St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-25
H'ChRDY WIPED OUT
eY f. H. H. c07cgEoH'S AUDITORIUM
SPEECH
MACS POLITICAL FIGURES

formers, and Debt Not Re-
duced, but Changed to City
Certificates Instead Of Bonds.
The following is the strong and con-
Vinclng speech Of lion. f. w. NJ. Cutcl-
con. delivered at the great Democratic
meeting at the auditorium last night:
Ladies and Gentlemen: de would
indeed be cool of heart who could face
this vast concourse of Democrats and
not feel himself neryed even 10 the task
of following Dan LAWYER aud preceding
Robert a. Smith. Applause. l stand
here tonight. gentlemen of the Demo
cratIc party, 10 charge the present Re
publican administration of ST. Paul
with grand larceny OF the honor and the
credit that belong 10 the Democratic
patty. L stand here to charge them with
attempting to gain atd 10 hold the Of
fees OF this municipality upon false
pretenses.
And, gentlemen, it is not the first time
Ia The last eighteen months that we
have been met with the fraudulent mis-
representations of the Republican party.
If there has been upon Our once peace
ful streets any peaceable and respect
able citizen stopped and held up and
robbed, IL has been charged TO what?
TO Democratic hard times. If there has
beena citizen Of this city who has fallen
upon side walks and rayements, which
have been allowed 10 go TO wreck and
ruin through the incompetency OF
the administration of the pres
ent Republican government. it has
been charged 10 Democratic
hard times. If there has been chief
of police in this city who has had his
strong box rified by robbers, whom All
Inc t1icient police were unable TO catch
and bring to justice, ii has been attriD-
uted 10 Democratic hard times. no
doubt. ApplauSe.l If there has been
Republican alderman, charged by the
citizens of this great municipality with
q sacred trust 10 preserve, who has been
caught and convicted before his fellows
of taking bride, | have no doubt that
the necessity has been charged TO Dem
ocratic hard times. Applause.
Why, gentlemen, ever since the 4th
Gay of March, 1893, when Grover Cleye-
land look his seat as president OF the
United States, we have heard nothing
but this pitiful yelping of Democratic
hard times. The Republicans cast into
the arms of the Democratic party the
corpse OF national prosperity. and then.
with voice like a peacock with cold
i'll its head. they began 10 yelp. and
they have kept it up ever since, that
the calamity which they themselves had
produced was due 10 Democratic hard
times. Nonsense, gentlemen! They
don't believe IL themselves. They think
lie well stuck 10 Is better than The
truth. But it isn't, gentlemen. The
wheel of time brings round lis revenges,
and, thank heaven, the diameter of this
wheel is small aud tie reYengts have
come to US, and | an here tonight To
strip from some other RI publican mia
representations the mask of hypocrisy
with which they have been clad.
know, gentlemen, that figures are not
very palatable and that ihey are pretty
nard 10 digest. | know THAT invectiye
Is the WINE of argument and that eulOgy
Is lis sweets, but the bread and the
meat. gentlemen, are in statistics, and /
VIII hold you only long enough to give
you few, and very plain oi.eS.
FEW STATISTICS.
The Republicans make their boast
and it is the only thing that they dare
TO boast abOut-that during the last two
years they have reduced the municipal
Indebtedness of st. Paul by sS64, 900
[ A voice. "A lie" Why, gentlemen, the
miracle of The five loaves and the two
fishes was as nothing TO this feat if it be
true. Applause Eight hu9dred and
slxty-four thousand dollars! and the in
come of the city of st. Paul during the
last eighteen months is not 100000 in
excess of the necessary expense of
maintaining the government.
What are the facts? There Is but one
way of finding out how much the mu-
nicipal Indebtedness has been reduced,
and that is TO take the assets as they
stood i'll June. 1892, and the liabilities as
they stood then. and the assets as they
stand how and the liabilities as they
stand now. and compare them. Now.
gentlemen, MIR. McCardy himself Uhe
Republican city comptroller admits
that this city has in assets more than
bridges, and he does not figure in the
sewers, ana lie does not figure in the
street pavelOents at all; and by his own
hgures, COMBINED in his own report, the
city OF ST. Paul had in 1892, and still
haS.against It's debt, more than SIS, 600 00C
OF tangible property which Mr.. McCardv
In his last report says is worth more
now than 1t Was when it was purchased.
Applause.
A CONTRAST.
Now, gentlemen, how about the LA
b.llies? When the Democratic govern.
meht was turned over to the Republicans
in this city we had upon our books
Sll,210,000 of debit is admitted b,
MIR. McCardy. Today we have sll, O48.
00O, and that is also admitted by Mr.
McCardy. But they say. gentlemen
that whereas two years ago we had Onl,
s .4S0. 900 of what are called tax levy
certificates, and now have 81. 100, 900
that that is not an increase of the manic
ilal debt. flat tax levy certificate i.
not debt.
Now, want to put plain proposition
TO you. If give you my bond, matur-
ing in twenty years, it is debt, isn't il.
1T L give you my promissory note
maturing in month. in six months, i,
alear, that is not debt, is II? Not a
ali! lApplause.l No, that is not debt
Mr.. McCardy says because the tax lev,
certificates are going to be paid in
year. or In six months, or in tire,
months, that they are not debts. Now
i want to say word TO Mr.. McCardy
il he is here, and that is this-he will b.
out Of job on the 1st day of Jun,
lapplausel and if that is the Kind O
mathematics in which he INDUCES an,
the kind of bookkeeping he practice
he won't get another JOB from any bus
iHess establishment III the city of 81
Paul. Renewed applause.
Why. gentlemen. ii is just as simpl
as A, b, G. If you don't want to pa
your debts or acknowledge them, Vol
make one schedule in which you pu
the kind Of debts you are willing to pay
and you make another schedule i,
which you put the kind of debt