St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-26

on the Democratic ticket for alderman,
present member of the city council, a
candidate on the Republican ticket for
that position, knows OF no corruption.
Cullen is an honest man. Bell, a keen
lawyer. former member of the city
council, knows of no corruption. Bell
is an honest man. Your immediate
predecessor in the presidency of the
Carnival association, who did not use
his official position to increase the re-
ceipts of his private business, l.. 81.
MaXfeld, knows of no corruption. Max
field is an honest man. And so with
otherS-every one of them
GIVING THE LIE
to your vague, general charges of cor
ruption in the city government. You
have been challenged to specify single
corrupt act in official life by any one of
those whom you so bitterly denOunce.
You have utterly failed to meet this
challenges; there is not single specifi-
cation of official corruption in all the
mass of stuff you have published.
Now, all the men whom l have
named are not only honest
men, but they are also men of
intelligence and experience, some OF
them having been so situated as to have
had peculiarly favorable opportunities
of knowing what has been going on.
They have been unable to see corrup-
ton ton anywhere in the city government.
"Oh, honest men, you say, lean be
tended discoveries and ambiguous
charges, and in your sneers at honest
men, am to infer that you see where
others fail to see, and that in so seeing
you are acting according to the old
adage that cit takes a rogue to catch a
rogue? Those honest men have de-
molished your men Of straw with their
frank, unimpeachable statements. Ii
such men with peculiar facilities fOP
clear and accurate sight can see no
corruption, what manner of men must
those men be who do see rascality cram
ing its neck out of every doorway, peep
ing through every window and lodging
behind every corner of the city hall
building? Rascals9 In all that you
have said, what have you accomplished
other than to cast discredit upon the
FAIR NAME OF THE CITY
which has made you all you are, making
St. Paul byword and reproach
wherever your paper is circulated and
your selfish motives are not under
stood?' Nothing! Why, man, your
course has been so manifestly vindictive
that the leading evening paper of the
city-the Daily News-has felt called
upon to denounce your action in the
most vigorous manner. AS to your in
nuendoes and sly winks and suggestive
ShrusS, full of malice towards those who
will not fall down and worship your
incompatible littleness, they simply re-
veal to the people of this community
the spirit which actuates you in your
management OF your paper. L Will turn
your words upon yourself: mo man
of self-respect OF standing in any com
munity suffers the value of a mustard
seed by such assaults. If they receive
the consideration of thoughtful
man, it is only to the extent of
impressing the more firmly on
his mind the desperate lengths of alb
surdity and falsehood to which blind
partisanship and self-interest will drive
some men,"
George Thompson! Ponder upon
these words of truth and SOberneSS, re-
pent of your sins against the good
name of this mighty city, and of your
evil words full Of malignancy against
those under whose management the
credit of the city has been kept at the
highest mark, be baptized in American
citizenship, and you may be saved; but
if you 90 not, even the bankers great
wealth will not save you from the wrath
that is to come,
In conclusion, allow me to say that,
successful as you apparently have been,
l occupy a position so far above your
own, that my brain whirls as look
down upon you'll wilfully and ma
liciOusly wrong no man, and l am an
American citizen. Nutmeg.