Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — ROTTENNESS IN MINNEAPOLIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROTTENNESS IN MINNEAPOLIS.

Mayor and Others of Prominence In* dieted for Bribery. Minneapolis is in the throes of the worst exposure of municipal nastiness and corruption ever made public in this

country. The Tweed operations in New York were more extensive, the recent St. Louis scandal broader in scope, the Philadelphia explosion more national in the persons affected, but none of these so unequivocally corrupt, nasty and almost incomprehensible as that of the Flour City, hitherto imagined to be one of the best-governed cities in the nation.

The indictments are against Mayor Alonzo A. Ames, who has four times filled that position, has been a candidate for Governor and has even been mentioned for the vice-presidency ; his brother, Fred W. Ames, chief of police; Irwin A. Gardner, protege of the Mayor; Nathaniel W. King, police captain; Fred Malone, Chris C. Norbeck, George A. Harvey, James C. Howard and several other detectives. The indictments are for bribery of gamblers, Inmates of disorderly resort* and others engaged In Illegitimate business. Gardner and King have already been tried and sent to prison, while Fred W. Ames was acquitted. The Sums alleged to have been received amount to thousands of dollars. It is said that as much as 110,000 a week was paid over to city official* by protected thieves and others.

Andrew Carnegie has been chosen a vice-president of the Society of American Authors, to fill the vacancy canned by the death of Dr. Thomas Dunn English.

Judge James B. Gantt of the Missouri Supreme Court to to deliver the annual address before the Virginia State Bar Association Aug. 5.

A. A. AMES.