The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-23
qnst dt1e Political Mil

That war stirred up by the factions
winch charge Gear" McCardy with an
active interest in the Kiefer campaign
seems fraught with danger for the &c
tator-conptfoller. The Deran men are
especially sore. They believed that moth
ing could shake the comptroller from his
allegiance to their man. Doran, in the
Gays past, took up many of the cars
cudgels and helped him win out in the
lace OF almost certain defeat. They say
Doran did business for McCardy at times
when, if left to his own resources and
with no backing other than his own high
handed assurance, he would have walked
into pitfalls that would have inevitably
resulted an early political death.
A prominent Republican, Of the old
Wheel horse contingent, said yesterday:
This twist will fix McCardy. The way
he barely shaved through by the skin of
his teeth two years ago should have
taught him lesson. If the people had
known then, as they do now, that Betz
is an accountant Mac would have been
buried. Experience doesn't do much for
some men, though. That jolt, which
would have sent most men into Brights
disease, should have convinced McCardy
that the party was sick of his highland
ed methods and that the people had tum-
bled TO his grand-stand plays. But not
Tor Mac. 1t only made him worse, if
that We're possible. This kicking, right
or wrong, just because there is a chance
to burn a little red fire. goes for WHILE
but you can't fool em always Now he
has spoiled what looked like another
chance for him to skin through by mix
ing in the affairs of the mayoralty cam
didates. He might have been expected to
cut in for Doran in a quiet way, but the
play to stall Betz by getting on with the
Kiefer crowd has stirred up the spites
that might otherwise have been relegated
to the background for the party's sake
AS the squabble thickens, the Warner
men are taking heart. They now say
that their man is by no means out of the
race and that he stands as good show Of
finishing in front as either of the other
members of the quartette in the field
They figure that Doran has none the best
Of it in the Lincoln club controversy, and
they have a card or two up their sleeves
for Kiefer, whom they charge with
double dealing. They say that when they
expose the animus of the attacks made
on their man and the methods by which
they were secured through the co-opera-
ton of q Republican city appolntee, the
Kiefer people will be sorry they spoke
They claim the bond between the colonel
and some of the city departments Is not
new and that they will be able to show
quietly that there Is something rotten
in Denmark" Their claims of success
are further based on the belief that all
the Republican candidates are not yet
in, and that each newcomer will mean
strength for them by weakening their OPP
ponents. They are satisfied with their
grip on the city organization and figure
that every candidate for ward office put
in the field by the ward committee is
bolster for their ticket.
The Roosevelt Rough Riders yester-
day in part made good tEeir threat to
shelve the .'old fogies.'' A delegation
from the club attempted to lay before
Armand Albrecht the proposition that he
become candidate for mayor, with the
assurance of the clubs support. Mr..
Albrecht was out and did not meet the
delegation. Upon his return he declin-
ed to state what his decision upon the
Rooseveltian proposition will be. Mr..
Albrecht thinks it due himself and the
club that he receive its proposition for
mally from it's delegation, and that the
club receive his answer before it is given
to the public.
The movement to bring Mr.. A1brecht
into the field is aimed particularly at
IZiefer While-it is believed he can
draw some support from each Of the
other candidates, his candidacy, it is
claimed by the men who are urging him,
will be Kiefer's Waterloo. They believe
Kiefers only chance of landing the nom
nation is through the solid support of
the German voters They figure that
Mr. Albrechts German name will cut in
to the German vote which the Kiefer
men claim is theirs, almost entire, and
thereby put the former mayor out of pol
itics for all time.
The cry for more candidates is not
confined to the rank and file Of the party,
disguised with the squabbles and bitter
personal fights being waged by the can
didates now in the field. If the dis
gruntled voters want a fifth candidate
and with him a ticket, with the possible
exception of Schiffmann, he will be
equally welcome to the present mayor