St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-03
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 2-s'It has gone SO far beyond
my expectations that 1 am perfectly happy. 1
don't see any way possible that he can be de-
feated.''
This the response of Hon. W. C. Ward, OF
Waseca, Mimi, to my question this afternoon
relative to the progress of the Blaine boom, and
that's about the way a good many of the Blaine
boomers feel. The Blaine men have been
making a good deal of noise all day and are con-
tinuing the game tonight, but noise does not
always presage votes and victory. =
The Blaine headquarters large, and they
give the boys chance to make speeches and
applaud, but a little quiet 7x9 room where a few
men can gather from time to time and make
their bargains and trades is what counts with the
grand old party in these desperate days. For in
stance the California delegation visited the Blaine
headquarters this afternoon and was
vociferously received. 1t made speeches
and was roundly appauded, and the
Blainetes tickled each others ribs and
smiled and shook and smiled again. Now the
fact is California only has sixteen votes and
1t has been for Blaine all the time. Still there
was two hours of enthusiasm devoted toCalifornia
and the confidence the visit impaired to the fell
lows who stand around the lobbies was some
thing immense.
About the biggest moral drawn out of the affair
was the contrast in the influence between Mime
sofa and California. Minnesota has
fourteen votes and California six
teen. Nobody bothers himself about
Minnesota except the people who have some
thing to ADVERTISE and honor Minnesota with a
call to leave circulars. tablets handbills, etc. Cali
forna is toasted and sought after, and applauded
and given prominence. 1t is not in the two ex-
ira votes which she has, but the fact that her
vote goes as a unit, while Minnesota is divided
between two candidates at the start, and wants to
lie divided between four.
The ''Windom 10'' was solid, but in such n
jackasscal course that solidity didn't count
Minnesota now supports better men, but she does
1t in such broken way that she cuts little if any
better figure than she did four years ago. 1 al
ways like to point moral even if it only adorns
a tale.
MINNESOTA ORGANIZES.
The Minnesota delegation met at ten o'clock
to-day to select its officers in the convention
Mr.. Sabin presided and C. II. Graves acted as
secretary. All of the delegation was present ex-
cept Stanford Newell Stanford was sufi-
cicntly anxious to come to stand in with the
Schefrer company in Ramsey county because
they had the bulge. When it came
to lighting for Schetfer and downing a Minnneap-
oils man Stanford was not there, not any. There
talk about being very wicked and bolt
ing under certain circumstances, and Stanford,
having already secured his prize, did not propose
to worry himself for anybody else, SO he sent a
proxy to Minneapolis to help defeat Fletcher,
and then went himself to see how it was done.
He didn't attend the noon session of the conven-
tiOn but waited for results at the Nicolet, but
in the afternoon he absolutely attended the con-
vention, but had proxy fill his place in the
delegation, so he could see the fun without
going on record. 1t looks though he wants
to repeat the programme at the national conven-
ton. The meeting to-day of the delegation was
one which signifed a good deal locally, but Mr.
Newell was not recorded, but reached the city
about two hours after the danger was over. BY
an odd coincidence Mr. Barker. of Isanti county,
the man who held the j. B. Gilfllan convention
IN Minneapolis last week, is Stanford Newels
proxy, but he apparently mounted the pinnacle
of fame so high last week that he has no furthur
use for himself in the way of ambition, and he, ,
too, was not present. 1 suggested that they let
Mr.. Gilfllan, who 1cGS present act as proxy for
Barker, but it being cold day the suggestion
was not approved. In fact, 1 am afraid it was
regarded as inopportune.
Speaking of Barker reminds me that I met a
prominent Minnesotian here Yesterday and when
told him how confident Messrs. Fletcher Lang
don, Petit, Benton and others were that Mr. Gil
fllan would decline he "shook himself with
larfter, until he roared rafter," as Artemus
Ward once remarked. ''Only don't you know
said Mr.. D. NJ. Distinguished Mnnesotian),
THAT that was all a put up job between Barker
and Gilfllan. Barker studied law in Gilflan' s
office and is really the only warm friend Gilfllan
has in the state. His blood courses through his
body congealed in chunks just like Gilillan's,
and it was all understood before Barker went in
to the convention. The lonely O'Driscoll,' ~
continued my D. NJ, ''had gone to the Scheffer
delegates in the forenoon and proposed the name
of j. B. Glfllan in the interest of harmony and
this was done after talk with Barker, SO that
the display OF surprise the part of Mr. Gil
fllan was only the policy of the coy maiden who
does not propose to bestow her affections upon
the young man who soicits her hand so quickly
as to make 1t appear of little value. This is a
sort OF Dr. Kane iceberg story, injected out of
order for fear it might be forgotten when the ap-
propriate time came. The diversion can he
charged up to Stanford Newel's absenteeism.
1t had been expected that Gov Davis would he
made chairman of the delegation and Senator
Sabin retained as memDer of the national COM
mittee but there is bad blood brewing in the
delegation and there is fun ahead. Some of the
delegates who were expected to support Davis
appear to have weakened, and he was not can
didate for chairman when the time came. Mr..
Sabin was chosen chairman without word of op-
position, but this only lull before the storm
and signifies that there is to be fight relative to
Senator Sabln's relation on the national commit
tee Possibly -Washburn will offer to harmonize
things again by offering himself as compro-
mise candidate for the position on the
national committee. Gov. Davis was
rendered the position of member of the commit
tee on resolutions from Minnesota, but that be