The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
WRIGHT ABANDONED
BY HIS COMMITTEE
Desperate Republican Party
Leaders Now Attempting to
Save Other Candidates.

"Save the pieces"
This is the text of an order just sent
out from the second floor of an office
building at Robert and Fifth, and it
bears the 20. K" of the leaders of the
Republican city executive committee.
Col Frederick P. Wright, Republican
candidate for mayor, did not know
anything of the order yesterday, but
his friends FASTENED to inform him as
to the new deal
The new order is probably justifiable
as good politics" but the sense of
fairness in an ordinary man will rebel
at the discrimination between the par
ty candidates in the closing days of
the campaign. Col. Wrights real
friends on the committee objected Wig
Orously to the deliberate proposal to
throw him down, but the practical
men on the committee were in the as
tendency and their decision to make
the remainder of the fight on candi-
dates who had at least a chance to
win went into effect.
The new deal was quietly tipped off
to the busy ward workers yesterday
afternoon. They were told, as coming
from the committee, that Wright was
hOpelessly beaten, and to confine their
three or four of the assembly candidates
and about as many aldermanic candi-
dates. 1t was received with good grace
by most of the men out In the wards,
but Wright's personal friends, He'd
mans Scandinavian following and the
coterie of close personal friends which
each of the candidates to be sacrificed
nave, were Wroth, and made no bones
about expressing their views of the
committees treachery.
A dozen or more red-hot arguments
followed the semi official promulga-
ton of the new order from the execu-
tive committee, and high words follow
ed the receipt of the news in several
of the precincts. The men who are for
Col. Wright first, and the ticket after
wards, are openly defiant, and say that
If there is to be cutting they too have
knives, and the situation is, to say the
least, strained in many quarters.
Hedman's following in the First ward
and his scattering strength in other
wards are openly in revolt. They say
that their friend did not seek the nom
inatiOn and that he wanted even after
being nominated, to get off the ticket.
1t was unfair and crooked politics to
desert him now in the perhaps vain
hope of saving something from the
wreck, and they would do little eff
fecttVe knitting themselves if this was
the game to be played.
Where were all those roseate prom
fses Of support for Hedman in the
strong Republican wards that had
been held out as an inducement for
him to go on the ticket? Chairman
Walther and his associates on the city
committee confessed that they had
been unable to hold the Seventh ward
in line for Hedman. Nobody knew him,
they said and while Hedman might
be everything that his friends claimed
for him, the Seventh ward, and not
only this district but other strongly
Republican wards, We're for Otto Bre-
mer. Why not COncede Bremer's cleo
ton and concentrate their energies
where they might result in something
being accomplished?
To a practical politician the expla-
nation might sufficiently explain, but to
the Hedman following it failed to sat
isfy, and when the new plan is gen
orally known there will be something
doing by Hedman's close friends and
admirers.
Will Try to Save Kiefer.
The chief beneficiary of the new plan
is to be Col. Kiefer. Col. Kiefer is
figured by the committee to have a
fighting chance for city comptroller.
1t is admitted that the field survey is
not nearly so promising as it was two
or three weeks ago, but the committee,
having once become convinced that
Kiefer can be elected, has yielded up
the delusion very gingerIy 1t has
chung to the belief in Kiefers invulner-
ability with the teeth of faith 1t has
Rugged the idea that Kiefer will win
until it has become a part of the very
existence Of the young men who arg
managing the Republican campaign,
and it is like being parted from
childhood's idol to let go.
Impressed with this fanciful dream
in Kiefer's strength, the committee will
concentrate its every energy to making
the dream come true. The word has
gone out to boost Kiefer no matter at
what expense to the other candidates.
w. L. Ames has wagered a little roll
on his partners success and he wants
to win that money. Others on the
committee have personal reasons for
wanting Kiefer to win. But the chief