The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-04
LATEST n BEST.

The latest performance OF Mayor
Doran is perhaps the best Of the show.
He has exhausted all the possibilities
that lie dormant in the term "chump."
He has actually outdone himself, and
one cannot suppress a chuckle as he
imagines the concealed feelings and the
suppressed profanity of the Republi-
cans of st. Paul, who put this beety
thing into the mayors office. He. has
attempted to secure the arrest OF City
Engineer Rundlett for discharging a
relative of his from a position in the
engineers department. That is what
it amounts to, and the details of the
performance are sue as to prevent
the possibility of any question about
its meaning. The sight Of the mayor
of a great city declaring open war
against the head of a department
and c~onspiring to create a scandal
against him because he declined any
longer to be a partner in nepotism, is
a little strong even for st. Paul under
its present regime.
The facts seem to be that Mr.. Rund-
lett was constrained, by what necessity
the public is left to imagine, to appoint
the mayors sons father-in-law, or
some other such distant and mixed-up
relative, a street commissioner. The
appointee being unsatisfactory to his
chief, he was discharged last Saturday.
This raised, in the Granny Of the ex-
ated in ordinary individuals, a perfect
tempest of wrath. Regardless OF the
ridicule that it would draw upon him,
regardless Of anything but the desire
for revenge h a dominates stupid AMI
NAL organisms, he proceeded, in his
way, to make it hot for MIR. Rundlett.
1t appears that the city engineer was
authorized some tim ago tc sell GER
tain old material belonging to the city
and urn over the proceeds to the pub
lie treasury. Having received $100 Of
the amount and left it to the city
comptroller 20 be placed to the credit
of the fund where it belonged, he. was
informed that Mr.. McCardy declined to
make that proper disposition of it and
nae views of his own. When, there
fore, the remaining $50 was paid in,
Mr.. Rundlett placed it in a envelope in
his desk until it could be applied where
it belonged. This fact being known to
tho diS0hl rCro0 nrnn1nUo hn ond h;c
relative, Mayor Doran, e~ndeavored to
secure a warrant for the city engineers
arrest. In the absence of the county
attorney there is a trife of intelligence
rant, consequently, was not secured,
and Doran and Carroll are now playing
the part of baf1ed conspirators who
have been baked of a dreadful re-
venge.
But what a humiliation it is for a
community, as a punishment for it's
political sins, to have to acknowledge
as it's chief executive officer a man
so petty. narrow, stupid, vindictive and
insensible alike to the demands of de-
cency upon himself or the shouts of in
extinguishable laughter from others. as
to engage in this performance. Were
it not that all of us share this morti-
flying public experience. it would be
with unmixed hilarity that we tender
to our esteemed friends who are re-
sponsible for the present mayor the as
surance of our sympathetic considera-
ton. No offense of which a man can
be guilty justiies a punishment so Sc
we're as to twit him with his support of
Doran and McCardy.