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

the rigor of the law. The judges did
all in their power to quell violations of
the liquor ordinances. But they soon
had their eyes opened. They soon
learned that tine professions made 10y
the powers that be meant nothing.
Ask them about it if you are
in doubt. So with gambling.
into power because it had promised to
Did it do it? Every man who is con-
versant with tie city knows that at no
time during the past two years have the
gambling houses been closed. L he vel
vety-skinned tiger" has made his home
within block of the city hall. The
present administration was elevated to
the helm OF the municipal ship on a
great wave of popular sentiment eX-
pressed, 1.-The laws must be enforced"
and because these men who were
elected promised that the laws would
be infOrced. With the proper enforce
ment of laws no good citizen has any
quarrel. Against discrimination in the
distribution of justice the voice of every
saloon question.
considered. There are several other
more weighty matters which enter into
the fight.
The one grand cry on the Republican
side two years age and the one which
contributed more to Republican success
thansany other one thing, was retrench-
ment and reform, with the accent on the
two RS. Some attention is paid above
to the question of reform. The man
who can discover any reform must be
gifted with second sight. Now, as to
retrenchment, what is found?
The Republican campaigners started
out OH the warpath with hurran to the
effect that the tax levy had been re-
moved. When p. b. Winston made his
opening speech in Harmonic hall he eX-
/ planned that the valuation of property
had been so much increased as to make
taxes much higher. despite the reduc-
ton in the tax levy. That is one form
of rctrenchment. Further on Mr.. Win
StOn said:
During the firstyear of Mayor Babb's
administration, the police department
cost S54, 600 more than in 1856, when ouI
Democratic friend, Dir. Ames, was
mayor: that street lighting cost $4,000
more; and that other departments are
| far more expensive than formerly. This
! does not necessarily show extravaganza
| but it fails to show retrenchment. The
! fact that it cost more last year to pro-
vide for the poor is a straw which
| shows one of two things: more eX
| travagance or more suffering. Ii TIE
| latter, it is the people who have been
compelled to retrench. The present
comptroller is good Republican author
| ity. and his official report for last yeai
| is a good campaign document. Get &
| copy and you will learn that the amount
| spent from the. general fund was less
| than $4,000 short of $4,000, and that
| the appropriations were OverdraWT
over 100000. But that is only por
| ton of the outlay. You may open your
eyes when you see that the total eXpen
ditures for the year were over "a, 250, 600
or over S24 per capita for every man
woman and child in the city. And di
rectly or indirectly every man must pay
his share"
| How is that for retrenchment?
| Look over the newspaper reports o.
council proceedings and administrative
acts for the past two years. Is there
anything to commend in it? Is it any
| thing but succession of Quarrels, moi
honest fights, but quarrelS and un
| Seemly chickering's. common among
fishwiyes, supplemented by inactivity
| incompetency and scandals. When has
| Minneapolis seen the like of it? Whole
| sale charges of@corruption were made
against city officers and aldermen
With a fanfare of political trumpets ar
| investigation was ordered and carried
on Were the charges disproved? No
a bit of it. For political effect a couple
of aldermen were indicted, not by any
means the two against whom there
was the most evidence. The city
clerk was also indicted and ha:
| not vet been tried. Yet he continue.
the trusted employe of the reform ad
ministration. A city official made {
trip to Canada. A police officer was
sent to bring him back because he wa:
said to have purloined several thou
sands of dollars. He, too, was trustee
employee of the reform administration
a man who came near being chief Of pc
lice. How is that for reform? If yor
| can discover the elements of reform il
this record, you should quit wori
| and hunt for 500 gold pieces on tn,
street. 1t would pay you.
Not a pledge has been kept: not {
promise has been performer. Every
thing which the present administration
has done toward carrying out the prom
Uses made the people has been in thu
nature Of ''bluff." 1t has been phar
isaical in the extreme. a few violatori
of the laws which the Republican:
promised to suppress have been prose
cuted, and even prosecuted. Others
equally guilty have escaped scot free
Why? Because they had a pull" TIT
city officers said among themselves
We'll punish Smith, and punish hin
severely, but We'll do nothing to Brown
Jones and Robinson. Then the peopl,
will applaud us as conscientious ant
efficient, while we will at the sam,
time make ourselves solid with the
fellows who have influence See?'
That is the record of "retrenchment ant
REFORM in Minneapolis.
What reason is there for re-electing
Republican administration?
The rule is that political parties bas
their hopes for return to power upol
what they have done. The Republican
party in Minneapolis presents the SIN
gular anomaly of a party praying for
chance to do better. In appealing t
the people for votes, the leaders of tn
party virtually say: I'VE know tina
we have made miserable failure; w
know that we have broken every prom
Use and violated every pledge made b.
us two years ago: we knew that w
have utterly failed to grasp the prob
lem of how to govern a city justi.
| ond anuifl itICs know that 10