Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-18
The Old st. Paul Boys Who Inaugurated
the Business Don't Like Their
Own Medicine.
CALLS ON REPUBLICAN LEADERS
They Think That Stewart is Very
Unfairly Treated and Talk
Blood.
WHAT FLETCHER HAS TO SAY.
The Architect of All This Deyiltrv
Thinks Everything is Fair
and Lovely.

When the GLOBE appeared yesterday morn
ing containing the announcement of the
meeting of the Republican District Commit
tee and the unexpected call for convention,
the Republicans of St. Paul began to rage.
They had been outwitted, out-generaled and
totally shaken up, and they went about the
the streets, rubbing their heads together to
see who felt the sorest. They did not care
SO much for Stewart, but when it came to
giving Hennepin county "a votes and
Ramsey county but IL, the average
st. Paul politician began to boil all over.
In order to ascertain what they proposed to
do about this terrific snub ministers pleni
potentiary and ENJOYS extraordinary were
dispatched in all directions to interview tho
| faithful and gather in their views. Natural
ly the first one called upon was
Ex-Gov. VIM. X. Marshall.
committee and the only st. Paul man at tho
meeting. The Ex-Governor was
| found at his ofhce-Railroad
! Commissioner-at the Capitol, and in re-
spouse to the queries of the GLOBE repre-
senta tive, he said that he had been absent
for five days and just returned yesterday
morning, when he found among his mail
request from Mr.. Fletcher to attend politi.
cal conference in Minneapolis. Fletcher did
not sign himself as chairman or say that it
was meeting of the committee, and Gov
Marshall said that at first he did not even
recall that he (MarshalD was memb er of
the committee. he supposed it was to be an
informal gathering of Republicans to consult
upon the campaign, and was dumbfounded
when he learned that it was a regular meet
| ing of the committee. In response to the
very earnest request of the reporter, Gov.
Marshall produced the following letter of
notification of the meeting, which be had
received from Mr.. Fletcher:
MINNEAPOLIS, May IL, l678.-Hon. w. h.
Marshall-DEAR SIR: There will be meeting
at my Office in Minneapolis, Thursday. May
10TH at P. NJ, to take into consideration mat
tiers pertaining to the calling OF the convention
of this district to decide upon the time and
place and apportionment for the different
counties, etc. Hoping you will be present, l
am, yours truly, l.. FLETCHER.
That is dated the 18th, but 1 was absent
and did not receive it till yesterday. 1t lay
on my desk unopened until / returned. You
, SEQ it is not signed as chairman of the com
mittee. and never dreamed it was anything
more than a meeting of Republicans fol
y consultation.
V Rep.-How came the committee to be IL
n such shape that it was controlled by thu
Washburn interest?
Ex-Gov. M.-The committee was composed
g of seven members. OF these they secured
= Sletten, of the Detroit land Office, to write
% letter, declining to serve on account of th'
u civil service order. Then Braden was an 9th
re er member, but he died. and the COMMITTEE
= was reduced to five members. Campbell
4 had given his proxy to Mccain, and tn
trick of this was shown by the fact tina
Campbell came into the room while we wei
in session. They had the committee a
4 fixed up in this way, and the only thing I coul
~ do was to enter protest and this [ di
90 enter, two of them. When it cane to Il
o., matter of apportionment asked Fletcher
IL he had made any calculation upon IL
W difference between the vote in 1876 ar
> 1877, and he said he had not. suppose
at that time could believe him and SO
e. concluded to make no point on it. VIII
[ learned how it stood 1 protested sgain
N. it.
low here the Governor tOOR LeSlSidti
ear manual, and giving the reporter the vote
1877 and 1876, calculation was made sho'
ing that if the vote of 1877, had been take
the Hennepin delegation would have sto
sh- 10, and Ramsey ID, making but six diff
ow- ence instead of -, as under this call.
Rep.-What is going to be the result Of
this trouble?
Elk Gov. Nj don't know am sure.
is very unfair to Stewart, and | should Z
out think he would stand it. I don't know u
is is managing his matters. I have never
letter from him, and he has never SAT
word to me. suppose he thought he wo
receive fair play at the hands of7the co
mittee. Mr.. Washbnrn may find that he
hot made mistake, Donnelly did in IL
g, and this may result in his defeat, even if
'1oo is nominated.
Rep-Have you copy of your plote'
E1-Gov. M.-No, but they are spread
on the minutes. After the meeting Fletc
told the secretary not to make them pu
the as we did not want to have any difference
fall the matter, but insisted upon their be
make public. I told him if he had b
doing something he was ashamed of it
not my fault, and I had made the prot
for the purpose of giving them to the pu
VIC Capt. Russell Blakeley.
This gentleman needs no introduction
the voters of the Third Congressional
trict. From time in which the memol
,,,or r,vra%h not m the contrary.