St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01
WOULD RUN AGAIN
NEARLY EVERY MEMBER OF THE
COUNCIL WOULD ACCEPT A RE-
NOMINATION,
OR SOMETHING HIGHER UP.
ASSEMBLYMAN STROUsE AND AID.
BRADY, HOWEVER, ARE TWO
EXCEPTIONS.
now THE OTHERS FEEL ABOUT 1T
Some Ambitious Gentlemen In One
or the Other Body of the City
GOVernmcnt-The Situation.

a mayor, city comptroller, city
treasurer and twenty members Of the
common council are to be elected next
May. Not counting a few justices of
the peace who will also ask for the suf-
frages of the people, there are twenty
three official seats to be filed. How
many of the present occupants will be
displaced is the interesting question.
Speculation as to the identity of the
next mayor may be a pleasant pastime,
but it is nothing more. The candidates
are legion. They are in private life and
public life. More than one member of
the common council is hoping for a
nomination from some source. Failing
that most Of them will accept renomi-
nation for the board of aldermen or
the assembly, if only for the sake of
Vindication.
The contests for city comptroller and
city treasurer, however, are not so
much in the dark, for the identity OF
the contestants is not a mystery. For
instance everybody knows that Comp
troller McCardy is candidate for
denomination, and it is generally I'M
derStood that Larry CaSserly and eX-
County Treasurer A. M. Nelson are
both candidates for the nomination on
the Democratic ticket
Neither is it any secret that AS
semblyman w. r. Johnson would like
to be the next city treasurer. A SINH
lar ambition still controls Charles
Horst, who learned to love the office
during his brief stay in it while the
votes he did not get were being count
ed and who thinks he can, if nomi-
mated again, overcome the majority of
five votes by which City Treasurer
Wagner was elected. Mr. Wagner
Will undoubtedly be renominated by
the Democratic convention, and it is
matter of no concern to him whether
he runs against Johnson or Horst
So much for the salaried officials.
But how about the members of the
common council? There are twenty of
them, nine aSSemblymen and eleven
aldermen. 1t would be interesting to
know how many of these gentlemen
are candidates for denomination. 1t
might be suggested that the easiest
way to gain such information would
be to ask every man of the twenty
whether he is a candidate or not, for
denomination to either body of the
common council. This suggestion has
already been tried. 1t proved wiser in
theory than in practice. If the indi-
vidual replies received from each
councilman were accepted as gospel
truth, the people would be forced to be-
deign to sit in the council chamber
again, whereas the signs are that
nearly all of them are looking for re-
nomination.
few, very few, of the members
are disposed to be frank in declaring
their Intentions. One Of them, a con-
spicuous member of the board of alder
men, said that it would be safe to bet
that seventeen out of the twenty coun-
cilmen would accept denominations for
the assembly or board, provided none
of them could get anything better
The three exceptions noted were AS
semblyman Strouse, Aid. Brady, and Of
course, Aid. Hare, who will soon re-
sign to become a member of the board
OF public works. It'ewas the opinion
of the G o b e S informant, that
neither of these two first named would
even accept a denomination for either
body of the council, much less strive
for it.
AS for the board of aldermen, it would
not be far out of the way to predict that
every member except Aid. Brady is a
candidate for denomination. Aid. Brady
strenuously and emphatically asserts
that he will not be a candidate for the
common council under any circum-
stanes. His private business, he says,
absolutely precludeS the possibility of
his serving another term in the council
AS for the rest of the aldermen, there
is little doubt Of their willingness to
run again, though some declare that
they will not seek a denomination
Considering them by wards, there is
Aid. Lindahl, of the First ward. Mr..
Lindahl is not impressed with the dig,
nifty and halo surrounding an alder
man, nor is his head turned by the eX-
traVagant compensation of 500 per an
mum allowed each member of the coun-
Gil, but it is well understood that If the
First ward Republicans want Mr.. Lin
dahl to run again, why Mr.. Lindahl
will run. And the alderman's seeming
love and championship of the Howard
charter-that precious desideratum of
the First ward malcontents-will prob
ably ensure him a denomination if he
wants it.
There is little doubt the denomination of
Aid Kartak in the Second ward. This ward
is accounted Republican, but the Democrats
are confident that they can repeat the dose
they administered to the Republicans in the
spring of 1894.
Aid Ehrmanntraut is not the kind of man
who would refuse a denomination for alder
man at the hands Of the Democrats of the
Third ward Ehrmanntraut takes a lively in
terest in municipal affairs, is much given to
searching the charter to CLEAN pointers for
the legal department, and is we'll posted on
parliamentary law. Aid. Ehrmanntraut has
also sat in the mayors chair and exercised
the mayors functions during the absence of
that official.
Aid. Brady says that the Fourth ward
Democrats must choose another candidate
than he for the board of aldermen. He swears
he will not be candidate.
Aid. Timer has served his Fifth ward con-
stituents well and faithfully for the past two