St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-04-11
HIS FRIENDS ARE CONFIDENT
NATION, BUT OTHERS CUES
TION 1T.
NEARLY EVERY WARD WAS SPLIT.
Castle Gets the Seventh SOIid-First
Is Claimed by Everybody
Prospective Results.


Total 29S
According to the candidates for the Repub-
! lican mayoralty nomination they will have
in the convention today the number of votes
set opposite their names. OF some
one is blundering, because there will be only
254 delegates in the convention.
"Claim everything " seems to be the motto
of the different factions. For that reason it
was extremely difficult last night to get reli-
able figures on the standing of the three
candidates One thing is certain, however,
no dark horse will have any show to win.
Immediately after the close Of the polls the
Doran men were claiming victory. They
figured the Sixth warder would have 1877 votes
on the First ballot, but later in the evening
| they cut the estimate down to 107. This,
from all appearances. is approximately COR
rect. If it holds good over night Doran will
very likely be the nominee for mayor.
The Sixth ward could not be found
last night. Capt. Castle and Gen. NJ. D.
Flower his manager, said to the G l o b e
porter that they were certain of los votes on
the First ballot. They claimed that men
who are pledged to Castle have been elected
to the number of 105 but they would not
specify the number in any wards except the
Seventh and First. The 20 votes of the Sew
enth are solid for the postmaster and 16
to 20 in the First ward.
Warren will have seventeen Of the Fifth
ward delegates, and Doran will get the other
four One Castle man, George Nash, claims
he was defeated by Democratic votes in his
precinct of the Fifth, and he may contest for
a seat in the convention.
The Castle men allow Doran 9S votes and
Warren 81 on the first ballot. When Warren
was told of this he contented himself with the
remark, "The fight is not settled yet by
! good DEAL" He agreed, however, that dark
horse will not be in it, and from all reports
Warren holds the key to the situation. He
can name the man if he can control his dele
gates after the first vote. 1t is not a certainty
! that the Warren men will not vote for Doran
on the first ballot, especially If the morning
roundup should indicate that Doran is the
coming man.
| The First ward which has always come in
under the unit rule, will have large part in
deciding whether or not nomination shall
| be made on the first ballot. Late last night
the delegation was still caucusing, apparent
| ly without much hope of getting together.
| Castle has the largest number of delegates in
| this ward, beyond question: but Warren has
at least twelve, and Doran few, Should the
unit rule prevail, it will probably be in Cas-
Tie S IaVOr ana II MS estimate Ol NOt6S III Tie
| other wards is correct, there Is the possibility
that he will secure a majority. 1t is only
possibility, however, and remote one. Some
! men favorable to Castle expressed the opinion
that he has lost the fight, and will not show
UP as strong as his manager expects
! The vote on chairman will not give much OF
! line on the nominee. Ell Warner, Rev. S.
! G. Smith and Fred G. Schiffman are the men
| talked of in connection with the chairman
ship. Warner will probably be elected. He
is for Castle and so is Smith, but Schiffman
| is understood to be pledged to Doran after the
| first ballot The Doran men will not make
point on the choice of chairman, they say,
! feeling entirely confident Of having enough
votes to be able to act the generous part
| toward their opponents.
Tickets were as numerous as the candi-
| dates about the primaries, but in great
many instances the delegations had been di-
! vided by agreement. This was not done in
the First, where all three mayoralty candi-
dates had ticket peddlers at work. The kids,
| whose circular appeared in yesterdays
Globe, did not succeed in beating Harry
| Sundberg, who. persisted in sticking to the
"old fossils and bosses. They did secure
few delegates, however, and they are for War
rem.
In the Second and Fourth wards the dele
cations were pledged for Knauft and Horst
respectively, and left unpledged as to the
! mayoralty.
In the Third the Warren push did not persist
| in their determination to capture the whole
delegation, so fight was avoided. Even Col
Lowenstein, pronounced Castle man,
| allowed to go through unmolested
Dorans friends put UP fight in Warren's
ward, the Fifth, and got four delegates out of
the twenty-one. This in the face of the fact
| that both other candidates kept out OF the
| Sixth.
| Walter Chaplin ran a Doran delegation in
| the Seventh precinct of the Seventh ward
| but it was beaten 10 to 20. Chaplin had been
offered a place the delegation if he would
allow Castle three out of the four the pre-
cipct is entitled. He refused to do this but
made straight fight, and is now "a dead
| one." In several other precincts there were
also opposition tickets, but Castle won out
very handsomely.
The treasurership fight cut figure in the
Eighth, and it is doubtful if Billy Johnson
can get solid vote from his own ward. In
| fact Horst seems to have the assemolyman
beaten to a standstll. Johnson is a clever
wirepuller, however, and he will not give up
if he can find any possible way to make
winning combination. On mayor the delega-
| ton from the Eighth Is badly divided. Doran
ana Warren will have nearly all of the 80
votes, according to claims made last night.
In the Ninth Warren's workers did lot
| of hustling but Doran and Caste had tickets
| in the field, and no one seemed able last
night to say just how the delegation stands
| Tim Reardon's unpopularity worked against
| Doran and helped Castle, who will undoubt-
edly have goodly number of the votes.
In the Tenth and Eleventh wards the post
master Is understood to have at least II out
| of the Is votes the two wards are entitled
| to. Doran will get the rest.
| Late last night fat-footed statement was
made by a Warren man that NJ. w. Fitz-
| gerald will be nominated for comptroller
| instead of ]. ]. McCardy. Mr.. Warren him
self was asked what he thought of the state
| ment, and, while non-commttal, he left the
| impression that he would not be surprised at
| such result. One thing is certain, there
are men enough elected who dislike McCardy
to nominate Fitzgerald if they take the no
| ton.
An estimate made at the Republican city
| committee rooms last night allowed Doran
101, Castle 6S, Warren 40, and the remaining
II votes were placed as uncertain. Secretary
| Bryant was especially solcitous to secure
the views of the delegates on the proposition
Of going back to the old system of letting