St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
Republicans Are Beginning
to Take Up the Local
Campaign.
Rev. Falk Gjertsen Is Roasted
Right and Left to the
Queens Taste.
The Hess Opera Company to
Begin Tonight It's Last
Week Here.
General News of the Day
Gathered by Vigilant
Globe Reporters.

lican camp for the office of mayor. The
andidates who really want the place
are not particularly numerous, but what
few there are of them are putting a
large amount of hustle into it. Aid. E.
G. Potter is putting more work into his
canvass than any other candidate; but.
while he himself entertains glowing
hopes of success. he stands but
a small show of winning. The
party leaders are afraid to nominate
him. While Potter is Woodworking,
energetic alderman. his affiliations are
such as to almost certainly preclude the
possibility of his election. Potter stands
too close to the anti-Catholic faction,
the real society, to be elected. and the
men who control his party in Mime
apolis are aware of that fact. The
recognized organizers of the anti-Cath-
Ole movement are doing too much open
work for their candidate.
Some of the local politicians who are
unfriendly to A. j. Boardman are prone
to believe that that rotund and massive
gentleman is casting longing eyes upon
the mayoralty, and they are already on
their feet to prevent it. Boardman GER
tainly wants something, and it is quite
certain that he would be willing to sac
rifice himself to the interests of the
party. but there are too many among
the Minneapolis Republicans who
prefer sacrificing the party to
gratifying the ambition of Boardman.
Boardman may get the nomination,
for he is politician and knows how to
work, but he needs must work hard.
vuhi0h 10 n RnorG m N e
favor. namely, his being a politician,
initiates against another man who has
been furtively mentioned for mayor. j.
7. Wyman. Wyman is not politician,
and it is the politician who usually sue
ceeds in a city election. But Wyman
has friends who will work for him
should he desire the nomination, and
he is not thought to be particularly am
bilious politically, on account of which
lack of ambition he would not object
strenuously to the 'hoodoo'' powers of
the mayoralty. so he may just get that
plum-or crabapple, as some believe it
to be. Wyman is certainly a dark
horse.
Senator Clough is another man for
whom a good deal Of quiet work is be-
ing done. Like Boardman, however.
ClOugh has many bitter enemies, as was
evidenced at the Republican state con-
vention, who are not anxious to see him
nominated. Clough, moreover, is just
a bit superstitious about that mayoralty
''hoodoo," and, as he entertains polit-
ical ambitions beyond those to be
wholly gratifed by the chief magistracy
of a city, he is not over-anXious to go
into the field. He has enthusiastic
CT vrrIn n n
hard for him and he may be
pushed in. Then there is Hangar.
The vice president of the park
board is not saying much these warm
days. He is attending strictly to bust
ness and letting politics alone-on the
surface-but he is closely watching the
current of the political stream. Men
who profess to know claim that he
wants to be mayor-really wants to
handle the municipal reins. If these
be correct, he is certainly the strongest
man of those mentioned. He has friends
in all parties, and would give the
Democratic candidate a close run. A.
j. Blethen is understood to not be
candidate. He is earnestly devoting
his time and energy to killing the-Pio-
neer Press in Minneapolis, to getting
pack at George A. Bracket and to max
ing few people believe that the Irlb-
une is the only paper on earth. Last
but not least. there is Babb. The old
lady has given it out that she does not
want denomination and that she would
not accept one. However, the feeling
prevails that should the whole Repub-
lican party of Minneapolis arise as one
man and assert with one voice that
Babb must lead the hosts to victory or
daofh pahh yunnIG calmly CfrOXn hiC
beard and accept in carefully pre-
pared typewriter statement.
This is just abont as the Republican
party stands in Minneapolis. The
above are the principal candidates who
are being mentioned, and who are work.
ing to secure good position before the
starter drops the flag, but the stables
contain several dark horses, who are be-
ing carefully groomed preparatory to
sudden start in an impromptu race.
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Rev. NJ. Falk Gjertsen is catching ii
right and left for entering actively into
politics as a Republican wirepuller.
The Progressive Age reads the reverend
gentleman the following lecture:
''Rev. GjertSen, of Minneapolis one OF
the fOrty-five delegates to the Republic
can state convention, Oh the floor OF
that convention regretted that there was
a high license plank in the Republican
state platform. No doubt he did
Listen to his reasons. These they are
in effect: The Prohibitionists will now
have an opportunity to make political
capital out of our position on the liquor
question. We therefore should be silent
His expressions of regret were not be.
cause he did not believe in high Ii
cense, but because the deliverance OF
his party on that question would
endanger its success. Yes, he was
willing to be silent upon what he him
self has frequently, in private ano
public utterance, claimed to be the
great question of the day, for party pur
poses. He would have himself and his
party stultifed, by concealing theil
principles, all for party's sake. CoulC
anything be more astounding
than that? Has it come Il
such a crisis in political NOR
ais, that it is not disgraceful for re
spectacle citizen to take such posi-
ton? The party first, the principle an(
the individual afterwards! Heresy a.
rank as hell to American liberty is this
We are charitable enough to believe
that Mr.. Giertsen, in moment of polit
lcal party lHlOAlcaGlOIl, spoke unS udTu
edly. We mean to say kinder word
than that for him. We know he spok,
unguardedly. We believe he mis-
spoke. and thus misrepresented him
self, in this particular. If the party be
lieves in high license, it had the RICH
to say SO, for the question is leadin!
one. The declaration of the Republican
state convention on the license question
was one of the most honest utterance
of that convention. We know nov
just where to find them. The party il
convention assembled had more cour
age than Mr.. Giertsen, one of its mem
bers. That gentleman was his owl
greatest enemy"
The Republican papers are engage,
in the congenial task of trying to get u
afght in the Democratic ranks, with
view to dividing its vote, being wei
aware that this is the only chance TO
Republican success. Thus far result
have not been brilliant, to say the least
They have brought out the old antag
onism that is well known to have e1
listed between DR.. Ames and the lat
Eugene M. Wilson,. 1t would seem tina
these papers that have profeSsed to re