The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-16


Mayor" Griffin agreed yesterday to
keep away from Republican headquar-
tors.
When the matter was first suggested
to him he said nit
1t made him angry to think that there
We're Il lot more Seventh ward men
WHO. like II. II. Rantoul. didn't want
| To be mixed up With him.
Finally his anxiety to help Col. Kie-
| fer oVercamc any feeling of resentment
stirred up by the proposition and he
agreed to shun Republican headquar-
| ters
1t was a nice piece of work the Kia-
| fer managers had on their hands to
| Straighten things out with the least
! friction. Horton was fractions about
the contact with Griffin that was neCes-
Sary. He gave it out that he wouldn't
! stand for it, But he is running the
campaign and he would not follow his
natural desire and throw the thing up.
kiefer knew the value of Griffin as a
| 'plugSer' with a certain class of peo-
| pie, who all vote when they are out
OF jail. Griffin had goods to deliver
and he would not deliver without an
explicit understanding of where he
| would be at in case of the election
| of kiefer Nothing would suit him but
the place he has held under the present
! administration. He would deliver his
| goods if he was dealt with fairly and
allowed to direct the police force of the
! city.
There was no difficulty with Kiefer.
| Henry Pothen had explained the value
| of the Griffin connection and the colonel
wanted votes and didn't much care
whose votes they were. So the control
of the men who know no authority
| save Griftin'S was turned over to Hor-
| ton to be made use Of
Now Griffin is ordinarily wise and is
! willing to keep under cover, but there
| are times when he puts q just value
on himself and he concluded that he
would mix with the best of them duI-
ing the campaign.
They've had me in the nine hole
| socially long enough" said Griffin
| Here's where | play even"
When he came on the social carpet
first he had to bc treated right, for he
was accredited by Kicfer He told
Horton few things and they had q
conference that lasted about twenty
minutes and then Horton got away.
If Grif could have heard what they
said of him when he left. the chances
are that he would have thought twice
about his deal.
J. II. Peck, who had sat at his desk
through the interview, after being in
troduced to Crit" was raging He
| waited until Freddy" got out. and
then he declared himself. H. had BEEN
thinking of what his neighbcrs ont
in "Ae Tenth ward would believe of
him. if they only knew that he was
one Of a crowd that was dealing with
Griffin. If he met Griffin on the str.-t
he would have to speak to him. and if
ii should happen that he was walking
with. say, the president Of a railroad
| and Griffin had an important matter
to communicate to him, Introduction
would be necessary He thought of
himself saving:
'.E,r. ah. Oh, YES. excuse me. Col
! So-and-so, this is Mr.. Griffin"
MIR Beck does not use bad language.
but he felt vicious enough to say
dreadful things.
declared himself. He would turn over
the money that had been collected
from the candidates and give up the
treasury portfolio in the Kiefar ca hi
net if that man Griffin was to be a
part of the machine.
Horton shook hands with him and
| made some remarks that added pictur-
esQue features to the mild declaration
of Mr.. Beck. When Hiler had re-
freshed himself. he went TO the taIe-
phone and started A search for the
colonel. Nick Pottgieser has no
telephone, and the candidate could not
| he found MESSENGERS were sent ont
| f,. c,L,,,oi.,o.. "a p4,, 60 49,
sent for too. and he declined to re-
sr0nd
Not me" said the chief .Tm
thr0,;oh viii, Grf1in and ri hard nm
to YOU"
None of the Griffin sponsors ccuIi be
GOT ar carl, in the evening and in
Tho meantime Peck had been talking
,,-,, .l,o+ (. voc
niteIv given cut that, if Griffin was to
! he in he game. he must be kept out
of sight.
W. n Iightner would certainly not
play in the same game with Freddy"
40 stretch of the imaginatiou COu,d
conjure up the picture of Assemb,ym n
Kirke, freshly barhered. high-collared
and immediately clothed. singing
comrades" at the Windsor bar With
about the alliance, and told what he
tboueht of the aIly.
Il want all the votes he can control.
but | don't want him around these
headquarters" said Kirke.
some person who is given to lev;tv
said he would like to See I'd Rogers,
With that delicate split in his hair and
that benign smile on his visaea. gras.-
ed rudely by RED" and made to take
a rart in the refrain:
Hail. Hail, the gangs all here;
What the hill do we care, what the hill do
we care.
There came very near being a row
in the executive committee when the
! members were told that Griffin had
| agreed tO $50 the diStanca' WI n than,