The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
GIVE REPUBLICANS
THE FIRST PLACE
Corporation Attorney Michael
Allows Opposition to Lead
City Ticket.

yates AleQ lnelf peutlOnS yesterday,
and aside from the regularly nomin-
ated Democratic and Republican can
didates there will be only the Prohibi-
ton, the Social-Labor and scattering
! independent candidates.
The expected did not happen. John
Wagner, who was said to be dis
gruntled and had intentions of filing
as an independent candidate for
mayor, evidently thought better Of it.
His hostility to Mayor Smith instead
has found expression in an industrious
knocking" of the police administration
and an effort to lead Democrats away
from their party support.
1t is understood that WAGNER has
been in consultation with the Repub-
lican managers and the fact that he
did not file as an independent candi-
date is generally charged to a belief
that his votes as such candidate would
come from the Republican strength In
the city and would therefore serve an
exactly opposite effect from that in
tended. Mayor Smith stands so we'll
with his own party that any thought
that votes could be led away from him
by Wagner or anybody else filing as
an independent candidate, was dissipat-
ed by sounding public opinion, and the
scheme was dropped almost as soon
as it was conceived.
There was no change in the ticket iii
the closing hours of the time limit al
loted for filing, the office CT City Clerk
Redington yesterday afternoon being
| deserted save for a few belated candi-
dates who had not called and deposited
| the necessary fee to have their names
put on the official ballot.
BY ruling of James G. Michael, cor
! pOration attorney, the Republicans will
have first place on the official ballot.
The law provides in general terms that
the dominant party shall have prece-
dence in the order of the names on the
ticket, but City Clerk Redington for
mally asked an opinion from the cor
poration attorney covering the matter.
Yesterday the corporation attorney
wrote a letter to the city clerk, in
which he said:
MIR. MichaeFs Ruling.
cat the last city election there were
eighteen candidates Of both parties
who ran at large throughout the city,
and the total of the votes received for
all the Republican candidates at large
exceeded that received by similar can
didates of the Democratic party by 1873,
and it is therefore my opinion that the
Republicans are entitled to first place
upon the official ballot"
While it had been generally under
stood that the Democratic candidates
would be accorded first place on the
ticket, in view of the fact that the par
ty is in the ascendancy in st. Paul, the
i reasoning of the corporation attorney
will be accepted by the Democratic
committee and the party at large with
! out question. There is not thought to
be any great advantage in the order in
which the candidates appear on the
official ballots and the Democratic can
, didates are so far in the lead that any
l I'll
to. accrue to the Republicans from hav-
ing first place on the ticket will be
cheerfully given them.
The manifeStly fair attitude taken in
the matter of precedence on the off,
cial ballots by both the city clerk and
corporation attorney Is freely COM
mented upon by the leaders in both
parties. 1t is in direct contravention
with the position frequently taken by
Republican clerks and corporation at
| torneyS where exactly the same cOndi-
ton arose. With the Democratic can
didates having polled the heaviest vote
in preceding elections, these Repub-
lican officials frequently stood in the
way Of conforming to the law and the
aid of the courts was on several Occa-
sions invoked by the Democrats for
that recognition which they were emit
| tied to, but which was denied them by
the extensively partisan action Of the
officials who had sworn to obey the
law. The Democratic officials have
given the Republicans an example in
| fairness and in obeying the spirit as
well as the letter Of the law that they
will do well to remember.
The official ballot as 1t will come
from the printer to be voted by the
electors will be in this order:
The Official Ballot.
Mayor.
Frederick P. Wright. Republican.
| Robert A. Smith, Democrat
G. H. Stratton.
Hans Christensen, Socialist Labor.
William A. Powers, Prohibition.
Comptroller.
A. r. Kiefer, Republican.
Louis BetZ Democrat.
Fremont r. MECHANICAL, Prohibition.
Treasurer.
John Hedman Republican.
Otto Bremen, Democrat
Newton r. Frost, Prohibition.
Assembly.
Frank Arnold, Republican.
Ross Clarke, Republican.
e. B. DOran, Republican.
John HI. Holt, Republican.
Herbert p. Keller, Republican
Thomas Montgomery, Republican.
Sidney H. Reeves, Republican
H. G. Schurmeier, Republican
j. Watson Smith, Republican.
Michael Doran Jr., Democrat.
| Peter Joseph GieSen Democrat.
Henry G. Haas, Democrat
Richard D. o Brien, Democrat.
Winn Powers, Democrat.
James ]. Regain, Democrat
Rudolph Schiffmann, Democrat
Edward H. Whitcomb Democrat
Frank Yoerg, Democrat.
]. Edward Carson.
Fred Miller.
Mathew j. Cikanek. Socialist Labor.
81. A. Campbell Prohibition
w. G. Fisher, Prohibition
F. N. Foot, Prohibition.
w. B. Hawthorne Prohibition.
o. l.. Larson, Prohibition
B. Y. Neal, Prohibition
9. Dell Sackett, Prohibition
Olof Sundgaard, Prohibition.
George F. Wells, Prohibition.
AIdermen.
First Ward
John 0. Linden, Republican
Charles r. Nyberg, Democrat
Jorgen Nelson, Prohibition.
| Second Ward
Robert Kiefer, Republican
William e. Buschmann, Democrat.
Third Ward
L. 0. Wilson, Republican
Frank j. Hebl, Democrat.
Fourth Ward
John l. Howard, Republican
Frank j. Huber, Democrat.
Fifth Ward
John F. Bruggemann, Republican.
Otto w. Rohland, Democrat
Sixth Ward
Gustav w Bruckner. Republican.
Michael ]. Moriarty, Democrat
Q. F. Weeks, Prohibition.