St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
DORAN's "COUP" OF THURSDAY
NIGHT IS MAKING VOTES FOR
CULLEN.
REPUTABLE FOLK DIsoWN
THE CHICANERY OF A sCHEMINf,
POLITICIAN WHO WOULD TRY
GAG LAW.
wHIsTL1NG THEIR COURAGE UP.
Republicans Try to Believe the Light
Registration Favors Them,
Against All Precedent.

Bitterly indignant Is the only term which
fttingly expresses the feeling inspired by the
putting in the field Of an auxiliary Republican
ticket, in the desperate hope Of defeating
the Cullen ticket, so-caled. It developed
yesterday through the beasting of Repub-
hcan committeeman, that the intent of this
move Is to deceive voters who must have
their ballots marked for them. A voter who
cannot read or write will enter booth and
ask that some mark his ballot. This will
give opportunity, as the hired Republican
workers figure, to have votes recorded for
the Republican auxiliary ticket, if the illit-
crate voter happens to be Democrat
Yet there is no surety that such a chance
will exist. because Democrats have been
put on their guard by honest Republicans.
And further, unless the primary election law
Is a farce, the Republican auxiliary ticket
will have no legal standing on the ballot.
Being forewarned that the Republican plug
gers are contemplating a steal Of votes un-
der false pretenses, the Democrats have TAX
en- steps to thwart their plans. Good care
will be taken in every precinct to guard the
interests of voters who must have their bal
lots marked. and everywhere Democrats
should impress on all voters that the Cullen,
or Democrat Citizens ticket, is the only
Democratic ticket in the field.
Despite all the efforts of the army of paid
workers in the employ of the Republicans,
their schemes being thwarted at every
turn. One of the worst boolnerangs they
have been hit by was the locking out of Dem
ocratic s2eakers in the Sixth ward last
Thursday night. The trick was so paipably
premeditated and so dirty in It's conception
and execution, that Doran and his closest
friends have congestive chill whenever it
is alluded to. That attempt to suppress free
speech in his home precinct will, as he now
realizes, cost the Republican candidate for
mayor a great many votes he might other
wise reasonably expect to receive.
There was no rest yesterday In the Repub-
lican plan of campaign. The saloon visitors
and talkers-the Pinhertons, Webbers, Mill
| lers, Grifins, Burnanes and the like-were
| out in. force, early and late, and while they
did not gather a heavy load of votes, they
had tremendous package Of other goods to
struggle with before they tired Of their noe
turnal electioneering. What with the claims
| and counter claims of the Pinkerton schemers
and the discredited x-poicemen, that one is
the Cullen ticket be beaten, there is merry
war on in the Republican camp. Even the
unlimited money at the command Of the
Zollman-Schurmeier committee is not suffic-
lent to stop the buzzing of the wheels that
move indiscreet tongues. Blatant bloriation
is so natural, and necessary, to the paid
Doran advocates that they cannot refrain
from declaring their demands and their in
tentions, together with the promises made by
the Sixth warder's friends. Fitzgerald Clau-
sen, Zollman, and the one or two other prac-
tlcal politicians on the richly-provided com
mittee, given many shock by the saloon
speeches of the Pinkertons and their pals.
If the thing keeps up until election day it is
not unlikely that the shrewd managers men
toned will abandon the campaign in disgust.
On every street corner the passer-by can
gather the information that the floating popu-
iation is sore on the Democratic candidates
because they have not the money to spend
that the Republican candidates have Sew
eral OF these latter have been very liberal
In certain districts of the city and are corre-
spondingly high in the estimation of men
whose only thought seems to be for beer and
bluster.
one OF the bitterest pills the Republicans
have to swallow this year is the loss of the
large number of "foaters" who are missing
from the registeration lists of the First and
the Eighth wards Their absence is ac
counted for by the fact that they are men
who have gone out on railroad contract work
or as intending settlers. The open winter
and favorable spring have induced these men.
who always voted the Republican ticket. to
pack up their duds earlier than usual and 90
to the West in search of homes or employ
ment. Their absence means a large loss to
the Republican ticket and O corresponding
gain to the Democrats.
"SaY. Tim how did NON tbo4 r..1..l,
tior Endorsement for the assembly," INQUIRED
one of the city clerks employees of Timothy
Reardon. as he walked into the Office Saturday
afternoon.
The burly assemblyman grinned from ear
to ear as he replied:
oh, that was easy. I simply bought a keg
OF beer for those fellers"
The Republican organs are pretending TO
derive vast deal Of comfort from the fact of
the registration being several thousand below
that OF two years ago. Heretofore they have
invariably taken the opposite view and the
facts have borne out its correctness. The Re-
publican party Of this city has never yet won
victory with a light regisHation; the only
cases in which the Republicans have met with
success are when the registration was above
the normal -Four years ago the registration
was unusually heavy, and they were success
In the light Of former experience therefore.
the registration Of the present year argues
well for the Democratic cause AS matter
OF fact, there is greater percentage of loss in
the Republican First ward than in the Demo-
cratic Fourth, Fifth, Eighth or Ninth Doran's
own ward stands about the same as the First
The average loss throughout the city Is 12 per
pent; the loss in the First ward is no less than
II per cent; If this is a merited cause of
self-congratulation to the Republicans, let
them make the most of it. The Democrats are
certainly more than satisfied with the situa-
tion as far as registration is concerned, as well
as in every other way.
II a light registration meant a Democratic
victory In former years, why does not the
same logic apply now?
Young Donahower was brought into the
Fourth ward only few weeks ago by "2iliy'
Bickel to run for alderman. Donahower's af-
fection for the ward can thus be imagined.
This illustrates the local Republican idea OF
what constitutes representative citizen. Mr..
Murray, the Democratic candidate, has been in
the ward more than six years, and has an es-
tablished business-that is the difference.
Paul Martin, temporarily so1ourning in NIL
waukee, will eagerly scan the election news
contained in the st. Paul papers of May s. to