St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01
EFFORT TO KILL OFF MGHL
And Continue the Present Ad-
ministration by Proxy.
FED HOT AND STILL HEATING.
MeGill Men Claim They viii
Carry Convention
AND Knock Dr.. WHEATON OUT.

When the GLOBE stated recently that
Mayor Wright was candidate for the
Republican nomination. in spite of his
letter. it stated the exact facts. and the
programme was at that time as given.
When the Dispatch reporters started
to get interviews to launch the Wright
boom, it soon developed that the
game would not work. Mayor
Wright therefore held secret
meeting with friends and reluctantly and
finally decided not to be candidate
provided he could name the candidate.
The legatee was to agree to keep the
present police force intact, and hence
perpetuate the protection" our citizens
have so literally and literally enjoyed
the past year. --
McGill was first interviewed, but he
declined to pledge himself to be the
Iegatee and keep the Wright police
force. Then he was set aside.
After several meetings in Wright's
Office during the past few days, DR.. c.
A. Wheaton was found to be willing to
be the legatee and continue the Wright
administration without change.
The morning Wright organ came out
yesterday and announced that the long
sought-for Moses had been found, and
the Dispatch followed in the evening,
giving the name of DIR. Wheaton.
1t also published the following letter,
with few names attached:
ST Mimi Aiorob ION, n.
Charles A. Wheaton, st. Paul, Mimi
Dear Sir: We, the undersigned Repub-
llcans OF st. Paul. respectfully request
that you allow us to present your name
as candidate for mayor Of this city to
the coming Republican city convention,
believing that YOU possess all the ele-
ments necessary TO make a successful
campaign and administration.
The very first signature was that of
f. p. Wright, in order to show that Dr.
Wheaton is to be his double Then fol-
lowed Tom Howard, Henry Johns
and a few others. Among them
1t is worthy of note that the
name of E. R. Johnstone, Wrights
assessor; George Warren and H. S.
Fairchild, Wright's appointees to the
board of public works; Gebhard Will
rich, Wright's appointee on the board of
education, appear.
AT the meeting i'll the mayors office
yesterday afternoon a committee of
seven was appointed to wait oil f. b.
Doran and eX-GOv. McGill and endeay-
or to secure the consent of these gentle
men TO withdraw from the mayoralty
nomination.
Another committee of fourteen was
also appointed to circulate petitions for
signatures requesting DR.. Wheaton to
allow bis name to 90 before the conven.
tion as candidate for mayor. AS soon
as Sufpclent number of names are Sc
cured, which. it is expected, will have
been accomplished by Monday, the lists
will be submitted to DR.. Wheaton, and
his formal acceptance duly published.
The action taken by wing of the
party to kill off McGiil, it is claimed, is
closely allied with state and county pol
ltics: and, as one of the supporters of
the ex-governor said last evening, Mayor
Wright and the politicians back of him
may not be able to deliver the goods in
the convention as easily as they expect.
Assemblyman DOran, seen last even
ing, said he had not been waited OH by
any committee with request to with
draw from the mayoralty race, and as
he had not yet accepted the nomination
for mayor, he aid not see how there
was anything for him to decline,
A meeting in Mr.. Doran's own ward
last night indorsed HIM for mayor. in
spite OF the Wheaton movement.
To say that the McGill men are hot
and still heating is drawing it mild. At
the meeting of the Republican city COM
mittee last night the McGill men were
in control, and made no concealment of
their Intention to run the primaries In
his interest. This was damper uron
the legatee, because it will probably
WIN, and what will Doc Wheaton do
then-pOOr thing?
The air was blue with rumors and
politics last ught. One man declared
that it was the plan for the Democrats
TO indOrse Wheaton because he is lone
of the bows"
Another said it would be impossible
to get him Republican votes as the
legatee of Wright.
The comment was as varied as the
deal itself, but it all showed that. in
spite OF the bravado of the Wright
Wheaton combine, there is terrific
fight to encounter. A petition is being
circulated for Wheaton, and in a day or
two he will have to be told that he is in
the field for the nomination which