St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-23
Estimation in Which the Mayor is Held
at Home, Where the People
Know Him.
Member OF Minneapolis Exposition
Directory Board and the Park
Commission.
He is President of the Water and Levy
Boards--Other Responsible
Positions.
Mayor Ame., Character.

and have made that the rallying cry OF
their campaign. From their big gnns, like
G. K. DAVIS and WILLIAM WINDOW, down
| to petty fiapdoedle trumpeters in the back
woods, the entire stock in trade is defama-
tive of Mayor AMEs' character. 1t is their
one point and they have constantly and
unanimously rung the changes upon it. 1t
matters not what other points may be
limited at or touched upon, they are sure to
bring up with round turn on the despicable
character of AMES, and to express their
wonder that such man should be placed
at the head of the Democratic ticket This
cry was inaugurated and has been led by
the St. Paul Pioneer Press. under contract,
and has re-echoed through the columns OF
the state press at stipulated rates. The
Minneapolis organs have carefully refrained
from this species of villainy, knowing well
that where he is known best the people
would not tolerate such baseless ISLANDERS,
having expressed their adherence of it by
| an overwhelming majority at the polls last
spring.
Robbed of this one bludgeon, which only
assassins WELD, the campaign managers
are left helpless and hopeless, and it is rap
idly being wrested from their murderous
hands. Wherever Mayor AMEs appears on
the stump, these slanderouS charges melt
away like mist before the sun, and the peO-
pie recognize the merit of the man they are
called upon to honor with their suffrages.
Dozens of honest Republican newspapers
throughout the state, misled and deceived
by the soiled squirt-gun which originated
these ISLANDERS, are acknowledging their
error and making all amends in their power,
and this is especially noticeable in that ter
ritOry through which Mayor AMEs has taken
his triumphal career. In the brief time re-
naming, however. it will be impossible for
him to cover every section and persona lily
rebuke these ISLANDERS, but that good work
can be accomplished for him by a plain
statement of few indisputable facts. 1t
will be only necessary to convey to the peo-
pie OF the state correct knowledge OF the
estimation in which he is held at Minneapo-
lis at his home, where people know him
best and appreciate him most.
Last spring, after hot campaign. in
as black as they are trying to do to-day, he
was elected mayor of the city Of Mime
apolis by the overwhelming majority of
5,140. His opponent in that memorable
contest was Hon. GEORGE A. PILLsBURY,
one of the most respected citizens OF Mime
apolS, the head Of several civil and religious
institutions, prominent business man and
millionaire. Knowing just who and what
Mayor AMEs was. having twice before
called him to the mayoralty, the people of
that great city expressed their confidence in
his honor and integrity by electing him by
that vast majority.
This fall. in the midst of the vituperatiOn
heaped upon him for partisan ends, he was
unanimously elected a member of the board
of directors of the Minneapolis Industrial
exposition. This man. whom. the frenZied
orators of the campaign say is unfit for the
association of decent men, was unanimously
called to preside over the destinies of that
great industrial enterprise, from which the
Northwest hopes so much and which repre-
sents property valued at 5000, 900. Sitting
with him in this board are WILLIAM d.
| WAsHBURN. ex-member OF congress and
one of the wealthiest of Minneapolis mill
lionaires: Rev. JAMES MCGOLRICK, pastor
of the Church of the Immaculate COncep-
ton: A. j. BLETHEN. proprietor and gen
eraI manager OF the Minneapolis Tribune;
S. C. GALE, the cultivated and wealthy
man of letters; GEORGE A. BRACKETT.
the millionaire philanthropist; WILLIAM
S. KING, than whom no man in Minnesota
is more prominent: II. G. HARRISON. the
venerable president of the Security bank,
one of the soundest financial institutions in
Minnesota; V. G. HUSH. the banker; AN
THoNY KELLY, the grocer; b. A. MER-
RIII,. president of the Minnesota Loan 81
Trust company; o. A. PRAY, the million
aire mill finisher; e. Il. BARBER, the miller;
A. 3. BARTON, capitalist; JOSEPH DEAN,
banker w. J. DEAN, manufacturer: ID. NJ.
GILMORE, furniture manufacturer; 0. q.
HAUGAN. banker; G. 3. HEFFELFINGER,
shoe manufacturer; W. f. STEELE. capital
| list; T. B. JANNEY, leading jobber; GEORGE
| HUM, county register; B. F. NELSON,
lumber manufacturer; G. NJ. PALMER, ed
| tor Northwestern Miller, and WILLIAM NJ.
| REGAIN, merchant. These are the men who
| invited Mayor AMEs to seat in their
midst. while failing newspaper was plan
ming the campaign scheme Of wholesale
| SANDER.
Besides these, there is long list of posi-
tions of honor to which he has been called
bv the popular voice. He is member of
the park commission. which has laid out
the costly system of parks and boulevards,
and handles a quarter OF million dollars
annually. There he sits with G. NJ.
LoRING and DoRLUs MORRISON, the mill
ionaire mlIers; E. M. WILSON, the brilliant
exponent of jurisprudence; JOHN S. Pills
BURY, ex-governor of Minnesota, and eight
other prominent gentlemen.
He is president of the board of water
commissioners, which has control OF the
water system of Minneapolis and disburses
hundreds OF thousands Of dollars annually.
He is president of the board of tax levy,
which regulates the taxation OF nearly one
hundred million dollars worth OF property.
He is a member of the library board,
where he serves in the midst of men such
as Judge M. B. KooN, THOMAS b.
| w AIKER, L THOMAS ILONh1 uHo L lCoiuOit
CYRUS NoRTHoP, of the state university,
who control the public library and are now
engaged in the construction of a building
valued at $500, 900.
He is also member of the board of audit
and is commissioner OF sinking fund.
These are the public offices of honor and
responsibility in which the people have in
stalled him, and these marks OF public con-
fdence have been again and again be-
slowed OF the offices and memberships in
societies which have been rendered him,
the name is legion. and added to al
this is the fact that he is to-day the mos
popular man in Minneapolis. This is the
bone record Of the man whom these Re-
publican campaigners. as last resort, un'
dertake to heap with calumny. With these
bright certificates of character from thos'
who know him best, he comes before the
people Of the state and these orators, some
of when are themselves whfted sePuichers
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