The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-06
dunn MEN WOULD
PUT WARNER AWAY
Will Fight to Gust Oil Inspect.
or From County Commit.
tee Craftsmanship


While the organization of the Repub-
be completed until after the primary
election has been held Republican fac
lions are Sparring for the fight which will
settle the control of the Ramsey county
organization for the next two years.
Fenton G. Warner, state oil Inspector,
and for the past two years chairman of
the county committee, is a candidate for
reelection, but whether he will attain his
ambition will largely depend upon the
meeting of the Eighth ward Republican
organization.
Warner is resident of the Eighth,
and unless he is chosen to represent his
ward on the city and county committee
the bylaws Of the organization will for
bid his designation as chairman of the
committee.
The fight being waged against Warner
is largely repetition of the old Dunn
Collins fight which came so near wreck
ing the Republican organiza ton in Ram
sey county in the closing days of June.
Fhe Dunn men openly declare that they
will not object to the selection of any
man the so-called Collins faction will pro-
pose except Fenton g. Warner, but they
will fight to the last ditch
If 1T is found necessary to encompass
the defeat of the present chairman they
threaten to attack the validity of the or
ganization meetings already held in
number of the wards and by which mem
bers of the city and county committee
have been. elected. The bylaws of the
state organization say that the county
committee shall be elected Immediately
after the primary election in the fall but
in spite of this provision the organizations
of the Second. Third, Fourth, Fifth and
Ninth wards have already held their
meetings and designated their members
of the city and county committee
=. Will Not Stand for Warner
If the representatives of these wards,
with those of the wards yet to hold their
meetings. can agree on anybody other
than Warner, no question of the legality
of the committeeman already named will
be made, but should a poll of the entire
committee, when finally elected by the
ward organizations, show Warmers star
In the aScendancy, the enemies of the
Eighth ward leader will call into question
the legality of the ward meetings al
ready held.
The defeat of Warner in the Eighth,
however, will render any such drastic
movement unnecessary, and this is the
event that the Dunn men are now bend
ing all their energies to accomplish.
The Second ward delegate is said to be
friendly to Warner; A. w. Lyman, in the
Third, is said to be opposed to the return
of Chairman Warner in the interest of
harmony; the Fourth, led by F. c. aSchiff-
mann. is absolutely irreconciable to War
ner; the Fifth is counted on as unfriend-
ly to Warner, and the Ninth's delegate
on the committee is for Warner unre-
Servedly.
The First is for Warner unless a GER
tain contingency arises. Friends of
Christian Lindahl, for some years clerk
in the office of the state superintendent
OF public instruction at the state capitol
are asking if the First ward man is to
be retained in his present position in the
event that Dunn is elected governor If
pledge will be given to keep Lindahl in
his berth, 1t is said that the First ward
organization will return the favor by
sending up a man to the county commit
tee who~will favor a new man in the in
terest of harmony.
The Sixth ward, where F. B. Doran..
G. S. Schurman, Paul Martin and their
friends expected to control, will probably
be for Warner when their committeeman
is chosen, and the Seventh which was
carried easily by Collins, and where SEN
ator C1app's influence is expected to be
quietly exerted in the interest of the state
oil inspector, will be for the Eighth ward
mans reelection to the head of the COM
mittee.
Big Battle In the Eighth
will be the sanguinary contest, for there
Warner will fight for his life. In the
Ninth w. B. Webster already designated
as representative of his ward on the COM
mittee, is committed to Warner. The
Tenth and Eleventh are forecasted by the
wise ones as anti Warner.
The Dunn men will accept any good
Republican" said Pat" Miller, one of
the Republicans who is quietly working
against the reelection of Warner as
chairman of the committee, yesterday cit
is the height Of political foolishness to
insist on naming Warner again after the
hot fight we have had in this county this
year among ourselves. The Dunn men
will swallow anybody except Warner
without a grimace. If he is named there
will be, a repetition of the same fight. We
want a chairman who will reunite our
demoralized forces lin this county and
make a fight for the city, county and
state ticket"