Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-24
ONLY FORTY.FOUR MATERALIZE.
The Bari Puts in an Appearance and
Thanks His Supporters. 4
THE GOSSIP OF THE CORRIDORS
Brief Interviews with Various Ones In
Guiding the Bar'l.
THE BOSS NOT ENTIRELY HAPPY.
And His Supporters Hanging on to the
Corpse just to Please Him.

The most vindictive and bitter
enemy of Boss Window could
not wish him greater humiliation than
he is now undergoing. Summoned by tel
egraph from Washington, after
the announcement with -four
ish of trumpets, that whatever other aspir
ants for the United States senatorship
might do, he was going to remain in Wash
ington and look after the duties for which
he was elected, leaving the result of his
candidacy in the hands of the representa-
tives of the people, whose servant he was,
he was met upon his arrival by
a Iukewarmness and even cold
ness among his pretended friends.
and confidence on the part of his out
spoken opponents that carried
CONVICTION OF DEFEAT
to his heart. This conviction received new
force by the result of the vote in joint con-
vention yesterday when. with but two of his
friends absent, and after most persistent
canvassing, his vote reached but ffty-one
leaving him short, with all his supporters,
present, twenty-five votes of the nee
essary number to elect. If he had had
common political sagacity, or if he cared
anything for his friends save to use them
to advance his own interests, he would, on
the announcement of this vote, have
promptly withdrawn his name. But he is
not that kind of man. He desires more
humiliation and is anxious to be further
thrashed. In order to crafty him it was
agreed to issue call for Window caucus
at the Metropolitan last evening.
There was nothing small about the call for
the carcus. It was worded as announced
by Speaker Fletcher, to include all who
had voted for Window, who were now
voting for him, or who had any expecta
ton of voting for him. Nothing could be
fairer. Mr.. Window was shown by the
figures of different ballots that more than
majority of members of the legislature had
voted for him at one time or another, and
that they had drifted away from him solely
through the bad management of the gang
of over officious federal 5officeholders, and
that it but needed his presence, and the
OLIVE BRANCH OF PEACE
held out in the call for the caucus to bring
the stray sheep back to the fold. These
fattering protestations we're as sweet in
c snse to the boss lacerated feelings, and
hope once more found Judgment in his
breast. Having thus promised, j. B. Gilfil-
Ian, Pillsbury, Fletcher, Hicks, Comstock,
Greenleaf, Chandler and others of that
wonderful committee of eighteen set about
trying to make their promises good. Mem
bers who had once voted for the boss wre
cornered wherever found, and importuned
| to be present at the caucus, the impor-
tunities being accompanied with all kinds
of specious promises, and in some
cases with threats of political ostracism in
the future. In many cases the party being
labored with would only escape from one
of these ''teasers'' to fall into the hands of
another, when the same programme would
be gone through with. This proceeding
was kept up all the afternoon and until the
hour of o'clock, the time set for the eau
Gus to convene. The crowd began to
gather in the lobby of the Metropolitan as
| early as 1870, by which time the ''teasers''
were then in force. At the same time
''swEET WILLIAM"
descended from an upper floor and
mixed with the crowd, largely
composed of citizens about
town, present mainly to watch results. At
o'clock count of noses by the members
| of the committee of eighteen, or 'teasers,'
| showed only about twenty-five pronounced
Window men present. Another quarter
of an hour of voting and the number had
| been increased to some forty, and the
'teasers" began to marshal them into the
caucus room. At twenty minutes past 8,
forty three had entered the room. few
minutes later Messrs. Thayer and Torger-
son left the room, took hack and drove
away, soon after returning with Baarnaas,
who had voted for Window on the first
| two or three ballots and then gone off to
Farmer. This was the only person who
J ad deserted Window at any
time the "teasers" had been able to get to
attend the caucus,and made the total num-
Der present forty-four, or seven less than
voted for Window in the joint convention.
AMONG THOSE PRESENT
were Senators Chandler, Crompton, Com
| stock, Fletcher, Gilfllan, j. B.,
Greenleaf, Houlton, Langdon, Pills
bury, Rice, Shaleen, STEVENSON,
Truax, Wheat and Waite, and Representa-
tives Barker, Bean, j. E. Child, Collins,
Snow, j. Smith, Spaulding, Swenson,
Thayer. Thompson, Turrell, M. johnson,
Baarnaas, and Speaker Fletcher. Senator
STEVENSON presided and Repre-
I sentative Thompson acted as secretary.
| The caucus continued until
little after 10 o'clock,
the time being consumed in speeches
principally by Gilillan, Pillsbury, Esteem
erson, Gomstock and Hicks, advising the
continued support of Window, and pro-
phesying the disintegration of the oppos-
ing forces, and general stampede to
join the
WINDOW CARAVAN
in short time. Finally, as the crowning
act in the big farce that was being played,
Sub-boss J. B. Gilfllan retired, and soon
returned with Boss Window, who was
conveniently in waiting, and introduced
him to the forty -four, who comprised all
that was left of those who expected TO
vote for him, as shown by the caucus
roster. 1t was like introducing him to
his own funeral, but he put as good face
en- it as possible, and thanked those pres
emit for the support they had given him in
the past, and urged their continued ale
glance, and then the caucus
broke up, and the partici-
pants, generally, as if ashamed of the
part they had been playing, slipped away