Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-17
The Window Wake Opened Its Doors
to the Public Last Night.
AN AMUSING BAR'L EPISODE.
A Rush for the Scene Upon the Sup
posed Clinking Of the Coin.
SOLEMN, soRROwFUL, SADNESS.
Owing to the Utter and Complete Col
lapse Of the Window Boom.
HAPPY AS A BIG sUNFLOWER,

HAPPY AS A BIG SUNFLOWER,
Expresses the Condition OF the Victor
iOus anti Window Boomers.
A person who has been in the habit of
calling at the hotels could not have visited
them last night without feeling that some
funereal wave had struck the hostelry.
While there were buoyant, happy faces to
be seen, the solemn sadness, the painful
/ seriousness, the lugubrious silence of the
Window gang pervaded the atmosphere.
Monday night the Window men were
| flying about the corridors of the Merchants
| full of buster and braggadacio. They were
tloud-mouthed in bracing up the faithful.
! Last night they mingled but little in the
| crowd. AS they came in from other hotels
they quietly slipped up stairs to the Win
| dom headquarters, without seeming to de-
| sire to speak to any one.
Representative W. R. Merriam, of the
Merchants National bank, came in about
| 9 p. m, and as he unbuttoned his overcoat
one of the large buttons dropped with
| Blinking sound to the stone
| floor. There was an immediate gathering
of the faithful at this point, the
| impression seeming to prevail that Mr..
| Merriam had brought in the bar'l and the
! bunghole had dropped out. Merriam
| blushed, and, always modest, seemed more
| than usually sensitive, and with hasty
explanation that it was merely game of
'sbutton, button, who has got the button" he
| slid up stairs and the bar'l seekers drifted
out towards the bar to see if they could
| find some anti -Windomite setting up the
| drinks.
McLaren would occasionally walk slow
| " down the stairs, look about in an absent
sort of manner as though he was search
| ing for the votes that d1du't materialize,
and then with an air of sadness climb the
staircase to report that the votes we're still
missing. Not even stoga cigars were Wis
ible, it being apparently useless to dis
tribute the four dollar per hundred ''Ha-
vannas."
he slowly crawled down the stairway about
10 a. NJ, to meet the GLOBE envoy. He
was not talkatiye.
Fletcher, of Minneapolis, was the only
cool and impassive one of the gang. He
assured the envoy that they we're going to
get there, with same air of confidence that
| he displayed Monday night. He has
drilled so we'll on this point, that he will
say the same thing without moving mus
Gle, or cracking a smile, after Mr.. Win
dom's successor has been elected.
Hicks of Minneapolis, J. B. Gilfllan of
Minneapolis, Langdon of Minneapolis and
G. A. Pillsbury of Minneapolis were almost
the only ones to be found, besides Fletcher
of Minneapolis, to say a good word for
Window. 1t was a sort Of Minneapolis
graveyard boom for corpse, and each
one of the boomers acted as though he was
much more fitted to be the corpse himself
than to attempt to galvanize life into the
dead boom. There was a little
talk among outsiders of send
ing for Nc Carthy and Donelly, the
government undertakers and have them
bring casket with their chemical wash
and embalm the remains, but on second
thought, it was decided not to keep the
carcass above ground even for embalming
purposes.
Senator Langdon did not know that
they could elect Window the first ballot
to-day, but he thought they could on
the second. He had heard that there was
little John S. Pillsbury boom, being
quietly talked up, but he expressed
no opinion upon the subject.
Representative Collins, of st. Cloud, who
instinctively calls to mind bantam roos
ter and would make a very fair typical
David, searching for Goliah with sling,
mot gin sing) was serenely confident, or
words to that effect.
The anti-Windom forces were active,
vigilsnt and iubilant They we're confident
WINDOW 5 vote would show q falling off to-
day. Names OF parties we're freely quoted
who discharged their obligations by voting
yesterday for Window, and would to-day
wheel into the anti column. In fact, the
feeling was so general that Mr.. Window
was defeated, that it looks like stampede
to the opposition. 1t was very evident
that while Window could gain nothing,
all the tendency was toward his loss
There was no particular talk of concentra
ton, but by common consent every one
was to pursue his inalienable right of
voting for whom he pleased, as long as it
was not Window. All of the candidates
were cheerfully ready to give way. if it
should be deemed best to concentrate on
some one else. There was the general
good feeling that no personal ambitions
should stand in the way of accomplishing
the desired result-the defeat of Window.
The hotel crowds scattered little earlier
than usual last night. The roll calls in the
legislature had simplifed the work
to be done and there was no
occasion for promiscuous labor. The
confidence of defeating Mr.. Window
made a very good night cap, and the
other fellows were left to drown their grief
in the flowing bowl or in any other manner
they might select.