The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-28
Gnst 9t6s Political Mil

M. X. Prendergast evidently has some
sort Of a solution for the query what
Is there in a name?' and knows the
value Of good eUphonfous handle. Mr..
frehdergast is a candidate for nomina-
llon Tor city comptroller and somewhere
70" ms name in print in connection with
that candidacy. His front name was
seopIeVlated to an Initial letter and YES
teroay Mr.. Prendergast served notice on
eH e4e county auditor that his name is
Nalcnael and that it must so annaar IN
the pallet. Can it be that he is afraid
ne might be mistaken for a Scandi-
navlan by the astute voter?
The name Of Fritz Lehman, who was
candidate for Democratic nomination
70 the assembly, will be withdrawn from
the ticket, which will be posted Mon
oay Mr.. Lehman announced his retire
ment from the race on account of ill
nealth three weeks ago, but did mob
LGrlllsh the formal affidavit. Yesterday
Ccuhty Auditor Johnson decided that
out OF courtesy, Mr.. Lehmans request
to keep his name off the tickeC. will he
granted. -i- "o
The official ballot for the primary cleo
ton. which will be posted in County
Auditor Johnson's office March 4. and
which goes to the printer today, will in
~'S*NS IAiO AolAlcS OI elSnIo6n democrats
and twenty-one Republicans, candidates
tor the assembly. On the Republican
side Of the ticket are four candidates
now members of the body-Denny, Craig.
Nelson and Wheeler. Two Democrats.
Haas and Whitcomb are candidates for
reelection and DR.. Rudolph Schiffmann.
Of the board Of aldermen and president
OF the council, is the third Democratic
member of the council who seeks a.
place the
parlson Of the two lists tells it's own
story.
John E. Holt, of the First ward, Is
the only Republican member of the
board of aldermen. who is a candidate
Ior reelection. The Democratic mem
bers who stand for reelection are Dahl
quist, of the Third; Huber, Fourth; /;
Ulmer. Fifth; Moriarty, Sixth; and
Dobner, of the Tenth ward No Demo-
cratic candidates have filed fer the board
in the First, Seventh and Eleventh
wards and unless Independent candidates
are placed on the ticket by petition after
the primaries, D. r. Elder, of the
Eleventh. and ]. w L. Corning. of the
Seventh wards, have first mortgages ON
seats in the council In the First ward
William HillStrom will give Holt a race
for the Republican nomination. which
also has a default mortgage on the seat.
The guileless delight which the editor
in-chief of the Pioneer Press takes in
shrieking gang is only exceeded by
the degree of asininity he frequently ex-
hibits in the enjoyment of that same
gang batting. Some joker handed him a
gold brick the other day which set his
phlegm-tipped pen in rapid motion. The
next day the same pen glided through
the mazes of rather elaborate apology.
DR.. E. III. Haas was the object of the
venerable EDITORS spleen. He said Haas
was the brother of former Building IN
spector Sam Haas, put into the game by
the Democrats to defeat Assemblyman
Henry Haas and that he was entirely
unfit for the suffrage of the people, He
wound UP his TRADE of abuse by con-
graduating himself on the warning he
had given the people and the fatal stab
he delivered into the breast of the
gang. Then the venerable editor dis
covered that DR.. E. H. Haas is a Repub-
lican candidate. The next edition Of the
political "infallible'' stated that it was
really too bad that it should have been
so misinformed about DR.. Haas. He is