Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-21
A DARK HORSE.
The ALLEGED sabin Boom Which the Win
dom Organs Have Discovered Floating
in the Air,
Pioneer Press, Jan. 20. !


in the Air.
Pioneer Press, Jan. 20.
1t has transpired that movement Is be-
ing quietly worked up in the interest of
Mr.. D. NJ. Sabin for United States senator.
The plan is to keep him in the background
till the other combatants have exhausted
their strength, and then at some favorable
moment to trot him out and rush him
through with whoop and hurrah. 1t is
argued in favor of this scheme that it
would be likely to command the support
of the legislative delegations of st. Paul
and Minneapolis, many of whose bust
ness men are largely interested
in the great manufacturing estab
lishment of which Mr.Sabin is at the head;
that if he is not particularly strong in the
qualities by which high degree of Politi-
cal distinction is won in the senate of the
United States, he possesses business abili-
ties of high order, which would be ex-
ceedingly useful to the cities of st. Paul
and Minneapolis. 1t is also urged as
reason for believing that his candidacy
would be successful that, through his ex-
tensive manufacturing interests he is able
to command wide ramifcation of politi
cal influences throughout the state. 1t is
unders food that some of his Democratic
friends are industriously working up a
Democratic boom for him, to supplement
the boom for him IN the Republican ranks,
which is being quietly cultivated under the
rose. Tho ugh it is said that great deal of
pressure has been brought to bear upon
Mr.. Sabin, who, we are glad to learn, is
rapidly recovering from his recent serious
illness, we are unable to discover that he
has given any sanction or encouragement
whatever to the movement in his behalf.
Some of his business friends and associates
are said to be strongly opposed to the
movement for reasons wholly of a bust
ness and personal character; but others
are quite enthusiastic in favor of it, and
are industriously bottling up all the pass
ing zephyrs in order, at given signal and
at proper opportunity, to let them loose
in whirlwind which will sweep every
thing before it. The boys are to lie low
until the time comes, and then they are to
swoop down on the unsuspecting legisla-
ture and carry it by coup de main. 1t
is to be a sort of a Sabine rape. The
truth, if we are correctly informed, ap-
pears to be that the movement has not
even the tacit approval of Mr.. Sabin him
self, and is regarded as unwise by his lead
ing friends. STILL more surprising things
have happened. Mr.. Sabin is personally
very popular, and has many of the pleas
ant personal qualities and the strong ex-
ecutive abilities which are often more
likely to command political success than
the highest order of intellectual merit. If
the wide circle of business and moneyed
influences which he has at his command
should seriously undertake to make a
United States senator of him he would be
the most formidable figure of dark horse
which has yet appeared upon the course.
minneapolis journal, Jan. 2O-Rep.l
''The undercurrent of the Window cam
paign,'' said leading politician this
morning, sis toward Sabin. Langdop,
Hicks, Fletcher, and Sabin have never been
in earnest over WINDOWS election. They
have let Mr.. Window come to the ragged
edge of election only to beat him and
make him turn over his strength to Sabin,
who is the real choice of the Hennepin
county delegation. OF course if Window
should be elected Langdon, Fletcher and
the rest would be in their usual clover, but
with Sabin they would wade in honey.
They have already attempted a Sabin
boom, and that is the reason Window is
coming home. Their argument to Win
dom is: we have done all we possibly
can for you; the opposition is too much
for US. Now we must do the next best
thing by electing your best friend, and
who has done so much for you and for US
as Mr.. Sabin p You see if the Sabin
is not started up next Monday.
He has not had a single vote yet, but he
will have half dozen Monday"
Duluth Tribune-Rep.
''Our dispatches last evening from st.
Paul stated that there was serious talk on
the part of Window men of their taking
up State Senator D. M. Sabin as their
second choice. We doubt if they could
select man whose nomination would give
more general satisfaction than would the
nomination of Mr.. Sabin. Mr.. Sabin is a
whole team and is a man of immense
personal popularity, and his election would
by no means be an unfortunate thing for
this growing young state, whose indus
tries he has done so much the last few
years to develop"