The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-17
SHAROOD is REVIVED
THE FRIENDS OF KIEFER ARE
ALARMED OVER CHESTER r..
SMITHS ADVENT
SERIOUS
SPLIT
"Your Mayor Does Not Want a
Democrat Elected, but He Does
Not Want His Successor Dictated
by the Elements Which Fought
Him in the Convention of

by the Elements Which Fought
Him I'm the Convention of
1898.
Mayor Kiefer Is disposed to take Sc
riously the candidacy of Chester r.
Smith for mayor, and, for the first time,
his political friends were yesterday In
clined to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
his withdrawing. from the race for the
nomination.
Against Mr.. Smith, however, the ''prac-
tical politicians" conceding the fact that
his craftsmanship gives him considera-
BILE strength. to start, if he is disposed to
exercise it toward his own advancement,
urge that he has not been long enough
in the political arena, prominently, and
that outside Of the Seventh ward he
would not manifest any special strength
at the polls
Nevertheless, friends Of Kiefer were
coming to the front yesterday with a
good deal of talk about C. X Sharood,
of the First ward, for mayor When the
Republicans began canvassing the field
for a possible candidate, after the pres
ent mayor had made several unpopular
| moves which alienated from him the sup
port of the leading business interests, Mr..
Sharood was one of the first whose avail
ability was considered by the powers that
manipulate the political machinery of the
Republican party locally. Quite an ele-
| ment In the city committee felt that here
was an acceptable leader, business man
OF long standing in the community, a res
nd
Republican First ward, large employer
| of labor and identified with the active
business interests of the city perhaps
more prominently than any one nomi-
| mated by the Republican machinists In
| some time. But against him, 1t was set
| UP that 1T might not be possible to in
duce the shoe man to make the race. es-
peciaily If he had to make the race
against Refer In the convention, and
While the machinists were busy with their
Vaccinations the mayor took occasion to
| spike the Sharood gun, as he thought. bv
reappointing Mr.. Sharood's close friend,
kenneth Clark, on the fire board.
Inereupon the calculators took I'D sew
eral others. finally lighting upon Reeves.
| the Fifth ward alderman, who has been
| latterly considered as the most availa bla
nominee of the anti-Kiefer faction.
reeves counted on the support Of the
evening paper of the party, as well as
Ior great deal of support from the
masses OF the people for several spectacu-
lar out harmless lances tilted against the
corporations, notably the street railway
company and its Randolph street line.
1here mas not been, however thai
orusn discharge Of enthusiasm which wa .
expected to follow the evening paper,s
suggestion of his mayoralty ayaiIa bil,tv
and following which 1t was expected tha
MIR. Reeves would authorize the paper ia
| announce his candidacy formally about
the middle of the present week This lack
OF interest in his ambitions. on tbe no nj
OF the general public, too has qualified
the expressions of his official organ. and
no nnai announcement has as yet been
made, as the Fifth warder goes not
want to burn his aidermanic bridges he
hind him by formally cutting into fine
| mayoralty. fight until he can see farther
ahead. Meantime, however. the advisa-
oll1ty OF putting UP a German-American
for alderman in the Fifth to meet Otto
Rohland, who has made a strong canvass
Tor the Democratic nomination and has
an excellent promise of election has prac
tcally driven Reeves into the mayoralty
race on trading basis, and his campaign
managers are now trying to trade him a
place on the board of public works, under
Smith or some one else, in return for his
timely withdrawal from the race in such
mans favor, IL he will meanwhile keep
up the bluff and prevent his supporters In
the Fifth ward from tying up to any
"non-board" candidate, who might be
thrust into the lists without warning.
This has set the machinists back on
their launches again, unless they can
make the decker with Smith, and it was
from the other faction Of the party, that
is, the Kieferites, that the suggestion
came strongly yesterday to get Sharood
into the field again, mollify Kiefer, if
possible, by holding up to him the will
of-the- wisp of entering as a dark horse
to run late In the Rogers-Stevens con-
gressional contest. and meantime snatch
municipal victory from the jaws of now
imminent defeat by united Democracy.
Only one shadow stands between the
Democrats Of the city and victory so far
as at present appears. That spellbinder
of the Fourth ward, Darius r. Reese,
has been burning the midnight oil of late
over the campaigns of Napoleon and
magazine accounts of Shermans march
to the sea. and will soon get out with the
old flag and a choice collection of rhe-
torical barbettes, echelons and chevaux
de frise, with which he will dramatically
stampede the independent voter, willy
nilly, into the Republican camp. Austen
litz, Waterloo and Rome. Ga, are to be
set between the wave of popular disap-
prevail and the reelection of Republican
aldermen in the hope that the waves will
stand back and refuse to enguif the
sacred hosts of Republicanism, while
Reese waves the eloquent ensign OF free
dom over the broken ranks of a disor-
gained party.
The Eighth ward Democratic ward Or
ganization is strengthening its outposts
and printing the political guns prepara-
tory to the coming campaign. At meet
ing held last evening in Jessrang's hall
considerable progress was made in this d.
rection.
Chairman George J. Mitsch presided,
and urged unity of action and a cordial
support from all for any man selected by
the convention for alderman or any other
Office He believed that prospects for
victory were never brighter.
Il Humphrey Barton came in with other
members of the executive committee of
the city and county organization, after
the meeting was well progressed. and re-
sponded to call for a speech. He stat
ed that the Democrats would go into the
fight with many evils to remedy. The
Republican party had been tried for six
years of the last ten, and not a single
administration had given the people
either an efficient or honest rule. OF this
triumvirate, Wright, Doran and Kiefer,
it was difficult to determine which had
been the worst The evils so frequently