St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-09
BAD DAY FOR JoBBERY.
Nichols and His Clique Emulate
Eli Perkins to Rectify Mistake
They Made

Nichols ana HIS cirque Emulate
Eli Perkins to Rectify a Mistake
They Made.
Sam Nichols Is not a professional pre-
varicator, but not few of those who
had been lured into the quarters of the
Young Mems Republican club at IL a.
m. yesterday by the published call for a
| meeting of delegates to the Republican
city convention to-day were impressed
| with the fact that when necessity calls
| for it Mr. Nichols is abfe to give the
truth wide berth.
AT IL a. III. Sunday, when all good
people were on their way to church,
about fifty of the men and boys who
will to-day participate in the farce
comedy which will be given the title of
Republican city convention were
gathered in the room of the Young
Mems Republican club, Fifth and Min
nesota streets. Mr.. Nichols was of the
number, as were Stanford Newell,
George G. Squires, Fred IngersOll and
others of the gang which makes states
for the G. o. 2. Each new arrival made
all haste to ask "WhO called this
meeting?' the inquiries in the
main being directed to the clique
of which Mr.. Nichols is the head. NO
one was able to vouchsafe reply that
was in the slightest degree satisfactory.
A few in the gathering were well aware
who had caused the call for the meeting
to be published in an evening paper
Saturday. One of them stated to
GLOBE reporter, who was there, tnat
the call was issued byn other man than
MIR. Nichols himself and taken by his
henchman, Mr.. Ingersoll, to this
Office for publication. Both OF those
gentlemen, however. denied all knoWl-
considerable quiet smiling INDUCED III
by those who were on to the scheme
and realized what muSS Nichols nad
made of it.
Finally Mr.. Nichols bobbed up in
front of the gathering, assumed sanity
expression, and having raped for order,
said in husky tone:
Gentlemen of the con-that is, my
friends. | do not call this meeting to
order by virtue of any authority vested
in member of the city committee, but
simply to offer few words OF eXplana-
ton. BY whom this meeting was called
| do not know suppressed laughterl,
and | wish it to be understood by those
who are here that l had nothing to do
with it, l saw the call and came here,
as the rest of you did, to see what was
going on"
By this time Mr.. Nichols voice had
grown so faint as to be scarcely audible
to those in the rear of this room. lie
gave an appealing glance III the dlrec-
ton where sat MeSSrs. Newell, Squlres
and IngerSoii. The last named realized
that something must be done to save
his friend Nichols from utter collapse,
Ii lu q
adjourn. Mr.. Nichols declared the
motion to have been adopted with
out going through the usual formalities.
Then the delegates grabbed for their
hats and proceeded to vacate. 1t was
noticed that the chief conspiratorS-
Messrs. Nichols, Newell, Ingersoll and
SquireS-were in 10 hurry to leave, and
inquiry developed the fact that III. E.
Hall, secretary of the club, had opened
the rooms at the solicitation OF one of
the ouartette. When all but bare half
dozen of the delegates had departed
the quartette skipped in the direction OF
the Summit avenue club room, there to
fix the slate which will be run through
the convention to-day.
The young blood of the party is
heartily sick of the way in which
Nichols is bossing affairs, and open re-
volt is threatened if he continues his
present tactics. They wanted tie make
Elmer E. Mcdonald chairman of to-
days convention, but the clique OBJ
jected, and Mr.. Mcdonald will not be
chairman Nichols slate, which is Of the
back-number variety, is said to include
Peter ThauWald for treasurer, and Will
lam Bickel, John Fisher, Michael
Lang and Col. Kerr for aldermen at
large.
1t was given out cold last night, by
those who are in position to be well in
formed on the subject. that Col. Kiefer
will decline to be the Republican can
didate for mayor. While he would APP
preeiate the compliment if the nomina-
ton were rendered him, he would for
private reasons put away the crown that
has string to it.
Nichols is trying to infuse into the
civic campaign some of the thunder
which WILDE used in the gubernatorial
contest next fall. AS supporter of
Merriam he is down on Scheffer and
Scheffer's friends, and will see to it that
none of the latter get into prominence
by being put Oh the city ticket. State
Oil Inspector FL. B. Willis also is dead
set against the Schetfer contingent
and is allied with Nichols in this
hgnt against Inen anu TOT Tile
purpose of whooping it up for McGill in
any way that he can. Several of the
delegates said last night that the con-
vention to-day would first tender the
nomination for the mayoralty to Col.
Kiefer, and on receiving his declination,
which will be forthcoming at the proper
time, will indorse the candidacy of
Mayor Smith.
Another Independent Candidate.
At the Democratic city convention on
Saturday ex-Ald. P. j. Dreis was can
didate for city treasurer, receiving seven
votes. He has an idea that he should
have been nominated, and, having failed
in the convention, announces himself as
an independent candidate.