The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-11

ment of st. Paul described in the
G 0 3 e yesterday morning.
That plan was not OF the people.
from the people, nor, possibly suitable
to the people. When the Republicans
of the First ward read the GIob q
yesterday morning they obtained their
first intimation Of the wild scenes of
the night before, and the strategic
movement by which the Ninth and
Third ward Republicans had tried to
tear them apart to suit the political
exigencies Of the neighboring wards.
If Tim Sheehan and Schiffman did
paint the heavens a vermilion tint of
war on that fatal night, then yesterday
morning did the legions Of the lesser
sort make Rome howl
They made it so strong that the
enemy was forced to capitulate.
Sheehan kept his promise. He went
in on the floor of the senate and told
Republican secrets in a way that con-
vinced all the party leaders Of the ad-
visibility of having it's dirty linen
shampooed in some more obscure local
ity than the grand court Of honor Of
the Minnesota senate.
Tim threw down the gauntlet to the
silk-stOcking aristocrats of the Sew
enth ward, as he called them. and de-
Hberately arrayed himself as the mod
est champion of the men who earned
their bread by the sweat of their brows
and lived in the Fifth ward by night.
1t put the subject in a new light The
Republican leaders found that they had
troubles that had never yet been told
to the police, and they slid down the
tree so fast that their heels tore all
the bark off the trunk
Sheehan went home last night with
a handsome, brand-new, kiln-dried
laurel wreath bound about his perspir-
ing brow, while on Merriam hill, and on
st. Anthony's aristocratic crest, downy
couches soothed the slumbers of two
troubled senatorial ninds-vanquished
and crest fallen.
In another quarter Of the urban dis
trict Mic Pottgieser pensively wondered
whether he came out of it ahead or
behind. He is hitched up to the Sew
enth ward, and he does not know which
is the tail and which is the dog.
Henry Johns thinks that Mics ward
is the dog, but he as 'opes, they say,
that when the horses break into the
stretch after the preliminary heat in
the next campaign, it will not be MICS
ward, but Henry Johns
Senator Ozmun has his Guatemalan
mission, so he cares not, as his district
is surely Republican after he leaves it.
and Senator Stevens thinks he can pull
through next fall, so he is reasonably
hopeful. They do say that the most
uneasy heads last night were those of
Thomas B. Scott and Nicholas Pott-
gieser. Mr.. Scott's ward is hitched on
with some uncertain precincts Of the
Eighth, and he does not know how
that representative district is going to
develop in view Of the recent city cleo
ton in Chicago.
Pottgieser's district is Republican to
an immortal cinch, but he does not
know which Republican.
The conference committee on reap
portionment reported for the first time
TO the senate just at noon, presenting
practically the plan described in the
G o b Of yesterday. Senator Shee-
han offered an amendment, but Pres
dent Gibbs ruled that the only motion
that would be entertained would be
to except the Objectionable sections
The Ramsey county arrangement was
then expected and the senator was al
lowed to submit his amendment for the
consideration Of the conference COM
mittee
He did not believe il the best appor-
tionment Of St Paul but he did consid-
er it better than any except the one
on which the Ramsey senatorial dele