St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-30
The mask is off!

The men who are running on the Repub-
lican ticket are trying to climb into the
muIicipal offices by the most despicabIe
trick of modern politics!
The Scannell ticket was put in the field
by Republicans, it is supported by Repubi-
can money, and it is Republican Job from
top to bottom.
And Frank B. Doran, the man the people of
this town asked to elect as mayor, is
hand in glove with this lowest form of polit-
ical rascality!
And George M. Warren. who, by throwing
his strength to Doran, prevented the nomi-
nation of Henry A. Castle, the only candi-
date before the Republican convention who
had chance Of election by fair means, is
doing everything in his power to keep Scan
nell on the tracki
The Republican party Of st. Paul is not
to blame for the outrage upon public de-
cency for which an attempt is being made
to make it sponsor. Most of the Republicans
of St. Paul are high-minded gentlemen who
scorn to stoop to such methods as their lead
ers are now resorting to.
This is their hour to tell Mr.. Doran Mr..
Warren, Mr.. Scannell, Mr.. R. w. Bell and
hot-house politicians Of their ilk what they
think of their plan of campaign! They can
not remain passive at such time as this.
If we mistake not they will rebuke Mr..
Doran and drive him forever from the poll
tics of this municipality by voting directly
for Mr.. Cullen.
Let 1t be repeated that the Democrats of
ST. Paul are opposed to Patrick D. Scannell
In solid phalanx. They have no use for him
as the candidate for any Office and still less
for him as man. There are not fifty Dem
ocrats in st. Paul who would knowingly
cast ballot for him. And yet this man ap-
pears on the ballot the Democratic candi-
date for mayor. He secured this place by
the most unblushing fraud ever practiced In
st. Paul politics.
But when the courts are asked to remove
this man from the official ballot does any
Democrat appear as his attorney to Justify
his action? Not man. Does Mr.. Scannell
make a defense? Not one word. He sneaks
away like whipped cur without Offering
syllable in his own behalf
Who then, takes up the cudgels for this
political outcast? The Republican city COM
mittee! Three leading Republican lawyers,
Walter Chaplin, William H. Lightner and
Moses E. Clapp, in the employ of the Re-.
publican committee, grayeiy ask that Pat
rick D. Scannell's name be left upon the
ticket. Why? The man hasn't an iota of
Justice on his side. They know it quite as
well as he does. They say they act because
there is not time to prepare the official bal
lot after this case shall be decided. What
hypocrisy! They do not mean one word of
the official ballot because they hope that sew
eral hundred Democrats o. st. Paul will be
hoodwinked in one way or another, some
| because they cannot read and others because
they will be caught by the word Demo
crat," into voting for Scannell when that
| is the least of their intention. In this way
they hope to carry the election for Mr.
Doran. What chicanery!
| And this is all done with the full sanction
and Endorsement of Mr.. Doran himself. For
several days it has been known that the
| Scannell ticket was nothing but Republican
auxiliary ticket-that its only purpose was
the defeat Of Mr.. Cullen. Moreover, Mr.
| Doran has been in frequent conferences with
Scannell and R. w. Bell-who is slated for
chief of detectives in the event of Doran's
eiecsion. hore u Tue point, lneSe tnree
choice spirits have together consulted an at
torney upon the safest method of procedure
in carrying out their nefarious scheme This
| is but the naked truth.
few minutes before o'clock p. m. Tues
day Scannell and Bell went into the office
of a leading attorney on the seventh floor Of
the Germania Life building. At 6:10 Frank
B. Doran and George N. Warren entered the
building went up the elevator and into the
| Office of this attorney. At 7:15 Warren left
the building. at 7:20 Doran came out and
two or three minutes later, the attorney,
Scannell and Bell. These five men had been
| closeted together for more than an hour
! What for? They were not discussing the
/ heavy rains in the Red river valley. They