The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-02-21
.SUPERI0R'S POLITICIANS
THINK ABOUT PRIMARIES
Successor to Finance Commissioner Oare Only Official T.
Be Elected This Spring Union Men Now Holding Ref
erendum for Selection of Their Candidate.
Prof. Giett Favored By Many Prominent Citizens
Treasurer Kane Formidable Candidate Olaf johnson
Possibility and J. c. Crowley Avowed Aspnant.

Superior municipal primaries and
then the ensuing election are drawing
on apace. Interest is warming up and
it will not be long until the old pot is
boiling merrily.
A successor to city commissioner
o Hare, at present commissioner Of fl
nance, will be the only task required
Of the voters at the voting machines
this year. Mr.. O'Hare has held this
place under the municipal plum tree
ever since the city adopted the COM
mission form of government, eight
years ago. Before that, he served the
city in capacities ranging from alder
man to mayor.
The way political straws are blow
ing, Mr.. O'Hare is credited with be-
lieving that this is not his lucky year,
hence he will drop down and out. A
trip to Hot Syringe for treatment
for cold feet and hypertrophy of the
pocket-book may appeal to commission
er O. Hare when the real firing begins.
Probably the first entry for the race
will be labor candidate who will be
nominated within a few days. The
unions now are taking a referendum
and their votes will be distributed
among five men.
One of the field will be John R..
Todd, veteran union carpenter who
is we'll liked in the circles of organ
lied labor.
AL. Brothers, a union barber, with
politics as an agreeable sideline, and
an old-time official of the Trades and
Labor assembly will run with the rest
Thomas Horner, a union switchman
and socialist, will not be destitute of
votes when the referendum is closed.
Mr.. Horner was president of the as
semjbly for the last half of 1918.
John Schaeffer, a union machinist
and former alderman, is an avowed as
pirant and he is receiving good sup
port.
Jim Duffy, a railroad trainman and
former member of the fire and po-
lice commission, is another of the five
aspiring knights of the union card.
Only one of the five will get on the
ticket. Many able observers believe
that the union men will have a big
task on their hands to unite all the
forces in favor of the lucky man, no
matter who wins in the referendum. If
candidate acceptable to the Bingo-
land bunch corrals the nomination, it
hardly is likely that the disciples of
high moral endeavor and good govern
ment will support him at the polls.
| If a union man of high civic, indus.
trial and moral ideals wins the nomi-
nation, it is against nature to expect
the disciples of low moral endeavor
and complacent government to enthuse
much over his candidacy.
Granting that one labor union man
will be a candidate, there will be at
least four other candidates in the pri.
maries. One of those favorably men.
toned is Prof. Gillett, normal school
| instructor. He commands the respect
of most people in the city and previ.
ously has demonstrated his vote-ge
ting abilities. He has devoted much
time to the Pittsburgh Plus question
and still is actively working to remove
that obstacle to local growth and pros
perity. One obstacle to Prof. Gillett q
nomination and election is his intima
ton to friends that he will not make
the race.
George Kane, present city treasurer