The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-17

E. B. poran into the fight for the Re
puolcanS nomination for mayor further
ealfaent of the rancor CT the feud in
the party RANKS, which has onIy slum-
bered since 4tHe election of I\iefer, four
years ago, Le2lme Impossible.
Doran's hand was forced by the alien
alton CT men whom he believed We're his
friends and Who are now charged with
treacherY, some of it clothed with at
least the sernblance of coercion. With
the declaration of Sengs candidacy, which
was admittedly in the interest of the
Doran campaign, Doran believed he had
full protection from Kiefer in the Ger
man strongholds and that he could play a
waiting game.
His plan Contemplated a stand-off be-
tween seng and Kiefer until the last
practical moment, when he was TO step
IN and secure the support of the party
organization, which was ostensibly
against Kiefer. The cooperation of the
active Republican politicians with per-
Sonal grievances against Kiefer and
whose expressed disposition to center
their efforts in fight to secure party
ratification of Songs candidacy, vas only
part of the scheme to hamper Iiefer.
The Doran people had no copyright on
their plan of obstruction, and the Kiefer
by Slkillfully inducing Warner to re-
nounce his ambition to become county
auditor and enter the mayoralty fight as
stumbling block to Doran. There was
no excess Of friendliness between
the latter and the president of
tie assembly, who with his col
leagues had been scored by Doran,
and with the assistance of some of War
ners friends who need the votes of kie-
fer's supporters in their own business, he
was urged to enter the fight against the
earnest protest Of the men who were ready
to help him to the nomination for audi
tor and the men who were in anticiDa-
ton enjoying promises of good things
made in furthering that campaign.
The Doran people claim Judge Hine
was the chief conspirator in dragging
Warner into their fight. Warmers chief
heutenants, Ed Parrish and Charley
Parker, are also charged with dealing
from the bottom against their chief, and
Clerk of the Municipal Court Dix is
charged with becoming a party to the
deal against the interests Of his former
friend, Doran. The Doran people say
Dix may have been forced into the deal
by Hine, but are no whit less bitter in
their Pronunciation Of what they call
treachery.
Hine and Warner have long had an ap-
parent community Of interest through
their mutual regard for Parrish, one of
the Republicans who has always been
credited with the ability to deliver the
goods in the Second ward. The Doran
men say Hine needs the votes Kiefer can
control; Kiefer needed candidate to cut
into the Doran strength, and that it was
not a difficult task to make the little
judge listen to reason. Then commenced
the series of conferences IN the municipal
court vault end Warmers office which
caused him to throw down his county au-
ditOr machine, in course of rapid con-
Struction. s. Warner was told that Doran
and Kiefer were both dead ones" and
that the rank and file of the party would
not only rally to the banner of a hust-
ling representative of its younger ele-
ment, but demanded that new blood be
given a chance to pull it out of the
slough of despond where for years it had
been threatened and bdlldozed by the adj
herents of 'fogyism."
In substantiation of their claim that
the party was with Warner, he was re-
minded of his campaigns for the assem-
bly,, when in both instances he led his
ticket. The old party leaders who be-
heved in letting Doran and Kiefer fight
it out for themselves and then kill them
show Warner the error of his way and to
induce him to stick to his original inten-
ton to try for the authorship. The I<ie-
fer interests were, however, too strong
for them, and for a few days later War
ner gave it out that his friends had fore
ed him to make the race.
The Doran men became suspicious OF
the conferences being held at the court
house and then began to whisper that
DiX's participation in them could not
entirely be warranted by his interest in re-
tanning his berth as clerk of the munich
pal court through the good Offices of
Hine. Iine, they say, voted for Dix only
because there was no other method of
Kidding himself of Conroy, and who was
originally for Warner for the clerkship.
Their agitation was rapidly approaching
the fever heat when the denoument was
fastened by the simultaneous filing of
nominations by Warner and Kiefer.
Mr.. Doran said yesterday morning: II
am forced to become a candidate now or
never. cannot afford to see my friends
weened away from me-" Mr.. Doran said
his acquaintance with Warner IS very
slight, and while Warner will probably
suffer some from the irrefutable criti-
cism of the assemblymen which he thinks
the public will indulge in, he at the same
time expressed the hope that it will not
be necessary to resort I'd a campaign
based on such strenuous lines.
The Warner men who were on the
square with their leader and hoped TO
throw Kiefer down after Doran was side
tracked, expected that the kiefer organ
would play fair with their man at least
to the extent Of refraining from open at
tack. Now they are sore and charge
that their throw down was deliberate and
preconcerted. They claim entire posses
sion Of the city and county organization
and threaten to rule or ruin.
In that same rule or ruin policy. the
Doran men again see the finger Of Ktefer.
They claim that they have already frus-
trated several plots to swing ward or
ganization into either the Warner or
Kiefer columns bv the Endorsement route
They say it makes little difference which
is Endorsed in the end it means Kiefer and
while they are perfectly willing to per-
NIT Inducements of a purely personal
character they draw the line at attempts
to coerce any part of the party organiza-
ton. They are particularly incensed over
an alleged attempt to whip the Sixth
ward committee into line. which they con-
strue as a deliberate slap at their Sixth
ward candidate.
Doran has scored first blood in the
matter of Endorsement. He is the first of
the Republican quartette now openly in
the field to secure the unqualified support
of any of the party leaders. Assembly
man Charles J. Nelson. of the First ward
was a candidate for mayor and had pre-
pared to file his papers when he was
notified that Mr., Doran would positively
make the run. He at once renowned
his own ambitions and Yesterday when