The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-22
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The blissful state of harmony which
1dlrly permeates the atmosphere Of the
council halls of the local Republicans
is more apparentsclose to the strongholds
OF tie respective Richards, who would
no longer be dukes but kings. Both
Doran and kiefer, can now see War
Wlcks, IN Seng and Warner and the fight
mas settled down to a war of extermina-
tlon rather than for possession. The lat
est knife unSheathed is that for McCardy.
Inc Willy comptroller, believing himself
safe in the enjoyment of his life lease on
a good job, has allowed his interest in
the hlefer campaign to become apparent
TO the gentlemen whose first ambition is
Doran's nomination and the slaughter
OF Kiefer. They say they had right to
expect that McCardy would at least
Keep his hands out until the primaries
were over His ambition to play the
Kiefer strength against Betz overcarne
his usual high and mighty disdain of
any other portion Of the party, which
they say he assumes was o"gaEized for his
sole benefit, and mounted the Kiefer
conveyance.
The presumption of George Thane, who
dared aspire to the berth in which Nc
Cardy has been able to play the dema-
gogue unterrified, strengthened Nc
Cardy's desire for an alliance with the
Kiefer interests.
Thane is reaping the benefit of Nc
Cardy's partisanism lie was originally
urged into the game by the interests
which contemplated the Waterloo of Nc
Cardy solely through a division Of senti-
ment based on the claims of a younger
man. Now, Thane can command the
backing OF two more factions until there
is another change in the Republican ka-
kaleidoscope. The out and out knockers
have been with Thane all the time and
now the Doran-Warner men say they
will back the new conner from the Sew
enth ward to the last ditch. Thane Is
also mixing freely with the representa-
tives of the so-called independent ele-
ment which is cropping for a Moses to
lead it out of Egypt and accomplish the
permanent downfall of both Doran and
Kiefer.
The war between the Lincoln club and
the Windsor hotel Republicans is paIed
Tor the nonce by the appearance of the
Roosevelt rough riders on the scene OF
carnage. The Rooseveltians propose to
do a little rough riding right at
nome. They started their charge by re-
questing j. w. L. Corning to become a
candidate for aldermanic honors in the
Seventh ward. They want no old worn
out war horses in their troop and pro-
pOS0 " leave A1eIGr ana DOrdn behind
a San Juan of defeat, administered by
an aggregation of representative young
business men. They claim they have an
entire slate for the council and will in
few days announce their candidate for
mayor. They propose to select commit
tees to make canvass of the ward lead
ers and would be leaders and if possible
put ticket in the field strong enough to
at least demonstrate to the old timers
that the young men have decided to take
a hand in the politics of the party and
that old fogyism must go. Some of the
young men who are in position to know
the temper of the Rooseveltians, say it
is anything to clean out the powers that
have bossed the party for quarter Of a
century and that the club will throw it's
influence to Warner if necessary to beat
Kiefer and Doran.
The Doran and Kiefer men, including
the personal henchmen Of GEAR Nc
Cardy, openly pooh-pooh! what they call
the imaginary influence of the rough
riders. They say the Rooseveltians are
'unwashed cubs who need a lesson in
practical politics and will get it if they
monkey with the affairs of the grand
old men, of the party. One of the Kiefer
men said yesterday: ''This is no torch
light procession. Those fellows are good
boosters and make lots of noise and
show, but that's where they get off and
when the right time comes they will be
hollering down our rain barrel, you bet''