The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22
REPUBLICANS WHO OPPOSE
KIEFERss THIRD TERM ARE
AFTER THE SHERIFF.
ROTATION SENTIMENT STRONG
RESULTS OF THE REPUBLICAN AND
POPULIST PRIMARIES. HELD
LAST NIGHT.
SOME FRESH POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Sound Money Democrats Are Active
Iy at Work in the Twin Cities
and Elsewhere.

When Congressman Kiefer withdrew
from the contest fro the nomination
and left the track clear for Fred Ste
vens, he did it in way that will prob
ably worry Mr.. Stevens just about as
much as it would have done for the
colonel to remain in the fight. There
is a little bit of inside history con-
nected with this transaction that Will
have more or less of bearing on the
contest for the county Offices. and the
person upon whom it will bear the
heaviest is Sheriff Chas. E. Chapel
There is a good big, bunch of the
Republican party which believes In
the theory of rotation in Office, and
this was the spirit which was invoked
in the contest in which Col. Kiefer
was malletted into political uncon-
seriousness. Having used this argu-
ment as an instrument to defeat Kie-
fer. a good many of the same parties
are looking around and saying
whats the matter with the same
thing for ChapeIr' Mr.. Chapel was. all
along sufficiently familiar with the
operation of such arguments in prac-
just the kind of an argument that was
likely to be used against him, and he
placed himself in line for contest by
admitting that lone good term de-
serves another" and that there was
no special reason why Kiefer should
not be permitted to. try it for another
term.
OF course Republicans say that
Chapel has been good officer-the on
1y thing they have to kick about is
that he has been an officer too long,
and some one Of them are disposed
TO push him off. They say that in
the enjoyment of an Office reputed to
be worth $4,000 a year, and that for
four years, he should have been able
to lay aside a sufficient number of
dollars of the proper weight and fine
ness to keep the wolf from the door
until some of the other boys have had
a chance at the business, and whether
he gets the nomination OF the go-by,
1t may be depended upon that the con-
test will be a vigorous one. The sher-
If is reported to be in a position to
make the kind Of d campaign that is
usually successful in Republican pri-
maries, but he has for opponents two
or three of the most active hustlers
In the city, and if he wins it will not
be in any sense walk-away. Col.
Milham, of the Midway district, is
something of a campaigner, himself,
and as for "ErneY" Mabon, he will
not wait for a base on balls, but will
take every chance that comes, and
will play ball every minute of the
game.
John Norrish, of Hastings. and. Judge
Ueiand, of Minneapolis, were at Nat
1onaI Democratic Headquarters yester-
day, and gave cheering intelligence to
the party workers there assembled For
Dakota county, he said the Democrats
were as strong as ever. There is, little
to be hoped for by the Republicans in
that county in the best Of times, and
this year it is not likely they will be
more fortunate. Hennepin county,
Judge LELAND said, is making rapid
strides in the sound. money movement.
II the free coinage advocates depend
upon ten thousand majority in that
county to elect the Lind ticket. as T.
j., McDermott declared at the meeting
OF the state central Democratic commit
tee the other day, then the Lind people
may as well give up the fight, is the
IS making better Roadway with the
sound money movement than Ramsey
county, but the latter will be on the
highway to aggressive organization In
few days.
As authorized by the mass meeting
held at Albion hall, Thursday night
Cfalrman A. j. Stone has appointed
the following committee on permanent
organization: Secretary, Herman Rietz-
Ike. First precinct M F. Kane; Second
precinct, r. c. Hine; Third precinct
F. f. LOOMS; Fourth precinct, Thomas
Sheehy; Fifth precinct, J. E. Stryker;
Sixth precinct, E. Beck; Seventh pre-
c1hct, r. L. German; Eighth. precinct
w. r. Symonds; Ninth precinct, Carl
Taylor. This committee on organization
will meet at the call of the chairman,
and each will select ten men in his
precinct to perfect the clubs organic
alton.
Candidates to fill the places on the
state Democratic ticket have practi-
cally been agreed upon, and unless the
plans now Matching fail, there will be
quiet and short session at the. Min
neapolis convention when the Populists
meet next Wednesday. Maj Bowler.
who halls from the Third district, has
been. agreed upon as the candidate for
lieutenant governor, and Arnold J
Reyes, of Duluth, as attorney general.
Both these gentlemen are ardent in
their sympathies with Populism and
will be acceptable to the Democrats.
Members OF the special committee
appointed to select a county committee
to organize the National Democratic
party in Ramsey county, will meet at
the Merchants this afternoon to COM
plete their duties. The committee will
select at least seventy-five names to
act as county committeeman, and these
gentlemen will be authorized to select
as many assistants as they choose to
extend the organization in the various
precincts and towns.
Ben D. Smith, of Nankato was in
the city yesterday. Mr. Smith was
very much in evidence during the pre-