The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-06
In THE COUNTY FIGHT
P0PULIsT TICKET IS GOING TO
HELP THE STRAIGHT
DEMOCRATS
HOW 1T is GOING TO CUT IN
w. r.. Prendergast VIII Take More
Votes Away From Billy johnson
Than He Can Afford to Spare
George Irish's Campaign I'm Com
petent Hands-DemO cratic Ex-
ecutfve Committee Meeting.

George Irish,s Campaign I'm Com
| petent Hands-Dem Ocratio EN-
ecutfve Committee Meeting.
| The action Of the Populists in nomi-
mating county ticket had depressing
erect on the Republicans interested in
inc county campaign. 1t had been sup
posed that the men most interested
] would nave been able to control the
fopullst convention at least to the ex-
tent or nominating men who had been
iGehtlned With the Democratic party
| IN the past, and If that could not be
done, then to have the Pops endorse
sucn or the Republican nominees as
might be desirable. That they failed IN
| ootn OF these aims is due to the clum-
| sy way IN which they went to work on
| the Pops.
7 The last thing that Billy Johnson de-
| slreo was that such q man as NJ. c.
PrendergaSt should be nominated for
county auditor. Prendergast will dis
tlnctly cut into the Johnson vote. He
VIII run among class of people who
Woulo not accept a straight Democrat
| at any price, and whose votes would
nave been cast against Platte. They
must necessarily have been for Johnson
! with Prendergast out of the way; now
they will go for the Populist, and the
little man from, the Eighth will be shy
probably COO Of the vote that he would
! otherwise get. 1t is generally conceded
that Prepdergast will have in the
| neighborhood Of 500 votes
Another error was made in permit
ting the nomination of Slater-an event
that could not have been prevented
with the leaders who got in control
Tuesday evening. There was consid-
cradle vote that might have been influ-
enced TO go against Wagner direct.
NOW that vote will find a place for it
self in the support of Slater. No one
knows or cares who Slater is, the Pops
only desire to know that they do not
have to vote for Irish in order to avoid
voting for Wagner. The Wagner
diSsidents were not numerous at best,
but they would have been for Irish in
case it had been left to a straight race
Now that vote will be for Slater and
a dead loss to the Fourth ward ma
chine candidate. q I
In this connection the Republicans
have still another card to play which
they consider trump. In the course
of the next week they will induce some
German to come out inGep ndently, with
view to getting some of the German
vote. This is given out in advance 1t
was considered Yesterday afternoon at
the meeting Of the Republican eXecu-
tive committee, andvthe name Of the
independent will be announced in
few days. It is hardly likely that a
! man having any. kind Of standing can
be hired to do the trick, and his can
didacy will not be menace to Wag-
ener. 1t is much more likely to react
on the men who put him into the field.
The nomination of James Cormican
r nTIy Of he III
reduce Ed Rogers vote by rs, possibly
Jog. Cormican can scarcely expect to
get more than that many votes at the
outside. If some man Of influence like
r. A. Walsh had been named for the
place his candidacy would undoubtedly
affect the result. AS it is the nominal
ton can make no possible difference.
So
A E. Bowe's nomination for district
Judge Will have an adverse effect on
Willrich, and was probably engineered
by some Of the Jaggard push The
fight on the judgeships, SO far as the
Republicans are concerned, is not be-
tween the Democratic and Republican
nominees, but between Jaggard and
Wjllrich, for second place. They all
know that it will be impossible to elect
more than one Of the judges-eVen that
is granted only as a remote contingent
cy. Jaggard is fighting Willrich tooth
and toe nail, and Willrich is getting
even in the Eighth ward by working
for Willrich. Jaggard's friends claim
that Willrich will run a thousand be-
hind his ticket in the Seventh ward
which means that he Will~get no votes
at all, practically. The Jaggard people
knew very we'll that Populist nomina-
ton would cut into Willrich's strength
and not at all affect Jaggard. Hence
their desire for a single Pop nomina-
ton. BoWe and his friends may not
be parties to the deal, but Willrich
was especially sore at them yesterday,
and he naturally blames Jaggard.
An attempt on the part Of the friends
of TIM Sheehan to get the Populists to
name a SWede in the First and Second
wards for the senate reacted on his
managers, and Ed Petersen was nomi-
mated. The way Lind ran in the First
ward two years ago showed the Repub-
hcans that it was necessary to do some
thing, and a determined effort was
made to have the Populists help out the
Republicans in this. Petersen stands
very we'll with all classes of Pops and
all of their factions, and his endorse
ment provides for q straight fight in
district that will be worth watching.
Taken as a whole the Populist ticket
helps the straight Democratic ticket,
takes an element OF doubt out Of the
campaign. 1t will preserve the Popu-
list party's individuality and will show
the strength OF the party at the polls,
The ticket was put in the field with the
full knowledge that it could not Dos
sJbly be elected or even poll for its
best representative a thousand votes
The Pops have been approached by the
Republicans with a view to doing
something that would injure the Demo-
cratic ticket. The leaders Of the POM
lists caught the idea that they were
to be used as g. tail to the Republican
dog, and they resented it by nominating
ticket that will catch disaffected Re-
publicans and POpulists who are sin
cere in Their NO one else
Said prominent Republican politician:
I'VE have got the worst Of it at last.
never believed that anything could BE-
made by going into foreign political
camps ana trying to manipulate their
conventions, II our people had STAYED
away from that affair of Tuesday night
the chances are that the Pops would
have endorsed some Democrats, pos
slbly Republican or two, and the issue
would have been straight. Now we will
be charged with having put the ticket
UP and the Lord knows we'll suffer
enough from it without that"
Horace Bigelow acted with COM
mendable sagacity.- sHe saw what was
coming and got away from the Popl-
| list deal. His managers had It In mind
to have someibodyInominated and would
have tried to put such a nomination
through had they not seen the trend
Of the convention. They saw It would
handicap Blgelow TO have anybody In
- IL.