The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-12
THEIR. DESPERATE GAME.

II VIII not take IullC1 IOIlScE U0IOEc Our
wrathfu but entirely non-partisan con-
temporary shall have played itself out
on the subject of the coming restoration
of the Republican off1ceholding ring to
power in city affairs. 1t has not hus-
banded its resources as it should have
done, and it has committed Itself to
contentious so injudicious as to grieve
even the most enthusiastic adherents Of
the new evangeI. At last one day has
elapsed since the great discovery without
our contemporary narrowing the souls
of the reading community with one of its
delightful contributions to the subject
Of Democratic partisanship and general
unrighteousness and the golden prospect
of a restored Republican non-partisan
police force. But for the days that
have gone there is a most delightful
record left by our contemporary of up
right and candid public discussion which
will not soon be blotted out.
The G i b e has been at some pains to
point out that our contemporary in it's
zeal ran grievous risk Of having one Of
its staff hauled before the supreme court
for contempt in its enthusiastic, even
If vain, effort to influence a possible fu-
ture decision Of that tribunal 1t would
now appear as if that effort was not as
vain as we might anticipate; for, accord
ing to recent issue Of our contcmpo-
rary, the matter has been settled in some
way so that unless the supreme court
now interferes to protect them tie Dem
ocratc members of the present city ad-
ministration must walk the official plank
at an early day. Will the amiable
reader kindly note this language with
some slight care?
''There is evidence of great distress Of
mind among the Democrats officeholders
VINO owe their positions to the results of
the last city election, in view of the pros
pect that they, or some of them at least,
VIII be required to relinquish their pleas
ant berthS as the necessary legal effect
OF the provisions of the new charter I'M
less the supreme court shall find some
way to eXtricate them from the predica-
ment"
That is our friends language. Is it
AAON fCAJ SIilJIltLlC diiQ diIO22CNSr very
inspiring language? Does it not repro
sent very high expression of ethics in
public discussion? Unless the supreme
court extricates them! Think Of that.
And think of it, too, in conjunction with
the TRADE Of abuse which the article en-
bodies against one Of the members Of
the police commission.
The su,len silence which this morally
elevated guardian Of the public veal had
INDUCED itself in since the last de-
court and until its latest discovery has
cision on the charter by the supreme
been broken to some advantage 1t has
been broken as a malignant pustule
might break. The result no. doubt.
brings relief to the victim of its own
putridity, but it causes much offcnse to
the senses of those who have to observe
the operation.
Democratic of1eeholders will no doubt,
feel duly grateful for being even thus
dishonesty placed under the immediate
protection of the supreme court, and
VIII naturally hope for eXtrication. But
how will the supreme court regard the
operation? 1t has been throughout made
the shutdecock of this infamous literary
and political game which is being play
ed as the last card of these desperate
gamblers in office The party politics
of its members has been exploited Tor
all that could eventuate, assuming that
they were not only strong Republicans
but had been made either blind or dis
honest by their political craftsmanship
The imputation which IS put upon them,
as Well as on the body which they con
stitute, reveals, even If the revelation
were not wholly needless, the desperate
lengths to which our Republican non
partisan friends are prepared to go to
avert the calamity which has befalIen
them.