The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-28
MIXTURE OF POLITICS
CITY HALL MEN ARE PREDICTING
THE END OF KIEFER,S
CAREER
FINDS HIMSELF In A TANGLE

r.. Smith for Comptroller McCnr-
dy's Place Prospective Changes
in the Police Force.
eth tell you what it is, said a Repub-
lican hustler who is anti-1<iefer in his
views yesterday afternoon, as he Rugged
a radiator in the corridor of the city
hail. 1--WE have got the king on the run
If he makes no changes in the police de-
partment then he is gone, and If ne
makes changes it will be proof positive
that the charges made against him and
the department, of which he is the
acknowledged head. are true. So we
have him coming and going and 1t would
not surprise me if the convention in April
turned him down as hard as the one two
years ago did Doran. 1t may be that
this sudden anxiety of the mayor, pub
licly announced to brace up the police
force, is due to the Forthcoming report OF
the grand jury which is likely to hand
out roast as to the system put in opera
ton governing the filming of disreputable
women. 1t hardly seems possible how
ever, that the members of the grand jury
would do anything to bring the admin
istration in disrepute, but the mayor has
several warm friends on the jury and
possibly he received & tip as to what is
coming If the report toasts the police
department, then you can bet the mayor
was given tip and is trying to get out
from under by throwing the blame off to
the officials In the police department. 1t
will be pretty hard though for him to do
this, for everyone who knows anything
at all about how the city has been con-
Quoted, is on that the police officials have
been acting under orders from the mayor
himself. You see he is built that way
and no sooner had he planted himself
in the chair than he announced by &C.
tons as we'll as words that he was the
king and the whole thing.
His play now that he was not aware
of how things were running in the police
department comes too late to square him,
self with the people and he is all through
as far as a denomination is concerned"
Mayor Kiefer is making up his mind
slowly as to the changes he will make in
the police department. 1t is said by
those who have been advising him that
it is necessary changes should be made
in the force that both Chief Goss and
Chief of Detectives SchWeitzer are slated
to go. In fact, bets were freely offered
yesterday that neither Goss ncr
SchweitzeY would occupy their present
positions longer than ten days 1t is
given out that not only will there be
change ir the heads CT the police and
detective departments, but that captains
and lieutenants are to be let out. 1t IS
probable that the slake-up in the depart,
meut will be sent to the assembly at its
meeting Thursday night, the mayor TAX
ing the word Of Asselnblyinen Craig and
Thompson that the higher body would
agree to any recommendations he might
make. AS to the temper of the board CT
aldermen on the subject Of police changes
the mayor is not so certain, there being
strong opposition to concurring blin6ly
with anything the mayor asks in this
branch of the council. Should the as
sembly agree in the action of the mayor
and the board OF aldermen refuse TO
sanction his removals, then the mayor
will be in the position to declare that
when he attempted to take action for the
public good he was handicapped by the
council.
A friend of Chief Goss declared yes
terday that the position taken by the
morning organ of the Republican party
against the present chief was simply a
piece of personal spite work. Some
three years ago." said the gentleman,
t'there was a stormy scene in the may
or's Office. Doran was mayor at the
time, and the present associate editor of
the morning organ was present at a con-
ference between Mayor Doran and Chief
Cess. The conference warmed up and
ffnally Chief Goss very frankly informed
the mayor that he did not care what
the morning organ said about him or his
of rnn6nHtinO
ment He went further than this and
told the gentleman connected with the
paper that neither he nor the men man.
aging the sheet amounted to row of
pins, and as far as he was concerned
he did not intend to pay the slightest
attention to what the paper said. There
was whole lot of this kind of talk, and
to tell the truth just what Goss said
would not look well III print Well.
then, there was another conference and
the mayor was advised that he had bet
ter get a new man for chief or there
would be trouble. Mayor Doran would
not discharge Goss, and since that time
the paper has never overlooked chance
to throw it into Goss."
Chester R. Smith is hustlirg for the
Republican nomination for city comp.
troller. The same influence that is work.
NcCardy. The hosts within are firing
of the once magic name of McCardy,
which now is met with derision in many
places where once it commanded re-
SpeCt.
There will be meeting of the Eighth
Ward Democratic city and County or
ganiza ton at Jessrang's hall, University
and Harrington avenues, Friday, Feb 2,
at o'clock p. m. A full attendance or
the precinct committeeman Is requested,
as some matters of much importance ars
to be considered.
Maj. N. c. Robinson, who was pro-
NOTED from the captaincy of Company
G., of the Thirteenth regiment, has been
appointed deputy clerk in the office Of
Clerk of Courts Rogers. Maj Robinson
will take the place of f. F. Beck, who
was enrolling clerk of the last legisla-
ture, and who has accepted a position
as bookkeeper at the Ryan hotel.
Persons who have not secured their
second papers and desire to vote at the
coming city election have but three days
more in which to get out the necessary
papers. Under the law papers have
to be secured ninety days before election
to entitle the citizen to vote. Persons
desiring to get second papers should call
at Democratic headquarters before
Jan. 81.
Some of the friends of Mayor Kiefer
claim that the attitude assumed by the
morning organ in demanding forthwith
changes i'll the police department is a
scheme to boom the mayoralty aspira-
tons of Condo Hamlin Some time ago