St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-16
IT FAILED TO WORK,
Henry Gjertsen's Bob-TaiIed
Caucus Did His Candidacy
Little Good.
The Park Board Left to Fight
Out the Selection OF
Attorney.
Thomas Lowry Effectually
Disposed Of by the Trades
and Labor.
EX-Librarian Putnam's Re-
port--Judge Hicks Label
Decision.


did not succeed in binding any one to
support particular candidate. The
caucus was held last night in the Office
of j. A. Ridgway, in the Bank of Com
merce building. The following men were
present: \. c. Hangar. W. W. Folwell.
S. 8. Loye, J. H. Bradish, j. A. Ridg-
way and A. Z. Allen.
All of these gentlemen are member
OF the Minneapolis park board. They
were called together to select eandl
date for the Office of attorney OF the
board. to be filed AT the meeting of the
board today. Early in the morning car
riages were flying to all parts of the
city TO get these men, and bring them
TO the gathering of the faithful. They
were gathered all right, but the gather
ing did but little good after it was ac-
cOmplished.
The fact that caucus was held i'll the
Office of j. a. Rldgway. known par
tisan Of {. J. Rock wood, the present at
torney for the board, and one of the
candidates that will come before the
board today, shows that the caucus was,
Ostensibly, in the intereStof lockwood.
interest of Henry Gjertsen, another cam
didate. The man to whose skill must be
given the credit for this coup d. etat is
none other than Lars Rand, the partner
or Henry Gjertsen. Rand has been
managing Gjertsen'S campaign. 1t all
came about III this way: Mayor Wins
ton being out Of the city, and President
Potter likewise, Vice President Gray is
acting mayor of Minneapolis, and,
therefore, member of the park board.
Gray is lockwood man, and, as he
lives out of the Thirteenth ward. it was
thought best to not ask him to come all
the way down town to caucus A. j.
Boardnan, another lockwood man, is
sick, so he could not be there. Jesse
NOrthrop is supposed to be lockwood
man Though he is nOt, so he was left
out OF the call. Of those who were
gathered at the caucus it was supposed
by the astute managers that all but two
could be counted upon for Gjertsen.
The supposedly faithful four were
Hangar, Allen. Bradish and Love-
Hangar and Allen were thought 10 be
all right anyhow, and Rand expected to
swing Love and BradiSh by the weight
of his aldermanic influence. The plan
was to get the two staunch lockwood
men, FOlwell and Ridgway, into a hot
bed OF GjertSen sentiment, and then
prevail upon them to support the
OF the caucus. The fgurers were
at fault somewhere. When the first
vote was taken on attorney it was found
that FOlwell and Ridgway had been re-
inforced by Loye. Haugan and Brad
lsh were the only men who would stand
by GjertSen. Allen was non-cOmmittal.
That threw the game off. The Rock
wood men could neither De influenced
for GjertSen, nor could the Gjertsen
men muster enough votes to make their
candidate the choice of the bob-tailed
caucus, and therefore, seemingly, the
candidate of the caucus. 1t seems to
have been case of double cross that
failed to work.
The upshot of this caucus will be
that the board will be called upon 70
elect an attorney today without a slate
having been agreed upon. There is a
prospect of good fight. The Republic
ans will hold another caucus today,
but it Is doubtful if they can agree.
The Democrats, under the leadership
Of }. w. Lawrence, will be in the fight
today. Their candidate is Benjamin
Clay. He could, it is estimated. have
the six Democratic votes. Under
normal conditions two from the Repub-
leans would give him the election. 1t
is possible that he might get them.
This part of the programme is some
what interfered with, however, by
the departure for Washington
of BALDWIN Brown ana Mayor
Winston, so that the strength of
the Democrats on the board today will
be reduced to four. They have little
hope of electing their man, although
they will make fight and may find the
Republicans divided sufficiently to al
low the Democrat to win.
Fred &. Cook is an Important factor
in this fight for the attorneyship of the
board He has good, strong Following
already. None of the members of the
board have anything against him and
many of them think highly
of him. He will PROBABLY get
the votes that would go to Clay,
were there chance of Clay's election,
and he will get some CT the lockwood
men. if lockwood fail Of election early
i'll the balloting. Gjertsen cannot get
the prize now. The lockwood men,
after the game that was played on them
last night, will not allow Gjertsen to be
elected, and the Democrats will have
nothing to do with him. 1t looks like
either lockwood or Cook.
The bOb-tailed caucus did agree upon
three of the officers to be elected today.
A. j. Boardman will be made president
of the board, and Wallace G. Nye will
be reelected secretary, and MPerry
superintendent.