The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22

He has, like the city, been rich and
prosperous; and he has been and is
poor He has always been a public
spirited, liberal-minded, open-handed
and open-hearted man. No ilI-gotten
gains stain his fingers. He owes no
man. and in the effort to overcome the
result Of the serious misfortune which
befell him in his business affairs he
has impoverished himself, so that
those who suffered by their confidence
in him should have all the amends
made to them that it is possible to
make, After a lifetime of active po-
lticaf eXertion no man can say that
a dollar Of public money ever stuck to
his fingers, or that he ever got a dol
lar through politics that was not a
clean dollar that he had a perfect right
to get. Everybody knows Bob Smith.
lie has more jealous friends than
any man in st. Paul, in politics or
out He has enemies, but they are
the enemies that politics have created;
and he would be no good did he not
have such enmities attaching to him.
The personality of Chester R. Smith
does not enter into this contest at all.
What he is individually few people
care. Nobody pretends to deny that
he is a respectable man. But he is un-
fortunate in having to bear the bur-
dens of party policy and administra-
all that 1t ought to have ACCOMPLISHED
Under Republican control ST. Paul has
been paradise, for four wears at
least, for crooks of every variety, and
high carnival of corruption and i'm
morality holds sway at the present
hour. Burglaries, highway robberies.
confidence games, gambling, harlotry,
wine-room RIGHTEOUSNESS, and every
known form of crime which is begotten
through ill-government, have prevailed
curing that time, and prevails today. We
are taxed heavier than we ever were be-
lore yet we are compelled to shut up
our schools. and let our children go neg
lected through the streets Through
lne bitterness and cheap demagogism
mHlcn nave distinguished our fiscal ad-
nlnlstrat1on we have set our citizans
oy the ears, have been constantly plunp-
eo ia ltlgat1on, and the, cost of McCyerdv
ism TO us has been that of the loss of
the good name of the community.
OF course the Republican candidate
for mayor has had but little to do with
thls personally. But he cannot escape the
reapolsieillty' and he should not be per-
mitted to do so The people who have
chosen him as their candidate have
brought the awful inf1iction on our nen-
pie; and neither he nor any other man
elected under their auspices will be able
to bring 1t to a close. The danger of its
continuance involves the very life of the
community, which, throughout Republic
an administration OF its affairs has been
steadily going from bad to worse for
many years. past,
We have not had a single public i'm
provement given to US under Republican
control. All that the city is and has it
is and has as the result of Democratic
activity. And Robert A Smith, more
than any other one citizen is identified
with the growth of the city and with
every iaudable undertaking to promote
its growth. For ten years or so we ad
vanced with giant strides as a munici-
pality. We did so at the cost OF our fu-
ture resources. We built streets and
bridges and public buildings We found
ed pubic parks and brought into being
ali ouf existing public utilities We es-
tablished school houses around which the
labitations Of our people have grown
up. We made ST. Paul one of the most
Widely known ard generally talked abou.
communities in the country; and We for
the time grew beyond a natural stature.
We have had to pay for 1t. And the
Union Advocate has never heard a single