St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-06
South st. Paul Will Luxuriate
in a City Election
To-Day.
Politics Obliterated in the
Scrap, But a Lively
War On.
The ms and the Outs Fight
!. ing Desperately for a
Victory.
Both Sides and Both Tickets
in the Stoekyards
Case.


The most successful and most i'm
pertant suburb of the Twin Cities IS
South St. Paul, and while only nine
offices are to be filled there to-day the
election attracts considerable attention
among nonresident property owners,
and is very lively affair to the 700 legal
voters of the stoekyards district. The
situation last night appeared to be
favorable to the Peoples ticket, sup
ported by the counciImen who have
been in Office year. Part of these re-
main, as their terms extend ON the
rotation principle of one, two and three
years each. The mayor, William G.
Denney, has another year to serve. The
opposition, or Citizens ticket, has not
been successful heretofore. and its sup
porters have been profuse in their dec
larations against the present admins
tration. especially in the columns of a.
st. Paul evening paper, for more than
week past. but the officials appear to
have met the issues satisfactorily, and,
notwithstanding the charges made, no
danger of court proceedings appears to
face them. They are business men,
who took up the municipal affairs
when accumulated debts had made
the progress of public works
slow and almost impossible By
careful financiering they oyercame
ing this drawback and vast amount of
improvement such as street grading,
school building and fire protection has,
accompanied the past years splendid
business. South st. Paul is barely three
years old, but now does business Of
$10.OU0.0O0 per annum in manufacturing.
and the recent surprisingly good record
of its live stock business has attracted
attention throughout the country. These
business interests are the bone and
Sinew of the new city, and its officials
realize this fact. and through the board
of trade make diligent efforts to add to
the manufacturing interests, and it is
evident that their course is appreciated.
They have been very economical about
city salaries aud to avoid sinecures, it is
true. and they probably would not have
been subjected to attack had they
parceied out lot of fat offices.
Sam Lowenstein and George Went
worth are credited with urging forward
some of the movements against the Of
ficials, but they fall fiat among those
who know the present administration.
The tickets to be voted on to-day are:
Peoples City Tlcket-For city comptroller,
William r. Todd for city treasurer. G. w
.stapf; for city attorney, Joseph Schroll; for
city justice. Patrick Heating: for constable,
Simon: second ward, W. S. Follmer, three
years; FrankThuet, one year; Third ward,
Frank ships.
Cjlizens' Ticket-For comptroller. A. B.
Clark; city treasurer, NJ. F. Lienau: city at
torney, X. L. Johns; city Justice NJ j. Doyle !;
constable, Edward j. C1eary For Aldermen
First ward, Theodore klett; second ward
for three years. James Reed: TWO years, Will
lam S. Shepard one year, Christ Schneider;
I Third ward, William f. Aszman.
/ To the Editor of the Globe.
1 As the 9th Of May approaches, the
/ election war waged in South st. Paul
4 becomes more interesting. TO the ma
j0ifty of citizens who are calmly looking
oii;With unbiased minds, the efforts put
Il forth by what we will call the Citizens
H party, and the party composed of Mr..
L Todd and the followers who are Oh his
/ ticket, are closely criticised. On the
/ one hand, the Citizens party are work.
ing might and II ain to get their men
/ elected in an honorable and Straightfor-
ward manner. while the opposition
seem to be directing their strength to
gathering all the filth they can lay hold
of to throw at their opponents. 70 read
the Union Stock Yard Journal, which
| is owned, or at all events run. by MIR.
Todd and his son. one would think that
the Citizens party ''are devils hot from
hell" The writer was handed to-day,
| Sunday a copy of this sheet, and on Pc
ruslng 1t was simply diSgnsted with the
uaSe insinuations set forth against the
gentlemen named on the Citizens
ticket. 1t accuses them of falsehood
and of holding secret conclaveS. But
what are the facts? Has not Mr.. Todd
and those directly following him been
I going over the whole ground and Witty
|; ing the other side? Who was it that
offered a certain candidate running for
|. alderman in the First ward a sum
of money IL he would consent to with
/ draw in the tempter's favOr2 Who is it
( that has been gong the rounds Offering
Dribts i'll the shape OF boxes of cigars.
etc, to those who were considered likely
/ to be influenced by such paltry induce
/ ments to vote for his ticket? Who are
H the party that, finding they have no
+ chance in the coming election, owing
to their inability to improve matters
corporal AMI their entire unSuitability
to fill the Offices for which they were
formerly elected? Who sare they that
are trying to weaken and blacken the
I character of honorable. honest and up
right. men? 1t appears to us that
"a great deal Of the bitterness
I. infused into this election is the old
I story Of the attorney in court who has a
! bad case. Knowing it, he sets himself
{ to biackguard the attorney on the other
/ side in the vain and inglOriuus hope
{ that the jury may be influenced by his
! Oratorical and ingenious mode of prOce
dure, but the jury being the citizens in
this caSe) are too old birds to be caught
in this manner. and come to the cOnclu-
sion that when men degrade themselves
so much as to use all the subterfuge
known to designing sehemers for their
own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT that it is fifty
they fling back on the heads of such UNI
principled people, the very filth aud
mud they have striven to hurl against
Those whose every action will bear the
light of day; and. in fact. let them wal
How, in their own mud. LIZ behO0yes the
jpeople of South st. Paul to ponder well
upon those to whom they will give their
votes Tuesday next. They nave seen
both parties. no doubt, ana observed all
THE, tickets rushed into the two parties
lconditionS, and let them ask themselves
1.-THE question, What has been done in
1.-THE past for our benefit, and il we elect
the same men again what will be done
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