The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-07
In THU COUNTY FIGHT.
HORACE BIGELOW CARRIES HIS
CANVASS INTO THE MUNIC-
IPAL COURT
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE ROW


About His Race Against Henry
Johns-WiH Have IN OId-Time
Democratic MaiOrity-Frnnlx J..
Files One of the Most Popular
Men on the Ticket.
| The political activity of Horace Bige-
! low is unlimited. 1t does not stop even
at the bar of justice but goes over the
bar, up the pedestal of the goddess,
and helps level the scales. He rescued
a number Of Italians from the clutches
OF the law Wednesday morning with
! out loss Of time, and without reference
! 10 the dignity Of the court Somebody
IOld MN that the men were out of the
flIth ward, and he proceeded to make
| ten strike with their kind. DOmenico
Fetfonln1 and the brothers LombardO
had gotten into a row on the flats the
night before. They were taken in by
the police and were trembling in the
| cage Wednesday morning Judge Hine
v as on the bench, There has been
suspicion aroused that Judge Hines
! severity will some time carry him to
the extent Of ordering some plain drunk
| to be executed, but when Horace Bige-
low took up the case Of the Italians
| he softened without any argument.
There was no trial or pretense of it.
Horace talked with the Italians. They
| argreed to something he asked them;
| then he held a whispered conversation
| with the judge. The frOWn ON the face
or the judge relaxed, and the hold of
the law on the offenders was Ioosened.
They were turned loose.
John ]. O'Connor is not seen much
about in the Fourth ward, and he says
that his campaign will not begin until
next week in earnest. He gives it out
that he is not concerned about the
election SO much, but he wants to know
about the majority. He thinks it ought
to be in the neighborhood Of 500, pos
sibly less. The big Fellow is mod
est. Some of his enthusiastic friends
put 1t at 1000, and Republicans and
democrats alike in the Fourth say that
Henry Johns won't know that he is
running. It is all over but the shout
ing, so far as the Fourth is concerned.
A man who wanted to know and was
willing to inform himself bit, went
into all Of the places of business on
Robert street, from Fourth to Seventh,
and asked every man he saw, who lived
in the ward, whom he would vote for.
Out Of ninety-seven to whom the Dues
ton was put all but six said O'Connor.
Frank J. Files is one Of the most
popular men on the ticket in the Ninth
and Eighth wards, where he is best
known. He was at meeting in the
Eighth on Wednesday evening and was
fairly given an ovation. He was at one
time in the Great Northern shops, and
knows every man in the shops or with
in a mile Of them. The little speech
that he made at the meeting at ia
rosz's hall was received in a manner
that demonstrated the popularity Of
the Democratic candidate for abstract
clerk.
The row in the Republican county
committee is not yet settled. The men
who were appointed on the committee
by j. f. George, and who were thrown
out by the committee, turn up at every
meeting and have to be thrown out
afresh. They are supported by a fac
ton Of the Lincoln club-which has
come to be known among those who
do not belong as the Anvil chorus
under the leadership Of Jake Reichart
and other lights Of the Republican
party. They insist that If the Lincoln
club appointees are not fixed somehow
they will get even on those men on the
ticket whom they hold responsible for
the rundown. Up to date they have
received no other consolation than TO
be laughed at.
George Coulter and Shell Blakely are
running the Fourth, and that portion
of the city is in for some practical pol
itics. AS Mr.. Coulter remarked to
Daniel W. Doty yesterday: 81 don't
want to hear Of your coming around
and trying to fix my head about the
Fourth. I think I know who is a. Pro-
hibitionist and who isn't. What's the
use Of your kicking for Prohibition
judges? Why, there amt enough Pro-
hibitiOnists in the ward to make one
poll clerk, when your headquarters are
shut up
And Mr.. Doty took to the jungle.
In the meantime what is to be done
with Capt. Gallick? Up to the con-
ventiOn he was the whole thing. He
picked all the winners, and then he
quit, or was thrown out. 1t was ru-
mored yesterday that he was trying
to organize a syndicate for the cam
paign and put Louis Favian at the
head Of it. He threatens to make all
sorts Of trouble in wards other than
the Fourth, in case some one does not
listen to him soon.
George Irish Is trying to make it
clear that he has not promised the
chief deputyship to. Charlie Chapel, and
it was said yesterday that Chapel
would probably be gotten out of town
in order that the truth might be de-
was promised to Tom Neuhausen be-
fore the convention, and if Irish doesn't
make it very clear that there is moth
ing in the deal he has with Chapel
there is going to be a row. Chapel
discovered George Irish, and he is not
like a man who will lie down when he
is told to. even though he had a bond
for the chief deputyship. Between the
promise to Chapel on the one hand
and to Neuhausen on the other Eli
Warner is having a bad time with his
candidate.
The feed that J. Watson Smith gave
the members Of the swell section Of the
Ninth ward Republican workers at his
house the other evening is having the
usual result. Those who were not in
vited know that it was because Smith
would not associate with them socially,
and there has been a sharpening of
axes in the northern part of the ward.
Smith introduced a new element into