The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-17

different action by an expression of the
will of the people.
There is no time to be lost. The law
provides that the charter commission
when appointed may have six months
in which to frame a new instrument
of government. That time is none too
long. If the commission were TO be Sc
lected by the first of the coming
month, it would be Jam. 1, 1898, before
it sent it's report to the mayor, and
all the time intervening between that
and the spring election would be none
too long for the thorough discussion
that ought to precede such important
action by cur citizens as the adoption
or rejection of a charter. If the DO
nothings of the city council and the
officeholders, h have their ear, post
they will secure such delay as u
put over the adoption of a charter until
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the spring election will have disposed
of the offices for two years to come
and prevented any release from u
present difficulty or any proper econo-
mics in government. This is the
scheme, and the people must act if
they would thwart it. Fortunately, the
law gives them the opportunity. 1t
provides that, in the event Of On-ac
ton by the council, the charter commits
sion shall be appointed just the same
by the judges pom petition of s per
cent of the qualified voters of the city,
as shown by the last election returns.
What the people have to do, then, is
to sign such petitions and present them
to the judges of the district court, in
order that charter reform may pro-
coed 20 their W initiative.
This is what will be done. Petitions
are already in existence and being cir
culated among the people, and we urge
most earnestly upon all who believe in
the progress and development OF ST.
Paul to sign the demand for a new
charter. The Globe furnishes this
morning, on it's first page, a form Of
the petition to be used. Let every
man who loves his city and wants to
work for it sign this petition himself
and urge it upon his friends. These
petitions will be presented freely to
voters of ST. Paul, but any reader of
the o who will cut out the cou-
pom form published today, which will
be kept standing for some time to
come, and sign his name and address,
will be visited by those who are can
vassing, in order to secure his sigma
ture to the formal document. Now is
the chance for the voters Of st. Paul
to express their will through the
Globe. Lei every man who believes
in home rule, who loves our public
school system, who wants charter re-
form, who desires to see proper econo-
mics put in force and start the city
moving more rapidly toward its des-
tiny, declare himself for a new charter
by signing his name to this coupon
q md M Him o. it TO 4hO O1;+Oc &c H.
Globe.
A copy Of the petition blank will be
on hand at all times at the front coun~
ter in the e counting room, and
there the friends of the new charter
movement may record their names. Let
everybody turn to and help with a
will, and it will not be many DAYS be-
fore the necessary number of sigma
lures is affixed and charter reform will
go forward by petition, whether the
council is willing to act or not. Only
in this way can our future be made Sc
cure. Only in this way are we certain
of the advantages of home rule. Petit
ton for a new charter and do not de-
lay. Let us I'VE a popular vote that
will secur a new charter as conserv-
ative as the present with regard to ex-
penditure, but fitted to the needs of
a great and growing city. Sign the
petitions, send in the coupons, and the
Globe will see that your will finds
expression.