St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-07
The Ticket Elected.
THE GLORIOUS VICTORY.

The political contest in Minneapolis yes
terday was the most severely contested one
ever known in the annals of the city. The
two parties were in good fighting trim and
each did its best to secure the victory. On
the one side was wealth, power aud inau-
ence, on the other the honest determination
of the people. Mayor Pillsbury was
deemed invincible not only by himself and
family but by his party, and he took the
nomination under the belief that he and he
alone could lead his party to victory.
The reasons for this most signal defeat
are plain and lie upon the surface. In the
first place Mayor Pillsbury had not closely
enough devoted himself to the duties of his
Office. He had virtually allowed the inter-
estS of the city to take care of themselves.
Against such lack of supervision the senti-
ments of the people rebelled. The Gutter
contracts, the talk of the workhouse jobs,
the general looseness prevailing in
every department, inspired the belief
that things needed closer watching.
Against him personally, however. there
was no objection. He was an old man,
full of years and full of honors. but he no
longer possessed that vigor either of body
or mind necessary to the care of the inter
ests of our growing city. Besides this his
unfortunate attitude towards foreigners
in which he was placed by his S2-a-day
speech did much to withdraw from him th c
confidence of every foreign-born' citizen.
There was also strong feeling that the
Democratic party was more in sympathy
with the laboring men, and the eight-hour-
a-day rule SO forcbly insisted upon in the
platform drew hundreds of men who had
hitherto believed Republicanism was the
cause of the country,
The abuse, too, of DR.. Ames by the Re-
publican papers tended only to give him
sympathy. He had been the family ply
sician of many hard-working man. He
had sat by the bedside of the sick and the
dying and called back from the grave the
loved father, wife and mother. Such
man necessarily has a strong
hold on the community. YET
he was slandered without mercy by g
goddess crew who slandered alike hi.
supporters as being members of ''the
lower strata" when in every respect they
were the peers of any of the self-righteou:
Pharisees. 1t is but little wonder that
under such circumstances. there was {
mighty uprising which revolutionized {
majority or over 6,OOO, ana made Mime
apolis, once for all, Democratic city.
The campaign was the best-planned anC
best-eXecuted ever before known to ou
city. To the chairman, Robert l.. Kelly
too much praise cannot be given. But it il
to Col. NJ. w. Glenn to whom the credit i:
most due. He had two years ago enthroneC
the Pillsburys, and to-day by the same
hand they haYe been dethroned. He il
entitled to be called the Warwick o
Minneapolis politics. The campaign wa!
planned months ago, and for success. /
placed its candidate on a platform o
business reform, and strict attention {,
the public business. 1t took no not
of the moral questions, properl,
leaving them where they belong, to thu
church and the home. There are othe
gentlemen whose broad wisdom, keel
political discretion and high sense of honol
helped to mold the policy and execute it
but it would be needless here to mention
them. With Minneapolis a Democratic
city, the next move will be to redeem th
state, and thus in some degree contribut
10 the general good.