The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-30
Irish And His FIGHT
TALK OF HAVING CHAPEL DENY
THAT HE Is TO BE
DEPUTY
MIGHT BE ON THE PAY ROLL
1t Is Not New Trick to Garry Dep
uties for Other Purposes Than
Securing Warrants-SOmeth
About the DespOtIc Rule of the
Republican Gang Now Holding
County Offices.

Local Democrats are jubilant over the
fact that the Dispatch has practical
ly given up hope of pulling through
any of its ticket except Chapel and
Irish 1t is perfectly evident that the
evening organ of the Plunderbund sees
the handwriting on the wall, and that
it is only figuring on the money that
the Chapel crowd can put into the
shrieValty fight to save one office for
the Republicans. They figure that with
Irish to make out the sheriff's bills
that one office would be, as it was
when Chapel was in before, a sufficient
feeding ground for the whole hungry
brood.
But they are beginning to see that
fl is hopeless fight. The people have
been so Outspoken in their determine
ton to head off the reorganization of
the old Chapel Warner-Irish syndicate
that at a meeting Of the committee
yesterday it was decided that Chapel
must publish some kind of statement
to the effect that he was not member
of the firm That Chapel would in
stantly obey orders and thus confess
himself a political Jonah goes without
saying, if the committee and the cir
cumstances demanded it.
1t may not be as prOund a position
as some men occupy, but it is better
than being without a meal ticket for
the next two years and, if Chapel
swears he will not be a deputy in the
office it will not change the complexion
of affairs very much. He would not be
the first deputy who drew a salary
without ever being in the Office. Dur
ing the session of the legislature which
Knocked out the salary law there
We're two men on the pay roll who
never worked an hour in the office, or
oil in hn lnh Inv ~
the legislature. One of them is now
doing the politics for the paper which
is booming the Chapel-IriSh ticket, and
the other is running for the house of
representatives on the Republican tic
ket. If Chapel and Irish should be
elected again they want more help in
the legislature.
Never in the history of Ramsey coun-
ty was there a more irOn-clad or de-
SpOtiC government than now exists; the
county ruled in the interest of each and
every one a Republican. No Democrats
tolerated. Scrub women even have
been discharged; old soldiers dischar-
ged. Every elevator and janitOr en-
ploye must swear allegiance to the Re
publican party no matter what their
merits. The same thing exists through
the whole list.
In the county auditors Office absolute
despCtism exists.
County treasurer's Office the same.
Not a man in it a Democrat.
In the register Of deeds office you
could no more get employment, no
matter what your competency, with
out the password of Republicanism.
The same is true of the assessors
office. 1t must be a Republican clerk
who will write the figures opposite the
assessment.
The clerk of court office is political
nnachine--organized disciplined framed.
Politicians for deputies selected with
care from every ward in the city for
their influence with respect to nOmi-
nations and election. Every deputy in
the clerks office must raise his hand
in fealty first to Ed Rogers, and then
to the Republicans.
County commissioners with power TO
employ clerks do so, considering first
their politics.
Take the county surveyors office
Poor D. L. Curtice, for ten or twelve
years county surveyor, not drawing
over $3.50 a year for his services, when
sen, senior and junior, S., GOO to S., 900 a
year and no roads to survey.
Receivers appointed for various in
stitutions with fat salaries, all Repub-
HCans. The Lightners and Seymours,
of the Bank of Minnesota, the Sey-
nc urs and the Indexes, of Woods
Harvester works; Tim Sheehan, re-
ceiver of Billy Bickel, and Congress-
man Stevens bank with a salary of
whatever he can obtain.
So you could go all down the list.
Isn't it awful?
Isn't it time to change things?