The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-10
DIX Has THE CALL
HE WILL PROBABLY BE ELECTED
TO SUCCEED ASsEMBLYMAN
LEWIS.
is POPULAR ON ALL HANDS.
OTHERS NAMED ARE w. r.. SHAW,
EDWARD VANISH AND C. 8.
SCHURMAN.
PARKER IS STILL THE FAvORITE
OF Those Mentioned to Fill the Other
Vacancy to Occur in the As
sembIy.

several loyal citizens of st. Paul, am
bilious to serve the people in their local
legislature, fancy they would become,
If not adorn, the chairs in the council
chamber at present occupied by Dis
trict Judge-Elect o. B. Lewis and
Register of Deeds Elect E. G. Krah-
mer, when the assembly is in session
many have been named, as told in the
G o b e the other day, but two will be
chosen. At the present writing the
aspirants for one of these honorable
places have their eyes on the central
chair of the chamber directly under the
pendant chandelier, where Mr.. Lewis
has sat and defied fate and the chan
delier for two years and six months.
For Mr.. Lewis will resign that lucky
chair tomorrow night. Hence the
pressing anxiety to fill it,
That it will be so snugly occupied by
the successor of Mr.. Lewis is extremely
doubtful, in view of the comparatively
slender proportions of the Sixth ward
candidate nearest to it. If he fills it as
capably, however, he will be forgiven
for his latitudinal short comings. Incl
dentally it has been remarked that Mr..
Lewis will find the woolsack a comfort
ing substitute for the vulcanized rub
Der chair seats that are doubtless at
the bottom of the Hon. Timothy Rear
don'S Wrathy explosions from time to
time.
There are four residents of the Sixth
ward, whose names receive mention
whenever "the vacant chair is talked
of. Doubtless there are others, who, if
their names had been mentioned, would
think the honor no more than deserved,
hut h0 70 OF inc hot hn oh
up to date, is confined to this quartette
Of estimable citizens: Willis r. Shaw,
Edward Vanish, Charles S. Schurman
and George Dix. There is scriptura1
authority for the belief. that the last
shall be first. So there is political au-
thority for the prediction that George
Dix will be Assemblyman Dix. For
| Dix is certainly the favorite. His fell
| low citizens like him. That counts.
Mayor Doran likes him. That counts
| too. The mayor has not been over
looked in this matter. Mr.. Lewis has
| not yet assembled the bench and would
not presume to decide such delicate
question.
Truth to TELL there was serious talk
of Editor Schurman, of the West ST.
Paul Times, but the remaining assem-
blymen who choose their fellow mem
Der, feared that the duties Of an as
Semblyman might interfere with the
luDCIlOIIo VI dill 6uItOI, VI LndI oil SO1-
tor who gains his livelihood in publish
ing the news, might not be in harmony
with the assembly.
There is not so much immediate I'M
rest over Mr.. Krahmer'S chair, but it
will come soon, perhaps sooner, for Mr..
Krahmer being nothing if not conscien-
! tious, hates to be continually shaking
! hands and exchanging ELUSIVE greet
! ings with half a dozen aspirants for
his place, when his heart is enlisted for
| only one. Who that one is, Mr.. krah-
mer will, perhaps, never divulge, but
when Col. Sam LowenStein's name is
mentioned, he ScoWls as fiercely as his
| genteel and pleasing countenance will
permit So do the other members of
the assembly. But, Sam is hopeful.
| In the meantime, as the G o e has
| already announced, four choice spirits
of the assembly have communed to-
gether and united upon genial Jack
Parker to succeed Mr.. Krahmer. -Four
| is a majority of seven, and that is what
| alarms those vote-the-s traight-Re-
publican ticket-or-your forever
Republicans.
what, elect Jack Parker, Demo-
crat, to sit in our simon pure Repub-
lean assembly, It's preposterous
What did we elect you for but to repre-
sent the Republican party? What
would you do, betray your trust, anc
us, too? Would you lift man into
our assembly who would vote to pay
street laborers $1.50 a day, man who
might doubt Comptroller McCardy' S
word, a man who would not bow il.
the presence Of the mayors veto?
Out upon We, recreants! Remember
the 9Th of May-and likewise the First
NaTdr'
But the dauntless quartette-Rear
don, Daily, MacC7 scd President Arc
sin, still cry, Parker is our anan.
They think that if eight Republicans
can't stand off one Democrat, that the
one Democrat ought to run the assem-
bly,, and if a Democrat is to run it,
they prefer Jack Parker, to any other
| They scout the idea that a partisan
spirit controls them. Even if there
IS one Of Parker and only eight of
| them, they are not afraid. They real
;ze that the assembly needs a Parker
| to give zest to the proceedings. Rear
con wants him there to quarrel with
for with Lewis gone, the Ninth ward
| statesman has not his physical match
| in the body, weight for age, unless
Jack steps in.
In the meantime those Republicans
who think the country is in dire dan
ger are working desperately for Ben
Knauft, Armand Albrecht, T. H.
| I;randhorst and Col. Sam LoWenstein
FLUTTERING SNOWFLAKES.