The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-11
NEWS OF THE CITY

man, presided, ana JOnn BOrner was
at the seeretary's desk. Reports were
| and there was every evidence from the
reports that the Eighth was never in
| better condition for its usual big Dem
! ocratic majority. Incidentally, reports
were received that indicate very clearly
that the scheme to support an indie
pendent candidate for alderman in the
! ward under the guise of a union labor
| movement is meeting with scant at
tention from the bona fide union labor
| element in the ward. Aid. Matthias
Bantz was not present, having been
called to Chicago by the illness of a
| relative. but his friends were very
| much in evidence.
Edwin ]. Bishop, of the city comp
troller's office, made his maiden speech
III the Eighth last night. There was no
attempt at oratory but the speaker
gave convincing proof of the falsity of
republican claims that the city Is tax
ridden. There are two classes of is
Sues" he said, the real one is that
the Republicans want the offices and
the felgned one is the same old buga-
| boo that has fooled the people before
the cry of the gang"
He showed how the present admins
| tration has paved the streets and built
| the schOOlhouses, and showed that nee
/ eSSarily these must be paid for. The
| Republican orators waved a paper and
! declared that the tax receipt told the
whole story He said that the tax
receipt told only a part of the story
1t is not question entirely what are
the taxes but What the taxes are for,
and then he proceeded to show where
the money. had gone-into new schools
and into permanent improvements.
Mr.. Bishop exploded Assemblyman
ArnOldS recent roorback regarding the
charge that the funds of the city are
OVerdraWn. Under Comptroller Nc
Cardy's system, he used to issue the
cltyS certificates of Indebtedness from
Jan. Is and April Is Of each year and
sell them to the bond buyers. Under
the charter provisions the present adj
mlniStratiOn of the comptrolIer'S office
permits few funds to be overdrawn
and loaned to other funds until June Is
when there is plenty of money to re-
plenlsh all the funds. and interest at
4 per cent on these certificates of in
debtedness is, saved to the city. The
action is perfectly legal under the
charter provisions and interest is saved
on thousands of dollars for four or five
months at the only cost of a red mark
on the ledger in preference to a black
one.
Bishop went into the matter of new
school houses quite fully and showed
IIlctI QI1QGI administration from
1896 to 1898 fifteen new school rooms
had been added to the city's school
system, under Kiefer's administration
from 1898 to 1900 there were were no
new rooms, while under Mayor Smiths
| regime from 1900 on to the present
there were no less that 124 new rooms
opened, and eighteen are now in course
OF erection. The speaker cOntended
| that there had been in fact a reduction
in the cost nf n of ho Oif xy
in spite of the growth and improve
ment of St. Paul under the present adj
miniStFatiOn, the additional tax bur-
dens being entirely chargeable to per-
manent improvements which the city
could not possibly get along without.
His lucid explanation of the facts
and his convincing showing of the
falsity of the Republican claims of ex-
traVagance in the city's administra-
ton were fOundly cheered and made
an impression on the meeting that it
Will require a good many RepubIica
campaign bogies to dispel
f. l.. McGhee, the cO1Ored attorney,
| made an lmpasSiOned appeal to the
| voters not to turn back the hands of
| the clock of progress. His address was
a terrible arraignment of the admins
| tration of Col. Wright, Col. Kiefer and
| F. B. DOran. He depicted conditions
/ in the schools of the city under the
| Kiefer and DOran rules and showed
how the children had been denied their
heritage of an education. Turning his
attention to the records of the Repub-
lican leaders of the past, he showed
how several of the most prominent
had either been forced to fly the coun-
try upon the discovery of crookednesS
in the court house or had been caught
red-handed and were working for the
! state at Saltwater. And yet the ora
] vn1.a -. e
| ministration
| McGhee showed how the present ad-
ministration had assisted the state in
| the matter of opening and improving
| the streets adjacent to the new capitol
| ana declared that one of the chief OBJ
| Jects of Col. Wright's ambition to be
| mayor was to represent the city of
st. Paul at the dedication of the beau
| tIful building He evidently thought
that the mayor should be "a military
man" to properly dedicate the new
structure. The speaker concluded a
stirring address by urging his hearers
20 vote the Democratic ticket and they
would be sure of peace and security
IN their homes, something they had
never been certain of under the absurd
Wright administration.
Frank Hafbauer, a strong union Ia
Dor man, said that the movement look
ing TO the nomination of r. H. NemitZ
as an independent candidate for alder
man IN the Eighth ward is an infringe
ment on the rights of organized labor,
and he did not believe that the move
ment had the backing of bona fide
organized labor in the ward. He had
attended several of the meetings held
IN the interest of Nemitz and not more
than one-third of the men present were
really members of organized unions.
He though that the movement would
fail, as it deserved to fail.
Other speakers were Representative
Joseph jacob, Peter Diedenhoffer, Jo-
seph Joroscz and Frank Uhlman, and
the meeting of the organization con-
Guided with songs by several of the
singers of the ward.
Frank 'Clague, representative in the
last house from Redwood county, is at
the Merchants. Clague is one of the
leading candidates for speaker of the
next house, but modestIy disclaims any
great activity for his speakership boom.
}. T. Cooper, of the same county, who
accompanied him to St. Paul, however,
says that Clague will have no opposi-
ton for the nomination and that bis