The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-22
PLUM FOR DRISCOLL
RETIRED MANAGER OF THE PIO-
NEER PRESS PROBABLY THE
NEXT POSTMASTER
TALKING PARKER FOR MAYOR

TALKING PARKER FOR MAYOR
Popular Retrenchment Expert he
Iieved by Many to BE the Man
Who Can Heal the Old Breach In
the Ranks Of the Party Locally
Gossip of Prospective Nominal
tiOns.
Since the retirement Of Frederick Dris-
coll from the management of the Pioneer
Press the suggestion has been made by
number of his friends that he would
be probable appontee for the postmas-
tership al the expiration of Robert A
Smiths term next August. 1t has been
the belief In circles close to Senator Da-
Wis that the appointee to succeed Mr..
Smith would be former Gov Andrew
r. McGill, and there was even talk OF
Mayor kiefer being appointed, In event
of failure to renominate him on the
part of the Republicans in the spring.
1t Is urged by the friends of Mr.. Drs-
coll, however. that he has claims upon
the Office which are paramount to those
Of any other person mentioned viewed
in the light that a long servltor of the
party can justly claim reward at its
hands. ]xieter, IL is contended, has had
some sort of a political job since the
sos, or i'll that vicinity, and McGill has
been honored with the governorship, be-
side other places of trust and more or
less emolument. But beyond being state
printer, back in the So s. for shcrt time
Mr.. Driscoll, 1t is pointed out, has never
had conspicuous political honor, although
the paper of which he was the business
head has been Republican throughout,
and unf1inching in Its loyalty to the party
organization, however alert it was to see
and suggest possible departures from old
and outgrown platforms.
There is consderab bic talk Of j. j.
Parker the probable Democratic nomi-
nee for mayor Mr.. Parker is a business
man of ability, has served the public
we'll In the past, and his service on the
retrenchment committee of 1925 is looked
TO as a strong argument for his nomina-
ton, In view of the fact that the city ad-
ministration, which is installed next June,
will have much to do in Strengthening
out the problems of municipal finance
with which Mr.. Parker is personally ia
miliar. Besides, he has not been aggres-
BiVely identified with either of the fac
tons which existed in 1895 and 1888 and
as the nominee of q strong and reunited
party in 1900 1T Is believed he could win
over any man the Republicans can put
up.
Lew Sullys song about Helen Hunt
was aptly paraphrased at the Woodmen's
entertainment at Paul Martins the other
night when one of the end men sang
| No. rs1co
men, and suggested that If Kiefer thought
he was going to get the mayoralty nom
!nation again he would have to go to-
Helen Hunt for it. And Frank B. Do
ran was one of the distinguished guests
of the occasion, too. Can 1t be that they
are planning to mine" Kiefer in the
Sixth, after Elmer e. Mcdonald has
been taken care of on the school board?
Edward Ekman, who was the regular
Democratic nominee for comptI oller in
1893, is being talked Of for city comptrol-
Ter On the Democratic ticket Ekman
who is now assistant bank examiner,
was the man who dug up the $S9, 200 item,
the payment of which from the school
fund has stirred up so much discussion
among the half-starved and hungry
teachers who for two months had to eat
lines to draw their stomachs up to fit
their rations. If the school ma ans could
vote they would give McCardy an inter-
esting time. They may be able to do
some campaigning themselves If the
schools close in April. Perhaps Nc Will
dig up some money somewhere to run
the schools until after election day any
way before closing them up.
Victor C. Gilman has been mentioned
for a place on the city ticket, his bust
ness qualifications lifting him splendidly
for either comptroller or treasurer. He
made a good run for register of deeds
III 1885, but the odds were too strong
F. H. Ellerbe is somewhat spoken of
as a candidate for treasurer
Il believe In expansion in religion, ex-
pansion in liberty, expansion in territory
and expansion In trade
In the foregoing words Congressman F.
NJ. Eddy, of the Seventh district, an
nounced his creed yesterday
II believe" continued Mr.. Eddy, that
this government should retain control of
the Philippines until = life, liberty and
property rights are a safe there as they
are in any part of the United States, and
when that security Is attained, we won't
he able to keep the Filipinos from becom-
ing part of this country without using
club.
This is no moral question. The opposi-
ton to expansion is based upon financial
not moral, reasons. 1t is centered chiefly
in the East. The products of the West
and South have had to pay tribute to the
manufacturing and transportation inter-
ests. Naturally the East fears that any
acquisition of territory in the Pacific will
have tendency to build up an Oriental
trade that will divert a portion of these
products from the East"
In this connection Congressman Eddy
expressed the opinion that if the people of
China and Japan would consume a quart
CT wheat per capita year, it would
furnish market for all the surplus. wheat
of Minnesota which now goes through
Eastern channels to market, The same
MIR. Eddy thought, would be true of the
cotton product Of the South, and other
food products. MIR. Eddy summed up his
views on the question with this state
ment
ITS incomprehensible to me how a
Western or Southern~man can be any
thing else but an expansionist.'
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