St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-04
Just a Little Monkey Business.

was decided. And their efforts did not
cease with the setting of the sun, but con-
tinued on into the night, and indications
are that a larger vote will be polled to-day
than was at first anticipated, as the fight in
several localities will be a warm one, for
the Republicans are working desperately
and resorting to all kinds of schemes to
carry their point, but the Democratic forces
are awake to their lodges and are
checkmating them at every move.
The prating of the Republican
wirepullers regarding their honesty
and well-meaning has fallen on the ears of
the laboring men like chaff, and they only
smile back at the windy sOreheads, giving
them to understand that they are thinking
class of men and capable of acting for
themselves. Yet the dictatorial spirit that
slumbers in the breast of every Republican.
will not down, and in the face of ieers it
crops out. Their case is hopeless and they
know it, but they put on hopeful front
and take every occasion to count on their
finger tips in public places, the number of
conquests that they are sure to make to-
day. Like the PhariseeS, with their senti-
mental mouthings on the street corners.
they do this for effect, but it don't go. The
great cry of the Republicans is, ''our party
party is the rabble." This is enough to fill
the brain OF the workngman with
nausea. as his greatest struggle
to-day is with the capitalist, who, through
the labor of the poor man, on whose neck
he takes pride in standing, lines his own
nest with golC. The labOring men of St.
Paul are intelligent and deep-thnking, and
they will not be gulled by the vapid words
OF the gang that is trying to ''work' them
for their own ends. just how this fight ap-
pears to the people outside is shown in the
following editorial clipped from the Winona
Herald:
THEY CAN'T WIN.
Last spring the Republicans of St. Paul en-
tered upon 4 high-moral-reform campaign.
nominated one of the wealthiest capitalists in
the city for mayor, squandered money right
and left and succeeded in having their ticket
beaten by $500 notes.-the largest majority
ever cast in st. Paul. This spring they are
trying similar tactics and expect by catering
TO the labor element to elect their
ticket. Their injudicious platform is
repudiated by every intelligent citizen. The
RepuDncan leaders give the workingmen
credit for too little Intelligence if they expect
the latter will for little campaign honey
flock to the rescue of party that has ALWAYS
ignored them and their rights. The citizens
OF st. Paul will elect six of the seven alder
men nominated by the Democrats. and if they
do not re-elect the present efficient city treas
urer, George Refs, the Herald is much mis-
taken. The Republicans of st. Paul will
learn some day that they can never win as
long as they nominate men who have not the
confidence of the people and make their cam
paign on issues, the falsity of which is evil
dence at sight.
O1t is well known that Mai. Newson has
never done anything to win the confidence
of the people, and all they know of him is
that he writes and calls it poetry and pen
pictures. He is undoubtedly a good man
and just fitted for the little sphere in which
he is moving, and to be placed a custodian
over the city treasury would probably have
shattering effect on his literary brain.
And should he get there, what benefit could
he be to the workingmen? His hands are
tied and he would not even give the work
ingmen representation, as he would go in
there as candidate of the Republican party.
George Refs is working quietly with his
friends behind him, and they are in the
fight with all energy that will surely bring
him ont victorious. His career as CITY
treasurer has won for him the respect and