St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-10
YOUNG REPUBLICANS CALL UPON
VOTERS TO BEAT THE "sAME
OLD BOSSES.v
AND "0LD SELFISH FOSSILS"
"WHO SOUGHT POLITICAL MOTOR.
IETY FOR THEMSELVES. IG-
NORING THE PARTY.
LET NEW BLOOD TAKE A HAND,
Instead of Remaining the PLANT
Tools of Incapable Men, as They
Have Been.

On the top Of all the other troubles of the
local Republican party now comes revolt
OF the young men. 1t is an organized revolt,
too, with members in every ward in the city.
The Young Mems Republican club of the
First ward, as the largest organization, has
taken the lead. In every house in the First
ward where Republican lives, circular has
been placed within the past two days. A
verbatim copy is herewith printed, and it
carries its own explanation:
To the Voters:
A delegation ticket prepared by the taxpay-
efs of your precinct in caucus, regularly
called by the executive committee of the
Young Mems Republican Club of the First
Ward, will be presented to you at the polls
when you go to vote for the delegates to the
convention. The purpose in presenting to
you this delegation ticket is to give the young
men, and all other voters of the ward who
are desirous Of so doing an opportunity of
voting for some ticket other than that put
up by the same old bosses election after eiec-
ton.
The Young Mems Republican club was or
ganized for the purpose of furthering the
political interests Of the taxpayers of the
FIRST ward and also the interests of the young
men. -
We have about 1000 young electors in the
First ward and all that is required is for
the young men to unite with all other fair
minded citizens and elect the delegation pre-
sented by the caucus referred TO above to
the convention.
We ask you as one of these 1000 Young
men to pause and ask yourself what repre-
sentation has the First ward got in the gov
ernment of the city?" In years gone by we
have been. the staunch alies-the political
partners, If we may so put it, of the Repub-
llcan party in the other wards of the city re-
celvlng neither reward nor recognition SO
far-they appropriating the spoils of Office
and leaving the First ward in the lurch
Why has this been so? 1t so because we
nave been plant tools in the hands of in
capable men, .'old, selfish fossils. . who sought
political notoriety for themselves and at the
same time completely ignored the political
interests and influences of our party in the
ward and because the young men of the
ward have never before had the courage to
prepare ticket in opposition to the boss
ticket. We ask you If you are going to per-
NIT this condition of affairs to continue The
remedy Tor reformation is in your hands, use
1t while you have the opportunity, turn the
old bosses down and out, let new blood
take the field and we will see what they will
do we nave among the young men of our
ward, enlightened, capable and efficient poli-
ucians, competent to fill any political office
or take seat in any of the public boards of
the city. In the latter we have no represent
ative from the First ward Take the school
board for instance, about SEQ teachers and
other employees are under its supervision.
Consider the immense advantage il would he
TO the young ladies Of the ward had we
representative on it. The board of fire COM
mlssloners in like manner, what importance
1t would be to the young men of our party
in the ward had we representative there
There would then be some prospects of obtain
ing positions in the department for some OF
our strong, brave young men from the First
Then there is the water board with about
200 men in its employ, the board of public
works with the entire street force under it's
control, the park board with about 100 EN-
ployes the board of control and others with
no representative from the First ward nor
has there been for the past eight years nor
will there be for the next coming eight wears
unless something is done to turn out the old
bosses. Do you not think it more than
time that something should be done to remedy
this most unsatisfactory state of affairs?
We are but plain working people in the
First ward, nevertheless each mans vote
counts one just the same as our aristocratic
then, demand that in the future we shall
share in the results of the victories of the
party as well as suffer in their defeats We
as young men, having the interest of the
ward at heart, earnestly request that you vote
the aforementioned ticket at the primaries
and VIII hand same to other Republicans
with the request that they do the same.
II every young man will only take upon
himself the duty of attending the primaries,
no matter how inclement the weather NAV be-
and OF seeing that other young men do the
same the First ward will be represented in
the convention by a live, active and en-
thusiastic delegation, which will be credit
to the ward and party Respectfully yours,
Chag; 4; finehout John Lindon,
A. Il. Perry, C.. r. West
r. M. Rogers, Albin Hedin
c. L.. Schneider, VIM. Mohaupt
- amin -. oHuIIH, D. H. I1arU,
Chas V. Mobery, Otto ]. Troseth,
Henry Nef. A. w. Whitney
Chas j. Emerson, E. A. MoelIer
X. G. Anderson, David Hammergren.
G. H. Blodgett, David Wallblom.
Theo. Mueller,
Members Executive Committee Young Mems
Republican Club. First Ward.
Magnus Norman, president
r. G. Wagner, first vice president
Albert Shogren, second vice president,
John w. Finehout, secretary,
o. H. Nelson, treasurer
Members Ex-ohicio.