The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-11
GET BUSY ON THEIR
POLITICAL FENCES
Republican Offieeholders Are
Already Planning for Next
Falls Election.

7 IF there ever was a case of perni-
| cious activity, it is found around the
| region of the court house occupied by
! the county commissioners
| The statement was made yesterday
! by leading Republican, and he fol-
| lowed it UP with some pretty warm
| talk.
There are two members of the pres
| ent county board campaigning for pro-
motion, and the fall election months
away. 1t is true that the constitution
puts no limit on mans ambition,
but members of the county board have
| been pretty we'll cared for in the past.
David W. Gray wants to be sheriff
and Nicholas Pottgfeser is out for
| Mike Fitzgera1dys scalp, and they are
raising the third term cry in the hope
| that it will queer Justus and Fitzger-
aid with the voters. Gray is himself
a third termer. He came over from
| Washington county few years ago,
broke into the court house as COM
missioner and has had hankering
| ever since for something better.
| 'Pottgieser left the Democratic
| party when it wouldn't stand for him,
| taking all the fruit in the way of the
political pluns, and now he expects
| the Republicans to take him UP and
| give him one of the best offices in the
gift of the people. Everybody knows
recent history, and it isn't necessary to
go very far back to show up the conn
naissioners. They spent the better
part of two months last winter getting
| their salaries raised by the legislature,
| and then they built the county Jail
| and saddled another $4,000 of bonds
on the county. Oh, the record of that
| bunch will fix them when they get
before the peopfei Smith can't be in
the board and so hopelessIy in the
minority that he doesn't count"
There promises to be great fight
Eanong the Republicans for the distri-
button of the nominations In Septem-
Der, and the county commissioners who
are seeking higher henors propose to
be in the thick of the fray. There IS
danger, however, that their boonls may
be punctured in their early launching.
At a meeting of the Tilden-Jacoby
club, at 617 University avenue, alder
manic candidates in the Eighth ward
| Matthias Bantz, N. Herges and A. j.
Reis-were present, each speaking
tbriefly. All advocated harmony in the
party, regardless of who received the
nomination. j. +. Fisher presented the
following resolutions, indorsing the
Democratic city administration, which
were unanimously adopted:
| Whereas The present administration
has conducted the affairs of our great
city in a clean and buS1neSSllke manner
and as we believe to the best interests and
satisfaction of the taxpayers and citizens;
I therefore, be 1t
+ Resolved That we the members of the
| Tilden- Jacoby club, do heartily 1ndorse
the aforesaid administration and thank its
officers for the faithful performance or
their duties for which the people elected
T them.
undivided support to the Democratic can
didates who shall be nominated at the
primaries On March 10.
| The club, which now has an active
membership of LIS voters in the Sew
enth, Eighth, Tenth, Thirteenth and
Fourteenth precincts of the Eighth
ward, was organized in the fall of 1902
/ in behalf of Jacob Jacoby, the Demo-
cratic candidate for representative
from the Thirty seventh district. Its
I officers are J. f. Bowman, president; ;.
IT. Fisher, secretary, and Joseph ia
CODY, treasurer. The club will meet
again Saturday night, and all Demo-
cratic candidates are invited to be
present.
| Public Examiner Johnson is due to
have another session tomorrow at his
office at the capitol with John Barry,
the expert accountant, with whom he
lis at loggerheads over the investiga-
ton of the state auditors office.
The Duluth Tribune editorial
ly replies to a recent interview in T h g
Clio e with State Auditor Tverson
on the Bede bill relating to the evf-
| dence in swamp land contests. The
Duluth paper shows a healthy lack OF
information about the subject, which
it attempts to discuss and entirely
mistakes the premises of the contrQ-
versy. 1t is so wide of the mark in
everything it says that lverson says
he has changed his first impulse to
write a letter to the paper setting it
Fright en- the matter.
The fight for the Hennepin county
district delegateships to the national
Republican convention has reached an
! acute stage, and there is talk of COM
binatie among the various candi-
dates to freeze the other fellows out.
fC. A. Smith had been practically con-
leeded one of the two places, but
Byrnes and Gamble have concluded to
dispute his title to the seat. Their de-
eisien is said to be founded on the be-
lief that it is better to take chance
on a fight for both of the places than
to concede one to Smith and then to
fight Heffe1finger and each other for
the second place. A Hennepfn county
Republican, who was in st. Paul yes
terday, said he looked to see the places
go to Smith and Byrnes.
|
A man whose business has taken
I him to large number Of the meat
Z / markets of the city was at the city
thaH yesterday, and said that of sixty
three butcher shops he had visited
/ the proprietor and large majority or
the employees of every one was for
Mayor Smiths denomination and re-
election.
I Col Wright is expected home from
) I the East Saturday, and then will be-
F gin the work of picking out cam
!, Ipaign manager. DIR. Haas apparently
has the field clear to himself. DIR. Haas
I is young and may live long enough to
recever and try to forget it.
The Fourth Ward Republican club
[ will meet Saturday evening at its
! headquarters on Wabasha street, be-
i tween Fourth and Fifth.
The Trades and Labor assembly
, Twill meet tonight at Federation hall in
Irregular session, and will take up the
: problems presented by the "I-don't-
: Ixete-foF'' crusade. There is undoubt-