St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-02
that is the honest phase of it. The dis
guises are removed.
BUT ONE ISSUE.

BUT ONE ISSUE.
Good municipal government or bad
municipal government.
That Is clearly and distinctly the issue
in this campaign.
The row in the Republican party is
merely a fight between cliques and
rings for supremacy of the local party
organization. -
The contest between the Democratic
and Republican candidates involves the
general welfare aud the continued pros
perity of the city.
The election of the Democratic ticket
means the perpetuation of a sound
financial policy and capable admins
tration of municipal affairs.
s. The election of the Republican ticket
means the transfer of the fractional
squabbIe from the field of local party
management to the broader field of
the city government. 1t further
more means the control of city affairs
by the disreputable wing of the Republi-
can party-an element that has eX-
bibited its capacity for scoundrelism in
the recent effort to disfranchise Demo
cratic voters through perjury.
In view of all that is known and of
what has been made public concerning
the management Of the KIEFER cam
paign, it would be bad advertisement
for st. Paul to have the news go abroad
that the management Of our city affairs
had passed into the hands of such a
disreputable gang. 1t would result IN
injuring the city's credit in the money
markets, to be followed by
rapid depreciation in the value of
st. Paul securities. 1t would affect
st. Paul real estate in that it would
brighten away buyers and intimldate
capital. 1t would be ruinous to the
further growth of manufacturing indus
tries and would make this a barren
field for the workingmen.
But independent of all business con-
siderations, our people should be
prompted by a sense of morality and by
a respect for the ordinary decencies and
proprieties to be observed in municipal
government to exert themselves in be-
half of the only ticket that promises a
sound and honest administration of
public atfairs-the Democratic ticket.
STATE PRISON CANDIDATES.
The rank rascality of the KIEFER man.
ayers, in their fruitlesS attempt at a
wholesale disfranchisemen of Demo
cratic voters. is campaign episode that
will live long after the campaign is
ended. 1t was not in the line of legiti-
mate campaign tactics, nor was it one of
those stretches of authority which are
sometimes extenuated on the ground
of election excitement. But it was
gross and palpable outrage, done in de
fidnce of law and of all public deeeney,
and the perpetrators of the dastardly
crime merit the EXTREMIST penalties of
the law.
We are now making our first expert
ment with the Australian system, which
was adopted for the express purpose of
purifying the ballot. 1t was a measure
approved by Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike, and has received the hearth
est Endorsement of all honest men who
are anxious to eliminate corruption
from elections.
And yet at such time, and in reck-
less disregard Of the best public
sentiment, the managers of the
KIEFER campaign deliberately set
to work to disfranchise hundreds of
qualified voters and sought to accom-
plish their. ends through perjury and
subornation of perjury.
Not for any effect that it may have
upon the approaching municipal cleo
ton, but simply in behalf of justice and
morality, in vindication of the majesty
Of the law, and in protection of the
purity of the ballot, the GLOBE insists
that an example shall be made of the
perpetrators of this-crime. In the name
Of all the honest citizens of st. Paul, re-
CARELESS of their party affiliations, we
call upon the authorities to take prompt
and decisive measures to infiict the
Severest punishment upon all the
scoundrels implicated in this crime.
Not only the periured villains who at
tempted to swear away the most sacred
right guaranteed to American citizens
should be punished, but their still more
guilty accomplices. who cOncocted the
villainy. and who are guilty of subor-
nation of perjury in persuading these
poor devils to swear falsely.
The language of the law is: ga per-
son who willfully procures or induces
another to commit perjury is guilty of
subornation of perjury"
The men who prepared those false
affidavits and procured other men to
swear to them are more fit for the peni-
Tertiary than the ignorant dupeS who
did the false swearing.
Let no discrimination be made, but let
every scoundrel go to state prison who
is guilty of state prison offense.
The reputable, Iaw-abiding people of
this community demand that the swift
est justice be visited upon all these
and will be satisfied with
nothing less.
AN IRREVEKENT VIEW,
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