The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-12
THOUGHT TO BE ARoslN.
PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY
WANTS TIE FIRST WARDS
SUPPORT FOR MAYOR.
ANYTHING TO HURT DORIAN THERE.
The 400 Voters Who Do Not Wan-
Copeland Must Hold Another
Meeting.

day night to wait on Mayor DOran and
inform him that John Sandell was the
choice of the ward for a member Of the
board Of public works, has not as yet
put in an appearance at the city hall.
When the mayor read the Globe
that the 400 voters had threatened to
get ever a year from this spring, if
Sandell was not appointed, he laughed.
That is he was reported as having
laughed, but he didn't. In fact the
chief executive looked rather worried,
and all day Tuesday he kept marking
the figures AZ in an distracted way ON
pieces of ape 1t might be necessary
to explain that there will be forty
seven delegates to the next Republican
city convention from the First ward,
and in view of the fact hat he had
promised the position to John Cope
land, his honor felt that he was tearing
DOWN instead Of building up his fences.
The suspense, however, is over, at
least for the time being, as John San
dell has sen word to the mayor that
he is not a candidate for the position.
It appears that MI. Sandell was labor
ing under a misapprehension as to the
attitude of the mayor regarding his
candidacy. Some weeks ago the lead
ing politicians in the First ward COM
menced to hold meetings, the avowed
purpose being to take steps which
would result in certain residents Of the
ward getting what they claimed was
due them from the administration.
Several names were proposed as being
suitable candidates for which the
mayor was to select one for appoint
ment as a member Of the board of
public works. 1t was stated at the
time that the mayor had not decided
as to who he would appoint except that
one Of the two members to be selected
would be from the First ward. With
this statement made on what Mr.. San
dell considered excellent authority, he
entered the race. The thing was work
ed up quietly and the mass meeting
Monday night was the result. Just be-
fore the meeting was called to order,
A. H. Arosin, president of the assem-
bly,, informed Mr.. Sandell that he had
learned from the mayor that under no
circumstances would any name from
the First ward be considered for ap-
DO1nIIlS1t TO tie DOdId u DOOllC Ms
except that name was John Copeland.
1t then daWned on Mr.. Sandell that
he had been. used to pull the chestnut
out of the fire for someone else Mr..
Sandell had his suspicious as to who
the someone was, and he felt so GER
tain about it h a While Mr.. Aros1n
was talking TO him he was confident he
could nave laid his hands on the man
who put up the job. He appealed to
Mr.. ArOsin to inform the meeting
about the intention of the mayor at
Cqlce, but somehow the matter must
have slipped from Mr.. ArOsin'S mind
and the statement was not made I'M
til after the vote which named San
dell had been announced.
The friends of Sandell now claim
that the affair was put up by the
friends of the president of the assem-
bly,, who is being groomed to enter the
mayoraIty race in 1898. SandelTs
friends say hat the whole thing was a
scheme to create a split in the party in
the First ward and make trouble for
Mayor Doran. The idea being that
by turning Sandell down his friends
would feel sore and the result would
be that Arosin and his followers would
send an anti-Doran delegation to the
convention, and lightning might strike
Arosin In the shape Of a nomination
for mayor. An intimate friend Of Sam
dell seen yesterday said:
I'VE are on to the game now, and
when the time comes the smart man
will be let down so softly that he will
never know when he lands"
With Copeland as one Of the members
to be appointed to the board there is
a deal of guessing as to who the other
appointee will be. Tim ReardOn talks
wisely about Yourgman from the Ninth
ward as being the other member, but
this is not on the square with Tim,
who stands close enough to the mayor
to be able to mention the right one il
he desired. All signs point to a man
from the Eighth ward being the one
who will accompany Copeland into the
beard.
The mayor would like to appoint c.
s. S~churman, Of the Sixth ward as a
member, and Schurman would be
tickled to have the mayor do that very
thing. SchuTrran has been the recog-
niZed mouth-piece Of the administra-
ton, and through his paper, published
weekly, has voiced the ideas of the
chief executive. The law, however, pro-
vides hat only one member of the
board shall be selected from any ono
ward. Schurnran, however, has been
promised the chair in the board now
held down by Bobby" Hare, when
that gentleman's time expires in March.
1898. George Warren, Of the Fifth
ward, labors under the impression that
he will fall into the seat occupied by
William Banholzer. when Billy re,
tires in March, 1898. For reasons best
known to himself the mayor sees no
reason to deny that this nay happen.
Warren lives in anticipation in the
meantime.