St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-21
GOSSIP IN THE CORRIDORS.


pearance at the Merchants. The question
l. WIN you be candidate for United States
sehators was put to him. He replied, mo,
Will not" The major is one of those good
men VINO never seek nomination.
Inc fact is the major invariably waits for
pressing Invitation to run, and the pres sing
invitation almost invariably comes, which
statement is strongly borne out by Maj.
STRAITS congressional career. He takes the
same interest in political moves now that he
ever old, and yesterday afternoon he and
Judge werner. of Red Wing, member OF
the present state central committee, had a
great deal of confidential talk together.
Mueh or 1t, no doubt, referred to the past
ana some anticipated the future.
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Judge werner said he happened to be IN the
CITY ano happened to meet Maj. strait. only
IL" Gays ago number of gentlemen nap
peneo 10 De in the city and happened TO meet
senator Sabin. Maj Straits reply to the
ieaalhg question is nearly as evaslve as that
Oh senator Sabn, for when Congressman
otralt was Informed that the presumed fact
thst ne was Candidate already precluded
tue necessity of having to become one, ne
laughed very pleasantly.
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Judge Werner fears something. He has
got 1t IN his head that Gen. Mart Chandler,
bis ancient political mate. although recently
protessedly Davis man, is not really such
Mr.. werner processes exactly what Gen.
chandler does that he is Davis man; and
as'Gov. Gilman and all the other candidates,
even unto Langdon, of Hennepin, are pro-
fessedly Davis men, it looks on the face of it
as if Gov. Davis had mortgage surely upon
the United STATES senatorship.
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Why this lack of confidence in one
another? Torn and divided, they suspect
and dread one another. The old grudges of
the past loom up awfully again. The great
bosses are aching for one little opportunity
to down each other. And each has happy
faculty of alternating instead OF dying.
Gilman's lieutenants say "Hennepln," ID
blood red type. was branded upon all the
delegates in the Twin Cities in the Repub-
lican convention, and is labeled upon all their
acts in that convention, because they
conceded the governor to Ramsey county,
and afterward, as preconceived, traitorousiy
slew Gilf1lian to give Ramsey the congress
man, and now, when it comes to the United
States senatorship, Hennepin wants repre-
sentatiOn-all of which is very lnlmicai to
Davis. Can Hennepin Republicans, they ar
que, stand by and see Ramsey getting all the
spoils? But this is also menace to McMil-
Ian, and Mcmillan and Davis see in 1t a bold
stroke for W. D. Washburn. Washburn, on
the one hand, fears Knute Nelson, who
''hurled the insult back" and Charley Gil
man, whose scalp Fletcher thinks he carries
hanging to his bloody girth, and on the other
hand he caters to Window to combine against
Davis.
Were Gov. Davis the unanimous choice,
every politician who came to town would be
open and above board and would proclaim his
man. Instead of that, they devote their time
to secret conferences and avoid newspaper
men for fear of comm ting themselves. 1t
simply indicates a big crop of candidates. So
argue old political philosophers ''who are not
in this fight
The fact is the Fifth district politicians are
either Knute Nelson or c. A. Gilman men,
heart, soul and body. They are undivided.
E. G. Holmes, of Detroit, will hardly admit it.
because he is very polite, but if an expires
sion is asked for denouncing the late moves
of the Hennepin bosses, why he has already
given it in his conduct.
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Judge L. L. Baxter was in the city. The
Judge wears about the same nonchalant
mien as when Judge Williams was hopelessly
opposing him.
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A. J. Sawyer, of Duluth, says Duluth has
received 20, 000.0O0 bushels of wheat the last
year, but much of it lies there in storage. In
the late storm two cargoes OF his, l0t, 900
bushels, went down into the deep. There are
about seven or eight cargoes yet to leave
port.
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Mr.. Sawyer was hopeful and confident of
Whiteman's election at the outset. 1t was he
who tumbled to the Tower movement and
gave it away exactly in time to elect Mr..
Whiteman.