Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-24
By Another Reporter.

The boss's managers had previously ar
ranged everything for the caucus, fixing it
SO that that great mogul would be con-
veniently near when they were ready to
exhibit the machine in all its pristine
spIendor. Eight o'clock was the time
fixed for the gathering in the
m seting room of the Metropolitan hotel,
and for an hour or more before the Win
dom legislators began to arrive, the
Office exchange and the billiard room
contained groups of men standing here
and there, all earnestly engaged in discuss
ing the all-absorbing topic, and speculat-
ing upon the final outcome of the great
contest. The boss himself doomed up in
the midst of the crowd, 'sWith fair round
belly, with good capon lined,'' the
central figure of small group
of politicians and the center of attraction.
There were men of all stripes of politics
and legislative supporters of the various
candidates we're on hand ''to see what was
going on,'' while full delegation
Ct the newspaper fraternity,
including several GLOBE representatives,
were eagerly seeking for all the news and
gossip that could be picked up or squeezed
out of the assembled wisdom of the great
and glorious state of Minnesota.
Prominent among the many there
doomed up the judicial and dignifed form
of Senator Thomas Wilson, the Demo
cratic candidate for United
States senate; the handsome figure
of the Hon. Charles. F. Kindred; the
witty Hon. James Smith Junior, whose
facetious flashes so often relieve the mo-
notony of a dull session of the house; the
towering frame of Senator Langdon, one
of WINDOWS principal lieuten-
ants; the slim and tall form
of Senator ]. B. Gilfllan;
the brusque and active Pillsbury; the ro-
bust Col. Hicks, Republican leader of
house; the diminutive Capt. Collins, a
plucky and sagacious mortal who tries to
follow his own nose and sticks to the Boss;
the unsophisticated and harmless secretary
of the senate, Charley Johnson
and quite large number
of members of both branches of the legis-
Iature other than those named above, be-
sides host of members of the third
house," including understrappers, legisla-
i've subordinates, fuglemen, ETC., etc.
There was a notable absence of the
course Sim Child was there. He can't be
kicked out. He rather likes to be kicked
and hangs about to keep company
with his brother who is only
known to fame by the
iackassical speech he made the night of the
first Window caucus. Sim hangs on to
mail agency with all the feroc1ty of a
| big pig struggling to get the first nose in
4bo To IL fa1
holder visible at the Metropolitan last
night.
1t woald be impossible to gather up all
the gossip that was flying about. The
numerous groups were canvassing the
situation, and each man was asking the
other what he thought about it, and what
| the upshot of the whole business
would be. About every one looked
wise and relieved himself by an expression
of opinion; there was scarcely man there
without one on the senatorial question.
| The Window men were, of course,
free in their expressions that the
Boss would ultimately win, but
they were not very enthusiastic on that
point, and acted great deal like the man
up tree Some of them were so extrava-
gantly wild in their talk as to say
| that the Boss would receive
votes enough to-day to elect him,
and all expressed the hope that he would
get much larger vote than yesterday.
The Boss was as close -mouthed as an
oyster to the outside mortal, but he talked
freely with his principal fuglemen. Sew
eral of the faithful were introduced to him
for the first time, and gave the customary
shake when a politician wants man to
ho nief1
little sad, bat put on dignifed air and
made the most of bad plight To
the men of the press he vas very reticent,
and fought very shy of them. He had
talked pretty freely with political COM
missioner of the GLOBE the day be-
fore, and said all he had to say
in that exclusive interview. There
fore he knew it was very
necessary for him to follow Mr.. Grants
course by keeping decidedly mum.
When all was in readiness for the con-
clave, the Window sheep were driven into |
the fold by the shepherds,
and the Boss quietly walked
along to the elevator with the editor
o: a Republican morning organ, ard was
conveyed up to his room, No. 40, where he
was to wait and rshearse his little speech |
until wanted by the men of the caucus.
Once the faithful were on the inside of the
meeting-room, the door was carefully
guarded by an underling and all
outsiders kept from getting within. But
the secrets of the caucus were told at its
close. There was the usual counting of
noses and the usual roll call Of members
who were to vote for the boss. Two new
accessions were reported, including the
slippery Mr.. Baarnaas, who has not here
tofore made a speciality of voting for Mr.
Window. The other accession failed to
materialize in the reportorial eye, and the
several additional members talked about
as having promised their support to Win
dom were evidently in the minds eye of
the over Jealous and over sanguine
mschinists.
Mr.. Sabin was too unwell to attend the
caucus but few minutes. He dropped in
early in the session. and is reported to