The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-10-27

conducted honestly and ably since he
took charge Of it, and that is the best
endorsement any nominee can have.
J. T. Buxton, the NOMINEES for city
treasurer, is attending to business. be:
ing satisfied that his election is all
right. His experience in the Office of
treasurer, which he filled with ability
for many years, is what will tell on
election day. Efficiency is what is
wanted in all Offices of trust, and Mr.
Buxton's qualifications are as we'll
kno ~ to the Republicans of Mimi
apolis as it is to the Democrats for the
former endorsed him many times for
the Office of treasurer. The nominee
for Judge of the municipal court, John
T. Byrnes, is lawyer of more than
ordinary ability. He is at present at:
torney for the park board, almost as
important an Office as that of city
attorney, No one can deny but that he
has filed the office with credit to the
board aud himself His election will
reflect credit On the voters Of Minneap-
oils. For the office of associate judge
Lars M. Rand, the nominee, is well
adapted. He is DOW assistant city at
torney. and is performing the duties Of
the Office as they have never been before.
His election is assured.
The election of a clean capable set Of
aldermen is one of the most important
matters in the coming municipal con-
test. No one knows better than the
people OF Minneapolis how essential it
is to have good city council. 1t was
the failure Oh the part of the Republi-
can party, when it had control of the
municipal government, to guard the
city's finances that killed it, Mime
apolis was then a Republican city in
every sense Of the word, and it might
have been ever since, had it not been
for the reckless manner in which the
party in power handled the public
money, contracts were awarded without
ANY regard to the cost involved, and the
city's expenses ran up SO high that a
change was demanded. Since the
Democrats got control Of the local
legislature the peoples interests has
been carefully guarded and public
monev judiciously expended, There
has been no letting of contracts to
friends of the administration, all Gem
petitors have had an equal chance.
This is the way the Democrats propose
to conduct the city's affairs in the
future. While all the nominees for al
oermen, with very few exec ptions are
men of sound judgment, few deserve
special notice. IN the First ward John
T. MCGOWAN and Joseph Ingenhntt are
entitled to the full support of their
party. They will get it, andthat means
their election by g large majority. The
Second ward has three representative
men to vote for: T. G. Mcmillan, Prof.
John G. Moore and E. G.. Conroy. Mr..
Conroy, though poor, is honest and
capable, and no better qualifications can
be had by any candidate. He is a rep
resentative Of the laboring classes and
ought to be elected. Aid. McArdle, OF
the Third ward, is one Of the men that
deserves the support Of the Democrats
Of that ward. He has always been q
Democrat of the first order, and ever
since he took his seat in the city coun-
Gil, has done everything he could for the
benefit Of the city and the advancement
of his party. AS a member OF the eoun-
Gil committees OH workhouse and sew
ers be has done some good work. The
positions he has taken on ali matters af
fecting the city in general, and his
ward in particular, have endeared HIM
TO his constituents. An independent
move has been started in the ward with
the evident intent of defeating him, but
the Democratic voters of that prosper
GUS section Of the city know how care
fully he has watched their interests.
Unlike one of the present aldermen
who is an independent candidate for
re. election, he did not favor the giving
away Of q portion Of First street north
to the Omaha road, when the majority
Of the people did not wish 1t. He op,
posed the ordinance, and it was owing
to this, as we'll as other stands he took
on similar questions, chat he was re-
nominated, and the same forces that
nominated him, will elect him. The
Fourth ward has the honor of having
an energetic member in the city coun-
Gil, AID. Cloutier. No man could at
tend to the wants Of his Office better than
has Aid. Cloutier since his election.
Property owners living along the rail-
road tracks adjacent to Lyndale avenue
had been begging for bridge there for
years, and it was not until Aid. Cloutier
took the matter in hand, that the long
desired bridge was a reality; the open
ing of Fifth avenue north was also
another good move of the alderman's:
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