St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-09
Practically st. Paul Has Al
ways Been Under DEM
oeratie Rule.
A City Without a Blot on the
Fair Fame OF It's Adj
miniStration.
Records of Progress and
Prosperity That Speak
for Themselves.
An Administration Backed by
the Business Interests
Of the City.

In praetlcal sense, the city OF 81.
Paul has never had any but a DEM
ocratic administration. The present
generation, much of it native, and most
of it an encouraged importation, never
knew but Democratic administration.
1t is true that something like genera
tiOn ago, now nearly two decades. there
was Republican mayOr.-1S74 is the
precise year-but that was in the pima
fore days of the city, before st. Paul
had natured into the Northwestern
queen of the present. All of her great
ness, all of her growth, all of her fame
and all of her prosperity were achieved
under the broad and liberal policy of
Democracy. IL the fitful spirit of
change or the unquiet Testlessness of a
great people had ever prompted poll
tical change of administration, the idea
was quickly banished in the principle of
rewarding experience and merit,
rather than going further and far
ing worse. In its bread and
butter period, when the city itself was
an experiment, the experiment of a
Republican administration was essayed,
but never since the now great COM
munity abandoned its swaddling clothes.
The responsibility of government, ever
since it became responsibility in fact,
has been in the hands of the people,
and has been tested alike by the flush
of prosperity and the uncertainty of de-
10 ut hi
ability the people will be called upon to
surrender it into the hands of any
clique or ring, representing any faction
or interest.
ST. PAUL BEFORE THE WORLD.
st. Paul presents to the world, to-day,
the spectacle OF large city we'll and
ably governed. 1t is referred to through
out the length and breadth of the land
as an exceptional ease--that of city in
the front rank upon whose fair fame
there has been not only not the stigma
Of dishonesty by any official. in the long
course of years, but not even one case
of glaring miSgOvernment nor misman-
agement. On the contrary, the city has
the highest reputation in governmental
and financial circles, and is generally
municipality. Ii has further the gen.
eral reputation, fully deserved, through
out the United States of being governed
upon broad and liberal basis of per-
SOnal rights, utterly devoid of hypocrisy,
phariSeeism and DuTitaniSm. and yet
well-cOnducted, orderly, law-obeying
and G0d-f6arlng community.
1t is only necessary to enter upon an
analysis of the several branches of the
city government TO show up the stand
ard merits of each and discover the
soundneSs and stability of the whole.
Every tax payer and interested citizen
knows, for instance, that no more or
higher praise could be bestowed upon
the government of the city than that
conveyed in the statement-Well enough
known-that st. Paul city bonds are
A GILT-EDGE SECURITY
all over the financial world; that they
have steadily increased in value. with
the rate of interest as steadily decreas-
ing: and that brokers and financiers in
eastern money centers have repeatedly
commended the complete, cOmprehen-
sive and buSiness-like statements, char
acteristic of st. Paul, which have ac-
cOmpanied the formal offers of her
bonds. That the credit of the city
stands without a peer among those
whose business it is to know best. is a
higher need OF praise to the administra-
tiOn than columns of fulsOme details,
gathered here at home. 1t is best ap-
preciated in that firm resolve of our
business interests that let happen what
will, nothing shall be done that will
shake, undermine or lower that credit.
THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
These departments coming directly
under the control of the administration,
and for which the executive is directly
responsible, all reflect the highest
credit upon the city and the appointive
discretion. They are the school and
water systems and the fire and police
departments. The record of each is a
story in itself. and each will be exploited
by the GLOBE in separate future
article. Collectively they form the
administrative history and record Of st.
Paul, and, individually or collectively,
they must challenge public admiration
and respect. In her public school Sys-
tenn, the city has had to contend with
the problem of growth constantly, and
to meet not only the demand for educa-
ton, but also for an increased enroll
ment with which the most active of
school builders could scarcely keep
pace. Recent statistics have shown the
relative economy with which the schools
have been conducted, new school houses
erected, and the vast machinery of the
board manipulated,
THE WATER SUPPLY.
The water boards department.
brought into contrast with the supply
systems of other cities OF equal size,
makes most creditable exhibit. The
three points of quantity of supply, quail
ity of supply, and cheapneSs of supply
speak for themselves, and it is doubtful
if any other cities of the Union. of equal
size, NAV boast of such an adequate
supply of pure water, for the purposes
of domestic consumption, manufacture
ing purposes, and fire protection. at
reasonable rate of cost. The depart
ment is not made source of revenue,
but belonging to the people is operated
in the public interest.
FIRE AND POLICE.
The efficiency and economy of the
fire and police services have never been
properly called into question. Both are
regarded as models in their class. and
their operations are eXemplified in the
wonderful absence in st. Paul of crime,
disorder and drunkenness, and of dis
astrously-resulting fires. Both depart
ments are organized upon scale of
fewer men and lower cost per capita of
population than any city OF over 100, 600
inhabitants in the United States, and
yet statistics will show that loss by fire