St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-25
THE REPUBLICAN PROBLEM.
A Few Words Regarding Political As
Dirants.

1
will not be held until September 90, would be
candidates to the various offices already bob up
seranely until there is a surfet of aspirants la
boring indefatigably to secure the vantage
ground The qualifications of the ambitious
horde are decidedly varied, as is usually the
case. All lay particular stress upon the alleged
fact that the party owes to them the Office for
which they thirst. and argue and expatiate upon
their valuable services to the party in days gone
! by. The candidates are so numerous, and each
one is Jealous, unctous aud even so mex
orable in his demand upon the party, that the
clamor in the convention will necessarily create
confusion.
! Then those whose claims are not aaknow-
lodged, whose labors for the party are dismissed
unrequited, will feel that the political machine is
an ungrateful institution and they viii feel much
| like rallying around the standard of the st.
! Johns or the fusion element. At best it prom
/ ises to prove picnic which will be highly en-
! joyed by the disinterested spectator.
Below is given only fraction of those would
be candidates:
For the Office of county attorney, F. +. Davis
Byron Sutherland and A. F. Scott are among the
van. +. f. Davis has oft distinguished himself
as a spread eagle stump orator, man of words,
as it were. 1t was he who
made a vile attack on DR..
Ames while presiding chairman of the Re.
publican city committee His speech was un.
conditionally condemned for its scurrilous and
vicious SANDERS. He traduced the administra-
ton of the best mayer Minneapolis ever had, I'M
der whose government the city prospered as no
city had ever prospered. Byron Sutherland is a
ward politician. and in that particular capacity
he Is pronounced a success by his circle of
friends. He was elected last spring to the board
of park commissioners. A. F. Scott has long
been identified with his party in Minneapolis as a
great committee man. He is full of energy and
is credited with irrepressible loyalty to his party
and inexora5ly opposed to eTerything Demo
cratic.
Frank Plummer is almost alone in his endeavor
to carry off the nomination for county surveyor,
in which Office he has served his party for one
term.
The scramble for the office of sheriff develops
into sort of free for all race. Jimmy Stod-
dart is blatant in pressing his claim 10 a re-
election, but the delega ties will turn deaf ear
to his supplicatons. He was nominated before
under peculiar circumstances. That faction of
the party which composes the wire pullers, the
ring leaders, or, strictly speaking, that faction
which CONTROLS or had controlled, the spolls
system, decreed that Sam Briefly should be
given the nomination. The younger blood in
the party boiled with indignation at what it
esteemed plot to steal from them every vestige
OF political power, and what they were pleased
10 stgmatze as a depreciation upon the principle
of equity. These youthful politicians rose up
in their might, conspicuous among whom was
j. n Mind, and sagaciously cared for the prm-
aries. Jimmy Stoddart was on the youth
ful ata nd t.I n,'f Il
wanted it powerful bad 1t was hot strug-
gle but he ''got there, and lie feels certain that
/ he can carry oil the nomination again upon the
! same old play, but that is exceedingly doubtful
| His party or that portion which attends to the
corruption fund.- adjunct, denounce him in
! terms at once bitter and emphatic. They say
his is niggardly and parsmonious in the extreme
that when called upon TO contribute to the cam
| paign fund, although occupying one of the most
! lucrative offices in the county, he doled out Il
mere bagatelle, exciting the dispeasure in some
cases, and unforgiying enmity in others, of the
| &. o. p. in Minneapolis. and it is declared that he
| cannot succeed himself.
Bob Mullen has his weather eve cast upon the
office, but the general opinion is that his connec-
! ton with politics has been entirely too nominal
! to entite him to anything whatever, to say moth
! ing of the latest Office in the county Sam
! Brady has cast his cap in the ring, and with
sleeves rolled up to his shoulders declares he can
| chances cast them all in the shade. lie is one
Of the quiet sort, but he invariably does effective
work, and he has now set his heart on residing
! in the brown stone mansion adjoining the Jail,
and to him. il is believed, the Republican nomi-
nation will be rendered
The medical fraternity has numerous mem
! bership in Minneapolis, and the sanitary condi-
ton of the city preeudes the possibility of their
| all getting fees which will place them in afiluent
! positions, and naturally the eyes of many Of the
| disciples OF A3sculapus are set in the direction
| of the Office Of county coroner. There seems to
| be little doubt expressed to the ability of the
present incumbent, DR.. Fairbairn securing the
! plum il he wants it. lie has proven non-parti-
IAN and efficient coroner, to whom neither party
/ could object bat it is explained by his friends
that he has tired Of the duties and wishes
to retire upon his practice alone. Dr. Collins.
! DR.. Rogers, DR. Hin present deputy coroner),
! DR.. Mccarthy, and the iuyincible, }. o. Rich. are
among the aspi-ants. pr. Hill has had consider
able valuable experience during the past year,
but of the others little is known. Rich, how
| ever, has struggled for the nomination SO often
/ that his name has become q convention by-word.
| lie always gets left. however, and will surely be
! defeated again on the 23d Of next MONTH
Those who are looking after the legislation
| nomination are too numerous to mention"