St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-23

ANiStN
out the members of the committee
pecuniarily for their herculean services
in running the campaign. cannot be
stated definitely until near the close OF
the contest.
But be this as it may, the Republican
city committee have very large cam
paign fund now in their hands. They
have assessed the candidates Oh their
ticket as follows:
Col. A. r. Kiefer, candidate for
lndNOf. S1.OOO
S. H. Nichols, candidate for comp,
Conrad Miller, candidate for city
treasurer. 500
W. T. Burr, candidate for Judge -. 500
G. j. Lomen, candidate for judge. 500
Seventeen aldermanicS candidates.
$3.50 each, aggregating.. ........... 1850
GOV. Merriam ......." ......... 1,oop
Total assessments. .............. 5000
Gov. Merriam'S subscription or assess
ment headed the list, and 1t is said
caused Col. Kiefer to groan when he
saw his placed at $500; for while the
colonel is posing as the party's standard
bearer for $1,000 year office, the gov
ernor has really obtained sure thing
i'll the way of a SubServient city commit
tee, which is worth great deal of good
hard cash later in the summer. Com
mitteeman Fitzgerald, of the finance
end of the Republican city committee,
is lndustriOusly pegging away at Re-
publicanS everywhere for contributions,
and this $7,050 of assessments will
probably be almost doubled before the
end of this week. In view of this the
party workers ought to insist ON seeing
some of the stuff. The fact that man
is made committeeman ought not to
entltie him to all the ''boodle" as we'll
as the honor. So far the legitimate eX-
penses of the Republican city COM
mittee have been very small, and either
they ought to commence disbursing it
to the workers or stop collecting.
Aid. Matt LeithauSer is assessed $50
for the privilege OF running on the Re-
publican ticket in the Second ward and
the whole machinery of the party is
being used there for the benefit of l.. E.
Reed, the syndicate candidate. One of
the Republican aldermanic candidates
returned his assessment notice day Or
two ago to the committee with the brief
remark that the committee might "go
to HI" and he positively refused 10
contribute a cent. He is probably the
only man who failed to ''come down."
and so the assessments on candidates
will foot up the enormous sum of Sc, 900.
no! But the Republican committeeman
ought to explain what use they have
for $4,000 in little city campaign.
Gov. Merriam was the proper man to
head the subscription paper for many
reasons, prominent among which is the
fact that he is generally conceded to be
able to give more and better pointers on
1.-THE use of money in politics" than any
other man in the city. Col. Kiefer
knows how to trade off every other man
running Oh his ticket better than any
other Republican in the city. He has
had experience in this line, you know.
The syndicate candidate ought to
read his speeches at political
meetings. 1t would save him the trouble
of ''doctoring" the shorthand reporters
notes. Yesterday he spent upwards of
an hour in revising the proof of his
speech as published in an afternoon pa
per-. AS it appeared, it represents what
he did not say quite as frequently as
what he did say.
Secretary Normandin, of the Eighth
ward Democratic club, makes the fol-
lowing announcements:
A grand Democratic rally is to be held
on Thursday evening at Marquardt's
hail, 23S Carroll street, corner of Louis
street, and every Democrat and friend
of the cause of all the respective ma
tionaIitles are invited to be present.
The officers and members of the Eighth
Ward Democratic club are in hopes to
see one of the largest Democratic meet
ings ever held in st. Paul, for we shall
have the honor of the presence of most
of the Candidates of the Democratic
fIalyn an homo 70
see large audience to do honor to
these gentlemen. Able speakers will
be present to address the meeting in
the English, German and Polish Ian
guages. A very big time is anticipated.
All persons who have been promised
| appointments under the administration
of Col. A. r. Kiefer, if elected, are re-
queSted to meet this "wednesday even
ing at o'clock at new Turner hall, on
Franklin street.
The Second ward Democrats will hold
rousing rally at the corner of Fau-
uuIer and Arcade streets this evening.
Good speakers will be on hand, and one
of the pest meetings of the campaign is
assured.
Thursday evening the Fifth ward
Democrats will meet at G. S. p. S. hall,
corner of West Seventh street and
Western avenue. There will be
speeches by George Mitsch Sr. and sew
eral other well-known Democrats. GG
81 shall support Mayor Smith because
| he is the best man for the city of st.
Paul to have in the Office OF mayor" re-
marked III. B. Willis, one of the most
prominent Republicans in ST. Paul, yes
| terday. "ThiS may sound diSloyal. but
| I do not think that the Republican
| party can afford to elect Col. Kiefer
mayor. At any rate, whether loyal or
disloyal, l shall vote for Mayor Smith,
| and | should be grievOusly disappointed
should his opponent be elected. do
not think there is any doubt of Smiths
winning. haven't met a single Re-
publican who proposed to vote for
Kiefer since [ returned to the city
! few days ago."
The detection among the colored
voters is causing the Kiefer leaders no
end of annoyance. They realize that
the colored men do not propose to
be satisfied with mere promises in the
| future; they want something substan-
tial. ''What has the Republican party
| of Minnesota done for us in all the
years it has been in power?' remarked
prominent Afro-American yesterday,
while discussing the action of the Col
ored Citizens union in indorslng Mayor
| Smith Monday evening. ''The onlyrec-
ognition we have ever received in Min
| nesota has come from that good old
man Edmund Rice and his successor in
| the office of mayor of st. Paul, Mayor
| Smith. Bob Smith will get my vote,
and l hope and believe he will get more
than three-fourths of the colOred vote of
| the city,"
"Why is it that every man who has