The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-10-22
DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS.

who have been in the game for q de-
cade or longer, state that they have
never seen such still hunt campaign
as is being waged this year. But for
the fact that the Tribune is calling
attention to the Inconsistency of the
supporters Of D. P. Jones in shouting
for johnson for governor as against
their own party candidate and show
ing that the supporters of r. G. Dunn
in Minneapolis cannot consistently
vote for the Republican candidate, D.
P. Jones, and is editorially showing
that it would be no great calamity if
the present mayor were reelected,
there is no politically.
Unless it is the havoc which the
Minneapolis Journal is creating in the
ranks Of the state voters in it's open
advocacy of that stalwart, clean, Wig
orous opponent of the former state
auditor, as it daily, editorially and
through its news columns, shows why
r. G. Dunn should be defeated and
that exponent of clean government,
John A. Johnson, elected to that high
Office.
The voters minds seem to be already
made up. Upon the streets of Mime
apolis, among those who will express
an opinion, the trend of opinion seems
to be that johnson, Winston and
Haynes will be elected. And upon the
betting boards there is bet, posted by
a prominent federal Office holder, who
generally knows what he is talking
about, that Dunn will not run 10000
behind Roosevelt. That would seem to
the ordinary intelligent man that it
was bet that johnson would beat
Dunn by from 1000 to 2,OOO-because
the conservative politician does not
claim that Roosevelt will carry the
state by any more than 10000 to
10000.
Locally the people and voters who
admire Mayor Haynes personally are
beginning to ask why he should not be
returned to the office as an indorse-
ment, if nothing more, of clean, hon
orable, economic administration. They
are pointing to the fact that since he
took hold of the city government that
there has been a saving in the poor
department funds and a balance of the
appropriation on the right side Of the
ledger; that the police department has
overcome deficit of $4,000, nearly,
left as a legacy from the Ames ad-
ministration. That the city hospital
has gotten out Of the hole, plunged
there by a reckless expenditure of the
taxpayers and city's funds by loose
financial disregard of that fund. And
all this without denying the poor of
their just dues; all this without rob-
bling the INDECENT sick of the city any
of the comforts of a cot or medical at
tention at the city hospital; all this
without impairing-but on the con-
trary-building up the efficiency and
honesty Of the police administration of
the police department, under that hon
est, conscientious and modest gentle
man at the head of the police depart
ment, Ed. J. Conroy.
But some of the friends of D. 2.
Jones say that lots of thieves have
made Minneapolis their stopping off
place. They have. But great, large
majority Of them have slept two in a
cell at the county Jail for some of those
months that they have been here. And
when it is pointed out to these Ell
thusiastic Jones men, many Of whom
are men who are using this argument
as a leverage to get votes, and thereby
get back on the force or get Il berth
in the event of Jones election-when it
is pointed out what the department did
under the first year of the Haynes adj
ministmtion, they have no ammunition
left.
When the grand jury met in Sep
TENDER, 1908. there We're eighty-five
men in the Jail awaiting indictment
for offenses carrying sentences of
state prison life. When indictment.
had been returned it took the sole
attention. for over sixty days, of two
district bench judges to try them.
When the year closed and the chief of
the department. issued his annual re-
port, from the court records of convic-
lions, it showed that PIG men and
women had been convicted for felonies
and all of these received state prison,
reformatory. Jail or long workhousc
sentences, as against 126 the We;
previous. The present sitting grand
jury has returned indictments against
20 men and women now confined in
the county Jail. Judges Simpson and
Harrison are now busy ut work grind
ing out justice to these men, and SEN
fences to those who plead guilty. If
thieves, who found life-sentences for
highway robbery in Chicago an I'M
comfortable proposition, have come to
Minneapolis they find shorter terms
awaiting them here for the same Of
fenses as is evidenced by the activity
of the police of Minneapolis.
The conservative voters of Mime
apolis who have lived in this city for
any length of time know that now is
the time when the harvest hand is