The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-08

position of mayor on the strength of
Republican nomination. The feeling is
fully sustained by all who know of Re
publican local administration since that
day. While processing regard for the in
terest of the tax-paying community, this
aggregation of office-seelxers has had no
higher ambition, either individually or
permitted to observe, than to make the
offices pay "all the traffic would bear
In the language of the hour, they had
been out for all there is In It, and they
have have secured what they have been
out for.
1t is pity that the result does not
show the election of Mr.. Betz. He has
successfully contested the claims to office
of the two most successful and danger
Gus political humbugs whom the
tergiversations of Republican local mo-
chine politics have thrown to the surface
for eight years-McCardy and Johnson.
On each occasion he has come within
measurable distance of success. by sheer
force OF nlSn lnQlVlQual character ana
determination of purpose.
The failure of Mr. Betz, however, is
compensated for by the success of Mr..
Kane. That gentleman has had an ex-
ceptional distinction done him. His vic
tory is a splendid one, due entirely to the
public understanding of his merits as a
man of intellect, and as a qualified and
conscientious member of his profession.
To be successful against the present in
cumbent of the office, Mr.. Bigelow, who,
whatever else may be said of him, is a
careful and conscientious official, and a
young man of promising ability, involves
which is rarely if ever bestowed on a
man like Mr.. Kane, new in public life
and hitherto but little known outside of
the walks of his profession.
The success of Dr. Miller was fore
ordained. The defeat Of the West side
doctor, like the tremendous success Of
Mr.. Fitzgerald, ought to carry lesson
with it to the Republican politicians
worthy of being well learned. Mr..
Irvine, the Democratic candidate for
| surveyor, has won largely on the merits
of the splendid campaign which he and
his friends made; but his success, too,
symbolizes the truth that the party which
puts in Office an unworthy or incapable
man must sooner or later bear the bur-
den of it. The l o b has had much to
say in the past of the administration of
the office of county surveyor by the john
son family. 1t evidently has not spoken
in vain; and the defeat of Mr.. Peterson,
| the Republican candidate for county sur
veyor, In Tuesdays election, is a penalty
| imposed on him for that which he was in
| nowise responsible.
The election of Mr. Metzdorf, the Dem
ocratic candidate for county treasurer,
may properly be accepted as principally
in the nature of a personal triumph.
The lesson Of the county canvass is an
instructive one. With capable party man
agement Democratic candidates, well
chosen and well sustained, can always
sion that this Is Republican county is
put an end to, and every voter who
knows anything about political conditions
In Ramsey county win hereafter be
agreed that when the Democratic candi-
dates fail to win the offices they aspire to
In the county their defeat will be due not
so much to the fault of the. electors as Of
themselves. or of the party management
which put them up or pretended to secure
their election.