The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-31
MIST TOE THE MEX.

! MUST TOE THE MARK.
| The car of local Republican publication
| and reform still rolls on, juggernaut-
! like.
! While the efforts of the public prosecu-
tor to aid in its propulsion proceed, our
j Republican contemporaries, with the true
smirk and gltbness OF the political phari-
/ see, wish the world to understand that.
! Democrats and Republicans, we are all,
alike compelled to bear the odium OF the
misdeeds which are publicly coming to
! light every day, despite all efforts to COW
the wel,-informed citizen has long been
cognizant CT
The G o b e does not care to character
ize the spirit CT the party political news
paper organ which after years of voclf-
erous protestation that Democratic sway
in municipal affairs means corruption
| and robbery, and that the only remedy
therefor is TO put their politi-
cal brethren in office, now
raises its voice in the wilder
ness of lost political hopes to cry aloud
that the Republican party in this COM
munHy or it's organization must not lie
held to any accountability in the prem
ises, while Republican officials are daily
being made to face the prospect of going
to the penitentiary. Some would desig-
nate this disposition hypocrisy and cant;
others rank noIitfoaI
whatever may be thought of it, not all
the tall preachifying or flippant, rattle
box editorial utterances Of an entire sea-
son is going to save the political party
whose members are the offenders from
hearing the responsibility.
The G l o has no thought, and never
| has had, of claiming that Democrats in
Office or out are impeccable. 1t is alb
surd for our Republican contemporaries
to so represent. What the G o b urges
upon the public sense in this behalf is
very simple. It's absolute truth and JUS
tice are unassailable 1t is this: That
Republican profession Of superior public
and official virtue. of which this com
munity has never ceased to hear in the
past ten years, is a proven fraud; that
the record of Republican administration
both in city and county affairs since that
party came into power in this community
is disgraceful one that, judged by the
standards of party political accountability
and the only ones which prevail in mu-
mcipal affairs here and elsewhere, the
representative of that party ought to be
turned out of Office root and branch. and
the prevailing reign of robbery and cor
| ruption maintained by them in local Of
! flee brought to an end.
1t is idle to read lectures about what
all the people think or what they will do
in the future in these matters. They
will do what they have always done here
tofore They will array themselves in the
next election on opposite sides, one side
represented by Democratic candidates for
office and the other by Republican can
didates; and the Republican papers who
| have such righteous promptings just at
this time will do as they always have
| done-urge the dear people to put their
party representatives in power. They will
try to break the killing force of the dis
| graceful record which the party is MAX
ing and has been making ever since it
came into power in city and county It
will be in vain, however. Our dear friend
and contemporary, the Pioneer Press,
| may be as non-partisan as 1t wilI-be-
| tween elections But me reign of non
partisanship in city and county elections
is not yet. Candidates for Office must
continue to stand or fall by the record of
| their party associates in office. And the
I record which the Pioneer Press and the
| Dispatch have confronting them as hav-
! ing been made by their lf-righteous
! brethren in Office is not matter of
ancient history; but of immediate, living,
! vital Importance to the sorely burdened
taxpayers of Ramsey county and the city
! of st. Paul.