St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-25
THE TROUBLED WATERS
Of the Political sea Are Less Noisy
Than OF Late, But Are Filled With
mind and Sand.

THE TROUBLED WATERS
pf the Political sea Are Less Noisy
Than of Late, But Are Filled With
Mud and Sand.
Politics, in some cases, were enjoying
brief respite yesterday from the terrible
strain to which they had been subjected
during the past few weeks. All the outside
politicians had left the hotel lObbies and
returned TO the districts where they lived,
the candidates tobe received with brass bands
and hurrahS and the delegates TO receive
collation. of sandwiches for the noble way
in which they stood their ground.
Now and then q sOre-headed Republican,
who failed to win the favor of the Mime
apolis gang, would bob to the surface and
groan out his plant of misplaced contd
ence- Frank Kellogg, the sprightly young
attorney of 0lmsted county, went
home with his heart full of bitter
ness and thiIsting for revenge.
He wanted to be attorney general and
had his wires well laid for the nomination.
but the trading of the Minneapolis manipu-
lators left him out in the cold, cruel world
Mr.. Kellogg was promised the nomination
and support of the Hennepin county dele
CATION if he would give the Olmsted county
see no indication of trickery in the mobile
features of Loren Fletcher, promised to do
so. He kept his part of the agreement, and
the Olmsted county delegation voted for
McGill, and he was nominated. When it
came to the question of attorney general
Fletcher and his gang forgot all about Mr..
Kellogg, and he was ignored. This kind
of treatment Mr.. kellogg naturally reSents,
and there is liable to be right lively earth
quake i'll Olmsted county next November.
M'GII.L is WORRIED.
McGiu is reported to be somewhat wor-
ried over his chances of election, and is
putting out feelerS to test the pulse of his
former friends who have gone back on him
since the convention. Mile Bunnell, of
the Duluth Herald, who came
down from St. Louis county as
member of the cOntesting delegation.
says that McGill wont stand a ghost of
show in that county, and that it will give
AmeS majority of from 1000 to $500.
He gives it out that the Duluth people will
not sit quietly down under ring rule. and
beside, they will resent the way their repre-
sentatives were treated in the convention.
q. A. Lafayette is somewhat warm over
the cold, hard manner in which he was sat
down upon in the convention of farmers
and Knights of Labor Thursday. He has
the good sense to say, however, that Ames
will poll heavy vote and will make good
run for first place.
r. c. AIITCHELLS IDEA.
When r. c. Mitchell of Duluth, came
down to the convention he was a staunch
Republican, but the treatment his delega-
ton received at the hands of the convention
evidently disgruntled him, as is evidenced
by the following extracts taken from the
Geographic report of the convention that he
sent to his paper:
OF course those who worked up and backed
the McGil movement the Windows, Pills
burys, Fletchers, etc, say it is all right and
that he will be elected by the usual majority,
but as good and as true Republicans as there
are in the state, and scores and hundreds of
them too, take a less rosy view of the situ-
alton, and say there are few unpleasant
facts and features which Republicans might
as well look sQuarely in the face first as last.
1t must be conceded that the "boSses'' who
engineered the McGill boom are not just the
ones that are adored by farmers and work
ingmen, who are expected to cast most of the
Republican votes this fall. 1t was the cities
of ST. Paul, Minneapolis. Saltwater, Winona
and Mankato that nominated McGill, and the
"bosses" calculated the dear people in the
rural districts would wheel into line and
elect him, but the
ss the 'bOsses'' suppose. If the farmers are
expected to furnish the votes by which a
governor is to be elected, they would like a
candidate believed TO be in sincere sympathy
with them, and either Gilman or Gibbs would
have been satisfactory to them. The simple
truth is that a great deal of uneasiness is felt
here, too as to the success of the ticket. The
bosses managed McGilrs campaign
shrewdly. but their selection of chairman
will cost McGill thousands of votes. They
say that for the head of the Repub lican
party to set up the head of the Millers' asSo-
citation as bait for farmers votes is about
as sensible as to baita rat trap with a live
cat and expect to entrap any rats. The truth
is, furthermore, that they not pleased
with McGilrs nomination.
DIR. Ames promises to make this the live
Hest campaign ever known and it is certain
he will have the cordial backing of the cen
tral comInittee. One prominent Republican
said TO day he considered there was some
method in Loren Fletcher's resolution
adopted by the convention, inviting Mr..
Blaine TO COME out and make few speeches
in this state. There is going to be some fun
and lots # il.
AN AMES CLUB.
A gentleman from Duluth said to a
GLOBE reporter Yesterday that from 700 to
1900 Republicans in st. Louis county
support Ames, so great was the feeling
there against McGill. He said that an
Ames club made up largely of Republicans.
would be organized within a week, and that
the club would take off its coat, spit on its
hands and work for the mayor of Mime
apolS from the date Of its organization
until the polls were closed in November.