The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
DORIAN HAS NOT CHANGED.

venture from the record to act the part
ward between the morning and the
evening organs Of the city hall as to
whether or not Mayor Doran has, so
to speak, suffered a sea change into
something rich and strange" The
evening leahet asserts that Mr.. Doran
is going to make all his appointments
on the strict basis OF partisan Repub-
licanism. He is going to clean out every
member Of a board who Is a Demo-
crat and put in, not a Repub-
lican of broad-gauge business prin-
ciples, but such a Republican as will
see that every subordinate position,
down to the lowest clerkship, is hand
ed over to Republican worker. This,
contends the Dispatch, is the PROPOSE
ton on which Mr.. Doran was elected,
and in carrying it out he will fulfill
his pledges and win the approval and
support of all the Republican voters.
The morning apologist reads Mr..
Doran daily lecture that seems to be
framed more in sorrow than in anger.
1t expresses the hope, which 1t does
not feel, that the mayor will maintain
the conduct of the several departments
of the city government on the business
basis upon which they were placed by
Democratic administrations; that, If he
makes changes, he will make them with
q view to having the public service
partisan change and division of the
spoils. This, it insists, is the under
stood platform upon which he was
chosen, and it affects to believe that he
will not insult the party sentiment or
violate certain implied pledges by con-
strary action. The stern test of fact
supplied by the conduct Of the last
municipal campaign, from the Repub-
lican nominating convention to the last
day Of the canvass, supports the posi-
ton of the Dispatch, and every action
Of Mr.. Doran since he went into the
mayors office is in harmony with it.
Among the charges that we have to
make against the present executive Of
the city, and they are not few in num-
Der, does not lie that of being incon-
sistent with himself or his party. He
was nominated as a leader of spoilsmen
1t was for that reason that he secured
the nomination over competitors who
were acknowledged to be better suited
to the Office. Even his supporters
scarcely went SO far as to pretend that
he possessed fitness for the place. They
maintained simply that he was
Republican, and should
be elected as a Republican in order
be administered in the interest of the
Republican party. That was Mayor
Doran's platform and was the spirit of
his campaign. That has been the guild
ing star Of his official action.
In doing what he now proposes to do,
in packing the various boards with po-
litical heelers who will see to 1t that
competent men are turned out and their
places filled by those who will work
for the denomination of Mr.. Doran and
the success Of the party at the coming
spring election, he does nothing unex-
pected or inharmonious with his person
al character or his party's aims. 1t suits
certain representatives of that party to
assume upon occasion an air Of high
moral virtue, that they may retain. If
possible, the support of lot of befool-
ed voters, who mean we'll and need
to have their eyes bandaged tenderly
at each recurring election, with the
soft pretense that Republicanism
means something else than a race for
the spells.
The nomination and election of such
a man as Doran made this not only i'm
possible, but absurd. He Is acting &C
cording to the light within him, which
is a sordid tallow dip, but he is none
the more culpable for that. In fact, he
is somewhat more respectable figure
at this moment. plainly and brutally
affirming the spoils system principle
and uttering contempt for good govern
ment, than he would be If he assumed
the pbarisaical robe and mien and at
tempted to play at the same time to
the gallery gods and the orchestra
chairs. Doran is himself. We all know
what that means. Let there be no con-
fusion Of issues. but a strict decision
next time whether he is the sort of
thing that st. Paul wishes in it's execu-
tive office; and whether Republicanism,
meaning the entire subversion of mu-
nicipal government to the urgent needs
of the party, is the ideal system which
our voters are determined to perpet-
uate.
A CASE AGAINST THE sCALPERs.
Those who favor the passage by con-
gress Of an anti-scalpers' bill, prohibit
ing absolutely the dealing by private
individuals in the unused portions of
railroad tickets, will find a powerful
argument in their support in the en-
barrassing situation of couple Of peo-
Die who reached st. Paul day or two
ago. They were On their bridal trip,
having gone from the Pacific coast