St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-20
INDEPENDENT MISCHIEF
The Present Reign of Terror Due
to So-Calied Independ-
entS.
A Moral Lesson Drawn From the
Ninth Ward Situa-
ton.

ilcan party in this city, in an editorial
under the caption "A Great Opportu-
nifty" said: without the independent
voters on our side in this fight we can
| not win. With them we can secure even
a greater victory than was secured last
spring." This was the last yeIp of a
dying dog in the throeS of death, appeal
ing to the sO-called Independent Demo-
Gratis to save it from utter humiliation.
In spite of the sad condition of affairs
which the ''great victory of last spring.
has brought to our city, the reign of
| lawleSSneSS aud terror which prevails
throughout, making it unsafe for any
| citizen to stir outside his door after the
| dark wings of night have o'ershadowed
the earth, when men are dubbed to
death in their own homes and plum
dered of everything they possess; when
women are mOlested and insulted OH our
| public thoroughfares, and children kid
| mapped in the bright light of day, and
| all without detection of the evil doors:
yet, say, in face of these terrible and
| damning facts, men are found so base
| and so untrue to the best interests of
| their fellow citizens as to listen
to this dying cry of the COM
mon enemy, to unfurl the black
flag of so-called independence
| fiauntiugly in the face of the tried and
true friends of law and order in our
midst, and with an effrontery unblush-
ing as it is unparalleled seek the suf-
frages of the people as independent
Democrats
This is notably the case in the Ninth
ward, where. according to the Dispatch
of last evening, one John NJ. Mcclellan
has declared his intention of acting the
monkey for the organ grinder Of Re-
publlcanISm by announcing his candi-
dature for legislative honOrS in the
coming contest. This is not the first
occasion when Mr.. Mcclellan proved
traitor to those principles of Democracy
with which he claims utilization, for at
the last spring election, when the
great victory" was achieved, although
he was not the then monkey, he was a
conspicuous and most devOut monkeys
monk, who prayed earnestly at the door
of st. Patrick's and labored strenuously
all over the ward-nDt so much for the
success of the Independent candidate,
Charlie Petsch, as it was for the success
of the Republican candidate, in whose
behalf Petsch declared himself. At the
last Democratic caucus Mr.. Mcclellan
entered the field for the Democratic
nomination, and, in spite of an unlim-
tied supply OF rOt-gut whisky, BULLDOG
ing and brutality unrivaled in the his
tory of primaries, the responsibility and
intelligence of the honest Democracy
of the ward rose to the necessity
of the occasion, and sent to the
convention delegation representing
that tried and overture representative
of Democratic prinripleS-R. A. Walsh.
MIR. Mcclellan then carried the fight into
the convention where, after exhaust
i've argument, he was again defeated by
a vote of nearly two to one: such men as
Hon. c. d. O'Brien. Col. Allen, e. c.
Starkey and seventy or more others of
equal worth and intelligence voted the
admission of Mr.. Walsh's delegation.
Never was there an aspirant to political
hOnOrS so fairly and Squarely ousted as
was Mr.. Mcclellan at the convention.
and when he beheld the trusted repre-
sentatives of Democracy keeping their
faces to the foe, and ignoring his pre-
tensions, he, with the few followers
who slinked behind his coat tails,
''folded his tent like the Arabs and
silently stole away" A politically
''swelled head'' is at times worse than
choieraic epidemic, particularly when
carried on the shoulders of an ignorant.
unprincipIed and ambitious officeseeker.
The Republican politicians, seeing no
EOpO AOi eiSIi PoI0y ia tuC COLI
test and taking cue from their actions
OF last spring, when, by methods the
most foul, they so successfully handed
over the peace and prosperity OF our
city into the hands Of gang of igno-
rant, inexperienced and dishonorabIe
men, have in this instance taken the
welcome opportunity, and. posing be-
fore him as his friend and admirer.
have urged Mr.. Mcclellan, while listen
ing in rhapsody to their strains of
Johnny, get your gum" to enter the
field as an independent candidate and
to fight their battles for them at the
polls.
Having no other virtues wherewith to
adorn him, they sneeringly refer to him
as ian exceptionally good-looking young
man, who is distinguished by the neat
ness of his attire and the symmetry and
how of his brown muStachiOs.''
1t is as clear as the sun that shines in
the cloudless sky at monday that it is
not with hope or desire of seeing him
elected that the Republican party, whose
dupe and hireling he is, is coming to
the support of Mr.. Mcclellan. but for the
purpose of defeating that promoter and
defender of the peoples rights, that
honest and sterling Young Democrat
VINO so ably and so honestly represented
the Ninth ward in the last legislature
R. A. Walsh; and by division in the
Democratic ranks secure the return of
the Republican candidate.
AN ELECToR.