The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-01

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The Republican sense of humor is pc
culiar. The leaders swallowed Aid. Ben
ny Knauft's witticisms about reform
with wry face, and now they say John
Jay Leightons reform platform is a joke.
Mr.. Leighton seems to be a bad case
of mistaken identity. His friends herald
him as the only Simon Pure representa-
tive of labor chat has ever had an op-
portunity to ask for the st. Paul Re
publlcans' suffrage. Yesterday a promi-
nent Republican labor man, who has
always. managed to bring into camp about
SO per cent of the 5000 votes represented
in the Labor Assembly, said the labor
men do not know Mr.. Leighton or any
thing about his labor interests.
t h e Clio was willing to give the
benefit. of. the doubt to one of the Re-
publican candidates for the assembly.
The official organ of the Republican party
says all Of them are VIGOROUSLY impos-
sible Well, it should be in position
to know.
VIM Powers, one of the Democrats
who comprise the strongest assembly
ticket ever offered to the voters of st.
Pau, Is particularly happy in the char
acter of the non-partisan support he is
receiving in his own district. For years
the Midway district has had to seek
many of its municipal favors from Min
neapolis. Mr.. Powers is recognized by
the members of the st. Anthony Park
Manufacturers association as man who
in the council will endeavor to protect
their rights, and by the residents of the
entire district as one of them, who will
fight to preserve their interests in munic-
ipaI legislation
Gear" McCardy is slated for a knitting
by three of the factions now mixed in
! the Republican scramble for the mayor
atty nomination. His alliance with the
Kiefer campaign has opened wounds that
only revenge will close. The Doran men
say they had every right to believe that
McCardy would stick to their man, or
at least keep off Kiefer's grass, because
Of past favors from Doran. They are
also very sick over the alleged promises
of fealty which they say the comptroller
has broken. The Warner and Seng
crowds each have old scores to pay
off, and are equally warm under the coll
lar because of McCardy's mixing in the
mayoralty squabble. They all say Nc
Cardy's conferences with Kiefer are too
well known to permit of anything like
denial from the autocrat of the comp
troller's office.
Both the Warner and Doran men evil
IDENTIFY kept mighty close watch on
McCardy, expecting him to attempt to
play both ends against the middle at
the first opportunity. They know the
exact number of conferences between the
comptroller and the colonel held in
Kiefer's Office, ait Sixth and Minnesota
Streets for week prior to the coloneIs
formal entry to the race, and the hours
of the three conferences held there the
day he filed his nomination papers.
The Ninth ward Republican precient
organization last night skillfullv side
stepped and evaded q trap to secure it's
Endorsement Of Fenton G. Warmers can
didacy for mayor. The meeting was call
ed at the Lincoln club for the purpose
of indorsing a candidate for the assem-
bly,, but had scarcely got under way
when proposition for the Endorsement
of mayoralty candidate got the floor.
fair percentage of the committeemen
We're willing to stand for Warner, whose
name was not prominently mentioned, but
they were afraid to handicap him with
an Endorsement which would only double
the efforts of the other factions after
the genial Mr.. Warmers scalp The re-
suit is that the mayoraltys candidates will
have to get along without Ninth ward
Endorsement. Frank Arnold, who wanted
the club Endorsement for the board Of
WdS 1iiuOfSSSu LOT the assembly.
Arnold was persona non grata with the
organization for several reasons beside
his unfortunate reform scheme, which
contemplated a Scent street car fare; but
he was the only available timber Chair
man James Drummond will appoint
committee to arrange a conference with
some other ward with the hope of Sc
curing a combination on Arnold
Representative N. K Hunt, of Sher-
burne county, is opposed to any scheme
which contemplates the passage of the
tax bill as it stands and deferring its
operation until after the general session
Of the legislature in 1903 Mr.. Hunt said
yesterday that he believes it the duty
of the legislature to stick to the Tax
bill until it is in shape to pass. He
believes that the tax commission has
done very well, and that with it's report
as a groundwork, the legislature can en-
act a code which will relieve the people
of a large proportion Of the tax Unequal
titles which have been notorious for many
years. He salo: q do not believe the