St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-25
WANT TO MAKE LAWS.
The Minnesota Gentlemen Who Desire
to Represent the State in the Next
Legislature.
Democratic Prospects of Securing Ma
iority Believed to be Grow
ing Better.
Some of the Old Law Makers Who
VIII Not be at the Capitol
This winter.
Attention Called to the Justice of Re-
Apportioping the state Before
Another Election.
Seekers of Legislative Seats.

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Seekers of Legislative Seats.
In the campaign just closing the party
! speakers have made but few illusions 10
| the legislature Here and there about the
state Republican conventions have in
! Structed the candidates nominated for the
law-making department OF the common
wealth TO vote for Hon. O.. X. Davis
| for United States senator, and occasionally
| an enthusiastic Democratic orator has urged
| that the Democrats would be- in a majority
and send Hon. f. NJ, Wilson to Washing
ton. but no one seems to have made Suffi-
GENTLY close study of the situation to form
predictions of value in determining the result.
The Republican majority has always been
so large. in fact, that it Is hard for a Demo
crat to bring himself to a serious belief that
! victory for his party in the legislative fight
| is among the possibilities. However. while
| Democratic triumph in the selection of
senators and representatives would be.
IN TIE NATURE OF A SURPRISE.
il is by DO means certain that the great
| majority which Aiiies will receive in q large
proportion of The districts will not pull
| through a sufficient number of Legislators to
completely change tho political COM
plexion Of the two houses. The Democrats
| have failed to nominate candidates in but
| few districts in the state, and are, there
FORE in position to reap all the benefits of
tidal wave Whatever the outcome, the
next body of men to sit in the capitol as
! legislators will be composed largely of citi
zenS before unused to faShlOning laws The
senate will lose SouIe of its best men, chief
among them Hon. Thomas Wilson. who will
be sent to congress from the First district. w
w. Billson, the fiery pated senator from the
Zenith City, has quit the business OF MAX
ing laws. and is now engaged in interpret
ing them to large clientele. A. E. Rice,
who used to represent the Thirty-siXth
district is playing second fiddle to McGill
in the gubernatOrial foriorn hope. j. 3.
Gllfllan, the icicle from the Twenty
is laying pipe for oblivion in the Fourth
district congressional contest. Charlie
Pillsbury, conspicuous for his disposition to
find fault with Legislative reporters for, as
he alleges. misquotng him, is
AIDING LOREN FLETCHER EFT AL.
in booming the wheat-ring candidate for
Hubbard's m0ccasins. Charlie is said to be
betting considerable sums that Minneapo-
lis will not give AlneS majority. 1t is
needless to say ne finds plenty of takers.
James O'Brien, the First district statesman.
who made himself famous by proposing &C.
centric legislation in the winter of 1855. ap-
parentlv doesn't care to place himself be-
fore the people again. Michael Doran, the
war-horse from LIE Sueur. has voluntarily
stepped aside to give Ii. r. Everett
chance to represent that stalwart Demo-
cratic constituency. Red Wing loses o. NJ,
Halls valuable services, Mr.. Hall refusing
TO run for senator again. Senator Castles
district, the Twenty fourth, will send to
the state capitol E. w. Durant, who at the
last session represented one of the Wash
ington county districts in the lower house,
St PauPs old senators, CD. Gilfllan and c.
w. Griggs. yearn for legislative honors no
more, Ten gentlemen who have served in
the senate the past four years are
SEEKING A RE- ELECTION,
/. e., Goodrich in the Fifth district Craig
in the Eleventh, WEIGH in the Eighteenth.
Truax in the Twenty-fifth, Langdon in the
Thirtieth, Ackermann in the Thirty second,
Shaleen in the Thirty-eighth, Buchanan inthe
Thirty-nnth Compton in the Forty-third
and ComstOck in the Forty-fourth. Morri-
son, of the Fourteenth, is running for the
house. w. b. Brown, who was in the
house at the last session from the Seventh
district, wants to don the senatorial toga.
Other members of the popular body who
desire to go up a peg are G. G. Spaulding
of the Tenth. M. j. Daniels of the -Four
teenth, r. A. Smith of the Twenty seventh,
Matthias Nachbar of the Thirty-frst Casper
| Capser of the Fortieth, George w. Thacker
of the FOrty-first and George l. Becker of
| the Forty-second. The members of the
last house who want to try it another term
are: Naeseth OF the Twenty-hrst district,
| Hample and Wear Of the Twenty-third,
| Pratt of the Twenty-fourth. Bradford of
| the Twenty-fifth, Hendrickson of the
| Twenty-sixth Zone of the Ramsey county
| districts), Snider of the Thirtieth Zone of
| the Hennepin county distrcts), Teubert
and Hits of the Thirty-second, Reese of
| the Thirty sixth, Mcguire Of the Thirty
seventh. Lee of the Thirty-nnth Reinhard
and Meyers of the Fortieth, Bjorge Of the
Forty-third and Knox of the FOrty-sixth.
| The senators chosen this fall will hold their
| offices four years and participate in the
| election of
TWO UNITED STATES SENATORS.
The representatives will hold their seats
| two years. In several of the districts there
are spirited contests. In the Seventh sena-
Republican candidate and I. OLeary the
| Democratic while ID. Rohrer and Fred
Bloom are running as Independent Republi-
cans. 0. II. Campbell, Republican, Ham
let Stevens. Democrat, and j. S. Shields,
Farmers alliance, are making it interesting
for one another in the Thirty-fourth sena-
toral. a three-cornered fight is also on in
! the Thrty-tifth district. where Liberty
| Hail. Republican, Z. A. Child, Democrat,
and r. S. Miles, Farmers alliance, are
willing to wager hats that they will repre-
sent the district this winter The contest
is also of triangular nature in the Forty
first, Forty-second and FOrty-third districts
each of which is likely to choose Demo
GRAFT For the lower house there are three
tickets in the field in tie Thirteenth, TWEEN
tieth, Twenty Thirty ninth, F,rty
first and Forty-sxth districts. There are
Prohibition candidates in several districts.
anti-mOnODOliSt candidates i'm one and the