The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-15
ONLY SLASHED KIEFER
so REPUBLICAN CITY COMMITTEE
FORGIVES SEVENTH WARD
FOR ITS "ERRORo
OVERLOOKED IT THIS ONCE

1t Will Promise to be Good and
Vote the Republican Ticket In
the Future-Representa to BE
Based on Mckinley Vote, Even If
Seventh 'Wags the Dog"
The Republican city committee held an,
hours session in the office of Chairman
Chester r. Smith, i'm the Manhattan
block, last evening, and managed, with
| out bloodshed, to adjust It's manifold de-
sires to the general lines laid down by the
state central committee at it's meeting of
the day previous.
The Mckinley vote of 1896 was taken as
the basis Of representation, just as in
1898, so that the Lind Republicans in the
First and other wards will not have to
| be deprived of their share in the party
councils by reason of their political indie
| pendence. What few friends Kiefer had
| In the committee wanted the mayoralty
| vote of two years ago made the basis,
| but the Seventh ward would have been
| cut into deeply here by reason Of the
| way 1t knitted Andrew r. to support
| Schiffmann, and the committee could not
| see it's way clear to toss into the air this
| usually loyal stronghold of Republican,
| ism.
| The proposition to hold but one set of
| primaries to elect delegates to the two
| conventions was considered at length and
| discussed with more or less spirit. The
| committee was not ready to consider IA
| vorably the proposition to hold primaries
| May to select delegates to a convention
| June q, there being suspicion in some
of the more worldly minds that that inter-
vening period of forty eight days might
result in unlooked-for combinations of
| factors which would not conspire to the
| glory of the party That was what they
meant, although, as one of the members
| less remotely put it: Somebody might
| get tobbed in the meantime"
| But the advisability of holding but the
| one set Of primaries, as well as the date
to be fixed for the city convention, was
| laid over until the next meeting Of the
| committee, which will be Feb q, at the
| Lincoln club rooms, the precinct commit
| teemen from the various wards being in
Vlted In for conference
| Meantime Messrs Alexander Lindahl,
| .. d. Libbey and W. B. Webster were
| appointed committee to secure a hall
| for the convention,t andTeport at the next
| meeting.
| 1t developed that the Eighth ward Is
! showing unpleasant defections from the
| Republican standard, and some of the
| members Of the committee were consid-
| erably agitated over a-report brought In
| from that quarter to the effect that a
number Of leading Germans, recently
| prominent in the working forces of the
| Republican DartV showing inSnYrap-
| tionary signs, and went so far Tuesday
| night as to hold an informal meeting at
which the consensus of opinion was to
have Democratic mayor. Robert A.
Smith was preferred the feeling being
| that he would be stronger if nominated
than either of the Eighth ward nominees,
Bantz or Whitcomb, although the NOV
ers in the meeting would have been glad
to support one of their own men who
could command the strength of the party
| throughout the city.
| This, together with the fact that the
| signatures of a number of prominent
| business men have been added to a peti-
| ton in the last few days urging Robert
| A. Smith to permit the use of his name
in the convention this spring, put the Re
publicans on tenter hooks, and the sug-
gestion was made that this made it espe-
cially eXpedient at this time to nominate
as the head Of the Republican ticket the
chairman of the committee, Chester R.
Smith.
HE will be strong with the business
men and Commercial club people," it was
urged in his behalf land, of course his
name will be the first on the ticket, SO
that he will no doubt, get a considerable
vote from the careless element which will
i>take the ballot If both Smiths are run
ming, and vote for the first Smith they
come to. This factor is not as large as
formerly, perhaps, but it is still worth
considering. If wegcould have put him on
our ticket for comptroller 1t would have
been good thing, but there is going to be
the dickens of a row ii any effort is made
to toss McCardy into the air. He must
be nominated, for'if he isn't there's no
telling but what he'll hold UP the school
paw rolls in the middle of April again,
and We'll be at his3mercy then. We must
hold him where he is, or throw him over
board entirely, and / don't see how we
can afford to do that If ne isn't nom
mated he would run independent. and that
would beat our candidate.
| DR.. Rudolph Schiffmann returned to the
! city yesterday, but it is not understood
! that he has any intention of seeking
nomination at the hands of his party I'M
less it comes without a contest. That
| such will be the result seems hardly
credible. with the various aspfrants on
the Democratic side having their booms
as well advanced as they are
The Reform Press association of the
! state was scheduled to meet here yester
/ day. but only few of them gathered at
| the Merchants hotel, the appointed place,
/ there having been some misunderstanding
/ as to the time and place of the meeting,
due to two facts, one that the state ed1-
torial association is to meet today In Min
neapolis, and the other that the Reform
Press was originally scheduled to meet
next week instead OF now
| 1t is expected, however, that the re-
! formers will get together some time dur
| ing the meeting of the state association.
| There is really little of Importance to
] come I'D, the members generally having
! attended the meeting in January in Min
| neapolis.
| IF was an innocent Republican at the
| Lincoln's birthday banquet in Minneapo-
| lis who exclaimed, more or less testify
| ..These ants have lot of nerve cir
| culating Lincoln speeches to us.
"Judee, Larson had distributed to U.S.
| being the sefect assemblage in the West
| hotel corridor little folders with some
pointed excerpts from the spoken and
| written utterances of Abraham Lincoln
which sounded to some Of the modern
Republicans strangely out of place at his
birthday banquet
! 1t is possible that future embarrassment
in this regard will be ayolded by striking
Lincolr's birthday from the list of holi-
days.
Mayor Kiefer will have two appoint
ments to make ON the school board the