St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-22
Rad CASE OF collie,

The result of the Democratic primaries
in Minneapolis Saturday night displeases
the Republican politicians of that city.
! Nay, it even rifles them. And worst of all,
they don't know what to do about it. The
Tribune. the Republican organ, turns itself
inside out with disgust and writhes over
| the prospective nomination of DR.. ANIEs,
as if it had bad case of collie. Our con-
| temporary is giving its stomach a great
deal of straining, and all to no purpose.
In the first place, the Democrats
of Minneapolis didn't start out to nominate
ticket that would please the Republican
bosses. If they had they would have put
ticket in the field that could have been cas-
| lily beaten. The Minneapolis Democrats
have started in to win this fight and the
prospect of their doing so is what makes
the bosses sick. The little coterie of aris-
tocratic swells now in possession of the city
| government have come to look upon them
selves as the elect. to whom the earth and
all it contains belongs. They look upon
an attempt to dethrone them from power as
sin against Providence. They have been
so accustomed to going out upon the tops
of their houses and thanking GOD that they
were better than poor publcans like Doc
AMES that they regard it as gross moral
otfense for any party to take the name of a
publican and a sinner and inscribe it upon
its banners as a candidate. This display of
self-righteousness may appear well enough
in the eyes of the Pharisee but to the great
mass of people who take a sensible and
practical view of things such hypocrtical
cant is extremely disgusting. And more
particularly so in the light of recent devel-
| opments of corruption and mismanagement
under the present municipal government.
Viii e DR.. AMEs has not yet been nomi-
mated for mayor by the Democratic party i'm
Minneapolis it is safe TO assume from the
result of Saturday nights caucuses that he
will be. And it is equally as safe to assume
that he will be elected. DIR. AAIEs is the
best-known man in Minneapolis. He is not
a man to hide candle under a bushel or to
build city and put it under hill. He is
plain, outSpOken, courageous man of solid
| convictions. He always has an opinion and
is never afraid to express it. He is man
Of broad and generous nature, who lives up
to the principle laid down in the golden
rule of doing unto Others just as he would
have others do unto him. He is the fearless
advocate of personal freedom and is
opposed to laying down one rule
Of conduct for the aristocratic classes
and another for the common masses. He
believes that honest manhood is the only
badge of distinction worthy to be worn by
an American citizen, and it makes no diff
| ference whether the wearer of the badge is
| down in the ditch or up in the castle, he is
entitled to equal privileges. He is a man of
progressive ideas and believes in enforcing
| policy that will build up the community
with which he is identified. lie is not in
sympathy with the policy adopted by the
boss regime now in control of the Mime
apolis city government of contenting them
selves with the power and wealth
they have acquired and of building a
Chinese wall around themselves TO prevent
their dainty persons from being cOntamin-
| ated by contact with the common herd. 1t
| is because that he is a man of the people,
in sympathy with the masses. of a liberal,
| generous disposition. and at the same time
progressive, Dublic-spirited gentleman
that the Democratic voters of Minneapolis
in their primary capacity have expressed a
desire to put him at the head of their ticket.
And the same qualities which have COM
mended him to the Democrats Of the city
will likewise commend him to the more
iberal-minded Republicans, who are tired
Of being pulled around by the nose by
the swell-head bosses who have ruled
and ruined them. 1t is not a
matter of so much surprise then
that bosses gshould have coliclly spasms
at the prospect of AMEs' nomination. 1t is
enough to make them sick. And they will
be a good deal slcker by the time the election
! is over