St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-04
MINNEAPOLIS.
VOTE AND GO HOME.
that Is All That There Is Left
For Minneapolitans
To Do.
'he Battle Has Been Fought
and To-Day Will Decide
the Contest.
tome of the Features OF the
Campaign Which We're
Unusual.
'otter Emits a Feeble Wall
AS He Sees Himself Fall
ing Down.

WO wears old friends ana nelgnOolS
will meet one another in the morning
N the way to business and will discuss
he weather and the crops, thereby
scaping $40 fine in the police court for
hsorderly conduct. This morning the
free American citizen, the sovereign
man," will go to the poll, and there. in
accordance with his ''iGalienable right"
le will deposit his little red, white and
,lue ballots for the men who, he has been
old for the past two months, are the
roper men to hold office. BY order of
Mayor Babb. all saloons will be closed
0-day. As a precaution, the Old-line
Republicans last night filled their TASKS.
nd it is heavenly crowns to ancient
dug hats that there will be several
comfortable ''jags" wandering about
he city. But the campaign will be
,ver today, and there will be several
,oZen heavy hearts i'll the city when the
.un rises on Wednesday morning.
In many respects this has been the
most remarkable campaign the city
.Yer saw. The brass band has not been
particularly numerous. Both parties
,eem to have depended on the issues
before the people and upon hard work
more than upon arousing enthusiasm
through the medium of noise. All the
lnisemaking in the city has been LETT to
) e Flambeau cluo, and if there had
been about two more Flambeau clubs
he Republican candidates would have
withdrawn from the race long ago.
Very little red fire has wasted its brill
ancy on the tetid air. Work, hard, UNI
leasing, uncompromising work has
been the rule.
A Clean Campaign.
Then it has been clean campaign,
especially on the Democratic side of
The stone wall. Mud throwing has ueen
extremely limited, confined. in fact, al
most exclusively to a few obscure
sheets. which few see and which nouOdy
reads, and to the Minneapolis Tribune.
That paper has persistentiy stood by
the compact heap of untruthfulnesS
and made feeble attempts to do little
good for its party by ShOveling refuse !;
out it has availed nothing, which eff
fectually disproves the eXtravagant
boast made by Editor Blethen at the
famous Labor Temple meeting. The
Democratic press and speakers have re-
Trained from attacking anybody, except
Oh such portions of the records of Ger
tain Republican candidates as offered
legitimate opportunity for criticism.
The Republican papers have published
roOrback after roorback, but generally
they have been of a harmless, even
silly character, such as would do more
injury to their own party than to any
one else. Not one tangible argument
has been made against the Democratic
candidates. On the other hand, there
are :indubitable evidences of miSman-
agement in the affairs OF the city.
which is the strongest argument that
could be made for change.
But to return to mud-throwing; it is
an indiSputable fact that the Repub-
lican party has never done so LITTLE, of it
rs this year. Enough has been done,
however, to indicate what that party
would do did it possess the slightest eX-
.use for dealing in filth. Only last
hight it made one last, but futile effort
o besmirch its opponents. The people
should remember that TO the Democrat
&c party belongs the credit for the
dignity with which the CAM
that there are no Republicans
candidates upon whom spots of mud
would be ornaments: for there are sew
eral of them who are as vulnerable as
ever men were; but the Democrats of
Minneapolis. while making no promises,
no pretensloDs ana no boasts, have
demonstrated that they are the men
VINO appreciate hOnOr,even in political
campaign. Men who conduct political
campaign OH the honorable basis of the
issues before the people can be de-
pended upon to administer the business
OF city on business principles.
Some Comparisons.
Last night. rather late in the cam
palgn 1t would seem, the evening pa
perS drew comparisons between the
candidates of the two leading parties.
Luckily for the Republican party, the
comparison extends no further than to
the candidates for the park, school and
library boards. Even with them the
comparison was not extensive enough.
One OF these papers makes This slurring
allusion to Prof. John q. Moore and A :.
Nj. Goodrich, Democratic nominees for
the library board:
MIR. Moore is German teacher and A. NJ
Goodrich is a printer Yes, Prof. Moore is
faculty of Minneapolis first institution of
learning. Mr.. Goodrich is a printer: but
many printer has more brains than those
who speak of him as "a printer An honest
printer is a better man for any Office than O
Scheming lawyer or real estate shark.
George McNair is an attorney and S. c. Gale
is real estate man and money loaner,
vi the Democratic candidates for the school
board the same paper says: ''All that is nee
tssary to say is that John Norton is the coal
man, MIR. Rolfe is real estate man, and that
Luth Jaeger is the editor of the Scandinavian
paper called The North" Mr. Jaeger's
friends will doubtless appreciate that fling at
his nationality, coming as il does. from n
paper that has hypocritically pretended
friendship for Scandlnavians. The sheet in
question might have gone further. and said
of the Republican candidates. that II. E.
Blalsdei! is real estate man. that N. O.
Warner is money changer and that Lindsay
Webb is an insurance agent
why was hot the comparison pursued
further with the park board candidates? 1t
might have been said of the Republican
miller; Harry ". Jones. q carpenter; Charles
Robinson, q sash and door maker; j. Ii.
Hagen, painter. not an artist. Why were
not the Democratic nominees for park CON-
missioners mentioned? Baldwin Brown,
one or them, IS one of the best men in the
city for any position; Jacob Stoft. another:
Patrick Ryan, one of the city's oldest resi-
gents ana largest property owners, another;
herman y. Dahn. a successful business man,
Is another. What does the comparison
show? That the Democratic candidates are
IN every case as good men, and in N ost cases
better, than their opponents.
POtter,s Wall.
4tItlC IUlleT comes 10 the front
at the last moment with feeble wall 1.-The
corporations are all against me- Nearly a
whole column of first-page space is given up
to that sort of twaddle. emanating either
from Potter or the Journal reporter il is diff.
cult to distinguish which, Judging from the
past, either would be capable of it, This
Column, of slush goes OH to sly in Potter s
name, that the corporations are all against
him; or as he puts it: Il presume they do
not like my record in the cooncil'' Then he
goes On to particulariZe and boast
on what he has done, laying par
ucular stress upon the street lighting
proposition But the public is not to be
fooled. 1t remembers how quickly Mr.. Pot
ter changed 'front.' or at least came down.
way down, when the gas company objected
to his plan, and said: Il didn't mean that
the city was TO do il all. was Just blufing.'
But it is unnecessary to proceed further with
Potter's record, or rather lack of record; all
that has been covered III the GLOBE hereto
fore.
Then, Eddy. bless your dear little heart
nobody objects 10 you strenuously because of
what you have done, for you haven't
done much. The people object to the
principles which you represent.