The Saint Paul globe., 1902-04-27
O'NEILL BRANDS TALE
MALICIOUS ISLANDER
hepubI1c"ns Charge JObbery to
Cover Candidates De-
lection.

The snide character of the campaign
winch the Dispatch is making was never
more extensively shown than in the "SrDrv
OF the Street" which it published last
evening concerning the campaign for the
municipal court judgeship. 1t was a lying
ana bIackguard effort at arousing sus-
plclon among the friends Of the Demo-
cratic candidates for the iudgeshin "Iv-
ing and ''blackguard" are the only ex-
pIetves that will fairly fit the case.
Ine anlmus Of that story is found in
the fact that John w. Finehout was yes
terday afternoon brought on on the carpet
before the Republican campaign commit
tee. The charge against him. made by
the committee and generally by the
friends of E. B. DOran. was and is that
he has openly repudiated the Republican
candidate for mayor. and has declared
repeatedly his unWillingness to have his
political fortunes identified with those cf
the Jonah of the Republican gang. Nat
urally, under such circumstances, those
who are conducting all the campaign
there is on the Republican side are anxi-
Gus to arouse dissenson among Demo-
Gratis.
o. H. O'Neill declares the story to be
a mere election dodge, which will fail Of
its purpose. When he was seen by T h e
b e he was mad clean through. lie
said:
UnmitiGated and Unfounded Lie.
"You may declare it lie-unmitigatad
and unfounded. If my associate on the
ticket for judge is not elected l will not
be. I have never taken act or part in
any movement Of the character described
l want 1t understood that there is no
such movement, and that any Democrat
that goes into any such transaction is
my enemy and the enemy of my party
from the ground up.
Il am asked to bear the onus Of the
prevailing dissatisfaction among Repub-
ltcans with one or other of the nominees
of that party for judge Of the municipal
court. If there are Republicans who re-
fuse to vote for one or the other, or for
both Of the Republican candidates / re-
fuse to bear the onus Of that circum-
stance. There are hundreds of such Re-
publicans, as 1 know. Many Of them re-
fuse to vote for Hine, and as quite as
many refuse to vote for Finehout, it is
their privilege to vote for either Mr..
Kelly or myself, suppose, or to refrain
from voting if they want to.
ANY statement that I have gone into
any such transaction as the Dispatch out
lines in it's columns is false. have never
considered the proposition to make Mr.
Bell or anybody else clerk of the mU-
nicipal court, and I would regard myself
as unfit for the office which L seek if I
considered any such proposition regarding
him or anybody else, Democrat or Repub-
lican, pending my election to the Office. /
am working as hard for Mr. Kelly as L
am for myself, and 1 want to have no
truck with any man or men who think 1t
is consistent on my part with an honor
able contest for the Office l seek to go
into any such dicker, or to tolerate it
either dirpptlxy Or indireptIV
''This particular canard is of the same
nature as the other features of the Re
publican campaign. Yelled slander, mean
innuendo, and what may be properly de-
signated 'stop-thief' Methods represent
all the appeal thus far made by Repub-
lican candidates or managers to the in
telligent people of st. Paul"