St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-24
REPUBLICANS MAKING THE MOsE
OF A LIBERAL USE OF
MONEY.
MEN WORKING FOR DoRAN
INCLUDE CRED" GRIFFIN, THE
PINkERTON STAFF, AND 9TH.
Err HELP.
MASS MEETING IN THE SEVENTH.
Grand Rally at Albion Hall Tonisht
-RepubIicans Send for Col.
kiefer.

That the Republican campaign committees
have an unlimited supply of money is appar.
ent to everybody who keeps track of their work.
Under the order of things which prevailed in
former years. men who habitually look for "a
Dit OF money at election time used to gather
most largely around Democratic headquarters
This year they have gone in a body to the
Republicans. half-hour spent now and
again in and around the Republican head
quarters will prove this fact to the entire sat-
isfaction of any person who knows by sight
and blind man could smell them-the men
known as ''pluggers,' "heelers," workers
etc. They arrive in town in twos, threes and
sometimes in droves, and, while the reception
given them is not always warm one it is very
cordial in many instances, and not one of the
visitors is allowed to go away in a. bad
humor.
great majority of the workers who are
spending Republican funds are known
throughout the city as being unreliable Their
sole idea of politics is trading and trafficking
In influence and votes, which they assert
they have or control in large quantities. There
is no doubt they do great amount of talk
Ing, and it is to get their tongues wagging for
Republican candidates, thus making their
names familiar, that they are paid either in
coin or promises.
For instance all Of the Pinkerton hirelings
in town are among the most energetic "taIk-
ers' for the Republican mayoralty candidate.
Weber, the chief-and the slated chief. if
Doran should win-spends his days and nights
talking Doran. His right-hand supporter in
the work is ex-License Inspector Miller. Be-
tween the two, many dollar is paid over the
counters whereon liquid refreshments are dis
pensed That's the only kind of campaigning
these worthless know anything about but it
seems to be considered the real and proper
thing by the campaign managers who have en-
listed their aid. Without question, these man
ayers are relying so strongly on the advice OF
some so-ealled representatives of ''labor,''
they belieVeteven Pinkertenism detested cam
not drive the workingmen's societies to vote
against Doran Within the last forty-eight
hours Weber and Miller have kept little
more shady and quiet in their proclamattons.
M. w. fitzgerald and A G. Clausen tumbled
TO the harm they were doing, and positive
hints were conveyed that If they expect to
realize on the promises Doran or his friends
have made they must lay low
Red" Griffin, of odoriferous reputation. is
also notable missionary in the Republican
plan OF campaign. With oily tongue and
long-studied "con" arguments, he has sue
ceeded in grating himself onto the Repub-
1can staf of boomers. In the questionable
resorts and among the outlawed gentry
"Gr1f is to do his work. These people he
knows intimately, and of course none of the
campaign committeeman would dare be seen
taking to or associating with them. The
red fellow has been absent from St. Paul
since Chiefs Clark and O'Connor have had
charge of the department, for the police killed
his graft. Now he has an idea he can get
revenge; but 1t is altogether likely he will
get something of an entirely different char
acter.
There are two other notorious men, trying
to boost the Republican cause One is Min
neapois gambler and the other kept one Of
the "dens" which have been creating such
a scandal in Northern Wisconsin.
There is also another gang of has-beens
doing all In their power for the Republican
ticket; but in reality they are daily making
votes for Cullen. The gang alluded to is
made up of discharged policemen, and as
soon as the list can be made up it will be
published. It will be "a good thingp in
every sense of that phase, except what the
words really imply.
In fact, the list of active Republican BOOM
ers-beginning with the Pinkertons and end
ing with the dozen so of renegade Demo-
Gratis who know their party treasury is empty
will make most interesting reading for
all citizens. When the Republican candidate
gratuitously offended the Prohibition COM
mittee which waited on him he doubtless had
these men in mind and preferred to hold
their allegiance rather than retain the respect
of earnest citizens who cannot work the sa-
looms"
NofI,
add so much strength to the Cullen ticket
as the denunciation of this crowd of Pinker-
tons, ex-policemen, gamblers and all-around
failures. They have none of the quality
which would enable them to run bluff game
on the Republican managers; but when they
are faced by men who know them and are
familiar with their records they quit blus-
tering and take quiet sneak.
Against the unlimited money and mob Of
desperate puggers at the command of the
Republican city committee Chairman Michael
and the members of the Democratic commit
tee are depending on disinterested and un-
paid work by citizens who have practically
abandoned their business, for the time being,
to aid in the election of Mr.. Cullen and the
other Democratic candidates. The reports
that these men give each day indicate very
clearly that the Weber Miller-Griffin outfit
is driving scores of Independent and self
respecting Republicans to the support of the
Cullen ticket.
Pinkerton putting, though the strongest
prop of the Doran- -McCardy campaign, is not,
never has been, and never will be, popular
in st. Paul.
One Indication that points to the success Of
the Citizens Democratic ticket is that in
placing candidates before the people the Ia
boring men have been given proper recogni-
ticn. The Republicans have always made
great howl about the lively interest the g. o.
p. takes in worl1ingmen. Mr.. Doran, the Re-
publican candidate for mayor, is loud in his
talk about his great friendship for the labor
ing man. His shouters also making prom
ises as to what Mr.. Doran intends to do after
his election for the laboring man. Promises
of the Republican politicians, however, are
all conditional The Democrats, instead Of
promises adopted the idea that actions speak
louder than words, and placed on their ticket
the names of Cornelius Quincy, ]. j. Ryder,
NJ. e. Murray and John F. Krieger.
All of these men are well known to the large
number of voters who are identified with the
labor movement in this city, and also to the
wage earners who are not identified with any
of the organizations They have been placed
before the voters by the Democrats, and the
workingmen will have an opportunity to rally