St. Paul daily globe., 1894-06-29

To Blind the People Relative to
the Incompetency Of d Pack of
Republican Oficeseekers-The
"Reformers" Have Been Tried
and Found Wanting-A CAM
paign Of sla ander Will Not
Throw Dust in the Eyes of the
Public and Give Them Another
Grip.
The local reformers who evolved the
late Frederick P. Wright as the highest
product of their statesmanlike tenden.
cies are once more rampant. A little
over two years ago the people of the
city took them at their word. aid en-
trusted them with power. mostly on
their assurance that they were. after
all. better set than their record
showed them to be, or than the people
thought them to be. Of course, their
capital stock-cOnsistiDg mostly OF
howlings against the ''ganS'-had no
small effect in producing this result, as
we'll as in the development Of the great
local statesman who has just vacated
the mayors chair.
These people have had their day. as
dogs individually and collectively are
said to have. and wretched day it was.
They had all opportunity, and they
were unequal to it. They sought the
public confidence. and they proved
themselves unworthy of 1t. And now
they come forward and ask, not that
they be restored to control in city affairs
for such contingency Is too remote
for practical Office hunters such as they
but that they be allowed to sneak
into the county Offices that will be
vacant in the fall.
Two years ago these refOrmers had a
county convention. 1t was presided
over by the present chairman of the
rump assembly. That Conventions
simon-pure reform product--nominated
a county ticket-and what a ticket was
there, my countrymen! 1t was as genu-
inc a product Of reform as the famous
reform council chosen five or six years
ago, Of which memories still linger in
the persons of the inimltable Walter
Book and others. The people sat down
OH that ticket, as they had sat down on
that council, and Mr.. Zollman and his
brethren descended to that limbo which
is understood to be the happy hunting
ground Of all played-out politicians.
The rump which they now present to
the world as model OF all constitu-
tional perfection bears the Oid-time iGi-
press; aud its beauties. as well as the
horrible lineaments of the gang" are
pictured forth by the organs of reform.
And to what end? Why, in order, of
course. that the somewhat unstable
Rogers NAV become clerk of courts:
the astute Zollman, county attorney;
the statuesque Weber, register Of deeds;
the adipose and peach-like Seng. county
auditor, and Chapel, sheriff for another
term.
Tell it not in Gath. but the slate is
already made up. For its succe IS
heavens and the earth shall lie moved;
the horrible ogre of the gang" is to be
brought out from its old abiding place.
The Dispatch has already opened its
are abroad about "skuilduggeIy" and
other underlined and indefnable thugs.
No one has yet suggested that Charley
Horst should be denied the right to dis
charge the functions of his office. not
withstanding that his right TO the Office
is how successfully impeached. Why
do not McCardy and his fellow re-
formers grew excited over Horsts case
as they do over the case of the assem-
bly,? the answer is easy. These bogus
reformers are engaged in the manu-
facture of political capital. They cam
not afford to wait all hour. The case is
too pressing. Herr Kiefer has threat
ened the German vote on them. They
are sure they've got it now. since Ed
ward the Confessor swapped off his
ambitions for congress in exchange for
a somewhat dubious nomination for
clerk of courts. Most of the outcry is
addressed to the German fellow citi-
zen. whose intelligence is wOefully un-
derestimated by those who do not un-
derstand him, and whose vote the
colonel proposes to deliver to the Sew
enth ward orator when next he takes
the stump against the influence Of the
bishops.
The campaign already inaugurated
against the existing administration is
one of deliberate falsehood. OF race and
religious prejudice and of sheer hum
bug. These are the lines OH which the
Dispatch has proceeded, and still pro-
founded falsehoOd as often as the neceS-
sites of the case seem to demand, and
that is almost daily. as an examination
of the columns Of that paper will reveal.
The scheme is to bambooZle the public
into the belief that something awful is
happening or about to happen.
The campaign is opened thus early to
affect the vote in the fall. 1t is expect
ed that every disappointed officeseeker
and the friends of every disappointed
otfic eseeker will take up the cry Of
''The gang" raised thus early, and help
the Ieformers to get control of the
county.
While the entertainments in progress
the struggle Of individual reforlners to
get their respective noses into the
municipal feed bag continues. There
are now enough Republican candidates
10 fill all the offices at the disposal of
the Democratic mayor and council.
The number keeps Gil increasing daily
These men merely follow the example
of their leaders. Not Republican
politician in town-even the loudest
anti-gang patriot of them all-but has
at one time or another been ready to sell
out his so-called reform principles and
his party's prospect of success for what
he can get out of them for himself in
the way of official pelf
Blpster is now thought to be more
OACCtiNo tudI IdWHiHSs anu So, uULll
next November, the two organs of re-
form stand committed to raising
tremendous outcry. Meanwhile the
intelligent and thoughtful masses Will
need but little effort to discover that
the government of this city has gone
back into the hands of the people, and
that it has been redeemed from the con-
troll of few pretentious nobodies, most
ly from st. Anthony hill. whose economy
was practiced at the expense of the
poorest OF the city employees, and whose
only idea OF good government was that
a committee of ''gentlemen" should take
the subject III charge and run things on
the paternal plan, issuing bulletins at
intervals, concerning the great gain that
was accruing to the taxpayers. When
the people go back to that state of
things again it will be on greater provo
cation than is to be discovered In the
deliberate lying OF the evening organ,
or In the tall talk of the morning oracle