St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
DO 1T UP IN DUST.
Aid. Cooley and Stoneman Have
Their Turn to Talk.


While the citizens committee of the
Eighth ward has been rushing around
and publishing statements showing how
the ward funds had been squandered
and pointing out numerous alleged dis
crepancieS, the interested aldermen,
Cooley and Stoneman, have not been
idle. Aid. Lawrence does not seem to
feel that he is called upon to
say anything, and so has kept re-
markabIy quiet, but Aid. Cooley
and Stoneman have come out with
long letter, in which it is stated that all
agreements and contracts affecting the
ward have been duly placed on record.
The following is given as the true con-
ditiOn of the ward funds, as made up by
the comptroller:
Total Indebtedness. .............S26,Sa2 90
Cash on hand. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1886 27
Deficiency. ..............SIaa'66ooS 20 20
Unpaid taXes...... ............... o,Soo w
Net deficiency. S7,2S7 66
The aldermen in continuing their re-
port state that the gentlemen who made
the statement that the Eighth ward
was in debt to the amount OF SIS, 1920
lied, and they know they lied when
they published that statement. We I'M
derstand as we'll as they do that this
whole matter was inaugurated as po-
litlcal measure for the express purpose
of injuring Aid. Stoneman and
Cooley, and they are welcome to
all the capital they can make
out of their Venture. During the SEES
sion of this self-appointed committee we
asked to be invited to attend, but were
not wanted. They did not want any
statement from us for fear it would in
jure their cowardly and unjust cause.
At the meeting of the council commit
tee, held last Thurday morning. not one
of that committee was present. The fact
is, the men who planned and executed
this warfare against us have acted in
such a cowardly, dishonorable and UNI
manly manner that we would be JuStl-
fed in ignoring them altogether. No
citizen of our ward has ever been Kept
in darkness as regards ward a1falfS,
and we have always been willing to eX-
plain everything pertaining to our
ward, financial or otherwise. 1t has been
claimed by this so-called citizens COM
mittee that the ward was indebted
to Badger Il Penney in the sum of ST.
1920. No such claim has ever been
presented, recommended or allowed.
Messrs. b., P. 81 Co., bought from
John Blaisdell a certain tract OF
land and Immediately plated the same.
After such plating, they, for the pur-
pose of bring the property into market,
graded all the streets and laid sidewalks
thereon.
"Their engineers estimate shows that
the work done on the streets amounted
to the sum stated, but the statement
that the aldermen of the ward agreed
that they should receive compensation
for this. is a lie. All deals made with
Messrs. Badger 81 Penny were made
through Aid. Lawrence, and we do not
| believe that he would have made
| such a contract without consulting US.
This committee should have gone
further and added Col. McCrory's claim
of $1,000 for grading Nicollet avenue for
the motor line, or Anderson Duglass
lars for grading streets in their addi-
tions, or a possible claim of l..
f. Menage for grading streets
in Remington's addition, or Bur-
CESS claim for grading Thirty-fourth
street for the West Side street
railway. All these possible claims are
on par with what they are pleased to
call Indebtedness incurred by the
Eighth ward aldermen
"This entire matter is so transparent
and so evidently gotten up for the pur-
pose of political effect that we feel some
hesitancy III even presenting defence,
but in justice to our friends we submit
the above statement, which may easily
be verified on examination of the public
| record. In conclusion we wish to state
| that if one act can be found wherein
we have not acted for the best interests
of the ward we will never ask any
further Endorsement, and whenever we
meet the people of the Eighth ward we
will make our statements openly and
plainly, and not act in the cowardly and
dishonorable manner adopted by this
| so-called citizens committee