The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-12

Tho morning organ of the Dordn OUT
g. ,.;sos 70 axnlain the ground on which
- and its party expect to ask con-
donation of their offenses against Soou
Government for the past TWO years
The desperateness of their strait ana
the NAUGHTY Of their imagination can
he understood when we find that they
have no other appeal to the voter than
the ancient, silly, fiat and unprolitdoi0
CIV of the gang" This has done val
ned service in several municipal cam
naians but it is like the bloody shirt
in national politics. 1t is played out
It has ceased to brighten anybody
Having been used until it became an
abslIrdity. the attempted employment
of it now simply advertises the lack,
On the part Of Republicans, of any is
sue on which they can ask either for
giveness or support, and any valid ar
el1rnent with which they can meet a
united Democracy When you talk
''the gang to a voter of st. Paul to-
day. he simply laughs at you, as he
would if you were to ask him to vote
for the Republican national ticket on
account of Eliza PinkstOn. 1t was a
very good bugaboo and most excellent
fooIine while it lasted, but it has fallen
into irretrievable ruin. If the Repub-
licaas of this city are relying upon
that false and foolish cry to help them
cut of their predicament this time, as
it has done before, they are destined
to severe disappointment,
That this is the programme laid out
for them by their morning organ is
made conspicuously clear. Harmoni-
ously enough, it's editorial statement Of
the situation smacks of the grave and
has the odor of the cerements about it.
The people of st. Paul are referred to
the events of ten, fifteen or twenty
years ago; wherein we find apprecia-
ton of the fact that they cannot be re-
ferred to the events of the last two
years without being obliged to hold
their noses over Republican maladmin-
istration. We have the old stories Of
was that debt created, and who were
responsible for it? Our Republican
contemporary was at that time right il
the front rank of those who were clam
oring for the very expenditures that
made this Indebtedness necessary. 1t
is of little moment now to ask whether
the expenditures made in the boom
period for public improvements in St
Paul were or were not made wisely
The thing is done and cannot be I'M
done. 1t is the climax Of impudence
however for those who took a leading
part in the authorization of the bills to
try at this late date to throw upon
others the responsibility. For every dol
lar of the bonded debt there was the
sanction of Republican members of the
legislature and of the common council,
and the urgent plea of the organ it
self. One would think that a sense of
shame would prevent it, in view of
the performances of the present ad-
ministration, of its own kidney and
after its own heart, from referring to
contributions levied" on places and
industries of evil repute Never in the
worst days that this city has known
was there anything to approach in
shamelessness the circumstances at
tending the removal to upper Third
street of a portion OF it's present popu-
lation. All that has ever been re-
ported by Republican partisans of that
vague and mythical creature known
as the gang stops short, in the
coarse. vulgar and stupid grasping for
petty plumber, of the record that has
been made in St. Paul since the sum-
mer of 1896.
AS for the reduction that has been
made in the city debt, every well-in-
formed person knows what even the
organ must know. that it has been
made under the provisions of our city
charter, for which no one party is re-
sponsible; and which would have OPP
Grated, and did operate, precisely the
same under Democratic as under Re
publican auspices. The debtpaying
process has been going forward under
one party government as under the