St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-28
CITY HALL CHAT.

There isa certain sympathy between them,
or an innate affinity for each other-at any
rate, the mayor of Minneapolis and the
mayor of St. Paul are very close personal
friends. Mayor Winston came down to st.
Paul yesterday, and, as is his custom, called
on Mayor Smith. In politics and in the
ethics Of municipal administration their
views harmonic with grateful coincidence,
and this may be the to uchstone that brings
them together go frequently. But it was a
social call-"only that and nothing more"
Mr. Winston refrained from giving expression
to his views upon any of the mighty prob
lens that are just now agitating the active
Minneapolis mind and distressing the tran
guilty of the fair sister city.
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"No. my dear boy" said he, with his pro-
verbal courteous mein. mo, my dear boy;
do not care to be quoted upon any OF the
trifiing affairs of Minneapolis. You see,' he
pursued with genial smile, II have come
to the conclusion that man in office should
say as little as possible in public print But
have no grievance with the reporters-no,
not at all; but no matter how innocently
may remark an opinion upon some public
topic, find that the opposition has a clever
penchant of giving it an Interior meaning,
and 1t often works a hardship"
At
Mr.. Winston evidently has arrived at the
conclusion that the safer course to purse is
to let his public acts suffice If his enemies
his political antagonists, in other words-fnd
anything in his administration of affairs to
criticise, well aud good, but he has apparently
concluded to take no personal part in the
discussions his policy evokes. Mr.. Winston
has an inordinate admiration for Mayor
Smiths executive abilities, and he thinks the
st. Paul administration in keeping with a
thoroughly awake and progressive Western
city.
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With all the current gossip-some of it
manufactured i'll newspaper offices-Mayor
Smith studiedly refuses to participate in the
talk. The Republican aspirants to political
preferment are in the very rhroes of partisan
excitement. Their prayer is that the Demo-
Gratis will make blunder in selecting a can
Cidate for mayor to head the spring election
ticket, and they fear that Mayor Smith will
be chosen as his own successor With view
TO placing him on record, they have resorted
to all sorts of subtleties and schemes to get
him to make public declaration. But Mr..
Smith is a man of experience in these things
and it is more than likely that his silence
Will continue until the nominating conven-
ton shall have proclaimed the choice of the
party.
IT,
There is great deal of promiscuous specu-
lation concerning what Mayor Smith will do
when the terms of Office Of the members of
the different city boards shall have expired
shortly Gossip is rife that he will make
sweeping changes in the personnel of at least
two boards. and everybody seems to be guess
ing as to who will be the lucky-or the un-
lucky, as the case may be-recipients of the
preferment within the province of the mayor
Meanwhile, his honor isn't saving word.
He quietly sits back in his Office chair and
listens amusedly to the wagging of gossiping
tongues. He gives the one assurance-al-
though none of his friends who know his
judgment and integrity require anything of
the kind--that he will consult the best inter-
ests of the eity's institutions in the exercise
of his prerogatives. 1t is likely that very few
Oh anges will be made.