St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-28
EDMUNDS ALARMED.
The Vermont Senator Said to Be in Fear
and Trembling for His
Own Seat.
Green Mountain State Republicans AL
legged to Be Seriously Dissatisfied
With Him.
Arguments Brought Forward Fol-
and Against the Passage OF the
Butter Bill.
Recall OF the Austrian Minister--The Q
Payne Investigation in the Sem
ate--Washington Waits.
Scared SenaIOrs.

scared Senators.
Special to the Globe.
New YORK, April 27.-New York is the
center just now of plotting with reference
10 at least four United States senatorships.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
are believed by many to hang in the bal
ance. In Vermont Edmunds hangs i'm the
balance. lie is seriously alarmed. Your
correspondent was talking to-day about it
with Col. Bradley b. Smalley. the collector
at Burlington and secretary of the Demo-
cratic national committee. Said he:
Two days ago Edmunds appeared in Joint
card with Senator Hoar OF Massachusetts
denying that they had, in an executive session
of the senate, declared opposition 10 the
Grand Army Of the Republic. II was the
most significant thing have known Edmunds
10 do in long time 1t showed that he was
alarmed over the situation at home. Five or
six years ago he would no more have written
card on any subject than he would have
cut of his right hand. Ii is the suspicion OF
many politicians in the state that Edmunds
can and will be defeated. 1 am not
prepared to say as much. II the
Blaine people get after him they viii make IL
warm. The sentiment for Blaine that is so
general over the country has had some effect
in Vermont. The Republicans there want to
get on the winning side, as well as the Re
pulicans elsewhere. EX-GoV. Smith, who is
talked about for Edmund's place, is president
of the Vermont Central railroad and has
large interests in several other roads. He Is
getting old, and If be wants TO go TO the SEN
ate this is his chance. He is very wealthy
worth six or eight millions. II he sees 1t 10
SPEND MONEY LITERALLY
in the nomination and otherwise, he may de-
feat Edmunds. Indeed the chances would
be against Edmunds in that case. But it viii
require work and organization TO defeat him.
The New York Tribune has done more
20 cripple Edmunds than any other one
thing by publishing the facts about his
urse in 1854, and Ehis refusal TO take part
.aat campaign for the Republican party.
r.c Republicans up in Vermont are pretty
strong party men, and they DO not fancy
the course that Edmunds pursued. So there
is chance Tor fight The Democrats can
hardly hope Tor anything out OF IL, because
the state is largely Republican.
Col. Smalley has given pretty fair out
line of the Vermont situation. II is be-
lieved here that the wink has been tipped
to BlaiEe'S friends to defeat Edmunds, and
that he will be retired.
In Connecticut, ex-senator William II.
Barnum is laying the ropes 20 retire General
Hawley. Barnum is one of the best polIti-
cal managers in the country.
Hawley is better on dress parade
than in the manipulation of men.
New jersey presents another close field.
The Pennsylvania railroad has its grip on
New jersey, and her senators have gener-
ally been attorneys for that road. Senator
Mcpherson, Yho holds over, is Democrat.
Senator Sewell. who goes out. is Repub-
lican. But both are tarred with the same
railroad stick. The Pennsylvania people
want Sewell to go back. The Pennsylvania
people gave AcPheISon his seat. Those
two facts run in the minds of the
IA POLITICIANS AS POINTERS
whenever the New jersey situation is dis
cussed. The gubernatorial fight will be
something of complication. Leon Alb
bett has made an excellent governor, and
will make strong fight for reelection. His
antagonist will be William 'Valter Phelps.
the my dear Phelps OF Mr.. Blaine.
Phelps is wealthy and will spend great
deal of money in his canvass. New jersey
is state that will sop up even more
cash in campaign than Indiana. But the
Pennsylvania road will ltrade the boots off
Phelps rather :han miss getting SewaIl
back into the senate. 1t is, by the way,
part of the thunder OF the canvass that
Senator Sewell helped Mcpherson get his
election i'm 1888. The Baltimore Il Ohio
Railroad company will have something to
say about the senatorship, and would like
10 nave all 10 say. but no one apprehends
that they will be able to compete
with the Pennsylvania road. They
viii take an interest in the New York con-
test. Senator Warner Miller having given
them aid in their Staten Island scheme.
The contest over the New York legislature
will be one of the most exciting in years.
Both Gov. Hill and President Cleveland are
ambitious to have Democrat sent to Wash
ingtun TO succeed Miller. While they are
bitterly antagoniStic as TO 1SSS, they Will
pull together
IN THE SENATORSHIP MATTER.
The Republicans are. therefore, calculating
on hard fight. II viii be complicated
by their own internal dissensions. Capt.
Chester s. Cole, chairman of the Re
publican state committee, said to-day that
it is the program not TO call any state cum
vention. There is only one candidate
to name, judge of the court
IF appeals. and the selection will
be made by the committee. III there is no
convention, the old committee will hold
over and manage the canvass for members
OF the legislature, The chairman of the
committee is Platt man, and the secre-
tary is henchman OF Senator Miller.
which will make it certain that the canvass
viii be run on the monkey and parrot plan.