The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-15
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Mr.. Kleinsohmidt's Lieutenants
Working Hard to Secure Him
the Nomination.
How Mr.. Kluge IL Looking Out
for the Mayor In the
Seventh.
Candidates for the Various Offices Rally
of tho Republicans at Electric
Hall Last Night.

The only man who il doing any work Ia
connection with the coming municipal
campaign il Mayor Kleinschmidt. II
necessary the mayor will make . fight for
n denomination, but he much prefers to go
into ths city convention without my OPP
position. To accomplish this latter end he
is hard at work, a. are his lieutenants,
Messrs. Sims, Walters and Street Commits
sionsr kluge. Thu mayor,is credited with
depending more on the latter for aid IN
carrying tho primaries than on any one
else. Thoxe who say this Judge 80 frsm the
fact that the street commissioner has az
parsntly been given q carts blanche on the
matter of employing men and doing street
work. There have been employed for q
week or more 4 number of men and teams.
at an expense Of $50 a day, cutting down
Fifth avenue in the vicinity Of Hoback
street. The street is being eut down about
three feet, and the plan is to got the rock
crusher over there and macadenizs il. Il
ID a job that il is estimated will cost about
s., 500. Alderman Morris, Who is tho chair
man Of the streets and alleys committees,
was asked yesterday If there had been q
petition presented to the council for the
work. He said there had. and ia reply TO
another question said the committee had
not authorized it. He did not know under
whose authority the street commissioner
was acting in the matter.
If the Fourth ward alderman would in
quirc he would probably find that Mr..
KluRe is going to make sure Of the Seventh
ward delegation in the city convention for
Mr.. Kleinschmidt, and this ID ono Of the
methods 10 is taking to accomplish his
object. The mayor calculates on going int
the convention with solid delegations from
the First. Third, Fourth and Seventh
wards. So far there ID no organized opposi-
ton to him, bat there ID a strong under
current, especially in the Sixth ward, for
Alderman Morris. Mr.. Morris also has q
strong following in the Fifth, while if he
would work for it he would give Mr.. Klein
ssohmidt = lively race in tho Fourth. Mr..
Morris friends are handicapped by the
fact that the gentlemen will not formally
himself as a candidate. 1t he
would do so, it ID believed he would give
the mayor q harder fight for the nomina-
tion than any other man in the party.
On ths democratic side there are no
signs of organized effort on this part Of any
one to capture the mayoralty nomination.
John @. Curtin is by all odds the choice Of
those who express an opinion. For city
treasurer the democrats have lots Of good
timber to choose from. VIM. G. Hickey is
named as q sure winner; John j. Fallon it
Is believed would make q good race, while
s. Poznanski ia regarded as in every way
qualified to fill the Office. On the "repub-
lican sido Jimmy Walker will have a walk
over for the nomination.
The best office in tho CITY ia that Of rolioe
Judge. The salary ia $4,000 a ear, aud the
fees in county and civil business bring it mp
to So, 800. The present incumbent will got
the nomination from the repnblioans, but
no one il spoken of as ysgt for the5otioe by
tho democrats. 4fstM9S N
The fight for the alde.nlanio plums ia
already on. In the first Alderman Klein is
after the republican nomination.. and he
will probably DO opposed by Eugene Meyer.
August Faok ia regarded az a strong oandi-
date by the democrats. In the second Dr..
dates, but SO far no other name has been
mentioned by either party. There are wo
vacancies to be filled. In the third Alder
man Hartwig will be urged to stand again.
Harry Luke is also mentioned az a cundi-
date. No republican has yet announced
the nomination in the fourth, while Fl. NJ.
Brandseee may be the democratic nominee.
In the fifth Alderman Wilmer will try to
get the republican, nomination. Who will
get the democratic is not known. In the
sixth the woods are full of republican can
didates. Angus Mcdonald. a popular
Northern Pacific engineer is regarded as
the strongest. A. N. Adams Is another,
Judge Floischer another, F. E. Thiems
another, VIM. Kranich and h. II,
Howey. Daniel Hanley, whose term
expires, has made 4 good alderman. and
there appears to be a unanimous desire on
the part Of the democrats to give him an
other term. In the seventh Contractor
Fiske and w. S. Votaw are fighting for the
republican nomination. Emil Wommals-
dorf has y good following among the dem
oorats, and il is believed he will make .
strong candidate.