The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-30
BELIEVED HE CAN SECURE A RE-
NOMINATION If HE DE-
sIRES 1T.
HE HAS LOST MANY FRIENDS,
BUT HE HAS JUDICIOUsI.Y CAST A
FEW ANCHORS TO WIND
WARD.
WHERE COL. K1EFER COMES IN.
tie Might Get Some Votes I'm the
convention to Help in the
Fall.

The Republicans of st. Paul are wor-
ried They don't know what they are go
ing to do with Mayor Doran this spring.
The mayor, it is generally understood,
wants another term. In fact, the idea
has prevailed for many months that he
has been shaping his moves to that
END. He has a lot of warm friends
who will do what they can to secure a
denomination, and there are a whole
lot more who are either Indifferent OF
outSpoken in favor of a. change Some
OF those who now talk the strongest
against his denomination were his
warmest supporters during the last
campaign. Percy Godfrey, for in
stance, is one of them But, it Is I'M
derstood, the mayor has recently held
out to Godfrey the promise of a posi-
ton on the school board, if he would
come in out of the wet, and perhaps
Godfrey will come. Then George War
rem is another. Warren himself aspir-
ed to be mayor but when beaten for
the nomination turned around and did
all he could for the ticket. Whether
or not he was promised any position
for doing so is not known. But it Is
known that Warren didn't get any
place and is not now among those who
favor the denomination of Mayor
DOran. There are others.
Mayor Doran's will % the wisp antics
on matters in which those who support
ed him in the last election under the
belief that he would run a reform ad-
ministration has cost him a great many
friends. He has tempOrized, it is
claimed, with nearly every question
which the Christian Citizenship league
people were interested in Rev. David
+. Morgan, once said:
IF [ had occasion to make a COM
plant about some saloon or anything
else which we thought was not right
and went TO Mayor Smith about it, he
would say: Mr.. Morgan, 1 will do so
and so, or I will not do so and So That
settled it. We knew then just what to
expect. But if we go to Mayor Do
ran, he will promise us one thing and
do another. He is slippery"
That has hurt him. He cannot eX-
pect the moral support Of a number
of voters who were with him before.
Still that may not have anything to do
with his nomination. He has tried to
place his friends under obligations to
his as judiciously as possible, and that
is where he will look for strength in
the convention. He has cast a few
anchors to windward in the Fourth,
Fifth and Eighth wards and he has his
own Sixth to go in with so that 1t would
appear on the face of things, at this
time, that he can secure the nomination.
IL he wants is, especially If there are
two or three other candidates for the
! place. Between now and the time of
the convention he can line up another
ward or two or enough to help him out.
Col A. R. Kiefer's name is still mentioned
in connection with the nomination. but 1t Is
doubtful whether Col Kiefer wants it. He
would like something: when he IS in Wash
ington," said a politician the other day, "he
is looking for something for Col Kiefer.
When he is in st. Paul he is looking for
something for Col Kiefer. 1t is Col. Kiefer
all the time"
But if Col Kiefer is allowing his friends to
work up a sentiment for him for mayor it is
believed his idea is simply to trade it off for
support from the party of the second part in
the fall. Congress is the place for me-" says
the colonel, and there is no doubt but what
he will be a candidate for congress- again
every time there is a congressional election.
If Col. Kiefer wanted to get the nomination
for mayor he would have hard time Of It.
There are too many Republicans who have
not forgotten the last time ne wanted to be
mayor. That was in 1892. His friends worked
hard for him, and it is claimed secured
enough delegates to nominate him. But be-
tween the time the primaries closed and
the time for voting in the convention, the
colonel traded off his strength for the sup
port of Col. Fred Wright in the following
fall. Wright was elected, and he helped the
colonel get the congressional nomination. But
how about the men who worked for Kiefer
for the delegates in the spring? Well they
got left. Wright had time for them, and
Kiefer couldn't do anything for them. They
were out of favor with the city administra-
ton, and had to remain out of favor, and the
next time Democrat was back in office.
They haven't forgot it. and Col. Kiefer would
find it hard shedding if he tried the square
to get another mayoralty nomination. Still
few Of his friends might still be willing to
help boost him by sending delegates to the
convention to be traded off In the colonefs
interest.
There is some talk of Aid W A. Dona-
hover, for mayor. 1t may be a little political
she'll game Of the alderman's or It may not
The impression is that the little pea that
Aid. DonahoWer wants is under the shell
labeled municipal court Judge and that he
thinks he would stand a better show Of haV-
ing the convention lift that for him if he
he is after the mayCralty. The Fourth ward
alderman is undoubtedly popular among his
constituents but is claimed that it is going
to be hard for any member of the present
council to go before the people and get any
thing with the record of two years facing
the men who have the ballots to mark.
There is also some quiet talk Of Ed Field
hauser. Mr. Fe.dhauser has not the ac-
Quaintanca of the others, but ne neither has
the records to face that they have and for
that reason might make a stronger run than
either or any one of them. 1t is doubtful
if he would enter the fed unless assured
by Mayor Doran that he himself had had
enough of it. In that event It is not im-r1b-
able that Mr.. Feldhauser would receive the
weight Of Mayor Doran's support for the
nomination.