The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-25

of Ramsey, has furnished this family
a delightful income for so many years
that the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary. When Gates Sr. was
fired out of his almost life tenure of
the office of inspector of buildings the
family running was at once taken up
by Gates Jr, and it has been made
quite successfully since. The parasitic
instinct is strong in that quarter. Of
flee is thought of for revenue only.
One Office is as good as another and
good deal better, according to it's
emolumentS. The Johnson family IS
TO be provided for. 1t matters not
how; 1t is only a question of how we'll.
Mr. Irvine, the Democratic candidate,
is a capable, upright gentleman skilled
in his calling and respected by all who
know him. He is not a chronic office
seeker or officeholder of the order of
the Johnson family. There are few
men in the city in his calling, or out
OF 1t, who are better or more widely
known. The only test which he seeks
to apply to his aspiration to be city
surveyor is the one of personal and
official fitness. His success, which at
this writing is absolutely assured will
result in the destruction of one of the
most scandalous cases of nepotism and
professional and family officeholding
ever imposed on the city
The complete Identification of the
effort of the Republican local candi-
oates to degrade the judicial bench to
the level of their corrupt politics is
creating the worst havoc among the
republican outfit. 1t is the feature
of their campaign. 1t is doing more
than any enc single circumstance to
show the utter, unprincipled greed of
office which lies at the bottom of the
the one man who above all others is
recognized as the responsible for drag
Slng the bench of Ramsey county into
the strife of politics, is the chisf Re-
publican wind-jammer. Never heard
of before in Republican politics, he is
now the leading orator in a l the al
legged rallies of the G. o. P He is the
head and front of every one of the r
public demonstrations If the Repub-
lcan campaign had any head, ard that
head had any brains, Mr.. Johnston
would be kept in careful retirement.
But the fight which the ofice-r gliding
trust Of the city hall is putting up IS
by no means an inactive one There
Is but one elevator now IN operation in
the county court house. The municipal
court adjourns in the forenoon of each
day. George Gerlich and Ed Parish,
and their glorious band Of GpiitOon su-
pernunarieS, the authors of whose Off
cial existence are Billy Johnson and
Mayor Kiefer, have dispensed with the
poor formality of visiting the CITY hall
daily. Their services as statesmen are
now in demand TO the exclusion of all
their other faculties for public useful
reSS. The KieferVerein is looking for
1ncreas Ell power and Vindcation. When
Bill Ames Is made county assessor a
great deal will have been accomplished
in that direction Billy will then be
the head of the county government,
as the colonel is OF the city govern
ment; and the machine will have an
American as we'll as a German head
on it.
On only two Democratic legislative
candida ties is the fight being seriously
Waged row. The rotten record of Re-
publican legislation affecting Ramsey
county has done it's work. John Ives,
for senator and A. L. Graves, for rep
resentative, are looked upon as the
only Democratic candidates whom it
is worth while making a fight on.
John O'COnnor, w. B. Hennessy, Tom
Martin, Judge Cory and all the other
candidates for the house outside of the
First ward are ccncededly winners,
while in tie s. material campo: gl
the chance of defeating the
Democrats Is becoming expression
of mere rainbOw-chasing. A des-
perate effort is found how
ever, necessary, to prevent the humi-
liating defeat of Sheehan, and the Sec
ond ward is being drummed from one
end to the other in the effort to over
come the tremendous majority, which
will be rolled up against Tim among
his neighbors in the other section Of
his senatorial district. But Timothy's
days are ended as a Republican states
man; and. pitiful as it is to relate, his
fate is not being mourned to any visible
extent among the leading Republicans
Of the community. The Major.