The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-16

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We reafiirm our allegiance to the prin-
cipleS of -kepublicaniSm as announced in
tue last Republican national platform.
We congratulate the people of our Ma
ton upon the continuing prosperity OF
our industrial affairs secured through
wise and beneticent legislation and under
the patriotic leadership OF President Nc
Ainley.
We have an abiding faith in the future
greatness and progress OF our city and
we favor such administration OF its NUM-
cipal affairs as will tend to elevate and
purify it's moral life, increase its pres
zenship. ..-2..
We denounce the administration of
Mayor Harrison for its ineficiency, its
open and notorious violation OF city Or
people, it's scandalous and corrupt manipu-
lation of the special assessment fund, its
unclean streets and rotten payements, it's
dishonest administration of the civil ser
vice law, it's criminally negligent manner
Of defending corrupt and dishonest dam
age suits against the city, its prostitution
Of our public schools to political purposes,
it's pernicious effect upon, the realty and
industrial values whereby the property
of the individual has been deprecated in
value while manufacturing and other in
dustrial interests have been driven from
our city.
The present civil service law must be
honestly, fairly, and vigorously enforced.
The public schools must be taken out and
of peculiar fitness placed upon the Board
of Education and in the management Of
the schools and school property.
as brave and good officers as any in the
world. 1t is capable Of the best service,
if properly organized and managed: It's
ton under Mayor Harrison invokes the
condemnation of all good citizens ire
Spective of party.
The streets, alleys, and public grounds
Of nifty h0 Nnt univ
thieves, robbers, and despoilers of public
and private virtue and morality and made
safe for the people at all hours.
The Chicago Riyer-the greatest high
way of commerce in this or any other
city--must be made and kept adequate to
the commercial demands of the present
and the future.
The franchise question must be settled
fairly, honestly, and promptly between all
parties; Long franchises Will not BE, be
be paid for special privileges in all streets,
alleys, and public grounds.
The extension of street railway fran
chises and LIE lowering of the tunnels are
questions which demand the immediate
attention Of the executive of the city and
must be promptly and fearlessly met.
justed simultaneously with each other.
and all interests should receive fair and
honest treatment.
Towns, taxing. and other governing
Chicago.
The revenue law must be so amended
that the tax rate and the taxes will be
lower and the burden of taxation more
equally and fairly distributed. Provision
must be made so that pOsterity shall pay
its fair proportion Of the benefits of a new
Chicago. -.
We recognize, in the absence of desira-
bic State legislation, the increasing op-
portunities for fraud in the institution of
so-called damage suits against the city,
q md how tn TO
Legislature the immediate enactment Of
a law, similar to one long since found
efficient in several States of the Union,
juries may be instituted against NUM-
cipality unless the injured party, within
a reasonable time after sustaining injury,
give notice thereof in writing to the prop
er municipal authorities.
With these considerations and having
in view at all times the best interests of
our city, we confidently submit our can
didates to the suffrage of our fellow citi-
ZenS.
Conforming to the free spirit of Ameri-
can Institutions s, and expressing our con
springs eternal from the human heart we
declare it as our belief that the valiant
burghers Of South Africa are, and Of right
f pat to be- free and ndegend lent
on the field Of battle they
have proven beyond cavil their ability to
ueIehu lHelf MONIES ana country against
the. greedy and tyrannical invaders Of
their soil.
The record Of the American people, as
expressed through their government, has,
from the converting of the First Congress
to the opening of the present, been one
Of constant support to all peoples strug-
CLING for political freedom. In our judg-
ment the conduct Of the Beers has been
such as to elicit from the Congress Of
the United States as strong an expression
of sympathy and good will as any hereto
fore recorded for other peoples under like
circumstances. And we therefore de
mand that the national Congress express
in a fitting manner the undoubted sym
pathy of this Nation for the able am
yalorous people of the Transvaal and
Orange Free State. f...-