The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-01
FOR THE ASSEMBLY.


FOR THE ASSEMBLY.
1t seems to us that a question larger
and more interesting than one of mere
party relations is to be determined by
the reception that the voters of St.
Paul give to the assembly ticket NOM
mated by the Democratic party. Upon
the majorities that they receive will
depend the answer to the question
whether the best way for a party to
secure public support is to nominate
its best men, or to pick out a scurvy
lot of second class workers who are in
politics for business, and designate
them for the highest places. If the
people really want good men nominated
for Office. If their wall that the best
men refuse to go into politics be not
sham. they will elect the Democratic
candidates for the assembly without a
single break in the line
It is no exaggeration to say that
never in the history of ST. Paul was a
list Of candidates presented SO unex-
ceptionable and Of such high grade
throughout as these nine nominees
supply. Let us repeat here the list.
for it is a remarkable one. AS the
names stand on the ticket-M. Doran
Jr., P. ]. Giesen, H. G. Haas, R. D.
O'Brien, VIM Powers, J. J. Regain,
Rudolph Schiffmann, e. H. Whitcomb
and Frank Yoerg-they combine all
those qualities that are most desirable
in local legislative assembly. Here
are to be found men Of practical ex-
perience in politics; men who have
served to their own credit and to the
public good in the assembly and know
its opportunities and its dangers; men
of high repute in the professional world
whose candidacy involves to them q
real sacrifice; men OF splendid bust
ness capacity, who have agreed to
neglect to Some extent their private
affairs in order to help the public; men
Of deserved and wide popularity; men
OF whom not one word can be uttered
except In praise.
1t is not a little significant that in
a campaign Of indecency, where the
entire Republican argument has been
based upon fabricated charges and mud
has been thrown literally, without re-
gard to the target, not a word has
been directed against any man on this
ticket. So high do they stand that
public sentiment even in the heat Of
the campaign would not tolerate that
outrage. The Democratic assembly
ticket, from top to bottom, is invul-
nerable. Do the people IF st. Paul
want an ideal upper house of the
council for the next two years? Do
they want placed at their service there
energy, ability, the best intelligence,
fidelity to their interests and a type Of
citizenship which the swarming agents
of corporate guile will not dare even
to approach? Let them vote the
oNA 0AeaA~ AOAiOSIdlAC elSoSIlU1y Ticket
If they want to encourage respect
ing men to go into politics; if they
want to encourage the voter to go to
the polls by giving him good men to
vote for; If they want to check the
drift of business and professional men
away from active politics, that is SO
impairing the spirit of our life and the
conduct of our affairs, let them vote
this ticket straight, as notice given to
both political parties that when they
put their best men to the front they
will win.
Upon the treatment received by the
Democratic candidates for the assem-
bly, depend issues far larger than their
own election or defeat. It is not only
good government that is at stake, but
a test of public virtue. The defeat of
any Democratic assembly candidate
would be slight misfortune to him as
compared with the injury that 1t would
infiict upon the public Whatever may
be your politics, you will be doing your
best for your party and for St Paul If
you support the straight Democratic
assembly ticket