The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-13
DEMOCRATS READY
FOR Big RALLY
Leading Campaign Takers Will
Speak at Mozart Hall
Tonight.

Democratic hosts will gather to listen
| 10 discussion of the issues Of the
campaign, and the great interest that
is already being taken makes it evil
| dent that the hall will not accommo-
! date the gathering.
7 The greatest interest is felt in this,
the first appearance of the Democratic
orators at a general meeting. The is
sues or the campaign will be sounded
In no uncertain way and Republicans
asked to refute the arguments made
The most effective campaign takers in
the party and who could be secured
for the occasion have agreed to speak,
and 1t is predicted by the leading Dem
ocrats that. 1T will keep the Repub-
1cans busy for week in answering
the arguments made on this occasion
All of the speakers are well known to
the public, being John w. Willis, T. R.
Kane, T. D. O'Brien, J. c. Michael
John l.. Gieske, Edward Peterson, Fred
Il. MCGEE and others. C. A Fleming,
chairman of the Democratic campaign
committee, Will preside, and many of
the prominent local Democrats will
have seats on the stage.
The Democrats have not heretofore
giving more than an inkling of their
plan of campaign, but at this monster
meeting the issues will be fairly met
and the people shown that the admin
1stratlon of affairs during the four past
years has really been economical. There
Will be no attempt to evade the issues,
1t being the determination to bring
about clear-cut fight.
The campaign has progressed to the
extent that it is evident that Health
Commissioners Ohage will be dragged
into the fray 1t is realized by the
friends of the popular health commits
sioner that the Republican machine is
opposed to him, that the Republican
candidate for mayor has declined to
indOrSe the public baths idea, and that
the two Republican candidates for the
council from the Sixth ward are OPP
posed to Ohage and the baths. T. 3.
Doran, Republican candidate for the
assembly, has upon various occasions
publicly proclaimed himself against the
plans of DR.. Ohage. G. A. Bruckner,
the Republican candidate for alderman
of the Sixth ward, is also charged with
being opposed to the public baths. It is
therefore expected that DR.. Ohage will
be compelled to revise his declaration
that he will take no part in the cam
paign and openly oppose the three men
mentioned, and also put on his black
list Frank Arnold, another opponent,
who would like to be re- elected to the
assembly.
A common question is whether Frank
Arnold will be able to secure his return
to the assembly by the same methods
that worked so we'll when he was elect
ed two years. A few days before the
polling was done then he sent out
large number of letters, and every ap-
peal went to an IriShman. 1t so hap
pens that the senior partner of the
y halo Nf
nationality, and the result was that
many of the recipients voted for Ar
mold under the impression that they
had been asked to do by the senior
partner. If the plan is repeated at the
forthcoming election the recipients of
the letters should bear in mind that
the appeal from Arnold is for votes for
himself.
1t is a common rumor in the Sixth
ward that G. A. Bruckner is not anX-
ious to become alderman, but that he
has agreed to stand for the election
with the agreement that if he should
be chosen he will be allowed to resign
after serving two or three months and
have Paul Martin chosen as his sue
cessor 1t is claimed by some of the
Republicans who are opposed to this
scheme that this is but an indirect way
by which the Martin-LawtOn crowd
hope to get into the saddle without be-
ing compelled to go before the people.
George N, Warren, one time mem
Der of the board of public works, later
a candidate for the Republican nOmi-
nation for mayor, and now citizen OF
Duluth, spent some days in st. Paul
last week. He came on at the instance
of F. P. Wright to take charge of the
latter's campaign for mayor, but after
rotf n 1i71n h0 cit q
ed and took the advice Of his Fifth
ward chum, M. J. Daily, and tore to the
woods growing on the shores of Lake
Superior. Col Wright has not chosen
a personal manager in succession to
Warner, who was brought on for the
purpose of carrying the Fifth ward for
the Republican candidate.
The "dont vote for list promulgated
by the Trades and Labor assembly has
been forgotten by practically everybody
except the organized labor men who
were offended by the action. At the
last meeting of the Meat Cutters union
a unanimous vote resulted on resolu-
lions declaring that Otto Rohland,
Democratic candidate for alderman Of
the Fifth ward, should not have been
placed on the list. Among other things
the resolution declared:
GAS a part of the Trades and Labor
assembly, known and recognized as the
Meat Cutters union, we repudiate the
action of the said assembly in putting
Mr.. Otto Rohland on the unfair list,
when in all fairness he should have
been declared the earnest supporter Of
organized labor"
DR. w. H. w. Boyle, who preached
sermon Sunday evening attacking the
city administration, spent some time in
the First ward yesterday, and it was
rumored that he was campaigning for
Col Wright, who happens to be
prominent member of Boyle's church.
DR.. Boyle denied that his visit to the
First ward was on a political mission.
The final conference of the Republic
an precinct committeeman was held
last evening in the Republican cam
paign headquarters, the representa-
tives of the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
wards coming together and demon
strating that the recent enactment of
the gag rule" meant business. Ross
Clarke, a candidate for the assembly,
was permitted to take the floor, and
the forty persons present found it diff
cult to get it back. With the knowl-
edge that the gag rule" provides that
the assembly candidates slall not speak