St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-11
MINNEAPOLIS.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

The matter of dividing the city into
election precincts, under the require
ments of the amended charter, is at
tracing considerable attention in polit-
ical quarters, where its Importance is
appreciated. The law provides for pre-
cincts with no more than $50 voters, and
Minneapolis will have, or should, about
100 precincts. The Democrats in the
council should make it point to see
that the precincts are made to con-
form with the law, as it will
be decidedly to their advantage. In the
past, the heavy precincts were Demo
cratic and it frequently happened that
the polls were closed leaving several
voters diSfranchiSed. Under the new
law, voting will be even slower than
before and no citizen, of whatever
political party, should be deprived of
his vote on account of the Inability OF
the judges to receive the vote within
the time specified. Several of the
rearranged wards are now ready
for council, notably the Fifth, where
the number of precincts has been in
creased from seven to eighteen. The
fourth will have as many, and every
ward there will be more than doubled.
There seems disposition on the part OF
some of the Republicans in the council
to tilibuSter in this matter, just as GER
tain others did when the new law was
pending before the Legislature. Other
wise several of the reports could have
been considered. 1t will be borne i'll
mind that every voter must register
anew before voting, and with smaller
precincts it will be matter of less
difficulty to make sure that no name is
missing from the lists, and that his vote
ic HannS:fa1 on plpptiOn 01V
In quiet kind of way the Democrats
of Minneapolis are discussing the con-
gressional outlook and wondering upon
whose shoulders will fall the Rice sue
push the matter until after
the gubernatorial nomination is set
tied, as one will depend very
much upon the other. Unless Senator
Durant, of Saltwater, can be considered
an active candidate, there is none in
the field. Mayor Ames is talked of, but
he has set his heart upon once more
trying his hand at wiping out Republic
can maiorities in the state, and will
hear of nothing else. If Ames should
receive the nomination for governor, the
congressional honors will naturally go
elsewhere, but if Ames should
miss the nomination, Minneapolis
will claim and will doubtless
receive the congressional nomination.
Edmund Rice, of st. Paul, is about the
only possible candidate mentioned with
Ames and no one is willing to assume
that he would take the nomination if
offered him.
The attitude of Albert Scheffer and
the active canvass he is making is not
unnoticed in Minneapolis. The Repub-
Leans who oppose him are very
much afraid of him, and the
Democrats are curious to know
what will happen if he should
miss the Republican nomination. 1t is
said that. certain Democrats are work
ing to secure the Republican state con-
vention ahead of their own, for the
purpose of using any weapons that con-
vention may give them, either for or
against Scheffer. Some of them favor
an Endorsement of Schetfer, if he gets
solid farmer phalanX behind him; but
others are holly opposed to it, and
swear they will cut the whole ticket
should Scheffer head it. A friend of M.
Doran said he would bitterly fight any
such movement. and friend of DR..
Ames said the same was true of him.