The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-24
MATT ENSENTS JUGGLING
1T WOULD ADD LAURELS TO A
SIDESHOW MOUNTE-
BANK
CITY BALLOT AS MADE UP
1t shows Some Eccentricities of Or
der That Reveal Little of
Sense, Law or
Reason.

City Clerk Jensen yesterday afternoon
made up a sample OF the official ballot
and forwarded it to the printer The
sample ballot viii be posted in the city
clerks office this morning at O'clock
and shortly after that hour application
VIII be made to the district court for a
correction of the ballot The applica-
ton will demand that the names of the
certain candidates alleged to have been
nominated by a handful of persons I'M
der the direction of a certain element
of the Republican party and labeled
Democrats" be stricken from the official
ballot
There was some difficulty in the making
up of the ticket by City Clerk Jensen
and it was not until after he had con-
ferred with one T. G. B. Woodruff and
Corporation Attorney Markham several
times that the ticket was finally adjusted
to suit the trio
The city clerk displayed both partisan
ship and trickery IN the makeup Of the
official ballot. Under the law Chester R.
Smith wassentitle6h tov4lrst place on the
ballot. The second place should have
been given to Robert "A. Smith, the nom
inee OF the Democratic convention, but
the placing Of Robert A Smith in the
proper place the Republicans feared
would inture the chances of the nominee
of the grand old party. and the name of
J. NJ. Pottgieser, who had filed a nominal
ton for mayor, by petition, was given
the second place on the ticket, and fol-
lowing his name was placed the word
Democrat for what reason, and by
what right, Jensen fails to make plain.
The third place on the ticket was Civ
en- to Robert A. Smith, the nominee of
the Democratic convention Following
were the names Of II. G. Neal Henry
CARING and William Thomas, represent
ing the Prohibitionist, Socialist-Labor
and Mid-Road Populist parties, respect
lively.
The nominating certificates of the can
didates placed in nomination by the Dem
ocratic. convention were filed in the city
clerks office March e. and, under the
election law, should have been placed on
the ticket Immediately under candidates
named by the Republican convention, If
for no other reason than that of priority
of filing. There was an opportunity here,
however, for the city clerk to display his
partisanship, and backed up by the opin-
ions of T. G. B. Woodruff and Corpora
ton Attorney Markham, City Clerk Jen-
sen deliberately gave second place to ].
NJ. Pottgieser, whose nomination GER
ufieate was not filed until the last day
required under the law for such filing
Early in the afternoon Corporation At
torney Markham gave the city clerk an
opinion to the effect that the candidates
named for the assembly and aldermanic
body by the Bell coterie could not have
places on the official ballot for the rea-
son that the law did not allow original
nominations TO be made by any commit
tee, but only in cases where vacancies
were TO be filled after conventions had
been held.
There was a deliberate attempt to strike
from the ticket the name of Frank J.
Huber, the Democratic candidate foI
alderman in the Fourth ward, and had
not the attention of the attorneys ON the
Democratic executive committee been
called to the opinion of the legal adviser
OF the city the question would have had
to be taken into the courts to rectify
the error. In terms and language of the