The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-25

To the Editor Of the Globe:
For the period of tWenty-seven years
the American people have been told Of
has opened his mouth about the crime Of
In this memorable year our present
o!o99ptroinier, conn troll McCardy, was elected on
IN once up to the present date his Of
hc1al life has been an endless chain of
violations OF a charter under which the
Guy was supposed to extricate itself out
or an Indebtedness which the prerent po-
htical ring tells us is due to Democratic
eXtraYagance. But this 'extravagance"
was simply a natural public-spirited re-
spouse to the demands of a metropolitan
city, and was advocated and defended
Whi1e In progress by Democrats and Re
PuDhcans alike Bridges and school
houses were built, the finest water sys-
tenn In the country bought, an efficient
nre department instituted, all of which
are credit to our city.
What have our Republican offlceholderc
oone IN the line of permanent improve
ments? Lacking the spirit of the Demo-
crats, they considered 1t great thing
to pay off portion of our "extravagant6
expenditures, but failed to live up with
the times and effect necessary improve
mhents: 1hea Why, must the present generation,
opliged to pay. for improvements from
which our grandchildren and great grand
cLlioren Will draw the same benefit as we
te5 Vturs5lVes 90, Who-many OF us-have been
why not have clean streets sufficiently
large schools for our children and ali
i, requirements Iies to advanced conditions of
urban life, and let our posteritv bear a
portion Of the burden which presses MS
down to the ground? But that would he
eXtraVagance"-Dem extraya
poor house than let future generations
snare the burdens, who, in their turn
will share the benefits which s.DeTnn,, n,
epSatlc extravaganza" has imposed on our
Can You, Intelligent voter, understand
where the crime of '92 comes in? It was
9Meeasaoned MeSs one by electing ofceholders. Mr..
sons nave for these many wears hood
Wlnked the people and by Juggling tba
ngures nave made our citizens believe the
prosperous
| have before me Board File No. 1O917
Mnlch tha W. was pas passed by the council less
amounting eas go sse S Mhsr65g aad Segostea funds Is
the Allemannia bank, Of this CITY. We're m
settled for $4,000, although the bondsman
t were perfectly solvent, and Mr.. McCardy
had, previous to the passage of the ordf.
nance, openly so stated. Was not this
throwing away Of $1,000 of the cifv's
dunas aIV5 an, Next ,eXStrayagance, or maybe it was
Cicero: "Quousdue tandem ehi,tera W1eh C1on
snnaa sillna 9iMAcGardyl patieutia nostra?3 Re
sPSe.ctIul!y Pc. yours; "A Taxpayer.
st. Paul, April "a, 1900. -
That resort to demagogism and false
mood with which the newspaper organs
or the city hall gang started the RenIIh0
ican campaign is fast deyelonine The
qualities of a skillfully constructed boon1-
erang Having listened to all thew had In
say about ''the old gang" the average
voter and taxpayer is now showing. as.
the preceding communication indicates, a
disposition to inquire whether there is any
ahrmative reason whatever, that these
men or their newspapers can state. whv
they should not be kicked out of office
What good has the Republican admin
lstIat1on within the past four wears
brought to the city of ST. Paul? Have
the usual and indispensable occasions for
puplc outlay involved any less amount
Of OF the peoples money than they ever
did before? Has the police force with
its record Of criminal incompetence. cost
US less during the past four years than
at any time since the city reached it's
present proportion of population? Is
there single Office that was maintained
under Democratic administration that has
been abolished under Republican, or the
expense OF which has been materially re-
duced? There has been a great deal oP
talk about reform and retrenchrnent, hut
the city hall politicians have thus far
made 10 effort to point out where reform
or retrenchment has come in.
There has not been a single improve
ment of any permanent character in,
augurated at any time during the three
Republican administrations which have
prevailed in st. Paul. Everything we
have in the form of a public utility from
the court house to the sewer, has been
designed and created and paid for under
a Democratic administration
The one item of the city water works
alone, bought under a Democratic ad-
ministration, from private corporation,
and paid for, could be sold back today at
the figure largely exceeding the entire
debt about which such a howl has been
made, and guarantee be given by the
purchaser that not a dollar more would be
eXacted from the consumers of water
than is paid by them at the present mo-
ment.
Under Democratic administrations the
city of st. Paul has donated upwards of
A,0O0,000 to railroads, for right of way,
shops, depots and other grounds. Under
a Democratic administration the present
site of the Omaha shops and also the
Northern Pacific shops was purchased by
the city at great cost and donated for
their present uses. Under Democratic
administration ever $2n0,000 was given to
the Lake Superior & Mississippi railroad,
now the st. Paul & Duluth.
Under Democratic administration the
present Wabasha street bridge was built
of wood and iron and has been under a
Democratic administration twice rebuilt
of iron. Under a Democratic administra.
ton the present Robert street bridge was
built and paid for. So. too, the Sixth
street, Seventh street. Como avenue and
Lafayette and Smith avenue bridges were
built under Democratic administrations
No doubt If McCardy and the other, re-
form pharisees were in power in those
days they would have paid for all these
things out of their own pockets, or, per-
haps, McCardy himself, would have
waved his magic wand and brought forth
from the inner recesses in which he keeps
his Juggling apparatus stored away, the
necessary funds to meet their cost, with
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