The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
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me charge into local politics. made by
a lying squadron from the phalanxes Of
the Roosevelt Rough Riders club has
plunged that devoted body of young Re-
publican warriors into a civil war which
may result in the disqualification of the
nattlly uniformed club. At all events the
Initial attempt at practical politics has
successfully banished peace from the
clubs ranks The latest developments in
Rooseveltdom demonstrate that Mr. Al
brecht builded perhaps better than he
knew when he declined to volunteer i'm
mediateiy as the Rooseveltian standard
bearer in the race for the Republican
mayoralty nomination
The members of the club opposed to
the Lindeke flying wedge, claim that the
presidents committee exceeded it's
authority in Offering Mr. Albrecht either
the candidacy or the Endorsement Of the
rough riders. Beyond Mr.. Albrecht they
say the committee had no authority to
pledge the clubs support to anyone. The
committee, they claim, was empowered
to act as a canvasser for the club and no
more. That it's duties contemplated the
compilation of a list of representative
business men from which the club could
select candidate for either the council
or an administrative Office. Freed of
ether prejudices, the club is squarely di-
vided on the ACCESSIBILITY of Mr.. Albrecht' s
candidacy. The Rough Riders most I'M
aiterably opposed to him, have only the
kindest things to say of him personally,
but they object most strenuously to the
idea of the club going down to defeat
with any candidate for mayor.
Another phase of the trouble in the
Roosevelt club has its birth in the man.
ner in which President Albert Lindeke
and his committee have started out to
make family matter of it's selection of
| benefciaries of the Roosevelt support
Albrecht and Corning have respectively
brother and a son on the committee and
many of the members who were not party
| to the selection of the committee think
that the ticket will not be completed
until the committeeman run out Of
! eligible relatives. 1t has been quietly
tipped off to President Lindeke that his
committee had better call a halt, and
that any further operations on it's part
in the name of the club will result in a
call for a special meeting for the pur-
pose of wiping out the committee.
A prominent member Of the club said
yesterday; 1.-THE committee will go no
further If it does there will be trouble
Albrechts refusal to accept the club in
dorsement offered by the committee has
| saved the organization in part, from a.
very awkward position. The committee
had no authority to offer the clubs sup
port to any one or in any way bind the
club to the interests of a faction. We
have not the slightest objection personal
ly to the gentlemen selected by the COM
mittee, but we do object to an attempt
to deliver the support of the organization.
| One of the original principles of the or
ganization was that it should be COM
posed of young men, neither office holders
or Office seekers The club is in no sense
representative of the city. 1t is repre-
sentative Of the young Republican ele-
ment in the Seventh ward, and even II
the club were to enter practical politics
it were preposterous to assume that 1t
could do more than perhaps insure the
election of one member of the council
And as first step that would be 4 very
satisfactory accomplishment If at the
coming election, we secured the election
of one man Of the type that we represent
and could support, his recc I'd would help
US to a larger bite in 1904. But in any
event we do not want a Roosevelt club
candidate mixed in the present party