have SWarmed
About the Transfer.

The residents of Merriam Park,
Hamline and st. Anthony Park want
Police Lieutenant William Budy trans
ferred to some other district.
They want the ten or more blind
| pigs, which they claim exist, in the
Tenth ward suppressed and the law
against their future operation enforced.
If the police commission can see its
way clear they ask that subpolice
station be established in Hamline.
Backed by monster petition carry
ing nearly 500 names these demands
were duly presented before the board
of police commissioners by commit
tee headed by Prof. Innis, of Hamline
university, at the meeting of the board
yesterday afternoon. The committee
numbered about ten.
1--WE come here" said Prof. Innis,
who headed the delegation, because
| things in the Midway have come to be
! unbearable. To our own knowledge
from twelve to fifteen places exist
on University avenue where liquor is
sold and it is done openly. No effort
| of the police has been made to close
| them, though we have appealed to
| Lieut.. Budy, the man in charge, re-
peatedly. This man is not in sympa-
| thy with us and until you either re-
move him to some other district or en-
| force your demands with such vigor
| that will leave him no other alterna-
| tive but to obey or get out, conditions
will not be bettered."
Budy en- Parade.
From what we have been told"
continued Mr.. Innis, cit seems the gall
| liant appearance Lieut.. Budy makes
when on parade has more to do with
| his retention than his ability to en-
force the laws. Once during a period
of law breaking like this we asked one
of the mayors to have him removed,
| but he demurred to our request. He
makes such a splendid appearance in
front of public parades and professions
that we can't very well get along with
out him., was the answer we got. Now,
gentlemen, you have always aided us
| when you called on us before and you
can in this. The people of our dis
trict demand it."
The reference to Budy's gallant APP
pearance started a broad grin on the
faces of some of the audience that
threatened to break out in open merri-
p
was hardly consistent with such lev
fty and it was suppressed.
D. w. Doty, another member of the
committee, and the recognized attorney
| for the Prohibition element in st. Paul,
centered his efforts on trying to show
| that Budy and the police were in col
fusion with the blind piggers.
1T is a matter OF common repute
that the police know that these places
xs.-4,
| ing in good faith, he IS certainly in
| competent and so are those under him.
| Nightly the brewery wagons deliver
goods to these places and if that is not
evidence [ do not know what is. Budy
| is not the man for the Midway district
| and we ask that you transfer him to
some other district. We do not want
| find lots of other jobs for him.
As evidence that blind pigs were op-
| Grating in the Midway district Mr..
| Doty handed the board list of gov
| eminent licenses issued, the location
given in each case being in the Midway
| district. He made the assertion that
| the police were aiding some of the
violators and attempted to prove it by
| claiming that warrant Issued last Feb
ruary for one Joseph Tour, $50 Ravoux
| street, had never been served, though
| he was known to be in st. Paul.
! Il have no confidence in any order
| for the suppression of blind pigs be-
| Ing enforced in the Midway district"
said ex-Ald. Hunt, who followed, "un-
less it is backed by this board or Chief
| O'Connor to the extent that the officer
| who fails will lose his head. Every
| body knows that these places exist /
| never knew them to be run so openly,
! Like all law breakers those in charge
| are exceedingly dangerous, and
they and their traffic are a
| menace to our community. T
these places, but that is all that came
| of it."
Want Pigs Notified.
In conclusion Mr.. Hunt suggested
/ that notice be given to each of the
| proprietors to quit business Immediate
| ly and If that was not obeyed to ar
| rest them and let the courts deal with
| them.
Following Mr.. Hunt, Rev. David Nor
| gan, Prof. E. G. MacKean, of MacaI-
ester college, Prof. Drew, of the state
| agricultural college, Rev. NJ N. Rule,
| and L. II. Dickson spoke briefly of the
situation, and asked the aid of the
board in suppressing the illegal traffic
IN intoxicating liquors. They declared
that the conditions now were the
worst in years and heroic measures
would be necessary to break up the
| traffic.
AT the conclusion Commissioner
LAWYER informed the delegation that
the matter would be given the boards
fullest attention. The board immedi-
| ately went into executive session to
discuss It, At the close not a word
was given out regarding the nature
of the deliberations or the decision ar
rived at, except that Chief O'Connor
had been given full Jurisdiction in the
matter.
"The law will be enforced. I don't
think there will be any more trouble
from blind pigs" was Chief O'Connor's
sole answer last night as to what he
| intended to do.
AS to the decision arrived at by the
commission he refused to make any
explanation or offer any comments.
The demanded removal Of Lieut.. Budy
| he refused to discuss.