The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-22

1t Is a Calm and Deliberate Express
sion of the Views of Paradis,
Dempsey and BeattIe, hut What
Right They Have to Speak for the
Peoples Party Os the State the
Chairman Does Not See.
The parable Of the loaves and fishes, if
1t could be modernized, with Gov Lind
endowed with the power to feed a multi
tude of hungry office seekers with few
crumbs that fall from the official table,
might keep certain members of the PEG,
Pies party city committee from airing
their griefs in addresses to the sympa-
thetic ears of Republican editors, which
purport to be the voice of the party of
the. people, but instead of ringing with
the eioquence Of pleas for human rights,
carry with them the whine of the dis
appointed Office seeker
The Pioneer Press has devoted a great
deal of its space this week to the eX-
ploitation of the sore thumbs of a few
loca! Populists.
- Adolphe Paradis, ]. E. Dempsey and
J. c. Beattie prepared an address which
the morning Republican paper seized as
a splendid Illustration of dissatisfaction
with Gov Lind's administration.
The sigpers of this petition were dis
satisfied There was no doubt of 1t.
Read what they say:
From the very moment that applica-
lions began to be considered it became
apparent that the recommendations OF
Populist leaders were received at great
discount, and with undisguised conde-
6cension."
Applications for what7 For the Of
fees that were at the gift of the admin
lstration.
Paradis is now a 'nidroader" says
he is It was suspected that he was
''midroader'' at heart in 1898, although he
did nominate John F. Kelly for attorney
general as the Populist candidate in the
convention at Normanna hall in MIME
Rpolis, presenting him las the author of
the statutes of Minnesota" But in 1898, In
the spring-the spring of the same year
In which he presented this nomination OF
Kelly to a convention that was leaving
vacant places on the ticket pending ac-
ton by sitting Democratic convention
"Midroader" Adolphe Paradis, standing
In Assembly halls in st. Paul, seconded
the nomination of w. w. Erwin fol
mayor, referring to the Democrats, not
the Erwin Democrats, but the Schiffman
Democrats-as a pesttferous brood OF
jackals who had driven the, Fopulists into
the Styx."
But after the Democrats, of whom quite
q few were Schiffman Democrats in the
spring, had turned in, and assisted In
the election of John Lind as governor In
the fall, it CALLED young Mr.. Paradis to
find that Democrats of such stamp as l..
A. Rosing, who had been chairman of
the state central committee, and L. D.
O'Brien, who was national committeeman
for Minnesota, were closer to Gov. Lind
than he, young Adolphe Paradis.
1t is not charged that Adolphe demand
ed that his references to 'pestiferous
jackals" and his other patriotic out
bursts on almost any old forum that
would listen to him be rewarded by any
office, but Adolphe's sore thumb was
that he was not an adviser in tbs gov
errors cabinet. He may have thought,
too, that one of his relatives who de-
livered several speeches that no doubt
assisted in rounding out the victory of
Gov. Lind, might be rewarded by some
political plum but this member of the
family, a cultured gentleman of the old
French school, is not airing any sore
thumb" in addresses to the public, even
If he has any.
Dempsey's grievance-but, what of all
these woes! Now to the object of the
recent address.
1t is the opening firecracker of CAM
paign of daylight fire works which are to
be set off with the hope of stirring up
opposition to the reelection of L. d.
OBrien as national committeeman, and
also to prevent, if possible, the OBriens
from having any weight In the counsels
of the Democratic party in the coming
city campaign.
That the address has any coherent re-
lation to any Peoples party organiza-
ton, of authority, was expressly dis
claimed yesterday by Francis II. Clarke.
of this city, whoais the head of the Peo-
pies party organization for the state, and
who declares that he not only is not In
sympathy with the views therein ex-
pressed, but did not know anything about
the circular until he saw it in the friend
ly columns of the Republican press
BY what right a Populist city COM
mittee arrogates to itself the right to
dictate state appointments was as much
a puzzle to Mr.. Clarke as to other Peo-
pies party men, who are by no means In
sympathy with this latest literary pro-
duction of some political wanderers, at
present engaged in a guerrilla warfare on
some individual Democrats because of
jealousy.
The Reevesites are trying to make 1t
appear that Reeves IS just as strong as
he was before last Tuesday nights meet
Ing, but it is significant that the court
house crowd is preparing to get over on
the Iiefer band wagon Even if Bernard
Zimmerman, Horace Bigelow and the
rest are not able to carry the ward for
Kiefer, they propose to head off any
tying up Of the delegation on an anti
Kiefer basis which will lead to unpleas-
ant complications for Bigelow in the fall
campaign, for it shows that the mayor
has Convinced them that he is not a
dead duck yet already so soon" even
If this is his last time on EARTH
80
C. J. Weyl, of the First ward, is a
candidate for one of the Democratic nom
nations for the assembly. T. j. McDer-
mott. of the Eighth ward, is also being
talked of for one of these nominations.
John H. Healey, Democratic city com
mitteenan of the Eighth ward, has
called a mass meeting Of the Democrats
of the Eighth ward at Jaroszs hall,
Gaultier and Thomas streets, Monday
evening at o'clock
Gregory p Ritz is candidate for NOM
nation as treasurer and his candidacy Is
being urged by politicians in the Second
: ward.
The Republican convention to nominate
a mayor, comptroller, treasurer, assem-
blymen, aldermen, justices of the peace
and constables- will he held at Mozart
hall, March 20. The primaries to elect