The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-05

in its columns of Aug. 20, 1897. Here
1T is-all of that report which has any
bearing on the subject
Says the Dispatch report:
"Assemblyman Johnson indicated
that he did not understand nor like
the criticisms OF the ordinance by the
citizens before the board of aldermen
when 1t was up before that body on
Wednesday evening" Mr.. Johnson
WAS ON THE COMMITTEE THAT
DRAFTED THAT ORDINANCE; and
the criticisms against it inclined him
to the belief that 1t had not been drawn
in accordance with the wishes of the
&C mmittee Speaking further in this
strain, Mr.. johnson said: ''Mr AL
brecht (another Republican, and /
agreed that THE FAST CARS ON
THE INTERURBAN LINE WOULD
PRESENT PRESCRIBED SPEED
AND THAT NO CHANGE SHOULD
BE MADE In THE PRESENT SERV-
ICE ON THAT LINE. I understand
that in discussing the objections to the
ordinance before the beard Of aldermen,
there were men who objected and
howled like ward heelers."
Is this the language of man who
didn't favor the placing Of four tracks
on University avenue? He and Mr.
A1brecht agreed. Agreed to What?
That there should not be four tracks?
Not at all. These words mean, if they
mean anything, that they agreed that
there should be four tracks. OF course,
'Eilly" tries to hide behind Albrecht.
But he and Albrecht agreed. What
did they agree to as a matter Of fact?
Why, they agreed shat the fast cars
on the irterurban should not run faster
| than the present cars" Now, how
could Billy agree to anything Of this
kind unless it was decided beforehand
that there should be fast cars?" And
how could there be fast cars" unless,
aus the ordinance provided there should
be two additional tracks to run them
on? Now, let Billy answer, who is
lying? The Democrats? Billy him
self, or 'Billy's' organ"
But there's more of that report. City
Attorney Markham did not propose to
have his sacred honor impeached by
Billy, and he had something to say.
The Dispatch report then goes on to
tell what happened further. Here Is
the balance of the report:
City Attorney Markham interrupted to say
that the ordinance did not prescribe a great
er rate Of speed than that on the interurban
line. Assemblyman Johnson said: Then
this makes me think that they howled at
something they didn't know anything about.
| 1t was understood that we were to have the
same service as at present on the slow in
terurban cars. l wantsto say that there are
some things in the ordinance that l didn't
like at first, but I don't understand that 1t
is open to the objections urged by the cit-
zens who spoke the other night"
And, so, Billy's objection fell dead
right there. The only objection he ever
urged, or pretended to urge-for it was
the rankest kind of tricky pretense-
was that the fast cars" to be run
on the two additional tracks that the
ordinance provided for, might be run
faster, under the ordinance, than the
present cars are run. And when Mark
ham pointed out to him that the ordi-
nance provided that. they should not,
| then Billy" could see nothing in the
objections of the citizens to the four
track scheme, but the hoWlings of ward
heelers. Billy is q pretty good heller
himself, it is acknowledged, but he is
of different class to those who howled
on this memorable occasion, when the
four-track scheme was buried, how
ever, to be resurrected. AS the in
famous four-track ordinance never
came to a vote, Billy, OF course, was
denied the ineffable pleasure Of voting
against it.
But Billy even went further than his
organs report would indicate. AT that
meeting there was present Mr.. Louis
Nash among other citizens, and Mr..
Nash used this language in the pres
L
Eighth ward are In favor. Of the present
service on the interurban. have found
none of the business men of that ward
who were in favor of the stand taken by
Mr.. Johnson, who announced that there
was no opposition to the ordinance. -
This was surely plain enough for Billy
Why didn't he get up then and try and
square himself by saying he was not
In favor Of the ordinance? Why did
IA wait for fffnpn hG after and
until he was a candidate for county
office, to declare that "the Democrats
lied and they knew they lied when
they said that he was in favor of the
ordinance placing four tracks on Uni
versity avenue.
Billy is known to be quite foxy,
but he is not foxy enough to get away
from his record here. He was in favor
Of that four track scheme and he
knows he was. and he was member
of the committee who drew the or,
dinanee UP. The people of the Eighth
ward know he was and know that he
sought to sell them out to the street
| car concern. And so they're after"
Billy, and they will stay after him I'm,
til they have put an end to his Jack
in-the-boX -yOu-see-me; now-you-
don t-see-me" career as a statesman.
A Republican. attorney general has
declared his conviction that this street
| car concern, in whose interest every
official act of Johnson was given, in
all that related to local regulation and
control of the monopoly, is escaping
taxation to the seXtent of thousands OF
dollars annually. Lest it should ever
be compelled to pay it's share of the
public burdens Fof Ramsey county in
the next two years, it is now sought to
elect this man Johnson as auditor, and,
moreover, to do it in the face Of the
existing deal, that if he is elected Bill
Ames will be the next county assessor.
Then, indeed, will the street car con-
Germ, the organ and the Republican
combine have a man at the head Of the
taxing department Of city and county
that will see that no harm will come
to the great corporation which now
rules the roost in local Republican
politics, should the people demand that
it pay it's just proportion of taxes
The Major.
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