St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-13
THAT SAME OLD GAG.
A Meeting Of Tooley Street
TailopS to Reform the
Universe.
The City to Be Overthrow
by a Handful of the Dis
satisfied,
Who Propose a Utopian
Scheme Of Divoreing Pow
eP and Politics,
Pahi,o6 Xuhioh uroxC tho Finn
Behind Which Turks the Fine
Italian Republican
Hand.

''We are in favor OF enforcement of muni
cipal affairs from party politics. and we in
vite all who are in favor of such separation
and the nomination OF Citizens ticket in
whole or in part TO join US in a mass
meeting to be held In Market hall on Satur-
day. March 10, at s o'clock p. M"
The consideration of the above call
was listened to by about sixty repre-
sentatives of various political parties at
"non-partisan" meeting held i'll the
chamber of commerce last evening.
There were very few members of the
chamber present, and the lengthy dis
cussions seemed to be limited to about a
dozen speakers, the principals being
the chairman, Henry l.. Williams; the
secretary, B. II. Schneider; j. Ham
Davidson, Leedom Sharp, Daniel w.
DOtY, Robert A. Kirk, n. p. LangfOrd,
Mr.. Anderson, Charles n. Woodward
and Mr.. Drew. Among those in the
audience who were quiet observers of
the new movement were Henry Johns,
E. E. Mcdonald, G. S. Rogers, A. F..
Morton, Daniel Ahern, Darius f. Reese
and Thomas Kenaley.
A wide diversity of opinion evidently
existed in the minds of the speakers as
TO the best way to proceed with their
movement. uSSCSblOiiS NClC "
the prohibition representatives and
strong arguments were made for at1ilia-
ton with one or the other of the dOmi-
nant political organizations. The call
was finally adopted, with the insertion
of the words ''in whole or in part" as
shown above.
Then motion for the appointment of
q committee of ten to arrange for the
mass meeting was carried. 1t was sug-
gested that the committee work quietly
and arrange so that the meeting will be
III the hands of those who are in SYM
patty with the leaders of the move
ment
A series of declarations was presented
and withdrawn, as it was deemed un-
wise to give them general circulation
so early i'll the campaign. They read
as follows:
We demand the enforcement of the law of
the land.
We demand decrease In local cXpeudi-
lures. both city and county.
We demand that official appointments be
made on account of fitness, and to promote
the interests of the city, not of the appoint
ing power.
We balieve these demands cannot be OBJ
tanned by the present system of nominating
and electing city officials only through the
agency of national party organizations
In view of these utteranceS, the reSO-
lutiOnS proceeded TO demand home rule,
a separation of municipal affairs from
party politics, and the nomination of a
''citizens' ticket"
A motion to have committee of five
confer with the Republican executive
committee to endeavOr 10 bring about
the Endorsement Of a citizens ticket by
the Republican party, or vice versa, was
supported at length by Leedom Sharp.
1t was lost by vote of 20 to II.
The burden of the remarks Of some of
the speakers was voiced by j. II. David
son, WHO said: "If we want to redeem
this city from miSrule we must separate
the municipal election from party poll
ties and select some one capable of hold
ing the reins of government, of admin
isCering the laws. 1t is difficult to get
such man, but we should say as little
as possible ard do as much as we can.
We are suffering from misgOy-
ernment, misrule and heavy tax
alton. We should have large
committee Of representative citizens
and only invite to our meetings those
who would place in nomination some
one in opposition to the present city
government. 1t is hard to overthrow
the established condition of things here,
but uuaninsty of action by dissatis-
fed Democrats and dissatisfied Repub-
icans might bring about wise and
judicious nomination. | want a good
man, no matter which party puts HIM
up. Should we make any errors in the
start, the partisan journals would take
advantage of them."
The meeting adjourned at 10 O'Clock
p. NJ, the chairman saying he would
not appoint the committee of ten until
tomorrow