The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-25
REPUBLICANS FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO
MAKE CAPITAL OUT OF
DISTRICT BENCH
PLOT LAID TWO MONTHS AGO
Gang Scheme to Beat Huber and
Shepard Contemplated Defeat of
Primary Law and Make Col e.
OnizatiOn Possible.

There will be no special grand jury
summoned to investigate the Illegal Re-
publican registra ton and voting in the
Fourth ward There is no evidence. nor
even his statement, that the Republican
Sheriff has made any attempt to appre-
hend the men accused Of repeating The
police are following up the clues on which
they have been at work for several davs.
but without much hope Of success. as
the men have had ample time to gct Out
Of the way.
The play for political capital in wElch
the Republicans were forced To secure
warrants for the tools Of their trickrry
dds fair to result in no prosecution. The
men for whom they secured warrants
after their game was exposed by a Demo-
cratic investigation have been spirited
away and will probably escape prosecu-
ton. Two things the Democrats have ac-
complshed. They have exposed the de-
spicable crime against the integrity or
the ballot, and they have prevented the
Republican repeaters from voting at the
regular election.
The Democrats have not ONLY exhibited
positive evidences of the Republican
frauds in the Fourth ward, but they have
driven the tricksters into the ridiculous
position of school boys trying to shift
their crimes onto the Democrats. with
the characteristic He done it, Gang!
Gang! to which the Republicans have
always flown as a last resort.
Their Reputation Is Proof.
The silly trick will not succeed. Tho
people of st. Paul have not forgotten ,he
fight made on Harry Shepherd Republic
an candidate for alderman In the Fourth
| ward. They have not forgotten The
| threats made against Aid. Huber They
have not forgotten that representatives.
of the notorious Fourth ward Organizl-
| tion, which had judge AT every polling
place in the ward openly stated tnat
Shepherd should not be nominated or ilu-
Der elected Votes or no votes They
have not forgotten the attempt made by
the Fourth ward gang to defeat the spirit
of the primary election law by the IN
| PRODUCTION of q woodchuck bill in the iCg-
| islature during the last hours Of the sls-
| sion.
The people have not forgotten that the
| men who are charged with the manage
ment of the Fourth ward Republican Or
ganization, and in the present campaign
| are managing the political fortunes OF
Mr.. Doran, have been consistently op-
posed to the primary election law. They
| can never forget the stigma which thcss
men have placed on the Republican party
| by their association with its affairs in the
| last dozen years. Neither the citizens or
| St. Paul nor of the state at large are un-
acquainted with the odoriferous political
| record Of the notorious Fourth ward
| gang"
Made Threats Openly.
In the light Of the threats made against
Aid Huber and the colored Republican
candidate, the Fourth ward organization
| will never be able to satisfy thinking non
! est citizens that 1t is not responsible
| for the crime against the ballot box and
| the attempt to exercise the will Of a cor
1 rupt political machine in the selection OF
| councilmen in spite of the law and the
| wishes Of the people.
| Two facts cannot be eliminated from
| the history of the most infamous incident
| in the political annals Of st. Paul. Harry
| Shepherd, Republican candidate for AID
| erman, openly accused the Fourth ward
organization Of accomplishing his defeat
J by fraud. Representative w w. Dunn
! accused President Fred Q. SchifInann. OF
| the Fourth ward organization Of attempt
ing to defeat the whole registration clause
of the primary election law. And the
Democrats had no factonal fight for
! nominations IN the Fourth ward. and the
| Republican gang threatened TO defeat
/ Shepherd and Huber at any cost. Shtp-
herd was the victim OF their repeating az
| the primaries, and Huber was 10 be de-
feated by the padded vote May 6.
Plot was Wen Laid
The plot against Aid. Huber and the
anti-gang aspirant for the Republican
nomination was deep laid and might have
| succeeded had it not been for the honesty
Of a Republican legislator and the suDse-
| auent Democratic investigation ana ex-
pose. A few days before the primary
| election T. c. Schinmann and Assistant
| Corporation Attorney Franklin r. Griggs
took a bill for an alleged amendment to