The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-04
WEDNESDAY, MAY, q, 1904.
A SWEEPING VICTORY.

The cause of good government has
been Endorsed. The administration of
Robert A. Smith has received from the
people that vindication it had earned
against reckless calumny. Yesterdays
balloting resulted in such a sweeping
victory as has rarely been won by any
candidate or by any party in st. Paul.
Mayor Smith is reelected by ma
jority of about 1000, and Comptroller
Betz and Treasurer Bremen by figures
somewhat less. All the Democratic
candidates for the assembly save one,
whose defeat is sincerely to be re-
GREETED, are successful. The Demo-
Gratis elect aldermen in all the wards
but three, and in one of these, the
Seventh, they nominated no candidate.
1t is a triumph of which the men thus
Endorsed, the party that they repre-
sent and the whole body Of our citizen
ship may well be proud.
The voters Of st. Paul meant that
there should be no doubt about their
opinion and no lack OF emphasis in
their expression of it. 1t was a land
slide. The majorities are so large that
they can be interpreted only as the
views Of the whole community. and
from them two conclusions sound sharp
and clear. One is the commentator
of those who have served the people
faithfully and well. st. Paul has been,
as no one would have denied until a
few weeks ago, as no one will deny
today, well governed city. Its people
have approved the acts of their serv-
ants and crowned with their praise
at the ballot box the reign of order
and of careful regard for the public in
terest. They have, at the same time.
visited the most singing rebuke, not
so much to any individual as to a foul
and indecent campaign, conceived in
malignity and carried out with extraor-
binary fertility of mendacious inyen-
ton. Unless political leaders are proof
against instruction from the voters. st.
Paul will never again have to suffer the
indignity of an attempt to overthrow a
party or defeat a man by means so un-
worthy.
We congratulate all who have had
q share in this good work; the men
whose record in Office, made under pub
lie scrutiny found them invulnerable:
those other men, new to the work.
whose consent to serve filled the ticket
with names that We're equal to a vote
Of confidence; the party managers and
committees who were never betrayed
into false confidence or enticed to a
false step; the earnest workers who
gave to this campaign their services
without promise or reward: and
most of all, the army of voters whose
thought rang true and whose blows
went home when the plain and simple
issues were set before them. Due
honor to them all in this day of
victory and of rejoicing.
The record of the polls tells more
than the story Of clash of parties
In it one may read the determination
Of an aroused citizenship. Business
men and workingmen and men Of all
degrees Joined hands and strength to
set good government to the front The
Democratic party was the benencfarv
Of their devotion because it has gov
erned well and because 1t offered can
didates for whom men of any party
might be proud to vote. But not for
that reason should it forget that these
majorities Of thousands that it cele-
brates were swelled by hosts Of Re-
publicans and Independent voters. To