St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-12
Blaine, Sherman and Cleveland, the
Happy Trio Who Feel Sure Of
Nominations.
The Plumed Knight is Playing His Cards
In Way to Antagonize no
One.
congressman Saying Hard Things
About the President.
Congress VIII Do Nothing But Pass
Money Bills--No Tariff Legis-
Iation.

w ASHlNGTON, NOV. ll.-SenatOr Jonn
Sherman is in New York for week. The
presidential bee which has afflicted him
since 1880 is now after six years more ac-
tive than ever. Mr.. Sherman feels con-
scious that if Blaine is out of the way he is
second choice. His activity in Ohio during
the campaign just ended was to keep him.
self well to the front in his own state so
that he might not be OverShadowed by
| Foraker, who wants second place on the
presidential ticket. The frequent reports
that Blaine is not candidate recall similar
destinations in advance of the convention
made by Blaine's friends three years ago.
No one believed them then, and few be-
lieve them now. Of one thing there is as
surance, and that is if Blaine is not candi-
date, it is solely because he feels the con.
seriousness that he cannot be elected. He
has no desire to again go down inglo-
riously. Blaine is young yet in years. On
the 31st OF January next he Will only be So.
Ii the labor movement continues to grow.
and the man from Maine finds by his
analysis of
THE LABOR VOTE
that it will draw largely from the Demo-
cratic strength, he will be Richmond in
the field. He is playing his cards at this
time in way to antagonZe no one and to
placate all his old enemies The elections
and their result have revived the chatter as
to whether or not the Democrats will again
nominate Cleveland. 1t is an open secret
that President Cleveland wants renomi-
nation. and from his own standpoint of
how to secure it he is working in and out of
season. Weeks ago the drift seemed to be
with him, because there was a feeling that
he was stronger before the people than any
| nth Aotn H.,
Gated him went OH the principle that while
he was not quite up to the demands of his
party, it was better to take him and get
few crumbs than to get none of the bread
at all. Since the elections, however, this
feeling to great extent has been toning
down. The disapp0intments of the de-
feated congressman are still fresh, and
some of them will boldly ascribe the
CAUSE OF THEIR DEFEAT
to want of robust Democratic policy on
the part of the administration. This feel
ing Congressman kleiner of Indiana,
voiced to-day:
The Democratic reverses, he said, are due
principally to apathy. However, in different
portions OF the country differences among
the party leaders had much to do with it.
Hard times played its part, too but that
which had most to do with the whole thing is
the fact that the administration is not Demo-
cratic enough in its appointments. In other
words, the presidents civil service policy has
been damper upon party enthusiasm.
This kind of criticism. however, will
have no effect to change the president in
his policy or purpose. He returned here
from Boston radiant with enthusiasm. His
reception there amounted, doubtless, to a
demonstration. If the defeated Democratic
representatives continue to lay at his door
their defeats they will, no doubt, in due
time feel the penalty of his dspleasure. In
his extreme hates he can even be revenge
full. a, Il. ae
CLEvELAND's SPEECH AT HARVARD.
The speech made by the president at
Harvard college. while strong in it's general
features. shows on its face that the presi-
dent had accidentally carromed some news
paper which did not appreciate him. In
some respects the president can justly crti-
else his treatment at the hands of newspaper
correspondents. few, and only few,
do take fendlsh delight in burrowing into
his family and social relations. Gossip is
manufactured without relevancy to the
truth. Mr.. Cleveland however. makes the
mistake of visiting his condemnation upon
the entire guild. Like the ban of ''original
SIM he condemns all for the ''ghoulsh
glee," as he calls it, of few who have
neither character nor reputation.
THE COMING SESSION OF CONGRESS.
The winter here promises to be a quiet
one politically Congress will do nothing
at it's forthcoming session but pass the
money bills. There will be no attempt at
tariff legislation. The house may pass the
Reagan interstate commerce bill, but it will
| not become a law, because the senate will
not pass it. At the last session the senate
passed what is known as the Cullom bill.
| The house commerce committee substituted
| it's own, the Reagan bill, for it. Between
| these fires of disagreement the bill will fail
entirely Dakota will not be admitted, its
Republican majority being too large to add
to the electoral college two years in advance
of presidential election.
NEW JERSEY. CALIFORNIA AND INDIANA.
Senator Mcpherson, Of New Jersey. who
left this morning for New York, says that
the Democrats of New Jersey have, with
out doubt a majority of two or three on
Joint ballot, and that Gov. Albeit will be
Senator SewelPs successor. In California
there is almost the certainty that Senator
Hearst, who was appointed to serve out the
unexpired term of Senator Miller, deceased,
| will be elected for full term. The result
| in Indiana, while it will give the Demo-
Gratis senator in place of Ben Harrison, is
of manifest interest here in view as to who
the successor will be. Ex-senator Nc
Donald's friends are hopeful They say
Gov. Gray cannot now be considered can
ddate, because his election to the senate
would necessitate his resignation as gov
ernor, and the executive office of the state,
in such an event, would be turned over to
the Republican lieutenant governor-elect.
Then there are those who say William
English. of heightened money purse, will
do all he can to defeat Mr.. Mcdonald.
Again Holman is talked OF as a compromise
candidate.
Mormon Converts.