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

| L. B. Poran INTO The fight for the Re
| publicaas noTaination for mayor further
eoncea intent 90 the rancor CT the ferd in
the party ranks, which has oyiy slunl-
bered SINCE .the election of Kiefer, four
| years ago, lie 3Inie impossi:lc.
| Dorants hand was forced by the alien
alton Of men, whom he believed were his
| friends and WHO are now charged with
| treachery, some of it clothed with at
least the sernblance of coercion. With
| the declaration of Sengss eandidacy,which
was admittedly in the interest of the
Doran campaign, Doran believed he had
| full protection from Kiefer in the Ger
man strengthens and that he could play a
waiting game.
| His plan contemplated stand-of 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-
| sona1 grievances against Kiefer and
| whose expressed disposition to center
their efforts in a fight to secure party
| ratification of Songs candidacy, vas only
| a part Of the scheme to hamper Kiefer
| The Doran people had no copyright on
| their plan of obstruction, and the I<iefer
! crowd started a counter obstruction play
| by Skillfully inducing Warner to re-
| nounCe his ambition to become county
auditor and enter the mayoralty fight as
| a stumbling block to Doran. There was
| 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 anticipa-
| 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
| lIeutenants, 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, poran. The Doran people say
| Dix may have been forced into the deal
| by Ffine, but are no whit less bitter in
| their Pronunciation Of what they call
! 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 a 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. 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 buIldozed 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 cid party leaders who be-
| lieved in letting Doran and Kiefer fight
| it out for themselves and then kill them
| both by the election of Seng, tried to
| show Warner the error of his way and to
| induce him to stick to his original inten-
| ton to try for the authorship. The Kie-
| 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
! tanning his berth as clerk Of the munich
| pal court through the good offices Of
| Hine. Hine, 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 denounent was
! fastened by the simultaneous filing of
| nominations by Warner and I<iefer.
Mr.. Doran said yesterday morning: 81
| 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 irrefutabIe 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 to 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 Eiefer 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 Kiefer.
| 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 ]. 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 renounced
| his own ambitions and Yesterday when