St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-18
THE FALSE PROPHET.

The Pioneer Press VIII never become rec
onciled to its defeat in the last municipal
election. After predicting for weeks in adj
vance of the election that if Mr.. RICE should
be elected mayor a wide-open policy would
prevail and the city be turned over to the
gamblers and to all sorts of diSreputable
people and practices, it now turns around
and growls because its predictions are not
being verified. In yesterdays issue the
Pioneer Press charges that there is wide
spread discomfort among the saloon men
because. as it Is alleged, Mayor RICE Sc
cured their votes under false pretenses, and
indirectly accuses the mayor of violating
pledges made by himself or, through his
friends, to conduct the city government on
a wlde-open policy.
Our Third street neighbor is evidently
suffering from another bilious attack and Is
again looking through jaundiced eyes. In
the first place, there is no such discomfort
prevailing as is asserted. With the pos
sible exception of a few low dives, the
saloon men recognize the fact that they en-
joy all the privileges they are entitled to
under their licenses. And more than that,
the proprietors of reputable saloons are just
as much interested in maintaining good
government as the proprietors of other
business establishments are. In the next
place, if any one is deceived in the policy
the mayor has seen fit to adopt, there is no
one to blame for it except the Pioneer
Press. The only pledges made to the effect
that the mayor was going to run
the city government on wide
open policy were made by the
Pioneer Press. The continued ASSERT ons
made by that journal, from day TO day and
from week to week, that the city was going
to be thrown open to all sorts of disreputa-
bic people as soon as Mr.. RICE was elected,
may have deceived some, and relying upon
what the Pioneer Press said they may have
been misled into the expectation of having
their own way in defying law and over
throwing good government. If they were
deceived, they ought TO blame the Pioneer
Press tor it, and not the mayor The
friends of Mr.. RICE always said that he
would do just as he is doing-wOuld give a
first-clasS administration, would be liberal
in his views, just III his decisions, and
would at all times maintain the majesty of
the municipal laws and uphold good NOR
ais and good government. That the
mayor is doing just what his friends
claimed for him is evident to every fair
minded person. Not a chirp of discomfort
had been heard until the Pioneer Press
raised its voice in lamentation because the
mayor hasn't verified its predictions or full
filled its prophecies. 1t now seeks to stir
up the gamblers and the disreputable classes
generally into open hostility to the
city government, and so hot is its wrath
adopt the policy outlined for him by that
paper the Third street organ would actually
be willing to strike hands with its old-time
enemy, Col. JACK CHM, in an alliance,
offensive and defensive, in an assault upon
our clty's chief magistrate. 1t may not be
very consoling to the Pioneer Press to know
it, yet it is fact that his
honor is perfectly serene and undis-
turbed by the assaults made upon
him, feeling that he has the conscious
ness of duty performed and the moral sup
port of the entire population of the city to
sustain him in his present efforts to give the
city just and decent administration. As
the metropolis of the great Northwest ST.
Paul has a reputation TO sustain and the
mayor is most efficiently contributing his
share to this desirable end. If the Pioneer
Press deceived the bad elements into be-
lieving that they were going to have Para
disc here in st. Paul under Democratic gov
eminent it ought to be willing to bear the
results of that deception and not be trying
to make scapegoat of the mayor.