St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-26
IMPERTINENCE REBUKED.
An Open Letter to the Managing Director
of the Dispatch.
THE CITY's FAIR NAME
Shall It Be Besmirched by One Who,
Report Says, Is Not Even
a Citizen?


managing director of the Dispatch has
been handed to the GLOBE for publica-
ition. 1t needs no explanation.
. In looking over the columns of the
Dispatch notice that your name stands
at the head of the first column of the
editorial page : George Thompson;
c"only this, and nothing more;' nothing
tas to your relation to the paper, whether
as managing editor, editor-in-chief, or
business manager, if either. But l
think have the right to assume, from
I the position your name occupies and
from general report, that you are the
one who directs the course OF the paper
which, in its attitude toward those who
do not contribute in some measure to its
financial prosperity, reflects your own
peculiar personality to marked degree.
Assuming, then, that you are the boss
of the machine" 1 wish to address
few words to you. In the present can
vass for the pending city election, when
will be designated those who will con-
troll city affairs for the next two years,
you, through the Dispatch, are taking a
prominent part. You are yehemently
Iauding to the skies certain set of men
whom you, in your good pleasure and
great wisdom, have Endorsed as honest,
capable, incorruptible and efficient, adj
mirably qualified in all respects for the
positions for which they are candidates.
Under their administration city affairs
will be honestly and economically adj
ministered; taxes will be mere bag
ateIle: no one will have to pay
for necessary and important local
improvements, unless it will be
their own good pleasure to do
SO; and the outer ring, yea;
even the inner ring, will be smashed
into ''smithereenS, and ground INTO the
face of the earth. The Augean stables
will be cleaned out, washed and
scrubbed every morning before break
fast, and whitewashed every afternoon
before supper. Human nature viii! be
so changed that all selfishness will be
eliminated from those in power; they
will love their neighbor better than
themselves, and when one cheek Is
slapped the other will be turned for
similar treatment. SyndIcates Will pc
very unceremoniouSly shown out OF the
Office. the rich and the powerful will be
summarily put on one side, and none
but the loWly and despised will be al
lowed to sit and to pick their teeth on
the front doorstep, or cross their feet
on the parlor table. 1t will be harder
for the camel to pass through the eye OF
a needle than for rich man, unless ne
be banker, to influence the actions OF
those you champion.
On the other hand. another set OF can
didateS, those whom you oppose, and
those with whom they are hand III
glove, are rascal5 by nature, by prac-
tice and by association. There Is moth
ing so mean they will not stoop to 90,
nothing so dishonest they will not try
to encompass. Rings and syndlcateS
and rich men are their selfish counsel
ors. and the grinding of the poor work
ingmen their great delight. JObbery is
the-great aim of their official existence,
and "boodle" the apple OF their eye.
The citizens of this great city have
been bounded day in and day out to
register. "The man who thinks any
thing of his duty will register" you
cry. Turn the rascals out" Look
out for the boodlers' When the bell
rings it will be the duty ''0f every man
worthy the elective franchise" Why
didn't you do your duty and register,
George Thompson? 1t is generally re-
ported, and as generally believed, that
you are
NOT ELIGIBLE TO THE FRANCHISE;
a
is so, what right have you, an alien, to
commend or to condemn, in partisan
way, or try to influence, the political
course of those who, whether foreign
born OF native-born, have taken upon
themselves the burdens and RESPONSE
bilities of citizenship? To inject your
self-a British subject.-into a CAM
paign, as participant in matters per-
tanning exclusively to the duties OF
American citizenship, does it not pene-
trate even your thick skin that 1T is de-
cidediy impertinent? What right have
you to denounce and condemn, or to APP
plaud and approve, from a partisan
standpoint, those who have taken an
oath to support and defend the consa-
tuition, obey its laws, and do their duty
as upright citiZens-an oath which you
shrink from taking?
If you should ever address the good
people OF st. Paul, as to your position
toward the institutions OF this country,
would not the following be substan-
TALLY what you would be reported as
saving? ''Fellow cit-a-a-a-I-I-
mean sojourners: i am with yon, but
not of you. Since have come among you,
Ihave prospered beyond my deserts. l
have become the great mogul of
aCdaily paper-SundayS excepted-as
some Of you have reason to know. |
put a heavy hand upon that cormo-
rant, the Chicago, Milwaukee IL st. Paul
Railway company, and Sackett u Wig
gins have felt the sharp point of my
pen. More than one man in this city
who knows my capacity for business
has been wise in his day and genera
ton. Looking abroad to find more
worlds to conquer, my eagle eye has
lighted upon the Louisiana Lottery
company, and we shall see what we
shall see; but it is cold day when |
get left. l have been president of the
Carnival association. AT all the swell
banquets you will have noticed that l
have been prominent-may L not say
distinguished participant? The city has
prospered, and [ have pr0spered with it.
My bosom swells with pride as think of
my rapid rise. My heart beats-wait
EB0odler-You'ye got your hand on the
wrong side, Mr.. Thompson.l All this
has become possible because OF the in
situations which were established at the
cost of SO much suffering and toll and
treasure and bloodshed and
AsA BRITISH SUBJECT
/ congratulate you that the fathers of
the republic builded so wisely and so
well. l delight in sitting under the vine
and the fig tree which somebody else
has planted. but none of the heat of the
day for me, if you please. When dangers
shall threaten from without or from
within, and every patriotic man will
shoulder his musket and stand ready to
repel those who may threaten your in
situations. shall place myself under
the broad folds of the British flag. and,
secure from all the annOyanees and dis
comforts of citizenship, safe from all
danger, l shall continue business at
the old stand and call upon all good citi-
zens-i. e. those who vote my way-to
rally and register; and north, south,
east, and west. wherever my paper cir
culates, shall proclaim the government
of this city to be corruptly administered
so long as the Democrats keep in power