St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-26

have not given the city a business
administration. as we promised to do:
we know that we have subjected the
people to a system of espionage, a pry-
ing into the private affairs of the peO-
pie, which regarded not the Sanctity of
the home and which was carried to such
lengths that the courts had TO step in
and compel US to stop; we know that
we do not deserve the confidence of the
people after the manner in which we
have neglected and abused the trust
cOnf1ded to US; but please, dear, good
people, give us another chance: give us
an opportunity to again milk the public
COW for our own private use; of course
we don't deserve another chance,
but give it to u.s." That is
the wall going up - from the
heart of every OfficehOlder and aspiring
politician. That is the only foundation
for POtter's desire to be mayor. Mr..
as lawmaker or law executor other
than by working multitude of
schemes, many of them chimerical and
the others concealing an ebon-hued
'pOSsum hunter. He promises ''busi-
ness" administration. So did the party
leaders two years ago. He is in the
hands Of the same men Whomanaged the
campaign then. He stands upon the
same platform, or none at all. He con-
tents himself with repeating, par
rot-like. the old cry of retrenchment
, and reform, of which the lack of
meaning and utter falsity has been
| proved by two years of attempted gov
eminent. The old administration not
only did not promulgate single re-
form. but wiped out several which had
been established. Que of which was the
eight-hour day ON public work. Mr..
POtter's most enthusiastic friends do
not claim that he will do more than
Mayor Babb and his cOunselorS have
DONE.
Are there 10 reasons for change? A
few of them are outlined above. More
| follow.
The Democratic platform unan-
imouSty adopted at the city con-
yention voices the sentiments of the
Democratic party on local affairs. Many
of the declarations of policy there made
have been carried out in times past,
only to be overthrown by the Republi-
| can retrenchment and reform admins
trotion. A man has been nom
! mated for mayor who Is thoroughly in
sympathy with the principles laid down
in that platform, and who has the en-
ergy. the ability and the determination
y
| palmer than this declaration:
| IF elected promise to devote all the
time necessary TO the discharge of the
duties of the Office, and TO be in fact, as
well as in name, mayor of Minneapolis.
| Believing that the tue theory of
municipal government demands that
| each individual should be given the ut
most freedom consistent with the rights
| of others and the we'll being of the
whole. and that neither lawlessness nor
cant should be tolerated, it would be
| my endeavOr TO give the people level
| headed, broad-gauged, business-like adj
ministration of even temper..tu re."::
| There is the calm, clear statement of
a man who appreciates the responsible
| tiles of the Office of mayer together
with its possibilities. Under him the
city government would not be gov
| ernmenJ of the aristocracy nor of hood.
| lums; it would be government "of the
| people, by the people, for the people,"
| the government of man of pronounced
| ability and finn purposes.
| Minneapolis is large city, the larg-
| est in the Northwest. 1t is constantly
growing. 1t is composed of men who.
| in common phrase. are denominated
| "hustlerS." 1t needs Il man at its head
who is representative OF its citizens;
| a man who will lend dignity to the
! highest office in the city; dignity with
out eXclusiyeness. Mr.. Winston is such
a man. He is a successful business
man. He appreciates the needs of the
city from a business standpoint. He
has the confidence of business men who
know how much of prosperity depends
| upon the administration of the city. He
has also the confidence of workingmen.
! Having been for years large employer
of labor, he appreciates how great arc
| the burdens which the poor man has to
| bear. He is not hide-bound, nor is he
| visionary. Business" appears in every
| line of his face. Last of all, he is a
thorough representative Minneapolis
man. He has lived and labored in Min
neapol1s for nearly twenty years:
| has watched the development of
| to one OF the most important
business centers of the nation: has seen
what circumstances contributed to its
| growth, and under what conditions the
| development has been most rapid. He
! is not man who ''toOts his own hOrn;''
| he simply. does what he has to do with
| out parade or oSteHtation. He does not
| paint glowing pictures of what he Will
do, and hold out tempting promises; he
| simply says: ut would be my endeavor
| to give the people a level-headed, broad
4 IL,
| even temperatures" the honest state
ment of an honest man. Minneapolis
once had such mayor, and to this day
| Moyor Rand's administration is spoken
of with pride by old residents. as the
most pronounced epoch of Mime apolls'
prosperity. An opportunity is now af-
forded the people of securing another
such executive.
In certain quarters, an attempt has
| been made to excite prejudice against
Mr.. Winston because he served in the
Confederate army. He was a boy of
sixteen when he entered the war. Sur
rounded by people who believed that
they were right. and who were con-
firmed in that opinion by all the bitter
preiudices and exciting events Of that
time, what boy of spirit would not have
done the same? The war is now over;
the issues which gave rise to it are long
since dead. The brave men of both
sides have long since grasped hands
fraternally and forgotten their
enmities. The brave man who
was thought fit to represent
the people in the highest Office in the
nation, voiced the sentiments OF the
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