The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-06
RECEIVES HIS DESERTS.

The G / has little consideration to
bestow on Comptroller McCardy. That
official has shown himself to be SO dis
tinctly and instinctively an autocrat
that there has been little occasion for
sincere people wasting time upon him.
But it would be hard to find so clearly
demagogic pronouncement from even the
city comptroller of St Paul, as that
which appears in the st. Paul Dispatch
of yesterday. 1t is positively disgracefuI
in its palpable dishonesty. The man talks
about right of way. There is no question
of right Of way. 1t is now, as 1t always
has been, question of The common dis
charge of the duties of his Office by the
city comptroller. He has failed to dis
charge those duties, and he is being com
PEELED to do so. That is all there is to it.
That is all there has ever has been to it.
That is all there ever will be to it, if this
man were to go on to the end of time in
dulging himself in his low casuistry.
The G o be has been charitable in it's
treatment of this public mountebank. 1t
feels itself relieved from all further re-
sponsibility in this regard Hereafter it
Will treat this man as it might treat any
other humbug who has made pretensions
which the event has proven him to have
been unable to maintain. He is cornered.
The community recognizes the fact. The
only consideration in which any person
IN ic
man. McCardy, has so dreaded the
operation of furnishing the report OF
which City Treasurer Bremen pointed
out he was called on to make.
There have been any number of
explanations. The C 10 b refuses to ac-
cept any one of them-and there are
many such-which implies nothing
which reflects upon the official integrity
Of McCardy. It chooses to believe, what
most Well-informed persons believe. that
this man, having juggled with figures so
long, having told the public at one time
that such and such a fund has had a
thousand dollars to its credit, while to
another at the same time he announces
+
teen times that amount, has finally de-
clded that if he must give This daily re-
port which Bremer insists upon he will
not be able to keep his three financial
balls in the air any longer and
must give up his juggling. That
Is The explanation, and the
only explanation. which this man
has offered which is worthy of the seri-
Gus consideration of any intelligent ciH-
zen.
The refusal of the assembly last Mon
day evening to allow McCardy his de-
mand for additional help shows that the
last prop has been pulled from under his
ofhcial legs. He is exposed for what he
has always been in the estimation of +bis
paper-a mere official mountebqnk of
more than ordinary nerve. He is now
going South. We sincerely hope that the
atmosphere will soften, to some cxtt nt ,t
least. the adamantine tendencies which
have enabled him to conceive himself to
be of so much moment in the economy
OF life of his party associates and even
OF the balance of official creation.
McCardy should be honest with him
self, if not with the balance of creation.
He is revealed as-what will we sayq
Well; he is not revealed for a decent and
self-respecting official. whatever else the
situation may reveal him as being.
Now that he goes SOUTHEAST, North
or West as the case may-his deputy
will, no doubt, under his instructions. do
what he has so stupidity refused to do.
If he should happen to maintain the posi-
ton of his principal, it is at least gratify
ing that there is still means open for
Kidding the community of both of them.
if need be-