The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-20

the Matter Until After Election
Has Assurances That He Can Do
Business without Paying.
| Red" Griffin enjoys the peculiar and
unique distinction of being the only
| saloonkeeper In the business portion of
| this town who is running a rum store
| without license.
There are people who question the
fact that Red has pull with the
| powers that be, but they don't know
anything about the eminent Republi-
| can manager Of the Fourth and his
strength. Three hundred and odd other
saloonkeepers have paid their thousand
dollars into the city treasury and are
doing business at the dictation Of Joe
| Davis and other creatures of Griffin.
Red" himself is superior to the rule
that requires the others to pay license.
The expiration Of his license and the
announcement of his aff1liation with
| the kiefer forces were simultaneous.
The license ran out April 10 last, and
| he has been doing business for Kiefer
and been an adviser of the Republican
| city committee since just that date.
1t is only a coincidence perhaps, but
| it is an odd one.
l. Owing to certain little matters that
are not worth going into at this late
day. Mr.. Griffin did not see fit to take
out his license last year in his own
name. His partners in the business,
| being professionally engaged in the
sinecure Of thief catching, could not
very well appear as the licensees. Pos
sibly they did not like the idea Of plac-
| ing too much confidence in Mr.. Crit
fin, as they would have to in case the
| license ran to him. Door Mat Jimmy
says:
RED Is as right a guy as ever cop
/ OaH no Of NJ cfi do
won't do wit him won't do wit me-"
but Jimmy is of confiding nature and
| knows Red" His partners would not
| take any chances, so the license last
year was issued to a man Of straw,
one B. Morris. 1t was issued April 10,
1897.
]. H. Beck, treasurer of the Repub-
lican city committee. processes to know
| nothing about the license or whether it
| was any part Of the deal whereby the
services of Red" were secured by the
committee Mr.. Beck is not very close
to Mr.. Griffin personally, though their
| political relations are cordial enough.
Harry Drake, also Of the committee,
seems to know nothing about it. Red
sent for one of the committeeman yes
terday to call and see him, but they
| were all too busy. Mr.. Griffin called
| at the committee rooms, but was stall
| ed before he got in, and rushed down
10 NICK HOttSleSerS place.
| He had a session with the colonel
| there, and the colonel bought
A person engaged in the business of
| money changing-an occupation that is
profitable when the other party to the
| deal is verdant-and who stood in front
| Of Mr.. Griffin's place as Griffin went in
| after his conference with the Repub-
| lican chieftain, turned to friend who
| was with him and said:
NAV / give mo neg sucker two tNOS
| fer a two f don't t'ink deyre hangin'
| 1t on Reds eye. If he does get der
hinky dink were do we get aboard?"
Don't you go t'rowin' off yer dough
on any bet dat dat mugs got a soft
spot" remarked he of the door mat
| to deal booze widout his poipers is
! strong enuf ter tie ter. Wen dey starts
| to give Red der high ball fer a toss in
| de air, I'm bettin' dat dey'H have ter
put a barb wire fence across de. high
bridge ter keep demselves frum jumpin,
off inside er two days" - ,
On the inside Red was engaged in
earnest conversation with ''B. Morris
and placard was carelessly hung
over the date on the license that had
| expired.
The respectable element of the Republic
| cans IN the Fifth ward is determined to re-
| sent the dictatorial policy Of the men who are
| engineering the campaign in the Fifth ward.
The men who are now managing the Re-
| publican machine In the Fifth ward have so
| Disguised large and respectable element in
| the ward by chicanery and trickery that this
| element proposes to teach these political
won't soon forget. said prominent Re-
publican to The Hob e the other day.
Look" said he. sat the county, city, and
Do they think the respectable Republicans
are going to stand their work? Time will
reI was at the head of subcommittee of
| the city and county Republican committee,
which did business" on the, quiet. The
Irish-American policemen, who it thought
were opposed to Mayor Doran, and
who were guilty. of calling him an A. P A.
| The members Of the committee reported to
Warren every day what they ''heard" the
police say. and in many instances made af-
| fidavit. The affidayits preserved and
when Mayor Doran was elected and took his
seat he discharged every Irish-American po-
Hceman reported by Warren and his com
mittee, without giving them even a chance
to. be heard. The testimony was extremely
| slim and the afidavits, it is now said, man
uiactured to meet each case. And yet George
| Warren pretends to be friend of the Irish
Every policeman who was discharged from
the force can attribute 1t to Kiefer's hench-
| man, G. N. Warren.
The Democrats of the Fifth ward will do
| we'll to keep an eye on Assemblyman DAILY
He is now engaged in making a thorough
canvass of several precincts in the Fifth
ward IN the interest of the Republican can
dtdates. He is thoroughly posted on every,
tG1ng relative to politics. and has openly
stated that he intends to see that Kiefer
VIII carry the ward by over 500 majority.
+d 6eh h,1V the Democrats therefore, to
as an unscrupulcus politician.
Let every voter who has the welfare Of the
city at heart look at the men who have beer
nominated as the representatives Of the street
| car company for the council: Bell Dona
hover, kaldunski. Reeves, Sanborn, Larsen
Shepard and Allard. aldermen; and Messrs
Cralg' DIX and thompson, assemblymen.
Oar Reese spattered gore all over the
mayors office in the attempt that he made
Monday afternoon to get the "old man. out
to the Market hall meeting. The blood,
shirt is getting to be Ineffective with Mavo,
Doran: He spent too many years in South.
ern prisons and was too much of an actual sui
terer oy the war to stand for stories of how
he bled and died. Mr.. Reese should save
that sort of oratory for his First wart
speeches.
sheer, has decided that he doesn't want +,
make the running on the Scannell ticket
He was put at the head of the assembly LIST
lie cannot afford the time, his friends say.
Mr.. Sharood of the First landed in th
middle of the floor of the Republican com
mittee room yesterday afternoon, when tn
executive committee was in session and nro
his snickersnee He succeeded He toll
the assembled few that he didn't like tn
kind OF people that came around to give tn
committee advice, and he must insist tina
they be barred. AS there were only tire
members OF the committee present the res
OF the push in the room made it personal t