The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-11
AFRAID OF WAGNER
REPUBLICANS FRAMING UP A
CHEAP GAME TO INJURE
HIM
WARREN TIPPED THE STORY
Have Been Trying to Get Another
Man of the Same Name to- Go on
tho Ticket, So That He Might
Catch Few Votes-BigelOw
Offers a Gratuitoius Insult to
Every Democrat in St. Paul.

Catch Few Votes-BigeiOw
Offers Gratuitous Insult to
Every Democrat in St. Paul.
There is rumor out to the effect
that German-American independent
candidate for sheriff will be sprung
! within day or two. 1t is known
positively that the matter was under
consideration last week to bring out
a man named Wagner and put him
| on the ticket as an independent with a
| view TO causing loss to Sheriff Wage
nef by the confusion Of names. 1t was
SAID, Saturday night, that the Wag-
ner mad been found and on the strength
! OF that there were a few bets made by
friends OF George Irish. So strong was
| the UP that went out that George War
rem, VINO is supposed to know some
thing about the conditions in the Fifth
ward, was out looking for a bet and
making an offer that proved him to be
| In the secret of the job that had been
put up against Sheriff Wagner. War
rem met Col. Pottgieser Saturday, and
| talked politics with him. He told the
former senator that he was sure that
! wagner would not carry the Fifth
ward. In 1896 the present sheriff car
ried that ward by COL votes. PottgieSer
got interested when Warren offered to
! bet that John Wagner would not car
ry the ward at ALL and offered to make
! a little bet that he woHfd. The bet
| So side-was made, Pottgieser taking
| the WAGNER end of it. Now there Is
! a. suggestion that 1t was made in the
| assurance that there would be a couple
! OF John Wageners in the field. The
! 1Tatter 1s being arranged very quietly,
| but close friend of George Irish said
! yesterday afternoon that a deal was
| on that would beat the present sheriff
| to a certainty. The menace to Sheriff
| Wagener's chances in running such an
| Independent candidate is reduced to
practically nothing at all by reason Of
| the coup being anticipated.
At the reception given by the candi-
detes at c. S. P. S. hall last Wednesday
evening to the precinct committeeman
and delegates to the county convention
Horace E. Bigelow, candidate for coun-
ty attorney on the Republican ticket,
said, among other things, that he was
Republican and was proud of 1t; that
he couldn't be anything else; that he
would no more vote for a Democrat for
office, no matter how competent and re-
spectacle he might be otherwise, than
he would for yellow dog. These re-
marks did not seem to take very we'll
with his audience, as some were Demo-
Gratis. Peter Thauwald and other can
didateS in the Fifth ward assert that
Bigelow must be muzzled as they are
depending on Democratic votes for
election.
The Bohemians of the Fifth ward say
that they will resent, at the polls, the
! assertion that they are controlled polit-
ically by John F. Selb and Charles r.
Parker. The Bohemians are too intel
Hgent to be controlled by juvenile poll
ticians like Selb and Parker, or any
body else.
J. Watson's Smiths campaign for
the senate is being made with such a
show Of strength, such evidence of a
desperate effort to land the mortgage
man that there is a proba bility of an
uprising in the ward before election
| day. The machinery that has been set
| at work in rbehalfEof Smith is as pom
| derous as though it were the United
| States senate that was the goal of
his ambition, rather than a seat in
! the state legislature. The forces that
have been set at work are not those
ordinarily invoked in the district in
which he is running. In the Ninth
| ward a new set of men has been
| brought out and the old leaders turn
| ed down, the proposition being that it
is not safe to trust the old time hus-
! tiers with such Weighty matters as are
| involved in this campaign. In the
| Third the usual campaign weapons are
| being used, and such gatherings of the
professional politicians Of the Repub-
| lican kind are already being held as
might be expected at the close Of a
| long campaign.
The proof of the sort of campaign
that Mr.. Smith would probably run
was given in the angel food and cham
! payne feast that was given at his
| house to a few of the swell members of
! h 1Nfx
and other members of the submerged
end of the party were shut out from
J the blowout, but Sam was fixed Sun
! day by being taken into camp at the
same time that Louis Pavian and some
| other eminent politicians were taken.
There is every Indication on the sur
face that there is going to be a po-
litical insurrection in Smiths senatorial
district.
Louis Pavian is again protesting to
! have delivered the Hebrew vote of the
city. He is early in the ring and or
| gained a meeting Sunday at Central
| hall to which he invited Congressman
| Stevens and J. w. Smith. They thought
I 1t was going to be good thing, and
they hurried through their devotions to
| be in with it, When they arrived they
found nine Hebrew voters present in
! addition to Pavian and Sam Lowen-
! stein. Stevens was sore enough to
throw the affair over and get out:
| Smith made a speech But Mr.. Payian
has lost caste with Stevens Pavian
/ promised to deliver the Hebrew vote to
! Kiefer last spring, and after election
| he was a candidate for license inspec-
| tor and several other Offices. Kiefer
| told him he didn't think he controlled
| any vote but his own and turned him
| down.
The gerryInander that makes it ne
| cessary for the candidates for the house
| to run in both the First and Second.
| wards is making a great deal of trou-
han engineered the gerrymander in or
der that both of the Republican candi-
dates could be selected from one ward
if that was desirable, and both of them
would have been named from one ward
at the late convention If it had been
found practicable. AS 1t was Sheehan
had to take advantage of the needs of
Dunn in order to pull nomination out
for himself. Now it transpires that
William Johnson is pretty sure to beat
out both of his competitors in the
First, and they are beginning to re-
greet the gerrynander. In some other
districts the gerrynlander is not effec-
tual in spite OF the manner in which
the city was cut up. On last springs
vote T. F. Martin has practically 400
majority to go on, taking the spring
campaign for base of reckoning, and
the district south of the tracks in the
Eighth and NinthIwards is 500 Demo-
cratic