The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-28
WRIGHT SPONSORS
ARE SHY OF Coin
Men Who Promised to Furnish
Funds for His Campalan
Fail to Dig Up.

There are murInurs from the camp
of the Republicans and indications
that beneath a calm and placid surface
there are disturbances that will sooner
or later ruffie the still waters. 1t is
the old question of finance that is
bothering the leaders of the local party
| and 1t will not down.
The story goes that as an induce
ment to Col. Wright to file for the Re-
publican nomination for mayor, the
| optimistic young men who brought
him out made many promises, chief Of
| which was one to secure a campaign
| fund of $4,000 as a starter. Wright is
by no means penniless but he doesn't
want to put his private means to a
| patriotic purpose. Some such intima-
ton was made to the leaders of the
| Republican clubs and they, with the
splendid enthusiasm of youth, imme-
diately promised to dig up not less
than two thousand simoleons. There
was to be no delay; the money was to
be at once put up; the necessity being
to conduct the primary cam
paign.
Col Wright filed a week ago Satur-
| day but reliable information Is that
| there had been nothing doing in the
| financial line in his vicinity, and he is
| said to be disguised Enthusiasm is
all right in it's own domain, but he Is
veteran politician enough to know that
1t takes money to make a Republican
campaign, and he has intimated to
| some of his closest friends that the
| young men of the allied Republican
clubs are the merest novices in the po-
litical field If they think he can make
even the beginning of municipal
campaign on an empty political purse.
/ Several leading Republicans who have
been approached with tenders of the
management of the Wright campaign
have investigated the question of
| finances and they have grown sudden
| ly cold. They don't want anything to
do with q proposition which, In addi-
| ton to lack of merit. has not even a
! piece OF money to spend. 1t is evil
| IDENTIFY UP to the boomers to produce
| the circulating medium.
The action of the st. Paul Trades
| and Labor assembly in turning down
a number of candidates for municipal
Office on both the Republican and Dem
ocrattc tickets may it is said result
In the placing in the field, as indie
| pendent candidates, an almost COM
plete municipal ticket. Leading labor
| men yesterday were quoted as saying
that some such action was entirely
within the probabilities. In some in
stances it will be found that men nom
| mated by both the Democrats and Re-
| publican primaries are under the ban
| or the labor organizations, and 1t Is to
| care for this contingency that the local
labor party may decide to put indie
pendent candidates, but with the In
dorsement Of organized labor in the
field.
In Democratic circles 1t is said that
the purpose of the meeting of the
Trades and Labor assembly Friday
night was to indorse the candidacy of
John l.. GieSke for the mayoralty, but
the leaders found that any such indorse-
rnent would be a violation Of the spirit
Of the constitution of the assembly.
Mayor Smith has great many friends
| In organized labor circles who, on his
record, would not stand for the in
dorsement of Gieske, provided there
was no legal bar to indorsing one can
didate at the expense. of another.
Judge L. l.. Baxter, Of the Seventh
judicial district, who has announced
himself candidate for reelection as
| a nom partisan aspirant, has met with
some opposition from number Of law
/ yers who veil their object behind
boom for Judge Baxter for the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nomination. In an
| inspired article in Wheelock's Weekly,
dC Ills IlOIuG IOWu Oh f6TRuS
Falls, It is said that Judge Baxter does
| not look kindly on those friends who
| would sidetrack him in his candidacy
for the judgeship for nomination for
governor.
The Democratic judges Of election
| Will congregate in two bodies at Dem
ocratic headquarters Tuesday and
| Wednesday night for instructions as to
their duties at the primary and mu-
| nicipal elections. Announcement of
the division of the judges into two
| meetings will be made later.
The Young Mems Democratic club,
| Of the Fifth ward, will meet at $3.50
o'clock this afternoon at 603 West Sew
| enth street. officers will be elected
and other important business will come
| before the meeting.
In a Minneapolis paper the an
| nouncement is made that Thomas
| Lowry would like the honor of repre-
| senting Minnesota as q delegate-at-
| large to the Chicago convention. Elk
United States Senator w. D. WASH
burn has heard from Lowry, who is in
the East, and he says he would re-
| gard it as a high compliment to be
| one of Minnesota's big four. There
| promises to be a fight in Hennepin
/ county between the friends Of Lowry
1 onT II Chou1ir For hn ha,,0r