St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-02
SAINT PAUL.
PUTTING UP SLOWLY.
Republicans DisincIined to Pay
Their Assessments With
Promptness.
A General AIl-Round Row he
ported in the County Com
mittee.

There is a good-sized war Oh between
the Republican county committee anu
the Republican candidates for Office IN
Ramsey county. And there Is 1alr
prospect that it will disrupt the county
campaign, if not result dlsastrously 10
the state campaign. 1t seems that the
subscribers to the county campaign
fund are generally in arrears. and the
committee has been using means 10
bring them to time. The committee,
after several executive sessions, came
to the conclusion that there was noth-
ing left to do but shame these fellows
by striking them off the list. MONDAY
night the committee met III executive
session and read the entire list OF SUD-
scribers. which showed that not more
than one-quarter of the amount SUD-
scribed had been paid, and began the
work of striking off names. After they
had striken off as many as they dared
to, they deferred further action in that
direction to a meeting to be called by
the chairman, the executive committee
being instructed to do all in its power
to bring these fellows to time.
1t also transpires that the delinQuentS
comprise every candidate for office. VI
course, the committee hesitated about
going to the extreme measure of strlk-
ing these from the list.
The assessments taxed against the
candidates are: One hundred dollars
for each candidate for the legislature,
and $500 for each candidate for princi-
pal office, such as county treasurer,
county attorney, auditor, sheriff, regis
ter of deeds and Judge of probate.
&. NJ. Orr has paid but $50 of his as
sessment. Harry johns and Frank Day
ton have paid none of their assessments.
And of the remaining candidates FOR
the legislature scarcely one has paid
more than q mere pittance. Zollman,
their candidate for county attorney, has
paid about $3.50 of his assessment, and
not one of the other candidates for the
principal offices has paid more than
$500.
And here is where the row arose.
These fellows have not only not paid,
but say they will not. They say they
will not, because the county committee
Is utterly worthless, and is doing them
no good in the campaign. They say that
more utterly worthless committee was
never gotten together by any party, and
they propose to keep their money and
run their own campaign. They say they
can do some good with it themselves;
but if they give it to the committee it
will be equal to throwing it in the fire.
The candidates make little effort to be
discreet in airing their views of the
committee. They say 1t is a perfectly
hfeless body, and as aimless as it is
lfeleSs. They charge that not mem
Der of it seems TO be possessed Of the
slightest political ShreWdneSs. 1t has
permitted some of the best speakers i'll
the party to come to st. Paul and talk to
mere handsful of people, all because
the meetings were not properly adj
vertiSed. The candidates charge
that John Enander. the celebrated
Swedish orator, came here, and
only few of the committee knew
he was here. His meeting was not adj
vertiSed until the day before he came,
and then only a few bills were scattered
and they in localities where few of the
Swedish population live. AS result
of this shittlessness Enander spoke to a
very small audience, and went away
from the city enraged at his reception.
This state of affairs promises a sensa-
ton which will probably break within
a day or two.
The Democrats, they assert, have
walked all over the Republicans by this
lifeleSsnesS. Torchlight procession aft
er procession have patrolled the streets
carrying Democratic banners and shout
Ing and making the nights wild with
enthusiasm, while once in long time a
handful of Republicans get out on the
streets with torches and walk as though
they were ashamed of themselves.
Oh, there is fun ahead, and the Demo
cratic cohorts are marching on to vic
tory.
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