The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

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distinct attempt has been made
IN the past few days to bolster the
railing fortunes OF o. HI. Arosin in the
FIRST ward by spreading the story that
ne Is really in favor Of the election OF
John Lind. The effort might have some
color OF success If the move had been
made earlier, and it had some evidence
OF truth about 1T. If Arosin is support
ing john Lind for governor he is ding
II IN a desperate effort to help himself
M the First, and the only
reason that Arosin's friends have
to give an air of truth to the
statement lies in the fact that a rela-
tive OF Arosin's is the editor of a Scan
| o!IiaVlan newspaper in Minneapolis,
winch paper is supporting the Demo-
| cratic candidate for goVtrnOr. The sub
terfuge that Arosin is using to make
| himself popular in the First is very
much OF piece with the other moves
ne mas made in this campaign, and they
may be classed as political trickery.
Arcs1n was nominated in spite of the
| First ward. At the caucus that was
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convention, it was shown that he had
| very little strength, both Alex. Lindahl
ana A. u. johnson running ahead of
| him. He went into the convention and
| was nominated because of the support
| of the political leaders of the Seventh.
| HIS strength was gained in that ward
| and among those men by methods that
| viii tranSpire before the campaign is
| over. He Is in no sense in touch or
! sympathy with the First and has re-
| peatedly shown that he has no regard
| for the people he is now trying to cult
| waite. His public record Is not calcu-
| lated to help him in the First any more
than it will in any of the other wards.
| He Is now declaring himself SWede of
| the SWedes, yet ordinarily he resents
being called a Swede.
Arcein was pulled out of the obscurity
| in which he had firmly buried himself
| In the council by Mayor Doran. A m s.
taken idea of polit cs and an exaggerat-
ed notion Of the Importance of Arosin,
| due in great measure to having the
| man who looks like Hobson constantly
| before him, moved Mr.. Doran to make
Arosin president of the fire board.
PASSED UP HIS COUNTRYMEN.
To give Arosin the place that had
| been for years filled by George A Free
| man, large property owner and the
| head Of one Of the most important
| manufacturing concerns in the city,
| was reducing city government to the
| farce comedy status, but 1T was thought
| to be a sop to the Swedes. 1t had, in
| fact, directly contrary effect. Arosin
| was in no sense a representative of the
| great body of his fellow countrymen.
| He had time and again given them to
understand that he had nothing in
common with then,v and did not want
| to associate with them Yet he was
| taken out Of his little jewelry shop and
| placed at the head of one of the most
| important of the municipal depart
| nentS, and he proceeded at once to
| take the political scalp of the man who
| had brought the fire department to it's
| then degree of perfection. George A.
| Freeman was turned out to make room
! for this small politician, and then Chief
| Jackson was turned down.. 1t required
some resumption onthe part OF Arosin
| to effect these two removals, but he
| was we'll chosen for the purpose. and
| both removals were made
| AS soon as he established himself in
| the office ArOsin proceeded to run the
| fire department with the autocratic rule
/ that his personal Importance warrant
| ed. He knew more about it than
| George Freeman or Chief Jackson, and
| he went to work to overhaul the de-
partment. And he instantly made it
! apparent to the people of the First
ward that he had got all that he0ex-
/ pected to get through their influence
| and was through with them. He had
! few persons who were so tied UP
with him that he could not afford to
| turn them down, and he made some ap-
pointments-or had them made. One of
| these appointments came to the sur
| face Friday.
| Oscar Lindor was appointed to. the
| fire department by Arosin five months
| ag6. He has served ever since The
| law requires that all firemen be citi-
zers of the United States, yet this man.
appointed by Arosin in spite of the
claims Of many citizens Of the First
| and other wards, did not become a citi-
| zen Of the country until Friday A
First ward man called the attention of
Arosin to the fact that Lindor was not
citizen at the time Of the appoint
| ment, but was told to go to the devil.
Friday Linder took out his citizenship
papers very quietly, and he will be
entitled to vote by the time he has
served as fireman for two years.
NO FRIEND OF LABOR.
| Incidental to recognizing the de-
| partment, Arosin found opportunity to
| get himself into trouble with an in
| stitution that Is likely to have some
thing to do with the present election
! And in his dealings with the institu-
ton referred to he assumed such a
| high and mighty air that the city is
| now engaged in defending a suit and
| the Master Plumbers association is
! out after the political scalp of the love-
| ly young man from the First 1t oc-
CURED to Arosin that he ought to de-
| tail a fireman to do the plumbing in
| the various engine houses. Among the
! firemen was one who understood
| plumbing and he was detailed to do
| the work of the department.
| Under the law, plumbers are required
| to take out a license to pursue their
| calling. The attention Of Arosin was
| called to this fact, and he was told
| not do the work without having a
| plumbers license. He paid no atten-
ton to the statement and said he
| didn't care anything about the law
| he was going to have the work done
| In his own way. The master plumbers
| are taxed in order that they be pro-
| tected and property owners protected
! in plumbing work, and they resisted
| the attitude of Arosin.
| President John McQuillan, Of the as
| ISOLATION, called a meeting, and a COM
| mittee was appointed to see Arosin
| about the matter and have an explana-
| ton with him. The committee con-
| sisted Of Master Plumbers J. H. Shea,
| M. J. O'Niell and J. E. Holt. There
| could be nothing Of politics in the af-
| fair, for two of the members of the
| committee are Republicans. They
| went to Arosin and he refused to talk
| with them; he said that he had de-
| cided that he would keep q man at
work on the plumbing, and that was
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