Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
The Whole Ticket Objectionable to
Half. Breeds and Stalwarts.
BEECHER ADVISES HIS DEFEAT.
The Next Democratic Candidate for
the Presidency.
THE KEYES.HAzELTON CONTEST.
Interesting Political Gossip From All
Quarters.
Trying to Make FOlOer Decline.

Trying to Make F0lOer Decline.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
New YORK, Oct. 1.-The sensation in po-
litical circles yesterday was the rumor,
which was in everybody's mouth, that Sec
rotary Folger might decline the Republi-
can nomination for governor. 1t was said
that many of the secretary's friends in the
state had written to him that the Republ-
can sentiment in the rural dis
tricts were against the Saratoga
ticket, and he would be
defeated if he remained'in the field. Re-
publicans in New York and Brooklyn are
reported to have told him that he could
not poll the party vote in those cities, and
should therefore decline to run. This
feeling is by no means confined to the
half breed Republicans. Many Stalwarts
in this city admit that the ticket is likely
to be defeated, and some of them
that all of the candidates should
withdraw. Some of the Stalwarts
say that President Arthur nominated Sec
rotary Folger, and is not doing anything
to counterfeit the feeling in the party
against his own ticket. "Instead of being
here to give us his counsel" said one of
them, che seems 'purposely to have gone
beyond the reach of the telegraph" He
added that Folger had better withdraw
and let Governor Cornell be nominated to
save the party.
Secretary Folger is said by the Half
breeds to be uncertain as to what course he
will pursue. One of their leaders said to-
night that he admitted to Mr.. Edwin
Packard and Mr.. James L. Jensen, of
Brooklyn, that the political sky was not
very bright. Those gentlemen called
on him in the morning, and presented the
request of the county organization in
Kings county that he should withdraw
from the contest. They represented that
the feeling against the ticket in Kings
county az very strong, and cited
the action of the young Republican
club, of Brooklyn, as proof of the truth of
their assertion. The secretary asked, ''How
can withdraw" The half breed leader
continued: ''The Kings county represen-
tative suggested that all the nominees of
the convention should decline, and that
new ticket be nominated by the reconvened
convention. That course, they thought,
would be fair to everybody and satisfac-
tory to the party" am told that the sec
rotary replied that the scheme is not prac-
ticable.
Col. Geo. Bliss, ex-police commissioner
Dewitt Clinton Wheeler, Gen. Geo. h.
Sharpe, congressman Richard Crowley, G.
j. F. Smyth, chairman of the Republican
state committee, are the really influential
men in the administration wing of the
party. None of them believe that Secre-
tary Folger will decline.
Col. Bliss said yesterday: sunless
change has come ever the spirit of his
dreams, since last night, Judge Folger
will not decline. We are not afraid of this
clamor against him, nor is he. This hue
and cry against the ticket is not a new
thing. It occurred after Conkling beat
Fenton in the state convention in 1870 or
1871, but the reaction came
then, and will come again this year,
although tho people are more sensitive to
the reform cry now than they were at that
time. believe that We can elect our tick
ct" The colonel added that Judge Folger
would doubtless write his letter of accept
ance before he lift New York.
The secretary remained in his room in
the Hoffman House most of the day.
He is not in perfect health, not
having yet recovered from the malarial
fever which he contracted in Washington.
He received many callers, most of them
being New York politicians. The senti-
ment against B. Platte Carpenter. nominee
for Lieutenant Governor is more bitter
here than that against Judge Folger.
The half-breeds almost to a man will cut
him and many stalwarts openly declare
that they will not vote for him.