St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-25
r.. j. COYNE DECLINES TO MAKE
THE RACE FOR COMP
TROLLER,
WHICH WILL HELP BEAUMONT.
JURIsT J.,S HOPES RAISED ONLY
TO BE CAST TO THE
GROUND.
REARDoN's sun IS SETTING ALSO.
the Action of the Convention
That Nominated Him.

]. J. McCardy's day as bookkeeper- -jurist-
autocrat will end on the first Tuesday in
June This has been a certainty since Judge
Kelly read him lecture from the bench ex-
actly in line with a previous lecture of the
same tenor delivered by Judge Kerr. Yes
terday all doubt removed. when R. ].
Coyne. Peoples party candidate for comp
troller, wrote the following letter:
M. E. Murray Chairman; j. w. Douglas
Secretary. and Delegates to the Peoples
Party onvention-Gentlemen: While appre-
L was nominated by the Peoples party con-
yention, held Monday, April 20, for the hon
orabie position of city comptroller, l beg to
Allow me to sincerely thank all those who
gave me such kindly consideration. Respect
fully, r. j. Coyne
Mr.. Coyne is president of the local barbers
union, and is generally popular and respected
among a wide circle of acquaintances.
When. therefore, he was nominated by the
Peoples party convention, the cold comp
troller and his friends were elated What
had seemed like certain election for Joseph
1. Beaumont was thus made doubtful. Mr..
Coyne was expected to capture enough votes
from Beaumont to allow McCardy to slip in
But Mr.. Coyne is in full sympathy with the
public desire to retire the autocrat, because
of his shabby treatment of the policemen ana
fremen, and his costly blunders on general
principles. So he saw no better way to
evince this sympathy and his dislike of Nc
Cardy's policy than by declining to enter
the field against Mr.. Beaumont. This he
does in the above letter, which will bring sad
ness to the heart of the much assuming pres
ent bookkeeper of the city.
Mr.. Coyne's letter assures the solid union
labor vote for Mr.. Beaumont the courteous,
competent and obliging Democratic candidate,
who is as able as he is modest.
Republicans and Democrats alike approved
the action of the G o b e yesterday in pub
fishing Timothy Reardon's record in the as
stmbly. This was especially the case with
the city and county officials, who know Rear
don and who have often noted his unseemly
behavior and boorish conduct in the council
chamber. One Republican city official, who
attends nearly every meeting of the assembly,
said:
while 1 shall vote the Republican ticket
in the main, under no circumstances could
bring myself to vote for Reardon. No Re-
publican regrets more than I do the mistake
OF the convention in renominating this man.
He is a disgrace to the Republican party.
For the life of me 1 cannot understand how
any man in possession of his senses can
cast his vote for this boor. 1t is a mystery
to ME how a Republican campaign speaker
can recommend Reardon to the people, as I
heard one of them do at the Seventh ward
meeting Thursday night That speaker knew
he was not telling the truth. He knows too
well what Reardon really is. He is we'll ac-
quainted with Reardon's record from the time,
he built that county poorhouse until the pres
ent day. 1t is time that this fiction, to the
of 1of poor rdO Go tn, %f,o
rough, should be branded as such and 1 for
one, am glad to see the G o. b e come out
with the truth, for the common law says that
no man is entitled to a reputation superior to
the character he really possesses"
CONSERVATION took possession of the Re-
publican city committee yesterday. The
G o b e expose of the character of Do
rams campaign workers made the commit
teemen very nervous. But the effect reached
even further than the Republican city COM
mittee and the Dispatch tried to weaken the
force of it by the statement that Red Grit
fin is leading quiet life. "Griff" isn't built
that way, and the Republican managers and
police know it. Why the evening organ
should specially champion this mans cause,
and picture him thus, is beyond the compre-
hension Of men who know him, unless they
admit, as is alleged, that he Is in the en-
ploy of tho Republican committee. The state
mcnt that he "has not been out Of the city
during the past three years. is also incorrect.
Where he has been, and what he has been
doing is only known to "Griff." The very
night he arrived in town a G O b e reporter
heard a crowd of acquaintances greeting him
| and inquiring: when did you get back,
| Griff?"
1t was not because Weber, Griffin Miller,
Burnane the Pinkertons, and the disappoint-
ed gamblers and discharged policemen amount
| to anything that the G / O b names them as
| Doran workers." but simply to keep re-
| spectacle people well informed as to the
! character of the men who have been en-
! ployed to aid in the effort to elect Doran and
/ McCardy.
! Somebody must have told the political
prophet that there is no opposition ticket in
the field in either ward.
Still no mention of Horst in the Repub-
| lican papers, except yesterday they said he
| had been sick but is now out again. Even
Doran is getting the cold shoulder. McCardy
| is the special candidate to whom all infu-
cree is being thrown now, especially since
4 r. ]. Coyne has refused to accept the Peo-
pies party nomination for comptroller.
The following communication was refused
publication In the Dispatch:
| st. Paul. April 49, 1S96.-Editor Dispatch
| Sir Wnlle heartily In 1aFOF or pr0nlD1ti0n,
| l have never cast my lot with the Pro-
hibition party, as / cannot subscribe to a
great many of it's dogmas, and my first feel
ing on hearing that Prohibition ticket had
| been nominated was one Of sincere regret,
| for the friends of Mr.. Doran had assured
me that he would enforce the laws, as the
platform of his party pledged him to do,
and on this account l fully intended to vote
for him, the most ardent Prohibitionist
cannot do more than it hoped he would
do-enforce the laws as he finds them. But
on reading his declaration to the committee
who waited on him to ascertain his views,
cannot see where any middle ground can
be found. How can man who believes
that the law should be enforced vote for one
who states that he will not enforce it? OF
course if my vote alone were concerned, 1t
| would be a matter Of such small Importance
as not to warrant my trespassing on your
space but there are a great many voters
light, and we shall be classed as cranks and
charged with electing Mr.. Cullen, Candidly
I think it is quite possible that the loss OF
the vote of those who believe in the enforce
ment of law may defeat Mr.. Doran, but lei
the blame fall where 1t belongs. If the
liquor interest is to dominate the Republi-
can party, and for fear of offending 1t the
nominees Of last Saturdays convention &c
back on their platform within q week of its
announcement, let them abide the coase-
Quences. The most vital principle involved
is that of enforcement of law in the abstract
the next, enforcement Of the liquor laws, and
the candidate who is found wanting on these