The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-22
CAMPAIGN CHAT.


The three candidates on the Democrat Citi-
zens ticket whom the administration
newspaper Is making its hardest fight are
Dick" McNamee Mat Bantz and ]. J. Glea-
The Republicans refused to recognize or
ganiZed labor in their convention, and now
the Republican newspaper is doing its best
to defeat the three represen tatives which the
resentatives and friends Of organized labor
stand for it?
The street railway company has notified
its employees that it would please the COM
Eany if they will support Knauft and Kenny,
Donahower and Reeves, Bell and Kaldunski,
Shepard and Allard. A vote for any one Of
these men means a vote to let the street rail-
way have anything 1t wants.
Dr.. Schiffmann will get 80 per cent of the
Polish vote. ii.
Since the Poles of the Eighth ward or
ganized the Polish Democrat-C Citizens club,
It's surprising how. fast Kiefer is losing votes.
tired of being bossed and dictated to by a
few who claimed they had it all: Joseph
Jia ian the. president of the club and
also foreman in the G. Gotham Shoe factory,
Is one of the leading hustlers. He doesn't go
around and raise disturbance at meetings, but
scb af1uaa every night making votes for Dr.
Of the club. and the general secretary Of
the Polish Union of America. He has a host
OF IT, friends and Is very influential in the ward
The youngest fighter in the club is John
F. Korczewski. the chairman of the executive
committee He has all the young element on
his his side all hustling for the ticket The club
lots are counted. They will discover that
80 per cent of the vote was cast for Dr..
Schiffmann.
kaldunski, of the Eighth, takes heart OF
grace from the fact that the constitution of
To aisn was signed on the third of May. If
ton Of the United States was adopted and
more about the method of running municipal
a al In St Paul, it would be much more
TO his advantage in running for office before
the people of the Eighth ward. -
Why should Capt. Castle find it possible
ton just at this time? He is about as Of
fens1ve a partisan as there Is in these narts
ana t the g1rt of work he is doing in ST. Paul
to conflict with the offensive partisanship or
der issued by President Cleveland. But then
the Cleveland idea of government was not
that Of Mr.. Mckinley. Perhaps there is
some truth in the claim made by Col. Kiefer
that he had Castle ordered to come here for
Of the postoffice department has been here
for week and is at a meeting every night.
Is it due to the protection afforded by Cant
Castle that Letter Carrier Hoffman, feels
safe in making speeches in Nick Pottgieser'.
on behalf Of Kiefer? It is hardly likely that
he would take any chances with the ru1e
that should prevent him. from going into a
saloon while wearing his uniform unless h.
has some assurance that he is SAFE
Oar Reese wandered into Democratic head
quarters in the Endfeott arcade yesterday
afternoon to get somewhere in a crowd He
inspired by fearful dread that the Scannei1-
lite candidate going to give Kiefer a
close run for second money. But Oar is such
til kI,.A
That person LARSON one time of the First
ward, has dropped completely out of sight
he has been caught canyassing in the First
ward, and taken back to the confines of his
own bailiwick, but he cannot be taught to
out Of his element in the Ninth. He will he
permitted to move oyer into the First ward
as soon as the election Is over, and Ed MUIR
ply has no further use for him as a esmark. >,
There is tribulations and tearing of whis.
kers among that trio of leaders Of the peo-
Sammy Marks was sympathizing with the
lot of them yesterday and suggested to Gal
lick that the job of making matrimonial ties
and the privilege Of an office in the city hall
might yet be possible to him If he would
unite with Pav1an and throw Moses down in
favor of Terrence Kenny, of the Third.
That F. A. Pike is the choice Of the
men who believe that the city may be ad-
m1nistered on business principles Is beyond
question. That being SO, how can Allard
be elected if he haspnly the Prohibition vote
and is obliged to split THAT with Innis?
Il
The Democratic citizens 'foassembly ticket Is
composed of business men, and men whose
names are equivalent. toll a guarantee that
the affairs of the city shall be administered
| wisely. The men ION -thet Republican tickle,
are either unknowne or known only through
their connection with theS present assembly.
The latter are in worse case than the former,
| and the former have net the least possible
| show Of election Surely there can be no
| comparison betweenb Warmer, of the Eighth
| who was never heard OF even in his own
| ward before his snomihAt1en, and D. r
| PEBBLES? That is e. sample of how the men
! size up by contrast all over the CITY,
| Ed Feldhauser has given up fourishins
| that affidavit, but is still making holes In his
| hat with his conversation He is going about
predicting the success Of Pat scannel1
| What Mr.. Donahbwer is going to do for
votes on election day that Billy Bickel
| and the other good things have got out of
| the ward, is a question that is likely to re-
| main unanswered. Bickel discovered the
| merits of Donahower as a candidate, and had
| him move into the ward and take up his
| residence at 431s West Third street about
| three weeks before election time two years
| ago. With his discoverer up in the woods
how is Billy going through this campaign