The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-22

alderman, Second ward; August Kaldunski.
alderman, Eighth ward; John Blomquist,
alderman snth F, First ward E. s. Aard alderman
peace each Of Wabasha; Walter P Boyd, con-
stable west of Wabasha; J. R.. Blackwell.
waTd a OF the enh and Eleysnth
ward.
The Republican city committee has more
or less trouble in securing quorum of its
own membership at the regular meetings. and
is compelled to take in recruits from the
outside to make up an advisory board.
Lamb, Shell Blakely, Col. John S. Vandiver,
the latter being a kind Of steering COM
mittee for the ''grafters" who infest the
VAN has had more or less experience In
dealing with these gentry, and when one of
them shows up he is turned over to the col,
luck. and if he does not lose what he had
when he went in he is in better luck yet.
Between times, Col. Vandiver puts up an
occasional job. draws UP an affidavit now ana
then, presides at one end of the grapevine
telephone line to RED" Griffin's place and
uses the files of the hotel papers to extract
''hot tamales" FROM. He will take it as
personal grievance when the election is over
with.
T There will be delegates from the Seventh
Eighth and Ninth wards to the mass meeting
in Market hall tonight.
A member Of the Republican committe is
authority for the statement that only $42O
has been so far paid into the campaign fund.
The candidates pay no attention to the assess
ment that made, and Col. Kiefer told
the treasurer that he would pay his own ex-
penses. There is no truth in the statement
made by his friends that he has paid $3.50 Of
the assessment of $500 made against him.
He pays his own expenses and the ward can
didates pay for the halls for the speech
making. letting him in to make his talk for
l., hi
OF course there is good deal of kicking
among those who are a-hunger for the flesh
pots of Republicanism, but the colonel goes
on his way undisturbed.
Kaldunski, of the Eighth, is spending a
good deal of time these days vainly trying to
explain one of his exploits last fell 1t was
at the time when the street railway company
into freight yard, and Kadunsk went out
into the ward and asked the citizens to come
down with him to the council and show by
their presence that they were opposed to the
ordinance.
why do you want us?' some of them
asked.
derstand why 1 vote against the measure"
he replied, ingeniously. And now some of his
people are inquiring why he should be 8, de-
sircus Of accounting for his action to the street
railway company.
Mr.. Reeves gives 1t out in the Fifth that
he doesn't much about the office Of
alderman, but he doesn't want to go to a
"clamper." Mr.. Gleason may think the state
ment IS actionable, but. in any event, his
friends are likely to make things very inter-
esting fer the anti-union man at the Seven
corners. If 1t were not for the ttclampers"
what chance would blind pigs have in the
ward?
People who are not in touch with the city
railway company are beginning to put this
and that together, and speculate on why it
is that the Republicans in the council who
were opposed to the company should have
been knocked out in the Republican conven-
ton, while those who were with the COM
pany on every proposition should be nomin-
ated. 1t may be merely matter Of coinci-
dence, but it Is a fact that Messrs. Bell,
Sanborn Allard and Shepard were renomin-
ated. while Tim Reardon, Lindahl and Bige-
low, who were out of joint with the street
car push, should be turned down. Surely the
pense Of doing its work before the conven-
ton?
Nick Pottgieser is to be chief of police.
The work of months has been thrown down
in few days and Pothen, Boerner, Budy and
Bean are tossed in the air because Nick s
rendezvous for the Kiefer junta was handy
and Nick accommodating. 1t was given out
to the elect on Tuesday that Nick was to
be the man, and it became general rumor
yesterday The former senator did not deny
the impeachment when 1t was brought home
to him and he has been allowed no sleep
for three days by men who think they were
born to adorn the force