The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-07
COSS MAY KEEP THE PLACE
CHANCE THAT HE WILL. RE-
MAIN CHIEF OF POLICE

He Came to the Rescue of the Com
mittee at a Time When He Was
Interested in His Claim, and May
BE Allowed to Remain-PoIiticaI
Gossip.
There is row on that may be far
reaching over the appointment of chief
OF police
The casus belli Is the declaration Of
Chief Goss that he considers he has
better right to the office than any Of
the men wo claim to have been prom
ised the place, and he doesn't propose
to be thrown out unless there is some
better reason than political expediency
If anybody is to hold the office because
he supported Kiefer, Goss thinks he
should be the man.
Lieut.. Budy gives it out that he
wants the place, and the people who
believe In the potency Of the influence
settled, and that Capt. Pottgieser is
the man.
II Goss does not stay in the place, he
will make row, and he is by no means
unfriended He is very close personally
to Eli Warner. the chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee War
ner was not as Caesars wife In the
late campaign, and there were many
suspicious INDUCED as to his fidelity to
klefer. But he is the chairman, and
ne has control of the machine barrel
He will force attention from Kiefer, for
the time will be here presently when
1t Will be necessary to do something to
delver Ramsey county, and as the
Clough-Van SAINT movement is to be
ff0i
Rogers and Kiefer's other closest
friends must be in it. So the chair
man OF the central committee Is po-
tent He will insist that Goss stay
where he is.
Goss' position is strong one, for it
seems that he alone was responsible
for the assessment of the police. A man
who could not but know what was go
ing on towards the end of the cam
pa1gn said yesterday that the commit
tee that was acting for Kiefer did not
have a solitary cent when the time
came to arrange for the employment of
challengers and other workers for cleo
ton day. The committee would not
have known where to turn if 1t had
not been for Goss, who turned every
thIng into gladness by showing up with
$525, laying it on the desk of the treas
urer and telling him to ask no ques-
lions That was the money that came
out OF the police force. Goss also sent
out personal letters to the railroad con-
ouctors Of the city, asking them as a
personal matter to vote for Kiefer, and
1t is now claimed that he will be in
dorsed by the union.
These claims on the consideration of
k1efer are offset by the charges that
Goss dallied with the opposition for a
long time and only got into line for
kiefer when it looked like a sure thing
for him. Friends Of Goss even went SO
far as to feel out the possibility of
the chief being retained in the event
OF DR.. Schiffmapn's election. With these
contentious in sight and the outspoken
claim of Budy that he was politically
the real thing during the campaign it
promises we'll for a fight that will leave
some bitterness.
AS to the other positions on the force
nothing has developed. 1t is certain
that Schweitzer will go out or be re-
duced. The present mayor may settle
that matter, but no information could
be had at the mayors office about If
yesterday.
Judge Orr has not yet indicated what
ne VIII do when 1t comes to the matter
OF ousting Tom Conroy and giving the
clerkship of the municipal court to
Billy Johnson. The Judge is a very
deliberate man and the mere fact that
1t Is certain that Judge Elect Hine has
promised to support Johnson does not
settle it. 1t is very likely though that
Conroy will have to go, as there are
several candidates for the position
whose attitude in the campaign could
not be questioned. Johnson has the
G,Ia ana tne office is worth having
Ihere is somehow a feeling that the
place ought to be filled by a partisan
whose position is above question.
Yesterday passed without the filing OF
notice Of contest in any of the CLOSE
wards and the passing Of another day
or two the matter is likely to go by de-
fault. The majority of the Republicans
keep increasing with the flight of tins
and it will be beyond question in a few
| days. When the ballots were counted
and announced the other day Terrence
Kenny had q beggarly thirteen votes
to go on. Yesterday it was said at the
city clerks office that the footings gave
him majority Of twenty five. Wednes-
day night Bell only had a claimed plur-
ailty OF tWenty-one or whereabouts and
the city clerks figures yesterday were
forty-seven. The finish of the possible
contestants is now in sight if this sort
Of thing goes on for few days more.
Aid. Billy Donahower is to be presi-
dent of the board of aldermen with
out regard to the wishes of Col. Kiefer
He might not object to having the
Fourth ward man for an understudy In
any event, but it has been settled with
out his consent. The friends of Dona-
hover canvasSed the aldermen-elect
yesterday and he will have no opposi-
ton for the place. Bloomqust, of the
First, had an idea that he might come
in and get the place on account Of the
Republican aspect of his home ward
He was incontinently sat down on. But
he gave some evidence that he was to
be the joyful feature of the new ad-
| ministration. He is remarkable as to
appearance and magnificent in his
proud disdain of other wards than the
First. He promises to be good thing
and is already informing himself as to
how to bring about some needed re-
forms. Allard had a disposition to
leave himself in the hands of his
friends with regard to the presidency
| of the body, but he didn't last minute
when he was notified to quit.
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