St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-23
AN EXTRAORDINARY CAMPAIGN.

The campaign which the managers
OF the Republican machine in this city
are making Is one of the most extra
ordinary known to history. 1t Is also
one Of the most disgraceful. The party
runners are working along two distinct
lines, each having its territory mapped
out and the men whom it is to see
apportioned One side Of the workers
approach business men and those who
are sensitive on the subject Of the OBJ
servance of law and order with the
statement that Mr.. Doran belongs to
the ranks Of the rigidly righteous.
They are asked to look at his record,
at his utterances in the past and at
his well-known attitude, and rest con-
fident that If he should be elected ST.
Paul will be bottled up so tight that
its own citizens will not recognize it.
There will be, these gentlemen assure
their hearers, a new regime of the
| severer sort, in which every law and
ordinance, however it may bear on the
individual, will be enforced, and ev-
cry person who does not come UP to
its prescribed standard of virtue will
be ordered to leave town within twen-
ty-four hours.
This is not, however, the most act
i've branch Of the campaign, nor are
the workers in it the most enthusiastic.
The intensest activity is to be found
among the heelers, several times as
numerous, who are making the most
thorough canvass Of the saloons that
was ever made in st. Paul. They are
going from one public house to another
assuring all whom they find there,
on their honor, that Mr.. Doran is a
man Of most liberal views, and that his
administration as mayor would be sig
nalized by a distinctly "wide open" pol
icy. They point to his answer to the
Prohibitionists' committee Of inquiry
as evidence that he would enforce the
laws only so far as he should find it
consistent with his interests to do so.
A hint is dropped that the administra-
ton would have at least one blind eye
on the gambling side, that the nickel
in-the-slot business might be resumed
with profit, and that all those who want
the laxest administration of the law
should give their support to the Re-
publican nominee.
What Mr.. Doran actually stands for
as far as these two sets of issues are
concerned, nobody knows or ever will
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himself. He represents a demand for
the offices. The men who are hustling
for him represent hunger and thirst
They are after the spoils, and do not
care much how they get them. They
are perfectly willing, if votes can be
had by 1t, to guarantee either an ad-
ministration of a darker and deeper
shade Of blue than Connecticut of the
olden time, or a revelry Of unlicensed
law-breaking such as this city never
knew in its worst state. When peo-
pie attempt to run engines in op-
posite directions on the same track at
the same time, there is sure to be a
smash-up. The two sections Of the
Doran campaign are already beginning
to collide. Whatever may be a mans
views Of the proper policy to be pur-
sued in municipal government, he is
shocked and disgusted with the hypoc-
risy and falsehood that promises to
be all things to all men. The voters
Of the city are already getting on to
the inwardness Of the Republican cam
paign. and are ashamed and angered
at its utter absence of honesty and
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