St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-11
The Republican County Com
mittee Bound to Raise a
Big Doodle Fund
! Commence Levying Tribute
ON Uncle Sans Gaugers
i in Dakota County.
; The Organ Of the Republican
Candidates Makes a Bad
n Break.
Political Happenings of the
Day Chronieled for Globe
Readers.
Fotir dollars day is d-n poor pay,
When you'vesgot campaign assessment t.

hOoAOI0s
Fotir dollars day is d-n poor pay,
When you etgot a cam paign assessment to
pay.
This is the sad refrain that was
hummed all day yesterday at the South
st. Paul distiliery by the gaugers EN-
ployed there. Of course. this distillery
is located i'll Dakota county, but this
fact did not keep the Ramsey county
Republican committee from looking up
the names of Uncle Sans pensioners
down there and notifying them that
they were expected to reach down into
their pockets and contribute some
thing toward the expenses of the
campaign in this city. Just why
the gaugers should have been the first
victims selected is not known. 1t NAV
be because Chairman Lowenstein was
until recently gauger himself, ana as
such became thoroughly posted on the
munifcent salaries received by this
class OF government employees. Again.
it may be that the distinguished chair
man has assessed the entire outfit IN
Revenue Collector Johnson's office, from
the willy Marcus down to the Office bow,
and the gaugerS are the only ones who
nave given the snap away.
1t the present Republican county
committee has long suit it is on this
matter OF campaign assessments, notices
OF which have been received by nearly
. every Republican of any prominence
whatever in the city. The hotels, too,
have been regarded as soft marks, and,
1t is said that both the Ryan and the
Merchants have been notified to come
down with something for the cause, OF
course many of the men to whom these
lmpudent notices were sent declined to
be bled in this manner and paid no
attention whatever to them. Others,
however. sent in the amount
levied upon them, with the result that
up to the last few days the committee
has had plenty of ready cash for the
campaign. When this supply of cash
got low. which was only a few DAYS
since, new set of victims were sought
for, and then came this assessment of
the federal officeholders at the South
st. Paul distlllery.
But where has all this money gone.
the assessments paid in by the candi-
dates and by prominent Republicans
like j. p. Gribben, William Lindeke.
and others?
Fart OF 1t went into an elaborate and
useless poll of the city-unless because
has not and cannot be completed.
1hlS is said to have cost upwards of
$1,000. Then three times as many men
have been in the employ of the commit
tee as was necessary, considering the
amount of cash on hand for the expenses
OF the campaign. Then. too, great
number of ward heelers, who have been
outof work since the election of 1855.
poqnced down upon the committee, and
were given more cash. All these thugs
haye taken SO much money that there
Is none Oh hand now to hire halls or
provide for the other necessary ex-
penditures for the holding of public
meetings.
" course this is not in any wise the
fault ct. Chairman Lpwenstein. He was
given to understand that plenty of
money would be provided for the most
elaborate kind of campaign, and such
he set out to make. The first rock he
ran against was the state house, where
all the clerks and officers were assessed
and few paid. The governor next de-
cllned TO put out very large amount,
and so 1t went. Had it not been for the
large number of Republicans outside
the of1iceholdng class who came for
ward and contributed, Mr.. Lowenstein
would have been left in very bad place
right at the start.
But line ought to be drawn some
where. If the federal employees at
South st. Paul are Obliged to pay local
campaign assessments the money ought
to go to the Republican committee in
Dakota county, where they do their
work and where most Of these men live.
verify the nerve of the Ramsey
county, republican committee passeth
all understanding!
Alex Mckenzie, North Dakota's favor
lite son, who has been spending several
days in st. Paul, left for Fargo last
evening. To a GLOBE reporter. who
requested him to talk on the subject of
North Dakota politics for the benefit of
the people of the Northwest, he said:
II have not been interviewed by a
newspaper for a year and a half, and |
wish to declare that all the interviews
that have been published as coming
from me in that time have been false.
L have been outrageously misrepre-
sented in certain papers during the last
year. but l do not make a practice of
airing my woes in the papers,"
what do you know about the sena-
GLOBE representative.
II am too far away from the battle
field to know anything about that,v he
answered. with smile. "Besides,n he
continued, sit is too early to make any
projections"
The evening organ of the Republican
city ticket-not the Republican, party.
by the Way-came out in frantic arti-
Gle last evening claiming that the
wicked Democrats were trying to per.
suade those innocent lambs, the Prohi-
bitlonlsts. into putting up county
ticket. Up to the present time the
GLOBE and the Democratic party have
been quite content to let the Prohibit
tlonists manage their own affairs Just as
they please. The Democratic party
is not engaged in the business of
furnishing either candidates or inspira-
ton to the Prohibitionists, and doesn't
care whit what they do. The Repub-
llcan assessment organ. however. laid
itself wide open last evening, and DEM
or1strated conclusiEely that the Repubii-
can, politicians have been taking a very
great interest in the affoirs of the Pro-
hibItion party of Ramsey county, and
for the first time in the existence of the
sheet in question good word is spoken
for the cold water men. OF course, this
looks just little suspicious, but it dem
onsEates conciusively which party is
t'm9nkeying" with the unsophisticated
ProhibitioDist.
Cant. w ri Harrjps tho Dpmooraotic