The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-17
RATCHET IN HAND, THEY ARE
SEEKING FRED sCHIFF-
MANN'S SCALP
WANT TO HAVE HIM REMOVED
SAYS HE DECOYED GOVERNOR INTO
SIGNING MOLLTE MORRIS
PARDON
MOVES UNIQUE PETITION
1t Prays the Legislature to Request
the Governor to Remove the
Recently Appointed OIL
Inspector.

An open rebellion Of Republicans in
this state is imminent
A breach has been formed in the party,
and unless Gov. Van SAINT, the man who
is responsible for that gap, can prevail
upon some Of his friends to devise some
means of filing the breach, : will GER
tainly engulf the new state executive.
Representative .Noyes, of Sixth dis
tTict, has been carrying around with him
for the past few days a petition of a
very striking character. 1t prays that
the legislature make the request of Gov.
Van SAINT that he remove from office
Fred c. Schiffman, recently appointed
Oil inspector. Mr.. NOyes declines to give
the name Of the author, but insists that
it is not himself. His function is to rep
resent the country members OF the legiS-
lature and their constituents, who are
supporters of the document and whose
outra ged feelings it is designed to aVenge.
The exact contents of the petition have
not been made known, but it is based
upon the fact that the man to whom Van
SAINT bequeathed his richest legacy is one
of those who decoyed the unsuspeGting
governor into signing the pardon of the
prisoner at the workhouse Nellie Morris,
whose release has been regarded as
public outrage by the business men from
whom she is said to have stolen. Be
hind Mr.. NOyeS there are some of the
most prominent Republicans of the state
in this matter, and it is said that if the
legislature does not pass the resolution
these men will have to be shown the rea-
son why.
While of course the people who are at
the bottom of this movement are no
doubt mcensed at the stigma which at
taches itself to the present state admin
istration by reason Of the fact that prom
inept members of the regime, among
whom is Mr.. Schiffnann, are responsible
for the connection by which Gov. Van
SAINT was deluded into granting a pris-
oner her liberty, there is another cause
at the root Of it all.
RURAL MEMBERS ARE SORE.
The country Republicans have not re-
covered in this short time from the treat
ment they received by the man whom
they elected governor. The fact that one
| Of the Twin Cities gave Van SAINT d bare
margin and the other went about 1000
against him and the fact that a single
outside county came within nine votes of
casting majority that elected him are
regarded as just reasons by the country
partisans why they should have expected
at least as good, If not better, treatment
from the executive than that accorded to
the city, and especially st. Paul Repub-
Means. While the country members Of
the Legislature recognize the fact. as do
also their constituents, that many good
of1lces nave been given to outside men,
they are not Indifferent to the fact that
the choicest plums fell to men here in
st. Paul where Gov. Linds majority was
nearly 1900, and they know also that the
best office at the disposal of the gov
ernor went to a member of the ring
Which has been recognized always as
merely the boss" of the country people
Mr. Noyes, no doubt, voiced the senti-
ments Of his large retinue of country
friends when he stated that the Van
SAINT appointees, some of them. are not
only objected to on the grounds of loca-
ton, but that the character Of particular
ones Is as much red flag as anything
else.
Tams BiXby and other Goodhue county
| men who were ruthlessly snubbed by the
governor, after having elected him, are
| said to be among the instigators of this
scheme, which is tangibly represented
! by the Noyes petition.