St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-26
OUR BEST PEOPLE"
Arrogance OF Republican Silk
Stockings I'm the Campaigu.

II nominate a standard bearer who will
command the support of all our best ciri
Gems Prom c. W. Hackett's speech pom
mating Col. Wright in the Republican con
yeniion
The best element OF the Republican party
has expressed a preference for Col. Wright"
4. f. Ozmun's speech at the Republican
convention.
Give Wright the votes Of the better classes
and the temperance people, aud let the Ger
mans and the common people go" -Yester-
days ministers meeting.
Who are 1.-The best citizens" 1.-THE best
classes and 1.-The better element" of
the city of ST. Paul? DO they reside
exclusively on St. Anthony hill. and is
the Seventh ward to run the politics OF
this city? Since when have the citizens
OF st. Paul been divided into classes
and who would have them so divided?
These are questions that the people.
the great common people, who are the
bone and sinew of ST. Paul, as they are
OF the republic. owe 1t TO themselves
aud their children to answer at this
time when an element of the Republican
party seeks TO draw the class ami ma
tIonality lines in the city election. This
element contains i'll its ranks men
who have preached the doctrines
of Know Nothingism in public
for years. and belong TO Know Nothing
societies. They are the same men, too.
who two years ago refused 10 support
Col. A. X. kiefer for mayor because he
did not represent 'our best citizens"
They now have the cheek to come be-
fore the Republicans who followed Col.
kiefer to defeat. and demand that they
support ticket at least half of the
men upon which voted against Col. Kle-
fer in the spring campaign two years
ago.
What have the common people in
communion with the aristOcratic, the
elegant gentlemen who would be Col.
Wrighl's advisers if he should be cleo
ted?
A great deal is being said about
Col. Wright's Repuhlicanism these
days; but sad to relatc.sI will not
bear that rigid examination TO which
the working Republicans are subjecting
it. 1t seems To nave been OF the kind
which induced him in the past to disre-
gard party nominations pretty general
~. on the ground probably, that he was
voting for ''Opr best citizens"
WHAT kind of a Republican was Col.
Wright when he voted for Congressman
Castle two years ago?
What kind OF Republican was Col.
Wright when he ordered his employees
to vote for Mr. Castle?
What kind OF a Republican was Col.
Wright when he opposed Col. Kiefer,
the regularly nominated Republican
candidate Tor mayor?
Of course, in the campaign of nearly
two years ago nearly allthe silk stocking
Republicans, wto are now in the saddle,
voted against Col. Kiefer. 1t was the
popular thing to do III the Seventh
ward. Why? Because Col. Kiefer is a
plain, common man of the people. one
of them, in tact, and IL would
never do for "our best citizens"
to vote tor him. Besides. Col.
Kiefer believed then, as he believes
now, in the SaHe liberty for the conf
mon people. as the silk-stockings term
tire masses, as for the wealthy; while
''our best citizens." who can afford TO be
mem berS of heightened and expensive
social clubs, believe that those who can
not afford these things have no rights
that they are bound 10 respect. 70
show what Col. Wright and others OF
''our better citizens" thought of Col.
Kiefer and the Republican party Two
years ago, the reader is referred to the
election returns from the Seventh
ward in the spring and fall of 1895. 1t
follows: