St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-04
A VERY GOOD SHOW.
That's What the Democrats
Have in the Local
Campaign.
Another Glance Over the
Aldermanic Field, and
Some Predictions.
The Municipal Court Will
Figure in the Legislative
Contest.
Mayor Babb's Worry About
the Only Appointment
He Has.


position that commands a reasonably
good salary and very little work, to-
gether with the average amount OF OIL
cial Importance, is something that many
MinneapolitanS are in quest Of now.
The recent s'boodle" disclosures, which
at first were supposed to have dampened
the ardor of certain candidates for
offices, are now something of the past,
and the coming season will give Mime
apolis more candidates for the different
offices to be filled next fall than were
ever before known in the history OF the
city. Official life always brings some
thing very pleasant along with it.
Though the salaries attached to many
of the offices to be filled next fall will
be less than that of new beginner In
dry goods store, still the Offices will not
go begging by any means, and many
cruel sayings will be uttered during the
fight, and those who are friends now
will nine months hence be enemieS-all
because of a paltry Office which some
one got that did not deserve II.
Politics, like flirtationS, do a great
deal of harm in the community where
they are not taken IN small doses, and
no one knows better than the profess
sional politician what an everlasting en-
nifty the differences of political opin-
ions often cause. In spite OF THIS, now
ever, many young, ambitious, and at
the same time promising men in this
city, are preparing themselves for the
coming political battle, which promises
little for the citizen who is not first
class Splinter; and then he must belong
to a particular party to be successful.
1t is strange that public opinion, which
cries for one particular individual for
this or the other office, is often beaten
by an expert Wire-puller. Such will be
the case this year with some OF the
offices where the candidates are either
too light for the office or do not give
promises TO live to the end of their
terms.
For the thirteen vacancies in the local
legislature there is good deal of sound
ing among friends being done. Some
people forget that the aldermen elected
this year will hold office for four years,
and this feature seems to stimulate the
would be aldermen wonderfully. Many
have declared their intention to fight
for the council if they were never to
make another fight. Early talk of
this kind, however. does not always do
theory of such a principle does not
always mean the same as that old adage
entitled 1.-The early Bird" etc. Some
of the members of the council, whose
terms expire this year, say they will
not be candidates for reelection: that
they would not accept the Office If they
got certificate Of election and their
salary in advance. With the exception
of Aid. John A. Gilman, of the Third
ward, every one knows that the balance
could not be returned at any cost: that
they are already on the black list among
the voters of their respective wards, and
could not be elected at all, much less
nominated. They therefore find it very
convenient to say they are tired OF
aldermanic duties; that it is tilankless
Office. and no money in it. The most
confident of the Republicans do not look
for any more than three Republican
aldernent cut of thirteen 10 be elected.
This, however, would give them ma
jority in the council. But no one sup
poses for a moment that the next cleo
ton will return more than one Repub-
lican alderman. They may get two, but
certainly no more, and few of those
who will hold over are so thoroughly
disguised with the way the machine is
being oiled now that it is more than
probable, to insure good legislation, that
they will turn in and vote and work
with the new Democratic aldermen.
| This is what Is bothering some Of the
| Republicans more than anything else.
The First ward will return Demo-
| crat: and, as BarroWS and Smith, of the
| Second, want to go to st. Paul during
| the winter, there is little hope OF Re-
publican being elected there. BarrowS
| is tired of the council and Smith thinks
his avoirdupoiS would stand by him bet
ter on the legislative ticket than trying
to defeat some Wide-awake Democrat.
| John Gilman, better known as Honest
| John from the Third ward. says he will
| not be in the race. but he may be per-
suaded to run once more. Aid. EnStad
is already training for the fight, but he
might as well make up his mind to stay
at home for he will be left there. He
| cannot be elected. The Third ward
| will return Democrat, also the Tenth.
Aid. Cole and Loye would like to get
back, but they cannot. Any ordinary
Democrat can defeat either of them.
| The neutrality-suspicious. tactics that
| both adopted over the recent council in
yestigation have already defeated them.
Cole, however, thinks he could spend
the greater part of the winter in
St. Paul with profit to himself as well
as the voters Of the district; but
as A. J. Boardman and William
Henry EustiS have not announced
| themselves as supporting Cole,
he must not count his chickens before
thew are Matched. Boardman is particu-
| larly anxious to get Cole into the field
for state senate, and far enough away
from the fences, where he must either
| lie down or fight. Cole, it must be re-
membered, was the man who spoiled the
attack Boardman's brother made last
| year on Mayor Babb when the latter
was running for his present sinecure.
| A J. Boardman has not forgotten Cole
for his interference in that matter, and
is now busily engaged getting his Cat
| ling guns ready.
| Aid. Downs and Brazie will both be
| left to attend to their own business
| after the second week in November.
1t will go hard on Tom Downs to give
I'D that imaginary bunch of keys to the
! CITY hall and all the store-rooms therein
| that he carries in his inside pocktt. But
the fates have so decreed. John A.
| Swanson and Charles Ellingsen will
make a great fight to get the vacancy in
the Sixth ward, but, like others of their
| political faith, they will be of the mi
| nority there. The Sixth will return a
| good Democrat to show Sam Hunter
| how to make 81 buy 100 cents worth.
| From the prices that some of the alder
men pay for ward commodities, one
would infer that 81 of ward money was
worth only about 20 cents. Old Father
Parry, who has the ambition to be a
legislator, will be obliged to content
himself with remaining where he is, and
to help him look after the new South
| Minneapolis market in the city council.
the voters of the Seventh ward will send
| him a good Democrat. Every one be-
leves that Father Parry will do what is
right by the new Democratic alderman
from the Seventh. 1t will be draw in
the Eighth between Sterling and Han
son, with chances in favor of the latter.
Both would like to get back, and the
taxpayers would like to get a chance to
exchange Grimes for any one, even a
lauich rap nQddIpr Grimes is no good