St. Paul daily globe., 1886-04-04
A ROUSING RALLY.
DIR. Ames Clearly Defines the Issue
Of the Campaign.

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occasion of the French Democratic meeting.
The audience bubbled over with genuine
enthusiasm. and the cheers were deafening
at times. The first speaker was DR.. AmeS,
the candidate for mayor. He said after a
suitable introduction, in which he spoke of
his record as a soldier:
The municipal contest which is now upon
us and which has been stubbornly fought by
both sides up to the entrenchments where
the final charge will he made on Tuesday
next, has in it many points of interest TO all
citizens who have cast their lots with us We
have here the great metropolis of the North
west which deserves TO wear the cosmopol-
tan garb which her homogeneous population
entities her TO. Nearly every nation and
creed is here represented. We find the Ger
mau-Americans, the French-Americans, the
1rish-Americaus, the Scandinavian-Ameri-
cans, and all other nationaties here, and
taking on the broad American ideas which
are engendered under our broad and liberal
form of government. We find them still cling
ing TO the languages and customs of their
forefathers and celebrating the anniversaries
OF noted men ard events made sacred by
their early teachings through the histories
and legends of those who have gone before
them. We find here also the BOstonian. the
Mainite, the Hoosier, the man from Mary
land, ''sir, and the uncouth cowboy, all of
whom have great big hearts and well
ground prejudces relative to social status re-
lgious beliefs and the proper paper for local
forms of government. The honorable gen.
tleman, the Hon. George \. Pillsbury, who
has been pitted against me this contest,
belongs to one of these classes, and frankly
confess that / belong to another. He may
take his choice, and I'll take what is left.
The man
WIG SERVES THIS CITY
as its chief executive, should be COSMOPOLITAN
in his views in reference to the rights of
nationalites as well as religious creeds The
ROnfiGfS N a ri iuh m ,af,,
views down the throats of the Hebrews than
the latter have theirs down the throats of the
Catholics. l believe that all men were created
free and equal, and that we were endowed,
were our forefathers, with certain in
aniable rights, among which are life. liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. This may
sound strange in these latter days, when a
preponderance of fanatics, in detail by
locality, feel called upon to pass laws
which give nobody except themselves
the rights which they claim to possess
Then, he who becomes mayor of this city
should. in justice to those over whom he is
called temporarily to preside see that all are
accorded personal liberty in religious and
social life which is not inconsistent with good
. order and proper observance Of the rights
of others.
A man who assumes the Office of mayor of
this city should he both honest and capable.
! cheerfuly accord to my worthy competitor
the first qualification. but in regard to the
I latter, l concede to him age and press of pri-
vate business as an excuse for not
coming up TO the required standard.
, Yes, he is honest; but the
people when they elected him did not antici-
pate, nor did they want him to deputise his
executive powers to a corps of deputy
mayors. That may do in private business,
but a chief executive in local affairs can not
| be allowed TO transfer the responsibilities
! which his fellow citizens have imposed upon
! him, TO the hands of his subordin-
! ates for whose appointment he alone
7 is responsible. If such subordnates in
: doing the duties which rightfully belong to
( the mayor perpetrate blackmail, bribery and
executive clemency, there is but one set of
/ shoulders upon which the grave responsible
/ ity should rightfully rest. Mr.. Pillsbury de-
clared in the convention which nominated
} him that. after his former declinations. il
J would be dishonorable in him, after induc-
! ing other gentlemen to become candidates,
! to take the nomination even if it were ten
: dered to him unanimously. After this and
! within an hour or two he spread constsrna-
/ ton among his friends by accepting the posi-
, tion upon ballot which showed a doubtful
; majority. II had done the act the people
and newspapers would have condemned me
as a weak, vascillating old man, and ridiculed
me into change Of heart and purpose in
life.
In considering the question as TO who
should be the next mayor of the city, desire
TO call the attention of my fellow citizens to
the fact that Mr.. Pillsbury has repeatedly
stated that he proposed to go TO Europe this
year for business and recreation.
This means that he who happens
TO be chosen president of the city coun-
Gil would, in the event of Mr.. Pillsbury's
election be acting mayor for a year or more
To a casual observer it looks very much as
though the pins had been set up for that re-
suit. Perhaps under the circumstances it
would be
BETTER FOR THE PEOPLE
TO elect their own mayor rather than entrust
the responsibility to the legislative branch of
the city government.
L have been asked by an open letter in an
obscure local journal my opinions upon the
patrol limits and high license questions
These questions are foreign to the present
contest, as both are established by
ordinance and cannot be interfered
with except by the city council
in a recent speech made 10y the original con-
tractor for the great sewer-tunnel now being
constructed, Mr.. Hawkins stated that he
could have cleared $65.000 in profits had he
been allowed to proceed with the contract;
that he was importuned by outside parties to
''come down." that he refused positively to
Share his profits whereupon the
course of the sewer-tunnel was changed
and he thrown out OF the con-
tract which was awarded to other
parties at about double the price per liueal
foot that he was doing it for. This would
yield profit Of about S130,00O to the present
contractors. If this does not prove the ex-
istence of ring it is certainly very strong
circumstantial evidence in that direction. i
do not believe that Mr.. Pillsbury has had a
hand in any of the many jobs which have
been perpetrated under his administration
but these developments go to show the
dangers to which the people are subjected
under the deputy mayor system which he has
inaugurated. Notwithstanding have served
two terms as mayor of this city-three years
in which Minneapolis had its marvellous
growth-my opponents have not one word of
criticism to offer nor charges
to make against my official career.
During those years when 1t was
necessary TO make vast expenditures of
money to meet the wants Of our most Won
derful developement. 1t is not charged I'D
to me that 1 fostered the developement of
rings or that dollar of
THE PEOPLES MONEY
went wrong. No, there seems to be no other
issue with the fanatics except whisky and
the fumes of that article seem to have
befuddled their weak and sensitive
brains until they have lost sight
Of the thousand and one other and far more
important questions which demand atteu-
tion at this time il we desire to encourage
our onward march as the great metropolis of
the Northwest.
CHRIS A. GALLAGHER,
one OF our promising young attorneys, was
the next speaker. Mr.. Gallagher spoke IS a
Democrat, refusing to recognize any fac
tonal feeling. He argued that inasmuch as
DIR. Ames had received the unanimous uomi-
nation he should receive the unani-
nous support of his party
The issue of the campaign, as forced bv the
Republican party is money against manhood.
The speaker read the published account of
Col. Gordons offer to draw his biggest check
for the Republican candidate. This went to
show that the convention wanted
cited the statutes of the N- various ms
states to sho oW the knoW-uothiug principles of