St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-03
WHO SHALL BE NEAYORl
A Correspondents Takes a Conserva
tive View of the Situation.

A Correspondent Takes COnserva-
tive View OF the Situation.
To the Editor of the Globe:
Both candidates are accomplished gentle
men of high character.
Both have gone up and down our streets
many years and have made good records
Mr.. Merriam is bright young man of
good parentage, of large means and of
larger expectations. His career from his
youth has been creditable to himself and a
comfort to his friends and the public, and
now, in his fresh manhood, he presides over
an important bank. 1t is true he was born
with golden spoon ready for efficient ser
vice, yet it is pleasure for the writer to
accord to merit its due need of praise
Besides, so far as appearances go, he uses
his money in a princely way. Many less
favored people share in the bounties of his
overlooking board and the surplusage of his
own wardrobe and that of his family.
AS the times are little out of Joint his
bank needs his talents and his time or if
not all his time, filial piety should prompt
him to make as light as possible the bur-
dens of noble ancestor through whom his
good fortune came.
Mr.. Merriam has talents beyond his
years, but who will claim that he has the
broad wisdom and large experience of Mr.
Rice?
Did not selfish schemes come in the
guise OF the public interest, were not du
plicity and hypocrisy at premium and
frankneSS and fairness at discount: were
not the laboring classes, through decisions
and deceit, led to forge by their votes the
letters that bind them in poverty and in
slavery, Mr.. Rice would have had no COM
petitor.
How shall I speak of Mr.. Rice? He be-
longs to the worlds nobility.
The master poet the worlds greatest
word painter, thus speaks of another what
is true of Mr.. Rice: HE was the noblest
Roman of them ALL Again. Ellis life was
gentle, and the elements so mixed i'll him
that Nature might stand up and say, This
was a man."
The presence of Mr.. Rice is a constant
benedictioa, and his acts are but repeated
benefactions. Comparatively poor himself,
he has devised schemes that have made
others rich. This is always the mission of
the good and the great. This city has had
one youthful reformer, and in experience
and learning not inferior to Mr.. Merriam,
and yet the great public, at its critical june
ture, turned to Mr.. Rice. Shall the public
voice be unheeded through false issues OF
through money?
The great problem of the age is how best
to govern cities. In them vice centers. Not
all men are good. Some mistakenly
think the bad can be made good
by force. The wisest wait and hope ac-
cOrding to Victor Hugo, and give this prob
lem for solution to the most experienced
and best men, and thrust time and Provi-
dence. If Mr.. Merriam has sinister pur-
poses in this election those purposes are not
in the interests of the sons of toll. On this
Mr.. Rice's record needs no comment. OBJ
lection is made to Mr.. Rice because
HE Is TOO GOOD.
History relates a similar case.
A cowardly judge before whom an inno-
cent and good man was brought on a false
accusation, repeatedly declared. Il find no
fault in this man.
The populace, inflamed by men in high
places "a class similar to modern politicians
by viva vOce vote condemned the accused
but their city has become desolate, the peo-
pie are scattered and the whole country is
laid waste and nearly deserted.
Shall this be our fate?