The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-28


Up Around the City.
Charlie" Chapel has taken the man.
egemant Of the Irish campaign into his
hands entirely and the old line is doing
the rushing. The candidate himself IS
kept in the country most of the time
and Chapel sits in Eli Warmers Office
and does business with the callers. The
men who We're promised places by Irish
have all been given TO understand that
CharePs 0 K. will be necessary to tn il
welfare, and the cand date himself is
freed from this end Of his trOuble-the
idea being that Irish can repu6iate for
Chapel and the latter for Irish. War
ner claims his old-time hypnotic in
flueEce is again working on the Dis
patch, and as proof, says: See how
the paper is working for Chapel and
me-" or words to that effect.
But since Eli Warner has had the
Dispatch single out George Irish, his
business partner, as the enc eve lamb
of all the Republ can flock that it hopes
to save. the friends of John Wagner
know just what they have to do, and
they are doing it. The Chapel
forces have been busily employed for
the past week in rounding up the old
deputies of the former Chapel regime,
and the men who daily meet and confer
in nish's office, besides Chapal, are
former Deputies Haas, Peterson, Will
uams, Rochat, Kirke, Krayenbuhl and
Immaunel Johnson, all Chapels old
deputies, and all slated to return when
Irish gets inf he ever DOES.
1t is we'll understood in Republican
circles, that the Irish Chapel campaign
is being made on lines entirely indie
pendent of the committee, and other
candidates realize that even the COM
mittee is trading the other candidates
for Irish votes. AS one of the COM
mittee remarked confidentially to a
friend yesterday: This committee
can't do business without money, and
the men that put up the stuff can ma
turally expect the best work"
That is the secret of the whole bust
ness. Chapel has the stuff" and he
is putting it up for Irish, and the COM
mittee is making it distinctly Irish
campaign. If they can pull Irish
through, that means the restoration Of
Charel who was the most liberal pro
wider" the local Republicans ever had.
Irish had so much experience in max
ing out bills during his former con-
nectiOn with the office, that he may
be depended upon to sweat out the
last dollar the law will permit, and it
all goes into the Chapel-IriSh synd1
cate fund.
The Republicans are ready to aban-
don the idea Of ward meetings. In spite
of the fact that they have spent
great deal of money, many kegs'o beer
and all sorts of wind in the outlying
districts. they have had no audiences
and accomplished no results. The ap-
athletic state of public feeling makes it
quite impossible to get the people out,
and new system has been inaugural
ed throughout the city, in having small
meetings in empty houses, or in the
houses of precinct workers.
In a, section of the Eighth ward just
beyond the Great Northern tracks there
is a sample of this work. Two men
who have been in the employ of the
city, one of them as driver of the Black
Maria, have taken an empty house and
hold nightly revels there. A keg Of beer
is kept on draught at all hours, and
there is drunkenness galore about the
place. The regular funds of the pre-,
cinct organizations are being spent In
this way, and in the Fourth ward there
are a half dozen such gatherings every
night.
The theory of the committee is that
a hall cannot be got and the usual bill
ing done for less than SIS, and while
they have money to burn, they think
they can burn it to advantage some
other way.
A Swedish-American who has a place
In the court house, stood in the corridor
Of that building yesterday afternoon
with Dispatch in his hand and dismay
on his face. He was studying the car
toon, which represented the shade Of
viking rising up against John Lind
Il am Republican, and I have been
identified with the Swedish vote al.
ways" he said, but this does settle
1t. [ don't know what chump inspirea
it, but it is quite certain no more eff.
fective way could be taken to drive
the erican vote away from
the Republican ticket than to circulate
that cartoon. It is Anfamous to suppose
that such an intelligent class Of people
as the Swedish-American voters in this
city are generally can be driven to sup
port a candidate by invoking the
shades Of his ancestors. What have
the vikings got to do With this election?
The Dispatch and the Republicans in
power in this county will presently
lind out that the Swedes are no more to
be frightened by bOgies than are any
other nationality. This picture SAYS
clearly that the Swedes are Of a class
to be scared by old women stories. /
tell you that this picture itself will
make Lind a thousand votes in the
city"
Eighth Ward Activity