St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-22
FULL OF FIRE.
n Republican Attack on the City
Administration.

n lLepuDlican htJacK On INC CtJy
Administration.
The report Of the committee on reso-
lutions was read by Darius f. Reese.
The document runs:
We. the Republican electors Of St. Paul. In
convention assembled. appeal 10 all public
spirited and patriotic citizens for their coop
Grafton at the polls on May J, in the effort to
relieve our CITY from tue domination OF its
lawless classes
We arraign the existing city administration
as dangerous peryersion of representative
rights and obligations, in that. while main
ing "a municipal system sureharged with
influence and example OF It's foremost
members, set al defiance The commonest
precepts of private and public mOrdlit5.
1t has cultivated the lnwbTeaker by set
ting Il premium on every form OF public
vice, and has constituted the social out
law Il privileged member of society. Crimes
/ against public order, which civilized gov
eminent is in large measure Designed TO
punish and prevent, thriyes beneath the tos
lering shadow Of Official life in St Paul.
With criminal influence and criminal
methods in the ascendant II is not remarka
bic that the public burdens of its people
should have grown until they constitute not
only II grieVous burden to the taxpayer, but
standing menace TO the city's credit, as well
as an obstacle III the path OF the citys prog
reSs
On Jan. /, 1883, according to the report OF
the former controller, the debt of the city
amounted in all To S].5S1.3GLjl. ON JGa. 1,
1882. the debt of the city, according 10 the
present controllers report amounted to
$40, 74S. 65l. 0l-(yOu viii observe the accuracy
even 20 single cent D-au addition in four
years of s.. l6i. 29l 10 our debt. The taxpayer
asks in vain where the So, OG0, 600 went 10. 1t
was not eX pended in the conduct of muuic
ipal government because in the interval the
receipts of the city in the aggregate exceeded
its expenditures by fully S5OJ.OOO.
Crimes of violence are committed in our
midst day by day, their perpetrators being
assured of immunity either through the cor
rupIion, the laxity or the incompetence of
our criminal authorities
The law governing the sale of liquor at re-
tail is contemptuously ignored, while police
officers on their beats are seen openly resort
ing to the saloons whose proprietors they
should rather be then arranging in court for
their violations of the law. Unlicensed sa-
looms are openly maintained in sections OF
the city where the law distinctly says there
shall be no saloons. licensed or unlicensed.
In word, every privilege and concession is
given in favor of the saloonkeeperS which q
secret and vicious system of so-caled license
inspection can devise and an organized band
of political pilots, in the form OF a police
force, can enforce.
Declarations i'll public Office, involving
| thousands of dollars, have been hushed up
and the knowledge OF the particulars sedu-
! lousy kept from the ax-pdying public. One
delinquent official is now in state prison,
having blended guilty only on the assurance
Of n speedy pardon, the p arliculars of whose
| crime and the names of whose confederates
are still kept secret. The city and county
are forced into court in order to determine
! which one or more of u number of existing
officials is to be held responsible for the
amount still uncovered. Another delin-
! Quent fees to Europe, and, having squan-
| dered his stealiugs III Monte Carlo, asks 10 be
! brought back at the citys expense, con
+ scious that his restoration to complete free
| dom can be reached only throu h the door
| way of the city hall.
! Through the influence and connivance of
, the leading members of the present admins
! tration free suffrage has been made mock
, cry and the laws have been perverted so as
! TO afford unlimited opportunities for fraudu'
| lent practices at the polls by electors and
election officials alike. The latest instance
of such crime and chicanery is provided in
/ the list of bogu judges of election furnished
| in the name of non-eXistent party.
! On behalf of the moral as well as the ma
! teral welfare of our people we register our
! conscientious protest against this state OF
! things For the preservation of the moral
well-peing of our children and the good
/ name of free institutions we appeal to the
! good people of st. Paul 10 bring to an end by
! their ballots on election day the existing car
nival of scandal aud crime carried on from
! day TO day with a steadily Increasing disre-
gard of law and decency.