St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-19

chairman whose fertile genius for getting a
scoop ON an evening rival was only equaled
by his tact in carrying an adjournment in
opposition to the majority vote Of the body
over which he presided.
In personal sense the ticket nominated
is respectable. The gentlemen who are
named as candidates for defeat at the May
election will make creditable victims fol-
the Sacrificial altar which the voters will
erect ON the 9Th of next month. Mr.. MER-
RAM, the nominee for mayor, is young
bank president whose inherited wealth has
given him social and business standing il
the community and who has creditably pre-
served the dignity of his position III
aristocratic circles as the fortu-
nate son of a wealthy parent.
He is a young man of polite
education and thoroughly conversant with
all the intricacies of polite society. He is
a representative Republican in that his
birth and education have removed him from
the sphere occupied by the common people,
and of course his views are not moulded in
harmony with theirs. In this respect he is
the opposite of Mr.. RICE, the Democratic
candidate, who has worked his way up, com
mencing down at the foot of the ladder and
climbing rung by rung until he has reached
the top. OF the people, with the people
and for the people, Mr.. RICE has
grown into matured manhood and
honorable Distinction with every i'm
pulse of his generous heart in tuneful ac-
cord with the great mass of his fellow citi-
zens by whom he is loved for his many ele-
CANT qualities. Mr.. RICE was not born to
business distinction. He has acquired it,
the two candidates. Mr.. MERRIAM is am
bilious for political distinction and he per-
haps sees in the empty honor of the nomi-
nation he has secured sufficient return
in a political way to justify him
for the expense of unhOrsing the
jovial and popular DR.. MURPHY.
That Mr.. MERRIAM is an amateur in poll
tics was best illustrated by permitting his
convention to nominate Mr.. MCCARDY fol
comptroller. Without regard to his per-
sonal merits and individual deserts, it is
safe to say the convention could not have
made more unpopular nomination. Mr..
MCCARDY's experience as a public fnan-
cier was in the Office of county auditor, and
when he came before the people of Ramsey
county to ask public judgment upon his Of
fetal career he was showed under by an
overwhelming vote. That is not the kind
Of prestige the people of st. Paul are seek
ing in a man for whom to vote for the i'm
pOrtant Office of comptroller in this crisis of
our municipal history. Opposed to Mr..
MCCARDY is the Democratic candidate,
JOHN W. ROCHE, who, in the twenty con-
secutive years he has filled the responsible
position of city comptroller, has seen st.
Paul rise from a small town to a great city
of magnificent proportions, and with still
more splendid future stretching before
her if she continues to be governed
with the same wisdom and prudence that
has marked her past history. Under his
management of the fiscal affairs of the city
he has seen st. Paul's credit rise until her
securities, instead Of selling at so cents on
the dollar for S per cent. bonds, as was the
case when he first came into office, are now
selling at 8 per cent. premium, and for
Oiuy DCdtl - pei COiU. iiloCiCot'
A comparison of the official records of these
two candidates is all that is necessary to
give the people of st. Paul to understand
in whose hands the interests of the city will
be safest. While the candidate for munich
pal judge has been reasonably diligent and
impartial in his judicial career, he has the
misfortune to be handicapped by being on
the wrong ticket, and also confronted with
candidate more competent and more pop
ular than himself.
Taking it altogether, Mr.. MERRIAM's
convention succeeded in putting into the
field ticket composed of the quaintest
odds and ends that could be picked up any
where, and is in all respects just such a
ticket at the people of st. Paul do not want,
and never will.