The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-16
BARTON IN THE FIELD
NAME AS A MAYORALTY
CANDIDATE
EIGHTH WARD IS AROUSED
Democrats Will Have Another Big
Meeting at JessranE's Hall, on
University Avenue, This Evening
Gov. Lind May Take Part In
Stump.

University Avenue, This Evening
Gov. Lind May Take Part In
Spring Campaign From the
Stump.
Humphrey Barton, the attorney, and
chairman of the Democratic city and
county organization, yesterday gave his
formal consent to the use of his name
as candidate for the mayoralty nomina
ton by number Of his friends who have
been urging him to make the endeavor
to secure the nomination, and, IL success
full therein, the election, which seems, in
| the present disrupted state Of the Repub-
lican party locally, to be most surely
presaged for united Democracy the first
| day of May.
| Mr.. Barton has determined to tender
his resignation as chairman to the exec
| uttve committee Of the city and county
| organization al a meeting which will be
| held at the headquarters in the New
York Life building at 1880 this evening,
and will be free from any suspicion of
attempting to advance his personal cause
| by the use of his position on the com
| mittee, although the organization has not
| other.
| The meeting of the executive committee
| this evening will be important for this
reason but it is not thought that its ses-
| sion will be long drawn out, and 1t is
called for 1880 in order that the members
| can get early start and attend in
| body the meeting of the Democrats of
| the Eighth ward. which will be held this
evening at Jessrang's hall, University
and Harrington avenues.
| The Eighth ward is storm center In
| q political way these days. Not only has
| 1t two avowed mayoralty candidates in
the field, DR.. E. H. Whitcomb, who has
| been making an aggressive canvass, and
Matt Bantz, now alderman, who has an
| ambition to drive the municipal chariot
for the next two years, but the once SOL
| Id Republican phalanx In that ward,
| which brave Willie r. Johnson led down
| to the Rubicon so strong for Andrew
| r. Kiefer In the spring of 1898, now looks
good deal like an awkward SQUAD that
| mad been besieged for two months on
nard tack and coffee Kiefer's official
career seems to have piled one new faux
pas upon another, as far as keeping lined
up the men who made him mayor In 1895
is concerned, and, aside from Billy john
son-whose support may or may not be,
as has been charged by many, about the
temperature of tepid milk-Kiefer has not
much OF following in the ranks of the
party in the Eighth.
1t may be that the mayor believes. with
an American politician of earlier yiut-
age now dead, and therefore esteemed a
statesman, that he can take care of his
enemies if some one will look after his
- TOOL friends but, unless that is the
mayors plan of campaign, he has GER
tainly fooled all the political strategists
| and tacticians of the Ed Rogers and M.
n. Goss schools alike.
Speaking of Goss, a rumor prevalent
yesterday that Patrolman Cline would be
| made chief of detectives seems to be
without foundation. 1t is true that he
ala arrest three boys yesterday for
shooting craps" in an alley, but the
mayor does not consider that would en-
title him to be promoted over the Shout
oers OF Inspector Christensen
Frederic" said the mayor YESTERDAY
after the executive private office had been
the theater of clammy silence for a
long time
Yess1r replied the private secretary
peering cautiously into the lager before
entering
Frederic continued the mayor, who
1t Is by that Republican city committee
once yet?"
Il beg your pardon queried the puz-
zled secretary There was so much
noise in the hall"
What 1t is the ice that cuts this city
Republican committee yet?''
on replied the secretary conseling-
ly, see that they had meeting yester.
day but l presume the papers
Who is this committee yet? You don't
seem to get me by the idea already
"Oh" rejoined the secretary 81 don't
know that L can tell them all. I guess
there's Johnny Selb, and possibly Mike
fitzgerald, and Lindahl, and Bigue, and
Fred Bryant, and Chester Smith"
That's that Smith fellow. What is
yet they call him for fun once-Chet
! Smith. I wish you would write him
valentine with the compliments of youf
mayor; that's me- Tell him, Frederic;.
tell him he is not mayor by large ma
jority; not Chef, Frederic. not Chef, al
| ready"
Gov. Lind returned yesterday from
South Dakota where he made number
of political addresses the first part of the
week. The governor reports that the
cause of Americanism and liberty is
popular in the state and that he had
large audiences in each case.
Incidentally, 1t has been limited that
the governor will take part in the city
campaign in this city this spring to tho
extent Of appearing on the platform in
a few party addresses. And In view of
the fact that he formally and finally
read himself out of the Republican party
at the banquet in Minneapolis in Janu-
airy, it may be presumed that united
Democracy with platform bearing the
time for several addresses in various
parts of the city.
| The Seventh ward cast 1853 votes for
Kiefer in 1885, 1t cast 2,23S votes for Nc
| Kinfey In 1886. So 1t will have nearly
! three times as many delegates In the
| coming Republican convention as 1t
would have had if delegates had been al
| lotted on the mayoralty vote of 1888. Is
| If any wonder that Herr Andrew in the
| civ hall is beginning to see the hand
| writing on the wall? Is it any wonder
| that the lower town Republicans are
| wondering what the Seventh ward Will
| do In the convention to elect delegates to
/ the state convention. It has been loyal
| TO Clapp in the past. and there seems no
reason to doubt its loyalty now the
Clapp- Rogers anti-kiefer communion