The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-28
Grist 2916s Political Mil

Inc Republican press, busy for sew
eral weeks in vain endeavor to create
dlssension in the ranks Of local Democ-
racy by bringing out candidate in on
position to Mayor Smith, now has I'll
hands full in the equally thankless task
OF quieting the war in the ranks of the
G. o. P. Its cry is still for candidate
but it no longer has time to bother with
Democratic candidate. 1t wants a Re
publican that even its hardened stomach
can stand, and who can beat Kiefer for
the nomination
The last sortie of the Republican news
papers in search of a candidate seems
to have been as disastrous as the memoir
able charge into practical politics made
by the flying column from the Roosevelt
Rough Rider club, led by the valiant
president, Albert Lindeke. When Mr..
Afbrecht made it. plain beyond refuta-
ton that he would not become a sheath
for the knives of the warning Republican
factions, Assistant Corporation Attorney
FRANKLIN III. Griggs was trotted onto
the scene. AS soon as he had a chance,
MI. Gfiggs declared that his name is not
Barkls." SO fas as the mayoraIty mud
ole is concerned, he will have none Of it
as candidate. He said yesterday: I'm
Ger no circumstances will L be a candi
GATE for mayor. If the young men Of
the party are determined to 60 outside
OF the quartette now in the field for a
candidate, believe Armand Albrecht is
the logical candidate for them"
Ihere is nothing strange either in the
manner In which Mr.. Griggs' name was
brought out or in his refusal to become
candidate The presentation of his
name was perfectly natural in that it
came from paper, in the editorial de-
partment of which Mr.. Griggs is general
~ recognized as possessing a strong in
Huence, and has for months been the in
Splfatlon OF many of it's editorials That
TACT was so well known that a majority
OF the Warner men upon the appearance
OF the newspaper attack on Warner i'm
mediately Blamed Griggs for it. The
simultaneous and appended laudation of
hlefer together with the we'll known
fact that Kiefer turned his police depart
ment over to Griggs at one time. added
color to the Warner mems charges that
the assistant corporation attorney is IN
terested in the fate of Kiefer
Some of the politicians last night were
unkind enough to suggest that Mr..
l.
brecht may be induced to reconsider his
refusal is only play to the grand stand.
They say Griggs knows that AIbrecht
Will not consent to run, and that If he
thought there was any danger of AL
brecht's becoming a candidate. which
would be direct attack on Kiefer, AL
brecht could get no support from the
corporation attorneys office
The martyrdom which the Pioneer
Press insists in forcing on City Engineer
ClauSsen comes with poor grace from
that source, and is a march directly on
the back track. This sort of crab-like
progress has become sufficiently common
In the methods of the family story pa
per to no longer excite more than pass
ing comment. The writer of the CIaussen
memorials was at one time more deeply
committed to Mr.. Rundlett, who will sue
ceed ClauSsen, than he now is to Claus
sen. When Rundlett was in office that
writer could say nothing too good for
him and his work. So great was his ad-
miratlon for the valuable services of the
man removed to make room for Claus
sen that he at one time insisted on the
dismissal of a reporter who wrote an
article disparaging Rundlett's work
When Rundlett was removed the afore-
said editor-in-c chief was moved to the
most intense indignation that com
petent engineer should be turned out Of
office to give fat berth to an electrician,
who would be obliged to rely on his staff
of assistants for the proper conduct of
his office. However, at that time the
same editor was not so deeply in love
with Col. Kiefer as his present adnira-