The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11
FOR FEWER PARTIES
DIR. w. III. SIGLER URGES PEOPLES
PARTY MEN TO JOIN THE
DEMOCRACY
RESIGNS FROM COMMITTEE

Yesterday He Seat to the Chairman
of the Peoples Parry Cimmi tee
That Organization, Stating HIS
Reasons - Policy of 'tAdministra-
ton Should BE SOlidIy Opposed.
DR.. w. II. Sigler, who has for several
years been prominent In the ranks of the
Peoples party in Ramsey county and
has served latterly on the county COM
mittee. yesterday resigned from the COM
mittee in the following letter to J. Laza-
rus, the chairman, Of the committed
II hereby resign from membership of
your committee, and beg to be relieved
from further service thereon
Viewing the general political situation
as | do, / conclude that II is unWise and
bad policy to maintain so many political
organizations of like principles in oppo-
sition to the powerful and corrupt Re
ulists and silver Republicans, agree that
the overthrow of the 'Hanna-McKinley
organization is the first step toward the
the American people. The Republican
party, having thrown off its mask, now
stands openly as the representative of
aa,ristocracy, plutocracy, monopoly and all
II
of the Republican party from being a
party of the people in IIincolns time, to
a party of the monopolies and imperial
lists under Hanna and Hay, is well Illus
trated by the course of our senior sena-
tor, now known as the English states
man from Minnesota Many years ago
west in denunciation of the iniquities of
corporations and the arrngar+ norrup-
ton of wealth. Modern Peudalism' was
his theme. 1t was from that mastery
MI, fLo%
er first imbibed so-called Populistic prin-
ciples.
Since he became United States sena-
tor, however, his law firm became the
tional banks, and during all these years
of his official career we have not heard
one -ord- from. him on the subject Of
Years ago, like his party, he was quite
American. When the policy of increasing
the navy was under discussion, in a
members. he pointed out the formidable
appearance of British war ships at Van
couver and cited the, fact that the Cana
dian frontier. from sHalfax to the Pa
ciflc, was being fortified and mounted
with cannon pointing in friendly man
ner toward United States territory and
that our Atlantic coast was commanded
by a Gordon of British fGrtresses. Only
a few weeks ago he Denounced as raw
ems all who dare oppose the pro-British
policy Of the Mckinley administration.
Where may we looksfor the vultures of
THAT the Peoples party is passing and
has fulfilled its mission few will deny.
It's principles have been adopted by the
stronger Democratic party, and today it
stands broken into warning factions.
Even Mr.. Donnelly. the h gh priest of the
midroad faction, advocates the formation
Of a new party: In my humble opinion,
Populism and silver Republicans. to be
consistent, should now unite under the
Democratic banner. with William J.
Bryan as the standard bearer at the
election next November and march to a
glorious victory. Yery respectfully yours,
William H. Sigler."
With the exception of three vacancies
the following is a complete list of the
present chairmen of all the wards in the
city of the Democratic city and county
organization. The vacancies are in the
Ninth precinct of the Second ward, Fifth
precinct of the Fourth and Ninth pre-
cinct of the Fifth:
First Ward-First precinct, James Fail
low; second, William Johnson: fhird. M.
Mullane; fourth John E. Mccarthy; fifth,
Thomas J. Lorden: sixth, Frank Nord-
strom; seventh, Martin Kirwan; eighth,
Hans Hanson; ninth, John Hammergren;
tenth, Frank Lindberg;' eleventh, T. e.
White
Second Ward-First precinct, E. ]. Sni-
ker; second Peter McDonald third G.
D. Smith; fourth. A w Miller; fifth,
Jacob Heck; sixth; E. W; Helmes; sew
herty: tenth, Daniel O'Conner; eleventh,
Joseph Arth.
Third ward-First precinct, A Dahl
liam Rowan: fourth. FIJI. Kinnucan;
fifth. c. ]. Hendy; sixth, j. B. Irvine;
seventh, J. H. Hoffman, eighth. H. G.
Fourth ward-FirSt precinct. L. A. Cor
mick: second M. Quigley:. third. A. D.
Mcleod; fourth. N. F.. Seeger; sixth,
John, E: Hearn; seventh, T. ]. Ryan;
eighth eight B. GoyingtS9F; ninth: r Fox;
Bross; twelfth, o. B. Robertson.
Fifth Ward-First-pre George o.
Brien: second. E. j. Murnane; third. M.
Parker Sweeney: sixth, M F. Cody; sew
enth w. C. Woldt; eighth. w. H. Muir
name; tenth, Charles Sti1le; eleventh R.
Holcomb: twelfth. j. w Dougherty; thir-
teenth, ]. H. Jensen; fourteenth, ]. Q.
Jueneman g
Sixth Ward-First precinct, T. A. KAN
man; Second: William Casey; Third G.
Fifth, c. II. Bonn: Sixth ]. H. Bohrer;
Seventh. John H. De Brlf1n: Eighth. M
J. Moran, Ninth, John p. y-Melady; Tenth,
Samuel bearing; Eleventh. Peter DAILY;
f. w. Baer
Seventh Ward-Ffrst precinct. ]. l..
,rownlev; Second, William Kingsley
Il
Slevin: Seventh, James Nueent; Eighth.
j. J. Dwyer: Ninth, J. w Willis
Eighth Ward-First precinct, R. ], Haz-
gard Second, E. T.. Reisner: Third. Jo-
seph McCauley; Fourth, George J. Mitsch:
Fifth, Thomas Spence; Sixth Thomas H.
Nolan: Seventh. F. L. McGhee; Eighth,
John Wagner: Ninth, A: ]. Schultz Jr.;
Tenth. Matt Heffner: Eleventh, John F.
Kokesh; Twelfth John Welsch; Thir-
teenth, John Gantzer; Fourteenth, James
McCarter: Fifteenth, John Filtz.
Ninth Ward-First precinct, Thomas E.
Bvrne; Second Frank O'Reean; Third,
Phil J. Klein: Fourth. w. T. Frey; Fifth,
A. S. Wagner; Sixth. William Smith
Seventh, William O'Rourke Eighth, NJ
Cleary; Ninth r. T. Malone: Tenth, G.
A. Johnson: Eleventh J. H Mertens;
Twelfth, George Neil; Thirteenth, John
J. Lane
Tenth Ward-First precinct, Alexander
Adams; Second. M. E. Nelson; Third G.
H. Francois: Fourth: B. F. Meek.
Eleventh Ward-First precinct J. A
Hartigan: Second. William N. Powers;
Third, Pierce Butler; Fourth, Morris
Luby.