St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-25
MINNEAPOLIS.
POLITICAL PALAVER.

larger cars on the Monroe and other
lines it gave numerous individuals an
excellent opportunity to "get right up
in meeting'' and tell what nice thing
1T would be to take the exclusive fran
chlse to run a street railway in Mime
apolis away from Mr.. Lowry, This
scheme was discussed at a number of
meetings, and despite the assertion of
the city attorney and number of other
eminent lawyers that it could not be
done, the plan appears to have taken
definite shape. At least it is now
certain that there is plan OIL
foot, engineered by we1l-known
Labor agitators," to find out how
each candidate for the legislature stands
on the question of whether or not it
would not be best to take the exclusion
franchise away from Mr.. Lowry, and to
get him to declare himself in the mat
ter. If he is in favor of allowing Mr..
Lowry to keep his exclusive franchise
he will be numerically slaughtered at
the polls. At the last meeting of the
trades and labor assembly a resolution
was adopted, after hard and bitter
vocal fight, stating that the members of
that body would do all in their power to
defeat any candidate at the next cleo
ton who would not pledge himself to
franchised away from him.
Jim Eye, department commander of
the q. A. R., and eX-Sheriff Bracket,
who are candidates for the Republican
nomination for sheriff, are reported as
having pooled their issues. 1t is gen.
orally supposed that this means that
they will work together for the office,
and divide the proceeds in case of the
election of either one of them. One
good thing about such plan is that by
both of them staying in the field Eye,
who is backed by Loren Fletcher, and
Bracket, who is backed by Sam Snider,
are able to prevent George johnson, the
Scandinavian candidate, from receiving
any aid from either the. Fletcher or Sni
der factions.
Aid. Collins-The best thing | have
seen in the way of campaign literature
is the following bon mot from an East
ern paper. A Republican, Democrat
and Prohibitionist went up to the
temple to pray. The Republican stood,
and, with his face toward heaven,
prayed: 80, Lord, we thank Thee
we are not like other men. We thank
Thee first of all for the pure, incorrupt-
1ble, holy Republican party. We thank
Thee that all Democrats are liars and all
ProhibitionistS fools, and that we alone
are good. We have no special favOrS
to ask, knowing that, to be consistent,
Thou must be with u.s.
The Democrat prayed thus: 30 Lord,
Thou knoweSt we do not often bother
Thee with our prayers. yet there are a
few things wherein Thou canSt be of
great service to us. Bless Cleveland, o
Lord. but curse his civil service. Bless
tho Prnhihitinnict in 10 Mouth hY1f
curse him in the South. Bless Mime
sofa and Thy little Norwegian, Knute
Nelson, but curse Pennsylvania and
that traitor Sam Randall. The rest, O
Lord, you can safely leave to our care''
The Prohibitionist fell on his knees,
as usual, and prayed: 80 Lord! Thou
knowest we have done little else but
pray, 10, these many years. Now we
are going to fight, and do Thou, o Lord,
be pleased to stand by and see fair play
while we show the PhariseeS and the
SadduceeS that there is God in Is
rael."
The Republicans of the Third ward
have been, for some time past, making
charges that the Democratic aldermen,
McArdle, Mills and Gilman. had been
allowing the Third ward money to slip
away without getting fair return for
Ut, and inSinuating that they could not
give good account of the money eX-
pended. Yesterday afternoon there
was well-attended meeting of
ISOLATION at the German-American
bank to consider the matter. The three
aldermen were there, as were eX-Ald.
Pratt and EichhOrn. but the two latter
gentlemen fled when the accused alder
men came in. The meeting started out
as though blood would be shed, but it
Gained down wonderfully when Aid.
Gilman pulled paper from his pocket,
on which were figures showing the con-
dition of the ward finances. These fig
ureS had been copied from the treasur-
er's book, and were vOuched for by all
the aldermen. This paper showed that
when the present aldermen went in,
the ward fund was OVerdraWn $40. 49,
The June settlement of 1888 showed
$21 ,993.17 to the credit OF the ward. Out
of this amount there was expended
s7,012.l2, as follows: Repaid loan from
Second ward fund, borrowed in 1886 by
the aldermen, $1,000; refunded loaned
by private individuals to make i'm
prOvements). $50; Todd's pond culvert.
S1,S32.l2: refunded and loaned, $500:
Lyndale avenue, money borrowed in
1887, $3.50. This left a balance on hand
at the present time Of Sl4.9Sl .05. The
meeting received this report and in
dorSed the aldermen Of the ward.
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In order to have a respectable turn
out at the Republican rally to be held
next Friday evening in ST. Paul. a
special train has been chartered to
transport reinforcemcntS. Delegations
are also expected to be in attendance
from Saltwater and Hastings. A large
numllnI of nppJitorc # +j,n
Hennepin county Republican committee
are wondering how the committee can
afford to charter train, when they are
unable to pay their debts. PerhapS Col
Ed Davenport, chairman of the commit
tee, might be able to answer this uues-
ton.
Third ward politics are getting into
something of a tumble EX-Ald. Pratt.
eX-Ald. Eichhorn, and ex-Ald. j. w.
Anderson are all liz the field as indie.
pendent candidates for aldermen. and
are all Scheming for place on the Cit
liens ticket, which is pretty certain to
be gotten up.
why would it not be good plan for
Col. Ed Davenport. chairman of the Re-
publican county committee, to send
statement of the liabilities of the bank
rupt county committee to his Uncle
Ben Harrison and ask for sufficient
money to settle with the creditors?''
asked one creditor of another yesterday.
Our Wilyum Henntry Eustis wants to
get up Minnesota party to join in the
welcome to Blaine. 1t is a pleasure to
learn that Wilyum Hennery's voice is
still for Blaine, Notwithstanding the
fact that his party refused to nominate
him.
The Eighth ward Is at present the
center OF violent political conflict be-
tween Alick Millar and Judson N.