The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10

with Duluth dry, prospecting and
running more smoothly than ever
before, the timid business man
who fears the loss of a dollar, will
have no excuse to vote for a wide
open, morally filthy city.
Mayor Konkel is like the Prus-
slams in that he takes the initia-
tive and forces the fighting. He
has a personal organ, the Leader
Clarion, and he uses it's columns
freely in paying his compliments
to his opponents. There's vein
of humdr, sarcasm and plausible
ity running through his writings
that appealssto the man who can
see joke but who is not a trained
logician.
Mayor Konkel declares that
James Campbell is bowling
"Down with autocracy" and
stands in favor. of the change in
form of government. He then as
serts that although Mr.. Campbell
came to Superior at least ten
years ago, he has just become a
citizen by taking out his natural
ization papers. He also intimates
that Mr.. Campbell is against him
because he did not get job as
plumbing Inspector.
AL. Brothers comes in for a
roast because he is against the
mayor, although not yet a voter
in Superior, only recently having
moved here from Duluth.
Ex-alderman A. F. Chadwick is
put on the defensive by "Fighting
Silver Joe," who hints that Mr..
Chadwick opposes the present
form of government because he
was dropped off the board OF
public works in 1915.
William r. Russell is given a
basting and dubbed sort of sore
head and disappointed office
seeker by the vitriolic barber
journalist-mayor.
Richard Bradley comes in for
burst of tear-starting gas from
the Konkel' guns. He is dubbed
the prime instigator Of the move
ment and, although he took out
his first papers twenty years ago,
did not become a full-fledged citi-
zen until August 81, 1915, there
fore mayor Konkel AYERS that MIR.
Bradley is only two years and two
months old.
The moral conditions in Supe-
rior are not improving much. The
saloons may have settled down a
little but the redlight features
are worse than ever before. The
burnt district is overflowing and
the soiled doves are flying all over
thte city, seeking roosting places
anywhere and everywhere, even
in some of the most exclusive
sections. ~,
AS previously stated in the Rip
saw, decent women stay closely at
home after nightfall if not for
tunate enough to have sturdy male
escorts.
Many a decent young lady has
been accosted on the streets by
those vilest of vile males-pimps,
panderers and moral degenerates.
But the redlight ladies are
brazen enough to give the city a
widespread notoriety. Only the
other day a young man from Du-
luth stepped off a street car and
before he could get to the curb
painted young Jezebel exclaimed:
Hello, kid. Where are you
going?"
Another Duluthian was accosted
a little later, just a block down
the street.
All this was not next to some
dark alley or back street but
under the bright lights, right on
Tower avenue. ..
Chief McKinnon's friends de-
clare that he would like to make
conditions different over here but
that he holds his position under
the police commission, therefore
is not given full authority,
Chief McKinnon's critics de-
clare that Superior is noted as a
"city of refuge" for crooks of
national reputation. They are per-
mitted to remain in Superior: it
is charged, on condition that they
pull off no illegal stunts while a
guest of the city.
Police authorities in other cities