The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-19

Every hiss uttered by the delegates
at the recent city Republican conven-
ton when Mayor Doran's name was
mentioned is going to cost the Repub-.
lican ticket good many votes.
Mayor DOran may be induced to for
give, If he cannot forget, the incident,
but his personal friends promise to
remember the insult until after they
have cast their votes at the coming
election.
If the delegates had been willing
simply to go ahead and nominate some
body else, Mayor Doran would have
considered 1t one of the things that is
apt to happen to any man whose
friends or those whom he has counted
upon as friends had gone back on him.
But, where they added an insult that
convention would hesitate about Of
fering, even to the candidates Of an
other party, it touched Mayor Doran's
friends, If not the mayor himself.
Mayor Doran has been willing to adj
nit that he had made mistakes, but
they were accidental, not willful. The
fact that his police department had
been the seat Of many a scandal dur
ing the last two years everybody knows
| was due to the trust he placed in his
chief Of police and chief of detectives.
! They had deceived him, although he
will probably now believe what Chief
Goss should happen to tell him rather
Z.
f! Months ago Mayor Doran knew that
! he had enemies among the police force.
| Instead of throwing a lot of them out
| Of the department, he said nothing.
Friends of his told him that certain
policemen could not walk past Col.
Kiefer's rooms on Seventh street with
| out going up to do little plotting.
Mayor Doran wouldn't believe it. Fl
nally he was persuaded to put a watch
OH the block. The report he got was
convincing enough to prove that what
had been said was true. He was being
knitted by the very men whom ne ex-
pected to stand by him.
The same thing was true with nearly
| every branch Of the city service. John
Copeland was true to him, but he was
| almost alone.
The mayor was deceived by the men
1 whom he trusted most. Oar Reese,
for instance, made Mayor Doran be-
! lieve that he was supporting him in the
| initial fight, and the mayor may still
! think so. But Reese lives in the one
Republican precinct in the Fourth
ward, and, while he has always been
| able to swing it as he wished, he didn't
even bring in three delegates from
| there for the man to whom he was
politically indebted
Mayor Doran had appointed Reeses
friends on the board Of public works,
and it would have been scant return
! for him to have brought in his pre-
cinct. But not Reese.
There were score more Just such
! cases where Mayor Doran had good
! reason to expect some help which those
i to when he looked for it took care he
didn't get.
The mayor remembers all these
things and feels that he is under no
| obligation to support those who have
treated him in way which his acts
! did not merit.
/ Now, however, the Republicans are
! looking longingly to him to come to
the front for them. They have used
his name without authority in connec-
ton with their meetings. He has been
| advertised as one of the speakers when
the committee knew that he wouldn't
attend.
Yesterday an effort was made to get
him in line. Reese, the man who didn't
| bring in his own precinct for the may
OF, was sent around to try and 'jolly"
the "old man. as they call him. He
| plead with him, but the best he got
was letter of regret
| Mayor Doran has shown one thing
during his administration, and that is
that he has a mind Of his own. If he
has made UP his mind to be satisfied
with having his one cheek slapped, in
stead Of turning the ether one to the
i same friend then the chances
are he will not take the stump for
| Col Kiefer during this campaign.
Perhaps by the next time that Kiefer
is running for office, if it is not too
soon, the West side man will help him.
But. whatever political expediency
| may lead him to do. his friends will
have to do their talking in the polling
booths election day.