The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-11
START BOON FOR BARTON
SEVENTH AND ELEVENTH WARDS
INDORSE HIM FOR CORPORA
TIoN ATTORNEY.
KIEFER HAS BOTH EYES OPEN
He Is Watching for Possible
Break In the Fences of Ste
vens' Congressional
Enclosure.

ty organization met last evening and
unanimously Endorsed Humphrey Barton
for corporation attorney
committee was appointed to pres Mt
the action of the organizati ton to Aid.
schlffmann and Mayor-elect Robert A
Smith, as well as to the executive COM
mittee of the organization. W. F. Con-
STAINS was Endorsed for the position of sec
rotary Of the police commission, P. J..
Kavanagh for a member of the pol.cs
commission and NJ. c. Egan for the posi-
ton of sprinkling inspector.
M s. lamar Jr. presided at meeting of
the Democratic city and county organiza-
ton of the Eleventh ward last evening.
Mr. lamar made short speech calling
attention to the necessity Of Keeping the
ward organization well up to It's work
The vacancies in the precinct committee
men were filled, and resolutions passed
Endorsing the following candidates for DO
.sitions:
VIM Powers as a member Of the police
commission, Humphrey Barton for corpo-
ration attorney, w. B. Hawley for clerk
snip in the treasurer's Office and William
y Brten for street commissioner.
A committee was appointed to take the
matter In charge, and the unanimous
opinion was that the appointments be
strongly urged.
Mayor Kfefer was too busy yester5 ay
TO even give the matter of appointing A
city and county assessor a moments at
tention.
County Auditor Johnsons letter which
was received by the mayor Tuesday, has
not been replied to, and it probably will
not be until after the convention which
meets Saturday to name delegates to the
Fourth district congressional convention
1t would not appear on the surface a.
though there was any connection between
the selection of an assessor and the con-
gressional convention, but close friends OF
Mayor Kiefer have tipped It eff that
your mayor" has ''huneh" that s1me-
thing miraculous may happen, ard that
ne may be chosen as candidate for con-
gress instead of F. c. Stevens.
= Several so-called leading politicians ami
a dozen Of the ward FOUNDERS have been
talking mysteriously about q plan t
throw down Stevens since Monday, but,
as a Stevens man put it yesterday, "the
talk Is all hot air. "
There is a certain element in the Repub-
liean party which is always ready to do
business" whenever there is a chance.
This same element two years ago made
the same kind CT a talk, and manag I'd
within three days of holding tire congress
ssionaI convention to get a live one" VIII
was willing TO put UP a certain amount OF
cash on a promise that he would be nam
ed as the congressional nominee.
1T would appear that the same kind of
a game would be played right now, the
sonIy. obstacle in the way being that the
combination lacks a candidate with a
good-sized roll to act as the victim.
1t was given out the day the primaries
were held that Ed Rogers would be can
4didate for congress against Stevens, but
Mr.. Rogers refused to stand for the
game. Mayor Kiefer would BE- willing to
take the nomination away from Stevens.
but he IS known to be rather slow when
1t comes to advancing cash and this pre-
vents his cutting much of figure in the
game.
There are about twenty de egates to the
convention to be held at Mozart hall to-
morrow morning who could be induced to
vote against Stevens, but the friends of
the present congressman say that this
number is the maximum Of the OPP ISL
ton.
There Is some question IS to whether
the Ramsey county delega ton of seventy
five to the convention at Cambridge
of compliment to the other counties which
have a minority in the convention, the
delegation may go uninstl ucted.
Gen. Moses E. CIapp may or may not
be a candidate for governor on the Re-
publican ticket He has not made up
his mind on this point or at least says he
has not
cit is announced that you have decided
to become candidate for governor" was
the way the reporter put it to Mr..
Clapp
"Who made the announcements" was
the reply
"a Minneapolis paper so stated in a
most authoritative way"
"Oh, yes; l remember of having seen
the statement, but there was no reason
or foundation for it,
Then you will not be a candldate?"
queried the reporter.
81 may or may not be" said Mr.. Clapp;
Sin fact. L have not made up my mind
as yet
Your decision as to whether you will
be a candidate does not depend upon any
particular contingency. does it?''
mot in the least 1 simply have not
made up my mind as to whether l shall
enter the race or not, and all statements
to the contrary are incorrect" With
this avowal Mr.. Clapp hurried down the
corridor of the city hall to converse with
a group of the assemblymen. who had
voted for the passing of the Manhattan
ordinance
II is probable that the Demo-
cratic members-elect of the new
council will hold meeting Saturday. 1t
Is not called as a caucus, the new city Of
ficials simply desiring to get together and
agree upon line of action regarding ap-
pointments!
Jake Stadtfeld, as business agent Of the
police department for a number of the
men on the force, is making hustle to
keep the Republican members of the as
sembly in line to head off any changes
by Mayor Smith.
Assemblyman Benson served notice Of
his contest on John ]. Parker for the as
sembly seat yesterday. The notice states
that errors were made In the count of
the votes and this was responsible for
the canvass showing that Parker had
eight more votes than Benson.
The Austro- Hungarian Benefit society
last night passed resolutions congratu-
lating Aid. Matt Bantz on his reelection
and expressing the goodwill OF the So
ciety to him for various services rendered
the society and its members. Speeches
were made by Matt Hafner and George
Dox. and there was general jollifica-
ton.
According to his sworn statement, fled
with the city clerk, DR.. Rudolph Schif-
mann expended $3.50 in the city cam
paign as election expenses. The items
are: Printing, $3.50; postage, sA; cam
paign fund, $40 and hack hire s..
Martin E. Rowan. Democrat. defeated