The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-11
COME To THE POINT

Lei the gan Of the Republican machine stop its
war dance for 4 few minutes AMI Try To get cau
lthrium III" real issues of the ,iay in 81. Louis
'Hst> aside prct"NtS and h"aNc> for awhile Come /"
business ana discuss facts. q" record either for
or against good government. There is no national
Stale camaign in progress: party triumph the
consideration. The end desired i the election of
good men.
Several questions that have been prepounled to
the Globe still unanswered because that paper is
to" busy generating fictitious and noisy campaign
t"riaL 1t spare line for any project of public
benefit 1t has not space urge the nomination
81 III" right SORT of men by lis party. III Of its
energy - directed toward d"nnuncnC tho jefferson
Club the police bin and the Ncsh law
The facts about the Globe are these: II has not
accepted the invitation 10 discuss the pending effer
son club election hill Scratim Politically shouting for
r"cnactmcnt If the law under which the Republican
gan" of cnrrupti0nstS and mSrulcrs took possession
of III" City Treasury. it RETAINED from admitting the
merits "f til" jefferson Club bill and persiSed
in c"ndcmnng til" N"sbil law Evidently the Globe
does NOT wish the hest election law oItaina Bile. Its
prime object IS dstort facts So as 10 give them 4
campaign ring.
Snc" til" Globe continues cnndemnnG the Nesbit
law and charging that II was enacted for dishonest
purposes that paper must ho taken as deliberately
trying t" anger tho Democratic Legislature into re-
fuSing 10 make changes in the law
II alleges that the Democrats are failing in duty
in not nominating proper men for legislative Offices
Why does it not. III that case. Try put the Re
publican party right and have that party nominate
good men: Why docs il dispense with vitupera-
ton and take firm stand for clean party work in
Republican ranks: The Globe has not asked its party
t" nominate good men. 1t has such impulse.
Back of the whole performance the troubles
inside the Republican party The stigma of the Re
publican gang marks the party and the gang retains
its power. thanks to the Globes indulgence of un
satisfactory men merely because they claimed To he
Republicans The Globe has support for thc ma
chine. when the machine issues the mandate hut it
has no praise for those few Republicans who fought
the gang.
According 10 signs there is no animation in the
respectable wing of the local Republican party. The
gangs prestige is too lie opposed If il were
opposed. the public would see why the Republicans
have lost in recent elections The public remembers
and will long remember. Republican municipal mis-
rule Til" plan distract attention from these sins
by screaming as loudly possible against the Dem
ocrats will NOT the public to forget
The issue in This campaign is not the jefferson
Club nor the Police Department nor the Neshft law
nor RcpUblicansm nor Democracy I, is good gov
eminent and good men. against corruption and
misrue. The one question is: do the people want
another House of Delegates like the present one and
ike the preceding one. which was lined no in the
courts 10y the Grand Jury" The last Municipal As
sembly was Republican and It's record was disreputa-
bic that Assembly made the issue for this campaign
ld the Globe approve Of that Municipal Assembly
and does 1t desire another Of the kind: That is
the issue. Let the Globe define its position