The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-13

a boy five cents to- go around and gather
about hundred of them and the event -sti-
fed his foresight Two years later he only
had to have hundred or so additional ones
printed. AFTER election they were gathered
In the fa.l of Sc the fates were sgar st him
and ana re had no chance 20 use the limos, A
away. Not the celpnel 80
Yesterday morning they were taken cut of
the safe wherein the redeemed hail insura zee
kept-just north of the humble folding bed.
whereon tie statesman refteshes himself, and
re news his hiss strength e. nightly.
Ihey were a bit creasef but they did not
look much the worse for wear. They wer,
HIT g off in one respect, for along the bottc n
of the card was the legend:
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR CON
H. GREss. !
III I had been wise could have made
DOT read, Republican cand' date. sad the
At der CRIME" he added airily and he called
in the office boy and told him to go and
borrow ts pair Ct scissors It was done ia
as close IS it well couiE be, but sone Of
the capital letters stood Up evrn u ilir TIC
edge OF the cut The I;iat..re that hung in the
OF the r, ard the two Cs. Some Of those
left around town bore. across the top. in
pencil. IN German script. the. words:
CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR"
After he had completed his labor the. colonel
dropped into Nick,s place. t.>
don't pud on der name of der cfice.''
Corporation Attorney Markham has not yet
been requested to give an opinion to the city
clerk in the matter of the petitions that are
being filed by candidates for office, as has
been stated.
Il have not yet been asked for any opin-
ion," said the city attorney. II have no idea
Of what it is that Mr.. Jensen proposes to
my opinion will he.'' If Mr.. Jensen requires
any legal light on the law as to his epta-
ton Of petitions. he was not aware OF it
yesterday.
There Is rumor,"' said the seedy- look
ing politician, Ito the effect that kfefer Is
going to open a BARREL
"Ah, yes" returned his pal Il wonder IL
it will be half-barrel or a quarter keg."
The sorest man in Washington is Congress-
man Stevens. He got the situation at home
sized up about last Saturday. and yesterday
his friends here heard from him. He wants
them to keep an eye on the gun and keep 1t
trained on Rogers and Kiefer He has come
to understand that the success OF kiefer
means that Ed Rogers will have the kiefer
support for the congressional nomination IN
the fall. and he is put, in. the position OF be-
ing obliged to have kiefer turned down or
sacrifice his own chances for the nomination.
The clerk Of the COURT $ office Is the only
one in the court house that is active IN me
campaign, and it was. provided before the
convention that if Kiefer were nominated
he would be for Rogers for congress. stew
ems was not reckoned with at all, and now
he has served notice on Kdefer that II there
is not disclaimer made spf the deal he Will
leave the Cuban difficulty to adjust itself
and come up here to see about things. Two
members Of the force in the clerks office
are spending practically all their time in
politics; another one is OH the Kiefer cam
paign committeeman there whether he Will
or no, for 1t was necessary to have per-
son with Htbernian favor to his lame In
the push some wheFe-and third member
of the force has been promised the place OF
chief of police-in which he has not got
bit the best Of a half-dozen other people.
Rogers is evidently sincere in his support
of Kiefer, and is making good his end of the
DEAL Now the question arises as to whether
Kiefer will feel himself strong enough to
defy Stevens and his. friends. In any event,
there is a merry time in store for some one
when Stevens arrives.
AS far as the campaign has gone the Re-
publicans have mustered enough speakers
and halls to schedule two meetings.
The very lively interest in the Schiffmann
campaign is pretty we'll shown in the fact
that there were about 600 visitors to the
headquarters yesterday. A plan of platform
campaign has been mapped and 1fty-tWo
speakers had been Put on the list up to last
night. By the first Ct next week meetings
Will be- arranged in, every ward In the city
for every evening" the larger wards bsing
provided fer to the extent of two or three
each evening. -. v..E-- -
ST see" said Louis Nash, that Erwin Is
making his campaign en the strength Ct the
fact chat he defended the cHoin estead strikers.
Well 1 don't see that he can borrow any.
glory from that. Every union labor man In
the city knows that Erwin did not leave the
city until his fee paid over to him. at
least In part. If my memory serves me. he
wanted S. 600 for the work. The labor as
sembly took the matter up, and it Is very
fresh in my memory: that I was the very
first man to subscribe to the fund. 1 gave
S. A Thousand dollars paid Erwin be-
fore he went to Pennsylvania and the rest
before the trial was competed. l think that
union labor discharged its debt to him fully"
The candidates nominated by the Democrat
Citizens will have at least two Places on the
official ballot. The Independent Democrats,
known as the Fuller Democracy announced
yesterday that the city committee of that Or
ganization had decided to fndorss tine whole
ticket. with the exception Ct one name. They
did not say who it that would be left
off but said that the name of o. j. Cock
would he substituted for one Of the nominees
for municipal judge. . =.
The committee will act about the end of
the week.