The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-02
DONAHOWEER FEELS A FROST
THE coNovER HALL MASS
MEETING FURNISHES IT
Praise That Was Expected to BE
Poured Forth for the Fourth
Ward Alderman Is ParceIed Out
to DGlran, Kiefer ana DR.. Rudolph
Schiffmann-Many Kind Words
for the Democratic Nominee.

IT don't know whether the speakers
who have preceded me have announced
that 1 am candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for mayor, but If they
have not 1 say 1t to you now"
Such was the emphatic declaration OF
Aid. William j. Donahower at Conover
hall last night after an audience of So
for nearly three hours to speeches in
which every candidate but him had
been lauded by men who were supposed
to have his interests at heart. 1t was
a pointed bit Of sarcasm and it struck
home.
For the Donahower mass meeting
was frost from beginning to end. The
hall was only half filled at the opening
and several of the speakers wearied
their hearers so much that number
left the hall completely exhausted be-
fore the meeting was half over.
II make no apology for being a can
didate for the Office" continued the
alderman. when I am candidate
1 am a candidate, and I am g. candidate
because want 1T. If am nominated
and elected it shall be my earnest en-
deavor to administer the affairs of the
city honestly, economically and eff
GENTLY. 1 am a Republican from prin-
ciple in city, state and national politics,
and If I am nominated by Republi-
can convention I will stand on the Re-
publican platform adopted by the ma
tional convention in 1885,"
There was reason for Alderman
Donahower to declare himself firmly
for no one else had said much about
him. The meeting might have been a
Doran or Ktefer or even a Schiffmann
meeting for all that was said about
Donahower. He seemed to cut very lit
tie figure in it. Indeed, more praise
was lavished upon DR.. Schiffmann, the
Democratic candidate for mayor, than
was bestowed upon anybody else. His
nomination seemed to be9perfectly sat-
isfactory to most Of the Republicans
present. Il .
The meeting was opened at $50 by
Frank Griggs, who set the pace for
long speeches. He said it was time for
the young Republicans toehave political
office in st. Paul, and he reviewed the
administration of Mayor Doran in a
manner that was not at all compliment
tary to that official. Z nc
He has been in office two years."
he said, land we are separated from
him by principle If not by personality -
He referred to the other Republican
candidates for the nomination, and said
they were all Objectionable except
Donahower. Donahower, he said, would
not conduct the city as though it was
a canal boat or Sunday school, and,
yet there would be no combination be-
tween the thugs and thieves. I mean
between the police and thieves he
added hastily.
When Mr.. Griggs had said all that
he could think of to say he allowed
Arthur M Wickwire to take the plat
form. The entrance of Fred c. Schiff-
man promised to cut his remarks short,
but he did not allow 1t to do so. When
the applause which greeted Mr.. Schiff-
man had subsidized, Mr.. Wickwire pro-
ceeded for nearly an hour. He de-
nounced the political ring that had
taken possession of all the offices and
had denied pap to young men in the
Republican party. He solemnly de-
clared that he clearly remembered the
contest at Runnymede, between the
mobiles and the people, and how the
people won their point over the no