The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-24
McCardy, With Defeat Staring Him in the Face,
Is Making PitifuI Personal Plea
for Support
Jim Markham and His Force Pass Up the Head
of the Ticket and, Like Other Office
Holders, Are Trying to Help Out
the Council Candidates

tional committee as last resort for the
busted Republican grafters.
The meeting called by McIntire Jake
Stadfelt, -LaWton and a few others Of
the inner circle of the Protectors Of the
Constitution, and which was held on
Saturday evening on the West side, has
not been promotive of any substantial
results to the Republican candidates. One
discovery made in the course Of that
meeting was that Getchell is decidedly
unhappy. He hasn't secured the assur-
ance which McIntire got and he Is sat-
isled that he will have to walk the
plank and he doesn't propose to be
made the scape goat of the crimes to
the police department without having
something to say.
Capt. Pottgieser, Of the Margaret street
station, has a brother in politics, and
Getchelis information is that Capt. Pott-
gieser's brother has secured Chet Smiths
assurance that Capt Pottgieser will ba
the next chief of police, with McIntiTe as
his chief of detectives. The state Of fra
ternal unity which was thus revealed at
the meeting of the West side protectors
of the constitution, as existing In the
police department, seems to Justify eer-
tain very uncomplimentary references
which the Republican mayoralty candi-
date is known to have made to the heads
Ing Of the present campaign.
The last week of the campaign opened
with the few remaining hopes Of the Re-
publicans centered on a sensation which
was being hatched up. But each new day
shows the sensation moro clearly in the
light of "a boomerang, and 1t probably
won't be sprung If Chet Smith with
draws from the race, as s-it is now gen
orally conceded he ought to do, a more
open field will be left for the campaign
which Jim" Markham and his staff and
the franchise-grabbing corporations are
now so strenuously making to save the
council, But no one, even within four
or five days of the virtual close of the
campaign, is willing to believe that the
Republican representation In the nexr
council will be any greater than the Dem
ocrattc representation in this. The First
ward has been in doubt from the Begin
ming, and now the nomination of DR..
Schiffmann is looked upon as threatening
Republican hopes, even in the Seventh
ward.
The rumblings Of the forthcoming po-
litical landslide are sounding omincusly n
the ears of the gang. The situation is
so decidedly bad that the light has gone
out of the city hall clock.
- ne ItepuDllCdn. members OF the COuu-
ell appear to have no trouble in agree
ing on a franchise which gives the
streets of the city away; and 1t takes but
a couple of weeks to pass such an ordi-
nance. Il has taken nearly two years for
the representatives of the Republican
party in the council to select a market
site, and there seems to be no chance
for the public to be benefited by such an
improvement. Perhaps if private cor
poratfon should apply for a franchise to
operate a market and there was anything
in it, the council might get together on
the proposition.
To the Editor of the G o b=e: Will you
kindly inform me through the columns
of your paper who is the Republicans
candidate for city treasurer.
Constant Reader.
BY reference to the files of the paper
it is found that August Fitzer is the
name of the man selected by the Repub-
lican convention to make the race. The
Pioneer Press at times has referred to
him as August Witzer," but that is
wrong. His name is Filter. Filter is one
of those young men of whom everybody
says: why, is that Fitzer? I've seen
him many a time but never knew who
he was" Any man who has been around
the poStoffice corner any afternoon for
the last four years has seen Filter.
With his arms partly akimbo he has
been as true to that corner as the old
government building itself