The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-01
SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1904.
OVER THE BORDER.


We desireto give DR.. Boyle the credit
that is his due for his action, though
somewhat beIated, in appearing frank
" under his true colors as campaign
speaker for the Republican party. We
could wish him better company and
better cause, but we are enabled at
least to think more highly of him when
he ceases to continue his present per-
Torrance under the guise of minister
of-God, and places himself squarely on
the same moral and political platform
with FIybob Wells.
sDr. BOYLE is strangely sensitive to
the just and most moderate criticisms
Of those gentlemen Of the cloth who
are jealous OF the sacredness Of their
high calling. We do not see why, hay
ing become party orator, he should
be more tender Of criticism than others
of the same occupation; or why he
should wonder that others should OBJ
ject to the combination of clergyman
and political tout
With any controversy between DR.
Boyle and those cIergymen in the city
who have not accepted engagements
as campaign speakers we have no con-
Germ. We do think that DR.. Boyle's
place in his pulpit requires of him that
1Ie should not descend to quite the
same level as his party associates. He
should not say that everything
charged as to gambling and the social
evil has been admitted" because that
is plain falsehood. 1t has not been
admitted, and it is not true The speci-
fications have already been published
IN our columns.
Further than this here is a practical
1act against which the Iath sword of
this jousting clergyman snaps in
twain. If he sets up moral standard.
practical or impractical as the case
may be, Of civic conduct, he should
measure all persons and all parties by
1t impartially. Now admitting that DR..
Boyle as a man and moralist is dis
satisfied with present conditions in st.
Paul, be they subject to Improvement
or not, he is bound as man and
moralist to consider the only choice
open to him and those to whom he acts
as adviser in the present instance.
Either Robert A. Smith or f. p.
Wright will be mayor of this city for
the next two years. There is no third
possibility. Under the former we shall
doubtless have continuance of condf-
tons as they exist now. Under the
latter we should with equal certainty
have repetition of the conditions that
prevailed when he was mayor before.
L Clio b e has published the official
criminal record of those evil years IT
is truth of record that crime was RAM
pant then; that every evil complained
of now existed with tenfold virulence:
that gambling was permitted; that the
social evil spread its hideous ieprosy
over every portion of the town, and
that in addition to this the ordinary
lawbreaker piled his trade without
hindrance and without fear.
1t is not because he has elected to
discuss public issues from his pulpit,
although the time is badly chosen. it
is not even because he elects to de-
clare for puritanic regime found i'm.
possible in government since civfliza-
ton began; it is not because of his
blindness to actual conditions and his
credulity whenever approached by Re-
publican ambassadors that DR.. Boyle
will be most severely blamed. 1t is be-
cause. having decided to carry his pull
pit into politics. having been hood
wtnked IL We please to regard 1t thus
eharitabiy, by party associates and adj
Visers. he chooses to ignore from first