The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14
GOSS IS HUGGING HIMSELF.
Inside Facts About His Appointment
by D0rRn,

by Doran.
While Sheriff Chapel is going about
reViling people who may or may not
have had hand in throwing him down
al the last election, Chief Goss, in his
office at the central station, chuckles
and figuratiVely pats himself ON the
back. 1t may not be generally known,
but Chief GosS was tempted last spring
with the dead sea fruit Of a promise OF
nomination for the shrievalty in the
fall, if he would give up his chanc9
of being made chief Of police. It was
not because he didn't want the nomi
ration on the Republican ticket for
sheriff this fall, but, perish the thought
it was because he was fearful that he
might be thrown down again. GOss
had not fully recovered from the fall
lie was given when he was given the
worst of the bargain for the COUNT
auditor nomina ton. The same people
who offered him the nomination for
sheriff this fall, provided he would
pass up the position of chief Of police,
were the ones who had given him the
''icy mitt" in the previous county con-
vention, and, to tell the truth, he was
afraid to trust them. Mayor Dora1.
had promised him the position, should
he be elected, and, this having been
accomplished, Goss demanded his ap-
pOintment. In vain did Eli Warner
plead with Goss to have some sense
and not throw such a good thing as
the nomination for sheriff over his
shoulder for the paltry position as
chief of police. Eli at this time was
anxious to have John Irish, now chief
deputy in ChapePs Office, take the plac ;
at the head of the police force and
the only way this could be done was
to have GOss bite at the sheriff nomi-
ration and wait until fall for his re-
ward. No particular fall was men
toned, and, although it was under
stood it was to be in the fall Of '96
Goss couldn't hear them. He told AIr
Warner and his colleagues who were
dlshing out the plums that he wouldn't
take any promises for future delivery
and pointed out how he had been
choked off on every promise ever made
to him. He went even farther than
this and told the managers and Mr.
" arner that if he didn't get what
Mayor Doran had promised him before
election he would make such a howl
that they would wish that they had not
interfered. The talk had the effect Of
getting him the place and Irish had
to be satisfied with the promise OF
being the one on which the Republican
sheriff's mantle would fall.
Irish, too, was disappointed, for it
was only z. month or so after he and
h*s friend Eli had tried to secure the
place as chief of police that Irish real
lied that he would have to stand back
fer the purpose Of giving the "old SOL
der" another chance. His aspirations
for the good things that come to Re
publican sheriffs, however. werA
! checked and he was promised a whole
lot of things and, among others, that
| has salary as chief deputy would be
! raised to SITS per month from and after
Jan. l, 1897; it, of course, being under
| stood that Chapel would have no trou
| HE in being reelected. Since the
| morning of Nov. 4, however, Irish has
| been doing heap of thinking, and one
! Of the things that makes him wild is
| how Goss had head enough to re-
| fuse the promised nomination for sher-
| if and accept the position as chief Of
| police. In vain does Eli Warner seek
TO cheer him up by promising to see
| that he gets a good thing during the
| legislature and possibly a state JOB
| when the session is over. Irish fully
| iealizes that promises were made to
| be broken, and, although he denies that
he is candidate for the position or
| captain at the Rondo street police
station, the chances are that he will
| be induced to accept the place until
Eli can get him better, more congo
| NAL and more lucrative one