The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-06
WHERE THE TAXES WENT.


T h Clio b reproduces here a very
succinct statement regarding Mayor Dor
ans administration made by Mr.. ]. C.
Michael on Friday evening last at the
great business mems meeting in support
of Mayor Smiths candidacy for re-elec-
! ton. 1t is as follows:
Mayor Smiths cardinal policy had
! been to keep the fire board bipartisan
! IN its makeup. Doran introduced poll
tics there TO GUST the best chief St Paul
ever had, and who, thanks to Republicans
! appointed by Mayor Smith, has been re-
lnstated. He introduced politics in the
police department to turn out O'Connor
and Clark for GetchelI and "Chippy"
! Davis; made ''Reddy' Griffin premier and
R tfn NICK Pottgleser on the wool sack.
| de brought about a condition of law
! lessness that made it unsafe for women
/ even in the quiet Seventh ward to be out
| or doors after night. The people of St
| FauI nave not drunk so deeply of for
| gettulness that they will return to tneir
! experience of two, four and eight years
| ago
| Before our Republican friends go a
| wool-gathering with McCardy on the sub
! ject Of increased taxes under Democratic
administrations they ought to give serl-
!
the foregoing. They ought to show, if
| they can that they are not true, or else
| satisfy the voting public that f. B. Doran
has reformed in his political standards,
and will not reproduce himself, if he Is
elected again.
McCardy is a pretty shrewd politician.
| 1t is his scheme, in order to save his own
official hide, to divert attention from the
infamous record left by Dorans admin
istration by juggling his figures as an
East Indian fakir might juggle with the
implements of his particular trade But
the juggler in this case will find before
haf of the coming four weeks has ex-
pired that he will have his hands quite
full in trying to save himself from the
defeat which is already accepted as in
evitable in the case of Doran
The Republican opposition must face
Doran's record as mayor. They will not
be permitted to get away from it. No
bowling dervlsh oratory of the Reese
variety, and no mathematical trickster
ing, such as McCardy has suggested az
the safest resort of his companions. will
meet the case.
From and including June, 1896, to and
including May 1898, Mr. Frank B. Doran
was mayor of st. Paul, as the nominee
Of the Republican party. During that time
crimes Of violence were of daily occur
renee, the police We're in completely with
criminals of every kind, the business
thoroughfares We're infested bv disorderlv
resorts conducted in open and fragrant
violation of public peace and decency.
robberies and burglaries were SO com
mon that the public ceased to notice all
but the most serious Of them Corruption
in office was rewarded by official promo
ton by the mayor himself, as instanced In
the case of the man Franklin, whom he
made school commissioner, and no
torious gambler, maintaining a known re-
sort Of thieves through capital supplied
by officers of Doran's police administra
ton, was throughout Mr. Doran's term
popularity referred to as the acting mavor
Of st. Paul
Here are some of the conditions which
| prevailed during F. B. Doran's incum-
bency of the Office Of mayor Mr.. Michael
has brt~1iy and fprcibly outlined them
Gl b but repeats the outline in
other language.
1t was to maintain this state of things
that the taxpayers of st. Pail paid into
the city treasury in taxes the sum of 81,
Sol,765l2 It is to reproduce the same state
OF things that they are now asked to nav
an equal or even a greater amount.
Surely there is a tax issue in this cam
paign; but it is not the one which orr
| official wizard points out.