St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-18

clusion that there must be head to the
ticket in order to give it standing and
allow them to get in their fine
work. Gen. SanbOrn will not accept
the place, he says, and he will not head
citizens ticket, because he knows
there is no use for such ticket. He
and ''the gang" of plunderers and
wind. He said so to a GLOBE reporter
yesterday.
GEN. SANBORN TALKS.
II have heard some talk on the sub
ject, but have had no formal interview
with the Republicans on the subject -
said Gen. SanbOrn to GLOBE reporter
yesterday afternoon. Under the ex-
isting conditions of the affairs of this
city would pot accept place at the
head of such ticket, and l can't afford
to neglect my private business, as
would have to, when the good of the
public does not demand it.
II am convinced in my own mind
that there is no city, or at any rate that
there are few cities in the country of
the size of st. Paul, where the city
affairs are so well managed as in st.
Paul." continued Gen. SanbOrn. 1.-The
city has been well governed in the past,
and all this cry about stealing from the
treasury is campaign wind. Mistakes will
be made everywhere, but it is nonsense
to talk about members of the council
being bOodlers. / think one of the
worst mistakes of the city's history was
made in the construction of the court
house, in the letting of the contracts for
heating, but the men on the court house
commission are the best and most honest
in the city. 1t would be folly to charge
them with any corruption, for they are
above reprOach. That illustrates how the
best of men will not please everybody
at all times.
II don't see what could be gained by
a citizens ticket. | will sacrifice pri-
vate business to the public good any
time when | see cnance for it, but just
now there is no call, and if any one
would bring me commission as mayor
and lay it on my desk, wouldn't ac-
cept it.''
So, if the Republican ringsters confine
their missionary work to such men as
Gen. Sanborn, the chances for making a
go of it will be mighty small.
THE DOODLE HOWL.
The Republican organs have been try
ing to make Doodle an issue of the canl-
paign. If there were any "bOOdle''
schemes going on there are several men
who would know about them. and some
of those names are on the ticket which
the Republicans have placed in the
field. O. o. Cullen has been member
of the council, and Democrat who has
come i'm for his fair share of abuse by
Republican papers in earlier days. If
thieving and plundering had been go
ing ON all these years Mr.. Cullen
has been in position where he
would have known about it. Mr.. Cul-
len does not say anything about steal
ing. He knows that there is nothing
but wind in all the rot that is published
about such things. John Roche, who
has been abused by the party organs up
to the time his name was placed
on their ticket, does not say
anything about doodle" He has
been the watch dog of the treasury for
more than score Of years, and he has
the reputation of being an honest man.
He knows as well as the hundreds and
thousands of other level-headed men in
St. Paul that there is no wholesale raid
ing of the funds contributed by the tax
payers to carry on the affairs of the city
government. Honest men who know OF
such Internal schemes as the Republi-
Call papers CHdISc oH tilC City CouHOii,
are bound to go to the grand jury room
and lay bare the facts. Mr.. Cullen and
Mr.. Roche have not done thls-nOt be-
cause they are not hOnest. men, for they
are, but because they have not, with all
their intimate acquaintance with the
city government, found out any of these
internal schemes. If these schemes
had been there they would have stirred
up the nest before this, and if they ex-
listed only in the pencil of the political
writer for a partisan paper, no man on
earth could find them.
If there is any stealing going on, and
any body can find it out to dead GER
tainty, right now is good time to pro-
duce the facts to show it. The great
bulk of citizens know that the city is
honestly and fairly governed, and that
is why move for citizens ticket falls
so very, very fiat.