The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-28
CANNOT STAND LIGHT
CIOsER YOU INSPECT THE RE
PUBLICAN TICKET THE WORSE
1T GETS
BILLY JOHNs0NS HARD ROW

| A Little easy Money" Campaign
That VIII End Like All the
Others-Some Interesting Items
From the ST. Paul Dispatch of a
/ Few Weeks AgO-Campatgn of
the Gang.
Discussing the county convention OF
it's party the day after that remarkable
body was held, the evening organ OF
the cheap grafters' and Of the street
car corporation was not in as placid
frame Of mind as it has pretended to
be since. 1t used this language: 1t is
altogether objectionable that the last
act of that convention should have
been It's worst"
The last act of that convention was
the nomination of Gerhard Willrich for
the office of judge Of the district court
of the Second judicial district. That
act, being in it's judgment worse than
the nomination of BILLY" Johnson;
worse than the nomination Of Charley
Chapel through hts fgurehead, George
Irish; worse even than the nomination
of the kindergarten" lawyer, Horace
even in the estimation Of those who are
responsible for the confidence game
which the organ has so long success
fully worked, of pretending to favor
the public interest in its political posi-
ton.
Of course the organ is not
supporting Judge Wllrich. It pre-
tends to support him; but it deceives
no one. 1t certainly does not deceive
fudge Willrich or Judge Wfllrich's
friends They make no bones about
denouncing the organ and that FAC
ton of the Republican outfit which 1t
Immediately represents. They say they
are not going to be slaughtered in the
h0rse of their professed friends with
cut having their revenge. And they
will not. Meanwhile Jaggards friends
are allowing no grass to grow under
their feet They still keep up their
threat. that if the Kieferverein is go
ing to leave their man out in the co q
in the polling booth they will not be
far behind in the same game. This is
the way this scrap Is going to end
among the grafters, while the decent,
arlti-machine Republicans, who are
disguised with the action Of that con-
vention in dragging the judiciary
through the mire Of their beer and
Doodle campaign, are determined to
dc the only decent thing to be done In
the premises, vote for the two men for
Judge, of whose moral and intellectual
fitness no question has been raised,
Judge Bum and J. c. Michael From
all present indications Mr.. Michael Will
not be far behind Judge Bum In the
running.
IT was in part g. protest and In part
a prophecy which inspired the evening
organ on the day or the memorable
sscannibal convention" at Market hall,
to nrint these words in its editorial
columns:
IF the Republican party through todays con-
vention shall turn deaf ear to the desire
of the people, leaving the Democratic conven-
ton a week later to learn the lesson or the
hour. it will be the Democratic ticket, and
not the Republican ticket that will receive
the popular vindication in November.
Who will deny that the convention
did turn deaf ear to the desire OF
the hour?" The organ does not pre-
tend that 1t did not 1t simply keeps
silent and endeavors to have it's own
sentiments on this score forgotten. 1t
did so in more respects than one. Was
II the deaf or sound ear that was turn
ed when BILLY" Johnson was nomi-
mated? Not, perhaps, in the estimation
of the organ or Of the street car mo-
nopoly. BILLY" stands all right with
the street car concern, and, at least to
that extent, with the organ. And why
should he not7 He was the author
and prime mover in endeavoring to
turn University avenue into a freight
road-bed for the Twin City Rapid
Transit company This Billy did,
too, after he was advised by his con-
stituents that they would have none Of
his scheming on behalf Of his corporate
client-after they had presented to him