The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-11
City Politics N2aroming Zip,

pointed city and county assessor. You
know that the business men care more
about who is assessor than they do as
to who is to be the chief executive of
the city One thing is certain. Smith
won't be one, two, seven in the conven-
ton, so far as the mayoralty is con-
cerned, and his coming out for mayor
will settle any combinations he might
wish to make for the nomination of city
treasurer. He had an idea some weeks
ago that he might land the nomination
OF comptroller, but after canvassing the
strong for him to tackle After this
campaign is over 'Chet' will be a dead
one and will be put away with Kiefer in
the political graveyard"
The charter provides that the mayor
on the second Monday in March shall
name two members of the board Of pub
lie works. This would make the APP
pointments of successors to Ernest L.
Mabon and John Sandel due tomorrow.
The appointments, however will not be
announced before Thursday if they are
on that date. The mayor says he has
applications from siXty-four> aspiring citi-
zens for the two positions and he cannot
go through the list of names and make
selections without having day or SO
for consideration. The legal depart
!
the mayor held that the members of the
school board whose terms expired March
! would hold office until their successors
We're appointed and qualified. This
opinion, the mayor claims, would hold
equally good in the matter OF appoint-
ments to the board of public works. The
appointments have to be approved by the
assembly, and as that body holds meet
ing Thursday night the names of the two
members will be sent in by the mayor
to the meeting.
The morning organ has advocated the
reappointment of Messrs Mabon and
| Sandell, but this is understood to be
| simply little Joke published. in order.
to prevent the friends of the two gentle
men from joining the anti-Kiefer forces.
President Pottgieser and Commissioner
Ames, of the board of public works, held
long conference with Mayor Kiefer- last
evening, at which the matter of appoint
ments was gone into. Neither the
| mayor nor his coadjutors, however
would say anything after the conference
broke up.
Chairman Godfrey, of the Sixth ward,
has issued call for meeting of al the
precinct committeeman, to be held at the
Republican club rooms 1888 South Waba-
sha street, Tuesday evening.
The legal department of the city has
given Mayor Kiefer an opinion to the eff
feet that Assemblyman Dix, or any 9TH
er member of the council, is not eligible
to appointment as a director of the pub
lie library. part of the Cpl ion reads
as follows:
Assuming that the members Of the Ii
brary board are city officers within the
spirit and meaning of the act 1 think tile
law of 1897 repeats or mod fies the brary
act of 1879 so that members of the coun-
| Gil are now prohibited from acting as
members of the library board, and are
not eligible to such appointment
The opinion says that the acts of Mr..
Dix while member of the board are
valid. Mr.. Dix was appointed to fill out
the term of Alexander Ramsey, who re-
signed about year ago. A successor to
Mr.. Dix will not be appointed until
April.
The First ward Republican organization
will meet Wednesday evening at Payne
avenue and Wells street
There will be a meeting of the Fourth
ward Democratic city and county organ.
ization Monday, at p. M, at Pfeifer's
hall, Eighth and Wabasha streets. All
members of the Democrats of the Fourth
/ ward are invited to attend, as important
IL W SOIlS up
Two years ago the Republican city con-
Vention in It's platform pledged the party
! to the immediate securing of a market
| site. With council consisting of eigh-
| teen Republicans out of the twenty mem
bers the two years have passed without
any definite action being taken. A NUM-
| Der of sites have been proposed, but for
reasons best known to the parties inter-
! ested the members have baked when It
came to a vote. This spring the conven-
! ton will drop out the market site plank,
and the way the cards are being shuffed,
will probably insert a plank calling for
! the municipal ownership of a lighting
plant. This can be made the occasion for
grand display of talk about the interests
| of the taxpayers, and will not occasion
any boomerang effect for the reason that
| the charter, as at present constituted,
| would prohibit the scheme from being
carried into effect
Meetings of both branches of the coun-
Gil will be held Thursday evening" and
the polling places in each of the ia pre-
! cincts will be located. Two years ago
over forty election booths were put up in
the several wards at cost of $500,
! which would make the expense about
$50 each, which was for the labor alone
Vacant stores and in some instances va
cant dwellings, were rented in the other
seventy odd precincts at 500 each. A city
! official calling attention to the figures
yesterday declared it was an outrage that
| the city's money should be wasted in put
| ting up booths when it was so much
! cheaper to rent vacant stores for the reg
istration and election. The putting up
of the booths, however, gives employ
ment to a large number of men under
the direction of the city engineer and
the employees are always to be counted on
as being handy to have at the primaries
! The list of polling places now being SUBJ
mitted to the city clerk by the aldermen
from the wards shows that more booths
will be erected this spring than two years
| ago.
The Washington county Prohibition
convention will be held at st. Paul Park,
Tuesday, at 2:9O p. m. An evening rally
will follow. In addition to the election of
four delegates to the state convention,
and the transaction of such other APP
propriate business as may come before
the gathering, an interesting programme
| has beer provided State Chairman
George w. Higgins and Secretary w. G.
| Calderwood will speak.