The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-13
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1901.
A BOOMERANG. AS USUAL.

a BOOMEHAISGy AS USUAL.
1t was an extremely shallow political
move to impose upon the innocence of
DR.. Boyle and get him to deliver his
political address last Sunday evening.
That is, however, just about the sort of
tactics and just about the level of in
telligence that we might expect from
the management and the head push in
the Wright campaign. We are sorry
for DR.. Boyle, who is thus put in most
unenviable position; but surely any
clergyman with the slightest experience
of life ought to have known enough to
keep his foot out of the stocks.
AS almost invariably happens in
cases of this sort, the pulpit political
attack proves a boomerang of great
force and fierceness 1t has served to
call attention to certain facts which a
good many of our people had forgotten,
and good many more who have come
here within the last ten years never
knew. But for this injudicious assault
they might not have inquired too
closely into the conditions that pre-
vailed during Republican administra-
lions, and especially into the conduct
Of affairs while the gentleman was
actually mayor Of st. Paul who is now
the Republican candidate for that Office.
The slightest acquaintance with the
actual circumstances will make every
friend Of these men go on his knees
and beg for silence.
The truth is that the men and the
newspapers that are now supporting
Wrights candidacy and arguing about
alleged evil or improper conditions in
the government of the city were per-
fectly Infatuated by the incompetency,
the riot and carnival Of crime that
marked the whole Of the administration
Of Mayor Wright. We have already
quoted one clergyman, the Rev. David
Morgan, than whom there is no man
more familiar with actual conditions in
st. Paul today, to the effect that, while
there is much which every clergyman
and every lover of high moral ideas
must deplOre, yet the situation is bet
ter than it has been for twenty years.
So much for the administration Of
Mayor Smith. AS to that of Col Wright
ten years ago, we have also quoted
Rev. S. G. Smith and the Pioneer Press.
It takes a column or so of the Pho
neer Press to contain it's platitudes on
a sermon which DR.. Boyle was be-
guiled into giving. It took more than
that for it to publish the accounts Of
shameless revelry of the criminal class
when Wright was mayor, and his help
lessness to maintain even a semblance
of order. We have already published
extracts of matter contained in the
Pioneer Press Of ten years ago, and
there is more to follow. We have shown
how the whole community had to rise
in indignant protest against the virtual
anarchy that prevailed in st. Paul, the
utter and universal disregard of law
and the immunity enjoyed by every
bold criminal. DR.. Boyle was not in
st. Paul at that time; but no man. be
he preacher, or editor, or politician.
who addresses the public on public
questions is excusable for ignorance Of
the plain recent history belonging to
the very issues upon which he touches.
DR.. Smith was here at that time
and was earnestly and Indignantly in
terested in the conduct Of public affairs.
We commend DR.. Boyle and the Pho
neer Press and ali the present sup
porters of Col. Wright to a study of this
statement from DIR. Smiths eharacteri-
cation, in January, 1894, of the one
administration in which Col. F. p.
Wright gave us q taste of his qualities;
"Let US have done with state of city