St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-19
PURITY IN POLITICS.
How 1t Is Exemplif1ed in the
Republican City Com
mittee.
Why Loren Fletcher Is Doing
Ward Working While Pot
ter Rests.
John Calderwood Again For
gets Himself and His
Tongue Ways.
Latest News Concerning the
Politics OF People in Min
neapolis.

Inc 0epuDllcdn party mas lot years
been patting itself upon the back, and
calling itself the party of morality, dig
nifty. purity, cleanliness and upright
ness, but in almost every campaign the
party does something which clearly
stultifies all its pretensions to those
qualities which bespeak the gentleman.
Yesterday Maben's Free Lance pub
lished a cartoon on its first page which
was evidently inspired by the Republi-
can campaign committee. The least
said of that filthy caricature the better.
No newspaper can discuss what is de-
picted in it without attaching to itself
such filth as to render it unfit for Pc
rusal in any family. No man-no man
who has in his composition trace or
decency or manhood can touch even
the paper upon which it is written
without longing for chance to wash
his hands. as if he had been toying with
the outlet pipe of scavenger'S wagon.
1t is impossible to discuss it. Its
dlrtiness goes beyond the power of
human language. Yet, vile as is this
publication, the Republican city COM
mittee has purchased thousands of
copies of it for distribution through the
people who pride themselves upon their
morality and responsibility. Anger
caused by such work is impossible.
Disgust alone rises in the mind at sight
of it. Said p. B. Winston, when shown
copy OF it,:
''All have to say regarding that car
toon is that. to me, it is the most dis
gushing thing ever put before refined
community. Such work will only re-
act against the man giving countenance
to it."
From the eagerness displayed in get
ting copies of this sheet, Quivering with
stencil, that cOnglomeration of nasti-
ness called cartoon, seems to have
been printed at the instigation of the
Republican city committee. AT any
rate. they countenanee lis publication
/ by purchasing loads of papers tor dis
tribution. The Republican press will
undoubtedly laud itas creditabie piece
of work. And these are the politicians
and the papers which set themselves up
7 as conseryatorS of the public morals
and promulgators of education and re-
tinement. Laudation of the hog, root
ing in the mire and offal of slaughter
house yard, as the type of beauty, pure
and undetiled, would he not more in
consistent. Minneapolis is the home of
public decency!
Verify are the Republicans carrying
on campaign of manliness. First Mr..
Potter goes upon the stump and makes
statements which he knows to be false.
He is corrected and subsidies. Then
the Evening Tribune, edited by that en-
envy of traitors. Benedict Arnold Shaw.
publishes mass OF unmitigated lies
about the American flag being
''trampled in the mud by wliisky-mad
Democrats" which falsehood, by the
way. emanated from one E. j. Daven-
port. whose careful administration of
the census office so effectually heaped
ridicule upon the city. Then the Re-
publican city committee inspires the
publication of an insult to every claim
of civilization. They cannot we'll sink
lower. 1t they could. be sure they
would find the bottom.
~
Have you seen Your Uncle Loren?
Well, he is out on the warpath with
his club in his hand working for the
success Of Potter and for his arch
enemy, w. R. Merriam; or ssBill' Mer-
Ram, as Loren delights in calling him.
What has come over Loren that he is
this enthusiastic? The reason is that
Potter's defeat will tell against Lorens
popularity. By making strong bluff,
and tearing his underclOthes in all effort
certain extent, tighten the burden of
blame that will be thrown upon him.
Along in the late summer, when it
became evident that p. B. Winston
would be nominated for mayor and
that he would almost certainly be
elected, the Republican leaders raised
the cry that Fletcher must be nominated
by the Republicans or the day was
lost. at that time, '.Uncle Loren"
was hOt,averSe to becoming the candidate
OF his party. In fact, as announced by
the GLOBE just after the Republican
city convention. Fletcher told a friend
that if Winston was nominated, he
would most certainly head the Repub-
ground over carefully, and discovered
that it was not Republican year. Sly
old fox that he is, he absolutely de-
clined to lose his political prestige by
defeat. The leaders of his party de-
manded that he become candidate for
mayor, they looking upon him as the
strongest man, and save the retrench-
ment and reform administration from
defeat. But Fletcher persisted in his
refusal, and Potter was nominated. The
man who wants to be mayor because it
Will advertise his butter and egg bust
ness. started out like race horse, but
his first appearance on such big track
and before SO many people rendered
him so nervous that his driver lost con-
troll of him, and he threatened to jump
the fence instead of following the track.
Then these same party managers who
had endeavOred to pull Fletcher into
the mayoralty contest, went to him
again and they said, ssMr. Fletcher, YOU
must do something; you have been the
cause of our putting a wild, unbroken
colt into the traces as the leader OF our
three-horse team, and he threatens to
ditch the coach. You are responsible
for this. Now you must take a hand at
the reinS and whip, and keep the horses
in the road" Instantly that congress
siOnal nomination began to Secede from
Loren's view. Ii decided him ON the
spot. He replied meekly, "Gentlemeu,
Tll do what l can.' Then Loren arose
to his full height, put an extra eccentric
twist into his beard. caused his eyes to
start out little further. buttoned up
his coat. spit on his hands and started
out. Personal considerations, the
health of his family. and the hundred
and other things which prevented him
from taking the nomination for mayor,
were cast to the winds. He forgot ali
about them. He has been working his
hardest ever since. That is why he hob
nobs with his bitterest foe, Gov. Mer-
Ram. That is why he has secured
Knute Nelson for Republican meeting
IN i,a held later That 10 yvhv he Uonc