St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-29
CITY HALL CHAT.

port shall be so explicit that any stranger
can go through the books without clerical
help and know to mill Just how the city
affairs stand. This report. it is expected,
will be ready for submission TO The regula
meeting of the board of aldermen of the
common council.
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A number of exceedingly secret meetings
have been held of late, and they are of unusual
political significance. These meetings have
been held under Republican auspices. and
the tenor of the objects have been to induce
Hon. William Lindeke Sr. TO accept the Re-
publican nomination for mayor. 1t is re-
ported upon reliable information. that at least
haif-dozen meetings have been held of late
with this object in view
II
But the st. Paul kids are not to be requited
in this way. They have demanded that
Kiefer be the recipient of the mayoralty
honors and they have made their demand SO
strong-and Henry Johns is reported TO be
among the foremost OF the kid element of
agitators, and his influence is supposed to be
leglon-and the war RACES fast and furious
On the one hand is seen the APPALLING
array of the fnanciers of the party espous-
Ing the part of the candidacy of William
Lindeke. On the other hand come the thun-
dering hordes of kids led by the doughty
and invincible Captains Henry Johns and
Frank Reese. Here promises to be coils
ion that will make sport for the boys. The
Lindeke adherents are meeting semi
ionally in the vicinity Of the Endicott
Arcade. while the others. the kids, meet at
the Clarendon.
IT
Mayor Robert A. Smith is likely to be the
democratic candidate. and the interest in
tensifes with this declaration. Certain it is
that there are no political honors that can be
coupled with the Office that can lend any at
traction for Mayor Smith. He has been
graced with all the prestige that accompanies
the political preferment and he now simply
awaits the candid declaration of his party.
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Should these meetings that have been held
of late near the corner of Robert and
Fourth streets eliminate in anything
powerful. Col. Kiefer must take a
back seat, but the generalisimo behind
the movement has engineered a flank
maneuyer that it is supposed at least will
simply parayZe the Democrats. The astound-
ing finding of the last grand jury is in line
with the thought. And now the moralists are
once more engaged in the praiseworthy pur-
suit of inspecting the records of the licenses
issued under city auspices. with view to
bringing indictments under the criminal
code. But the city clerk has just returned
from Washington. and he extends the most
cordial invitation to all the political ma
chimes to call and examine the method Of
keeping books in vogue under a Democratic
administration.
IT.
AS intimated, Hon. Robert A. Smith is the
accredited candidate of the workingmen and
the Democrats. He favors the alienation of
the present suffering among workingmen
out of employment by giving them work on
the immediate construction OF permanent
auditorium, and this idea gives rise TO null
hilarious condition of ideas. There is the
proposition of going on and completing the
plans on the present site. and in contra posi-
ton comes the plan for the Rice park site,
etc.
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Architect Reeds, of course, an enthusiast
for the present, or the Market house site. "Of
course Is an expression used because it was
supposed he would not be tickle in The mat
ter of carrying out the project contemplated
in the plans made by him and carried to
Washington. Yet he is one of the self-opin-
donated patriots who can be truly designated
as both liberal and considerate. Architect
Reed feels comfortably safe behind his forti-
fications and he feels like offering a little
philosophy and geometricSl science now and
thence. He had been very observing
and his attention was attracted early in the
controversy to the fact that municipal
election campaign came on next May. But
he is shrewd, and he would have absolutely
nothing to do with the one party nor the
other. Consequently there is bare possibil-
q m hQ in b tof
party affiliations and party conflict Yet he
keeps straight on protesting that his are the
cheapest and most practical plans of all that
have been submitted.
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Architect Reed is of logical turn of
mind and he hesitates to supply a declaration
without furnishing all unequivocal and reas-
enable explanation. He does not urge that
the Market house is the only site possible for
permanent auditorium. But he THINKS
however, it is the most practicable under all
circumstances that have arisen to date.
Il disapprove," said he yesterday, 'of the
proposition Of consolidating the auditorium
and public library, because the two institu-
tons are so especially dissimilar. The audi
forum should be in the heart nf the city,
with the best possible street car facilities,
while public library should be sufficiently
ing room. The state historical society has a
lot, understand at the corner of Wabasha
and Tenth streets-fifty feet front This is
an ideal spot for library. Now. let the city
buy fifty feet more and constitute q CONSOLE
dation with the state society, and the best
possible results will follow
MY idea, he pursued, sis to have the
auditorium, the armory and the public nata-
forum under one roof. The natatorium
and the auditorium must necessarily be re-
moved because of the needs of each, so dis
tinct. The public bath rooms would place
the stage rooms at too high an elevation.
Again, the argument must be palpable with
out explanation that the site under an audi
forum or public assembly room is not quite
proper. A public bath room must have at
least fifteen feet head room for spring
board and other athletic opportunities.
Under the armory this Is practicable
THE proposition to occupy the entire st.
Peter street front as an auditorium has its
merits he pursued. THAT win give at least
100 feet for business purposes on the Wa
baSha street side. Then there will be q
chance for art galleries or any other uses the
City may see fit to make of the rooms in the
stories above"
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All these different phases of this public
theme that agitates public sentiment at pres
ent give rise to wide divergence of thought.
The plan is suggested that the site should be
changed, and the city market property sold
and the proceeds devoted to public fund
for an auditorium, but there is no charter au-
thority for such a course. The only chance
for such course would be in the public
spirit of the citizens They would be obliged
to give notes to insure good faith. These
hah 10 hQ tol no.,
the work of improvement could progress.
He Gets $4,000.
Special to the Globe.
FARGO, N. d., Jan. 2s.-Frank Rasp-