Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-20
His Meney and the Railroads Expected 10
Control the Convention.
FelGER EXFEcTED TO BEAT CORNELL
Eas Reputation aud PsEtieaI Alliances
fnyuIaerab BILE to Attack.
ASSEMBLING OF THE CLANS AT SARATOGA.
Ben Butter Nominated for Governor BIZ
Massachusetts, Democrats.
SpeciBi Telegram to the Globe. I

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will, it is believed, be Roswell P Flower.
man who has never filed any place in pub
lie affairs til within the past year, when
he beat William ". Astor for congress.
partly by experding his money after
Astor's fashion, ard partly through the
natural Unpopularity of the Astor family,
which has not mingled with the public
Nearly all of the politicians l have seen
are in favor of Mr.. Flower. and have it
on good authority that Mr.. William Whit
ney, the corporation counsel Whose faith
er-in-law, Judge Payne, of Cleveland. is a
very rich NAM was offered the nomina-
ton if ne would agree to put up large
price fSr the use of the boys. Some say
the figure was fixed at 100000. Mr.
Whitney, although DESTROYS of the office.
had to decline on those terms. Some say
Whitney thought it was
NeTA GOOD YEAR FOR DEMOCRAT
to run. NJ. Flower is only forty seven
years old, and his story is a brief one
Born at a small village near the st. Law
renee riyer in:northwestern New York, he
married a lady at Watertown, whose sisters
had Eaade several notable marriages. One
of them married a poor boy, some say
bound boy, by the name of Henry Keep.
who showed astonishing cleverness for
money making by the aid of money, be-
ginning with the exchange of canadian
currency for New York currency, and
working his way forward till he became
president of the New York Central rail
road and q power in finance, and died
leaving a very large fortune. Such a
brothaF-ln-iaw was a great help
to MT. Flower when he came to
New York city soon after
the close of the war, and he went into
banking, and has accumulated consider
able fortune. Some of his social rivals en-
viously put it as Low as S750,0ea; others
say that he is worth $2,OO0,OOO to $1,000
600 of money. Though ann not acquainted
with ME-. Flower, 1 hearscurrent opinion
say that there is nothing of the scholar or
natural public man about him, and sew
eral Democrats have said to me that they
regarded it as calamity that the party
leaders were running after another
rich man instead of tax
ing up some person whose
doubt If anything will strengthen him
more with the upright solvent style of
men than his giving the state of New York
candidate for governor so much the su-
perior OF Mr.. Cornell as Folger is. This
Is also consistent with Arthur's fermer
course, for he looked with much disfavor
on ever making nominee. Mr.. Arthur
fra t0h ~ hot
his support to ex-Gev. Morgan when
Conkling insisted on Cornell being no.ni-
mated in 1879, Arthur again remain
strating, and feared that the state would
be lost with such an insipid. unkindEng
cold candidate. At the present time he is
not changing his course IN antagonizing
Mr.. Cornell on the theory IS a party man.
He is not the proper person to nominate to
bring out the vote. It is true that there
may be also some personal feeling be-
tween Cornell and Arthur, hut that may
arise from CornelIs resentment that Arthur
was not heartily for him at his two previ-
Gus essays for the governors Office Gen.
Arthur does not stand at present like
mar opposing the ablest candidate his own
party has to present for governor, but
he Is opposing man probably
too weak to carry the state of New York at
the present time, particularly if the Demo
Gratis consolidate. Moreover. the selection
of Cornell az the Republican candidate now
would be very considerable annoyance to
the administration at Washington for the
two remaining years left to it. Cornell is
not forgiving man, not tractable, not
philosophical. If not selfish he is unsym-
pathetic. Disliking President Arthur he
might if elected governor throw his infin-
ence toward weakening the general federal
administration with the revengeful pur-
pose of terminating it as soon as possible.
He would be sure to do this if put in nom
ination and elected at present, after Ar
thurs friends have demonstrated so clear
iy against him. But the man presented by
Arthur would unquestionably bring out as
many votes as Corneli,and in almost every
body's Judgment a great many more.
poverty was the proof of honesty and who
had the capital that courage aad independ-
euce gave to campaign. Some have
mentioned the name of
GENERAL SLOCCN.
w.s talking yesterday to Republican,
an intimate friend of General Arthur, who
said: Judge Folger will probably get
the Republican nomination, and through
his friends expect that he will be easily
elected, it will be very close race be-
tween him and such q man as General
Slocum, of Brooklyn
Said 1: Have You any idea that Slocum
will be nominated?"
''They hardly ever do as wise thing as
that" said the gentleman. "Slocum has
some enemies among the bosses in Brook
lyn, but he would get into contest against
Folger, backed by the administration at
Washington, very great number of Re-
publican votes, and they might run as
high as $4,000. Although the half-breeds.''