The Saint Paul globe., 1902-04-17
DORAN'S REGIME WAS
SEASON OF DISORDER
Ninth Ward Democrats Turn to Rec
Ords Of a Dark Period In
City's History.

Several hundred voters of the Ninth
ward gathered at K; of L. hall, corner
evening and heard a number Of able
speeches.
T. D. O'Brien was the first and one Of
the principal speakers of the evening
In part his remarks were as follows;
II feel that the coming election presents
very encouraging outlook to the Demo-
cratic party. For you may say the cam
palgn OF our separated brethren was over
before it was well begun. In fact the
Republicans were not enough Interested
IN any of the several men who came
before them as aspirants for the nom
nation for the Office of mayor to get out
ana register or cast a respectable vote
at the primaries. Heretofore it has been
my experience in politics in this city that
the RepubiIcans We're generally first to
get out and register but when you con-
slder the list they had to choose from
you can't blame khem for their lack of
enthusiasm.
ut so happens that they did choose for
their candidate a man. who had been
may or once before for a term Of two
years and you all know what his ad-
1uhlStratlon was and what he did. You
Know that he disoTganized the police force
and that respectable citizens were ar
rested on insufficient or trumped up
charges and that there We're other citf-
ZenS who were nistreated after they had
been arrested. Now do not say that he
was directly or altogether to blame for
those abuses, but he was primarily re-
sp' psible from the fact that he had
overturned the formerly efficient depart-
ment and disarranged the system upon
which it was conducted.
His Party Repudfated Doran.
Every Republican administration for
the past twenty years has been a dismal
failure, and the present. candidate. after
his previous administration was Kissed
and turned down in the convention of
ms own party because Of his failure
II IS not necessary for me to defend the
Democratic candidate You all know
Robert A. Smith and what his admins
fration has accomplished for the city.
l have known Mr.. Smith since I was a
small boy employed in his bank and in
all these years L have never known him
TO 90 an unkInd or a dishonorable thing
There are other candidates of whom
would like to speak to YOU this even
ing and one of them Is the gentleman
VINO is running on the Republican ticket
Tor the office of comptroller. You know
now the schools have been hampered by
his arbitrary and capricious actions and
now the teachers and other EMPLOYEES
who had worked for the city were obIiged
to wait for their pair It NAV have an
peared to some of YOU that after hevi5Po,
been forced by the courts to do his duty
Mr. McCardy would have learned better
than to conduct his Office in so arbitrary
a manner, but that is not the case and
L VIII explain to you why. That is his
way Of electiOneering. He wants to he
known as the watchdog of the treas
ury' whether he is shown to be right or
wrong in his position, and he wants to he
sued whether he loses the suit or not:
because in that way he is advertised
AS matter of fact the real Watchdog
Of the treasury is Otto Bremen vour
Democratic city treasurer and in every
conflict which has occurred between the
comptroller and the treasurer it has
proved that the treasurer was right and
the comptroller wrong.
And what do the Republicans saw oP
our present city administration? They
tax OF the gang and put forward a lot
legitimate argument let them colnnare
tions.' = q
Representative James Hickey also
spoke at some length. In substance he
said:
Meet a Campaign of Lies.
I'm this campaign we are called upon
70 meet grossly unfair and manifestly l1n-
y!st statements on the part of the Repub-
Ican lI..a press, and perhaps it is hardly nee
SiSSdIy i 10 say TO an intelligent audience
Ihat those statements are lies and have
g peeH proved so. Within my recollection
fnls fias CITY mas mad three periods of Repub-
I5San nllSruIe At the end of r. p
Wrights term as mayor he was retfrad
to private life for all time to come. n q
Doran' at the close of his term, was
Missed in his own convention and unada
the object of the contempt of those as.
sembled there"
While Doran was mayor the children
OF lne city were permitted to attend
school only half days. It has been argued
that he was not responsible but he was
Tor he was the chief executive and all Of
the shortcomings in the past two wears
nave been charged by them to Mavo1,
smith. During the Doran administrator
nelghborS We're afraid to visit neighbors
and man even in his own house was
afraid lest he should be the next victim
of the burglars who were then working
mere without restraint. Women wers
afraid to stir out of their own homes Of
ter nlghtfah and could not feel ent. q '
safe there.
Inc time in which a person NAV re-
celve hitting education is short and in
depriEing a child Of opportunities in Th-t
line we are denying him his rights which
should not be interfered with by this mu-
niclpality' ana which have been con