The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-27
REPUBLICAN CALLS
THEM DEAD ONES
Sizes Up the Men Who Head
the City Ticket Frank Eddy
Still Confident.

want column Of any reputable st. Paul
newspaper an lad" for dead ones to
head the Republican city ticket, the.
result could not have been more salts
factory from the standpoint of quail
fication than is presented by Wright,
Kiefer and Doran.
Men with anything resembling
memory know that when Col. Wright
had rounded out his two years of serv-.
| ice as mayor and was candidate for
reelection, not a single Republican
leader had the temerity to propose his
name in the nominating convention.
"Kiefer has been before the public
| for so long and so often that nothing
but an unusually retentive memory
saves one from forgetting that he went
| out of office on the toe of Repub-
so recent that it requires no effort to
recall his inglorious departure from
! the glare of public life to the shades
of the West SIDE"
| Thus talked a well known Republic
an citizen yesterday. as he surveyed
| the list of Republican candidates for
office this spring. Then his eye glanced
| at the list of prominent Republicans
| who have been called from the by
| paths of the commonplace to positions
| of responsibility on the Republican city
| committee. Continuing, he said:
There's McNair, he of the also-ran
class. In the big Republican ward, the
First, McNair got 236 votes for the as
sembly to Doran's 1884, McNair is
| chairman of the finance subcommittee
| of the executive committee. and this is
really the most important position on
| the general committee. One can't help
but wonder what influence 1t was that
| operated to give him such a black eye
in the strongest Republican ward, as
compared to Doran, and what 1t Is ex-
pected that a man who made SO poor
| showing in the First and other wards
will bring to the city ticket.
"And there is the case Of Fenton G.
Warner. Warner is all right personal
| ly, but he's got bigger game than the
| election of a mayor at stake. He IS
state oil inspector and manager Of the
Ramsey county campaign of one of the
| candidates for governor. And he's sec
rotary of Wright's campaign commit
| tee. Chairman Walthers private bust
ness will doubtless permit him to give
| but little of his time to the committee
| work and the actual work will devolve
on Warner and DR.. Haas. vice chair
man. Haas ran away behind on the
assembly ticket two years ago, and Col.
Wright is handicapped again.
| Louis Schultz, another committee
man, received only few scattering
| votes in his own precinct when he ran
| for the nomination for assembly at the
primaries and it was for him that John
F. Selb was turned down. Se1b, the
story goes, acting from the best mo-
tives and with the license claimed by
! a former employee of Col Wright, told
| him not to file, for he couldn't be elect
ed. That settled Selb. When his name
| was suggested for the Fifth ward
member, Col. Wright threw fit. Selb
hasn't any reason to be lonesome, Tor
/ Steve Picha, Charley Parker and Mag
| nus Norman were cast overheard by
| the managers along with him, and
everybody comedies that they are
among the best Republican hustlers
| and vote-getters In the city.
/ sfBut for whom were such men Sacrf-
/ feed? Look at enn. There's Paul Mar
tin, Of the Sixth ward, whom Moriarty
so badly Worsted for alderman and
whom Mike Fitzgerald literally skinned
| alive In the contest for register OF
deeds two years ago. He is Doran'
| personal representative on the COM
| rittee, and Doran is after DR.. Ohage.
Friends of DR.. Ohage are next to the
! play. however and they will look after
| Doran on the day Of election. Billy
Bazille, another member Of the COM
| nittee, has been made the HawkshaW
| Of the bunch. He is charged with fer
reting out any alleged illegal registra-
ton and to prevent the work OF re-
| peaters at the polls. He will haul them
to Justice as fast he he finds them, and
to make good with the committee he
| must proceed to locate the offenders.
| ooh, that Wright committee is a
beauty" continued the speaker, "and
great things are expected of 1T, but
the trouble is that almost every man
on the, committee has something else
at stake besides the success of the city
ticket. Hugh T. Halbert wants the
Republican nomination for county at
torney; Charley Nelson would count
the county's cash in the treasurer's
office; Paul Martin would like an
other try for register of deeds; Frank
Haskell wants to go to the legislature
! w. L. Ames would be assessor; DR.
Haas has his eye on seat In the leg
islature, and everybody is next to
Fenton Warmers game to handle the
Republicans of Ramsey county for his
personal gain"
In the formation of the city execu-
tive committee little attention was
paid to ward boundaries. The First
Second Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
wards nave eacn out one IlSIHUtI VI
the committee, whereas the Sixth has
four and the Seventh three. A good
many people are wondering what there
is about the Sixth and Seventh thai
produces such good political workers
Frank M. Eddy, who has been up II
the Seventh district, reached st. Pau
Yesterday en- route to Chicago, Where
he goes tomorrow on private business
. .I was at the Ortonville convention,
said Mr. Eddy yesterday, "and, while
; the delegates to that convention WERE
not chosen with any regard to the1l
: views on the governorship. I would
! be willing to leave my candidacy to {
vote of the convention. am sure tha'
/ had a majority of the delegates II
| the convention"
A state official is authority for th'
claim that Eddy has no serious de-
signs on the governorship, but is get.
. ting acquainted with the leaders II
!, those counties of the Seventh district
; formerly in the Third district, ant
when Volstead has served anothe
term in congress Eddy will go out aft
:. er his place. This same man volun
: teered the information that Volsteat
and Bowling had better keep an ey'
on E. T. Young, for his prediction Il
to the. legislature rather than the ad
ministrative department of govern
D ment
There are four candidates now il