St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-29

community, and we may be pardoned
for remarking that we do not recognize
his right to interfere in our local mat
terS.
|! 1t would be perhaps sufficient for all
purposes to terreinate this communica-
tion at this p It in justice to indi-
yldual and citizens of this
community IN p0hlielu md
Wantonly att. = Ghe em.ssaries
employed on behaIr of the two persons
we have named, we will add the further
facts, all of which are well known in
this community and can be easily sub
stantiated. Those facts are as follows:
Immediately upon the return of
Messrs.
KELLY AND DORAN
from the st. Louis convention a crusade
was inaugurated by them upon each in
dlvldual in this county and state who
their political methods. Flushed with
the assurances contained in the major
lty OF one vote by which Mr.. Doran had
been elected member of the national
committee, the entire machinery of what
is called the ''State central committee
was set to work for the purpose of
carrying out his further individual
IDEAS, and with the additional purpose
OF terminating the political existence or
usefulness of the persons who might be
opposed to him, or whose blind and un-
questioned adherence he could not de-
pend upon. Letters were written and are
being written to every locality in the
state, containing tissues of miSrepresen-
tatlon and false and SlanderOus attacks
upon individuals whose lives have been
entirely without reprOach. Newspapers
were subsidized, and on every occasion
When reporter could be found whose
capacity included a sufficient training
IN grammar, punctuation and good Eng
llSh to enable him to translate the
declarations of these gentlemen, these
declarations were made, being in all in
stances either partially OF entirely at
variance with the truth, and containing
statements discreditable to the men
who had alike the confidence of the
community and their fellow-citizens.
1t was further proposed and stated
that the Democracy of Ramsey county
would also be attached to the chariot
wheels of those uncrowned kings, and
that the delegation of this county would
be used in the state convention for such
particular purposes as they might see
TIT to employ them, and to that end
these gentlemen commenced the forma-
ton in this city of so-called Democratic
clubs. The method was an easy and
simple one. Such individual residents
OF each ward as could be employed
WE'RE HIRED
at varying rates, the average being SIS
per week, and their employment CON
sisted in the organization and carving
ON OF Democratic clubs. And after such
organization had been effected to a
greater or less extent, either actually or
ON paper, the demand was made by
them upon the county committee that
the primaries should be held at such
places as they might Indicate; that to
each OF such organizations should be
delegated the appointment of one or
more OF the several judges, and that in
each and every other respect as they
saw fit to demand, the county commit
tee should absolutely surrender it's
functions and the performance of its
duties.
Again, perhaps, we may be pardoned
for not having transferred the trust re-
posed in us by the Democratic voters
OF the Sl5-a-week statesmen who have
been so kindly provided for us by the
gentlemen we have referred to. And
now we are threatened with political
revolution. MeSsrs. Doran and Kelly
have become the apostles of purity in
elections, and through the mouths and
hands of the young gentlemen of liter
airy attalnmentS who still remain in
their employ they occupy themselves
with denunciatiOns of men who, until
they differed with these two gentlemen,
stood in this community without re-
prOach.
We presume that the delegation NOM
mated by the late Democratic county
convention to our state convention are
amply able to take care of themselves.
Speaking for the Democrats of this COM
munity, we think we may safely entrust
the welfare and principles of the Demo-
cratic party to their hands. If it is true
that all these gentlemen have been act
i've participants, as well as the success
full candidates, at an election which has
been carried Oh by fraud, intimidation
and chicanery, the sooner that the peo-
pie of this community and the state at
large are advised of such fact the better;
but it is strange that these men have
through their
ENTIRE LIVES
succeeded in so successfully hOodwink-
ing the community wherein they have
lived-that not until the advent of Hon.
Michael Doran has their duplicity been
discovered.
We do not, nor do they, as we are ad-
viSed, intend at present to enter into
the race for affidavits, or the deluge of
denunciation which is now threatened.
If the campaign hall consist of war
of affidavitS, we would advise that an
armistice should be agreed upon be-
tween both parties, and it should be
further agreed that none of these affi-
davits should relate to legislative man-
ipulatiOns or occurrences, as we have
no desire to destroy the chief industry
or means of livelihood of any person,
even though we may differ from them
II, v,anf Nn ,,fl
of the opinion that the denunciations
recently poured upon the mayor of this
city would have come with better grace
from one who had resided here a suffi-
cient length of time to have become ac-
quainted with the real character of Mr..
Smith. And we point with pride to the
fact that, however low the Democracy
of Ramsey county may now be
fallen, that the gentleman who
was foremost IN his denuncia-
tions and announcements of his
less than year and half ago, on the
/ 18th of March, arrayed in a glorious
sash and waving the baton, proudly
rode as chief marshal at the head of the
very men whom he now denounceS as
hallot-boX suffers and repeaters; and it
might be, perhaps, a curious inquiry to
ascertain whether or not change has
taken place in the hosts or in the mar
shall.
The Democracy of Ramsey county
have
NO APOLOGY
to make for their political action, nor
need they blush for their political prac-
tices. Like the rest of the community
we have our differences and disputes,
and we arrange them in our own way
We are also advocates of the Monroe
doctrine, and we dislike foreign inter-
yention even thOuph the nr1ncinal lity he