St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-17
CAMPAIGN CHATTER.
Democrats United and Hopeful. Repubi-
cans Divided and Des-
perate.
Shall it be Broad Guage and Liberal, or
Puritanical and Hypo-
critical.
Col. King Declines, and Howl for
the PfIlsbury Gold Goes
Out.
Various Aldermanfc Contests and
General Gossip of the Poltt-
fcal Arena


mayorality contest. it is merely a question
whether Mayor Pillsbury will maintain his
spinal column in its present rigid perpendie-
ularity, or whether he will hearken to the
Macedonian cry for aid that is going up all
along the line. While he knows full well
that it is the Pillsbury money and not the
PillSbury man that is the object OF that
plaintiye cry, yet the politicians and organs
are endeavoring 10 beguile bis senses with
the siren song OF duty and obligation to
his party" While it was perfectly known
that il was part Of the play 10 make this
appeal. there is no reason to believe that
Mr.. Pillsbury was privy 10 II or that ne
will give ear TO IL, or even that the thrilling
whisper, already heard, that 1.-THE Demo
Gratis are in terror of him." will induce him
10 change his mind. Desperation has
prompted the appeals and desperation
prompts such sugar coating as this. from a
column editorial appeal in yesterdays
Tribune:
There are times in the history OF any
mans life when he may be called 10 perform
a public duty, and no matter how irksome
that duty may seem, the people have the
right TO demand that sacrifice at the hands of
that man especially If be be holding public
Office.
II any further indications were needed
of the desperate strait TO which the Repub-
leans are driven. II would be found in this
same Tribune editorial, which resOrted to
the lowest form of abuse TO take the place
Of conspicuously absurd argument. The
following sentence is a fair sample:
The City of Minneapolis had become one
OF the worst governed and most notorious
cities In the Union. Gambling hells, free
rum and open harlotry were the prominent
features OF the local misrule which reigned
in the city.
No citizen of Minneapolis but, robbed of
his partisan prejudice, would rise up to re-
buke such a SANDER. No business man. no
merchant, no investor in Minneapolis but
knows that in the years 1882 and 1888 Min
neapolis
sPRAS6 TO THE FRONT
in that unexampled advance that challenged
the admiration of the world. In those
years, with smaller revenue. the public
Improvements were greater, the transfers of
real estate were greater, the number OF
houses erected was larger than ever before
or since. Ii was then the city experienced
that wonderful boom, in every manner and
in every department that made her the
cynOsure of the nations eyes Ii was then
that her streets were crowded with strang-
ers and her hotels thronged with guests; II
was then that her retail merchants and her
wholesale dealers reaped cash harveSts.
Those were the years when the city was
under the ''lOcal misrule" the Tribune re-
fers to. Happy for Minneapolis could
she return to them-and she Will The
people ehafe under the hypocTitical
yoke which controls them and the
Ides of April will see them throw il off. The
people despise puritanical administration
which would exercise censorship over
their morals while trampling under foot
their material welfare.
Such was the impetus the city attained
during the year ending in April. 1884, that
even the administration of the past two
years could not entirely check it, deeply as
it has been felt. Nothing but the manifest
destiny of Minneapolis has carried it for
ward, clogged and hampered as it was.
When Col. Charles W. johnson was pre-
pairing his Tale of Two Cities. and had
statistics at his fingers ends, he said: 1.-The
great boom of Minneapolis was during 1882
and 1883. 1t was then she left st. Paul
behind. But in the past year st. Paul has
shown by far the greater propOrtionate
gain" The meaning of these truisms is
apparent Minneapolis so long as she was
under a liberal administration and broad
gauge policy made great onward strides, but
at once slackened. when the narrow gauge
transfer was made. A year ago st. Paul
adopted the liberal system and Immediately
her great strides began. And now Mime
aLolis people do not propose To perpetuate
their blunder. and well the Republicans
know it. Democracy is the spirit OF progress
in the Northwest and the masses believe it.
Let the Tribune abandon its policy of
abuse before il proves boomerang. Abuse
has been tried by Republican papers too
often already. 1t is not Insignificant that
from the once solid ranks of foreign born
Republicans, the Democratic converts are
numerOusly appearing. These people re-
member how they were deceived with bug
bears during the last presidential campaign
and they cannot be hoodwinked again.
They know where there material interests
lie. Let the Tribule call in its mud. The
Republican Mercury recognizes the necessity
of decency and fair play in this campaign,
for il says:
The gentlemen who are now editing the
Tribune started in on a line Of policy this
morning that will be displeasing and unsatis-
factory to the Republicans in this city. The
Republicans OF Minneapolis learned lesson
once that will never be forgotten. twas this.
that untruthful. exaggerated and malicious
statements about DIR. Ames always reacted
upon the party, or candidate that counte-
nanced them Flashy allegations
and slanderous accusations against the oppo-
sitiou cannot elect a Republican, but they
will do the other thing.