St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-06


bosses if they were not too dazed to feel
surprise at anything.
''The P. P. and the imbecile committee
did the business" said disgusted Mer-
riam man last night. ''What the one failed
to do in the way of disorganization the other
accomplished by inertia"
1T was no use to ask German to sup
port, Merriam politically" remarked bar'l
candidate striker last night. ''They
wouldn't listen. They said they had no use
for Merriam or his money"
Next-Mayor Rice and wanted o-be-Mayor
Merriam were riding yesterday and met in
front of the city hall. The gallant try with
which the noble old Roman lifted his hat
would have done credit to Chesterfield.
"Billy" Wilson, the heavy weight bang
crusher, electioneered OH the corner of
Wabasha and Fifth streets yesterday with
an eloquence that would have caused So
journer Truth to grow pale with envy.
Chief Clark and several of his policemen
were around the polls with calcium lights
looking for the CHASTITY frauds that were
booked to appear, but the ghost failed to
perambulate and the show went to pieces
The women's ballot box, for school in
spectOr, at No. engine house, received a
solitary ballot for Mr.. Gilbert The judges
of election unlocked the box, and delicately
extracted the solitary suffrage from that re-
ceptacle, counting it last of all with un-
covered heads.
The result in Aid. Dowlan's district is
very close and although the returns appear
to beat him by a very small number, it is
thought by his friends that some discrep-
ancy will be yet discovered which will pre-
vent the ousting of this old and valued mem
Der of the council from his seat.
Kain,r the Wisconsin ''carpetbagger," so
called, got over the fence in good shape
and retained his ''grip'' in spite of the
avaricious gang that was struggling to get it
away from him. ''He may be typograph-
ical error" remarked a Fifth ward working
man, ''but he's going to justify sure and
won't need coins to do it either"
81 can't thank my friends too much for
their manly support of yesterday" re-
marked Mr.. Michael Kahn to GLOBE re-
porter last night. ''My co-laborers in the
industrial interests stood by me to man,
regardless of party, and the Democrats
came to my support in body, with the ex-
ception of a few self-seekers who did me
much more good than harm"
Said a workingman to GLOBE reporter:
| ssIm Republican, and when the party
puts up man of brains like j. G. Blaine
| I'll support him, but when they brace boy
on business mans platform, and I find
man of character and standing OH the oppO-
site side, l shall support him. Pm not in
clined to stir up strife on the question of
capital VS.. labor, but 1 shall stand by the
best man in municipal politics"
Among the workers for Rice who deserves
especial mention for effectiveness was MI.
Allen, who was rejected in the makeup of
the Republican city committee for Parker.
He made magnificent stand at the Second
precinct of the First ward for the noble old
Roman who headed the Democratic ticket
Rice pastors into the ballot boxes than he
He was quiet but most effective worker.
''The attack upon Mr.. Roche made in
the Pioneer Press, and it's retractions, made
his election and calling sure" said an old
citizen last night. ''That paper can al
ways be relied upon to do the wrong thing
at the right time. But this time it sprung
its roorback three days too soon, and
its craw-fshing act weakened it's
whole fabric Of falsehood, and it fell of it's
own dead weight. So long as the Pioneer
Press is our organ and Stanford Newell
heads the city committee and boys are put
up rs candidates, so long will we be left in
tie lurch on election day."
Perhaps at no other election in ST. Paul
was less betting done than at yesterdays.
| The reason was that supporters of the
| Republican candidates knew only too
well the small chances they had
of electing their men. One man at the
Clarendon hotel held up a hundred-dollar
bill and offered to put it up on Merriam, but
when supporter of the opposition came for
ward with an equal amount the Merriam man
crawfshed. Only few bets of SIS and $40
were made. A member of the Cen
tral Republican club and a mem
ber from the Itasca Democratic club
had wager of mule against wheelbar-
row. If Rice was elected the former had
to wheel the latter from Third street up
Wabasha to Seventh and back, and if Mer-
riam was elected the Rice man was to do
the wheeling.
The strength of the fusion movement Of
the Democrats and the Industrial classes,
whose interests are IDENTICAL was amply
illustrated by the tremendous majorities and
the election of Mr. Kahn in the Second
aldermanic district of the Fifth
ward. When the industrial classes
accepted that ward as their especial
trust, they knew that they had a tremen-
dous majority to overcome, with high
kickers, headed by James Middleton, in the
camp but they quailed not. They
set resolutely to work and swept
the district. Lafayette and Conroy
worked nobly by the side of Mr.. Kahn,
and their friends rallied to man to their
support. MI. Hamm accomplished the
work Of a legion, and the result was all
that could be desired. The element that
pays honest taxes everywhere in the city
rallied to the support of the fusion
movement, and they were successful
contributors to the result. The
Republican Reform ring managers had
not counted the industrial classes as factor
in the fight until too late. The fact that
Middleton withdrew at o'clock in favor Of
William Bohn did not change the result in
the Second or the Fifth. In fact his can
didacy elected Mr.. Kahn, who will be a
worthy representative of the board.
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