Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-18
DISGUST IN WINDOW RANKS.
While the Anti Window Crowd are
Merry the Live Long Day.
THE DEMOCRATS IN CONFERENCE
Judge Wilson to be Continued in the
Field and Unanimously
Sustained.

tsnacity friends will sometimes cling to
a corpse and keep 1t above ground even
when the age of the cadaver renders it
offensive both to eye and nostril. The
continuation of the Window boom is a
case in point. The death occurred on
Tuesday, and On Tuesday evening there
was the beginning of the wake. 1t was
a solemn wake and the refreshments were
very light. When the joint convention,
after putting few finishing touches to the
Window coffin, adjourned yesterday,
Speaker Fletcher announced that the
friends of Senator Windom"were request
ed to meet at the Metropolitan at 7:30 p.
NJ. for consultation. It was little diff
cult to tell who should be considered as
friends of Senator Window in view of
the decided falling off of his vote,and more
counties to hear from.
After supper the faithful began to gather
at the Metropolitan. Gen. McLaren acted
as whipper-in and piloted the arrivals to
the room designated for the meeting.
Some outsiders got in and it became nee
essary to eject them bodily, for fear that
some one might gain admittance under
color of being ''a friend of Win
dom" and give the proceedings away.
Under this rule brother-i n-la Douglas and
Thomas Simpson were waltzed out. AS
members dropped into the hotel they came
like the mourners at a funeral. Heads
bowed and faces averted, seeming to de-
sire to slide intoJ the room unobserved.
The solemnity Of Tuesday night was
doubly intensified. The decline of Win
dom's vote yesterday had salts
fed every d one that there was
no hope for Window, and
they wondered what the necessity was for
bracing them up to take care of the
corpse.
In the hotel corridors awaiting results
were ex-U. S. Marshal McLaren, Q. S.
Marshal Denny, U. S. Revenue Collector
Bickel, U. S. Postmaster of st. Paul, D.
Day, U. S. District Attorney Searles, q. S.
Mail Agent Sim Childs, U. S. Land
Officer Huntington, q. S. Mail Con-
tractor Russell Blakely: U. S, Con
tractor N. P. Clarke, Charley Nichols, Sam
Nichols, land numerous other still more
distinguished lights of the party.
count of those who participated in
the consultation showed fifty three pres
ent Among them the reporter noticed
Senators Billson, Chandler, Campbell,
Comstock, J. B. Gilfllan, Goodrich, Green
leaf, Langdon, Pillsbury, Rice, Shalleen,
Stevenson, Truax, Waite and Wheat, and
Representatives Bobleter, Bohland, J. E.
Child, Collins, Cornish, Gotzian, Halgren,
Hicks. M. Johnson, Merriam, Nelson, J. A.
Peterson, Fletcher. Turrill, Torgerson
and Swenson.
After considerable delay in roping in
the lost tribe of Israel, the meeting was
called to order and Senator Stevenson
was called to the chair and Repres entative
Thorn pson acted as secretary.
The consultation lasted about an hour
and a-half, and was prolonged by de-
termined effort on the part of vigorous
minority, led by Senator A. E. Rice, and
Representative W. D. Cornish, to take up
new man. They, with a number OF
Others had the good sense to recognize, that
Window was dead, and they preferred to
have live candidate rather
than a very dead corpse. Their
arguments did not prevail, how
ever, small majority of these present de-
Gliding that it was best to adhere to Wind
ON, at least one day more.
During the discussion large number
gave expression to their sentiments. The
sentiment was unanimous that Mr. Wind
ON is "lost cause" but the argument in
favor of sticking to him another day was
not in hope of success, but because there
was nothing better to do. They re-
cognized that they were a rump
only, and that while they could not win
with Window, neither could they, without
some new alliances, WIN with any one
else and hence they might as well remain
as they were. They could go into the
anti-Windom camp and select man, but
if they did, that very act might prove,
like the Pioneer Press support, a
fatal element in the contest.
All agreed that Window would
lose votes to-day but they were in the
boat and could not get out. Hence they
resolved to ''stick."
The minority so far carried their point
thai it was agreed that the action to ''stick'
to Window should not be binding. In fact,
a number announced that they considered
their caucus obligations now fully alb
solved by the practical defeat of their eau
Gus nominee, and they now
proposed to vote for whom they pleased
This claim or position was recognized as
valid and the real result of the conference
was to absolve the entire Window force
from their original caucus obligation,
though their defeated candidate was to be
kept in the field as figure head.
The conference then adjourned until
this evening, at which time, if there are
any friends of Window left, they will
again assemble.
Senator J. B. Gillian, of Minneapolis,