St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
THE SECRET rs OUT.
Doran to be Overthrow and Kelly Given
a Chance to Set Himself
Right.
Fear that Doran, as State Chairman, May
Use His Power to Party Dis
advantage.
A Triple Combination With the Dem
ocrats to Make Mayor Ames
the Next Governor.
An Early Convention Advocated
News that Set Minneapolis DEM
ocrats by the Ears.

The publication in the GLOBE, yesterday
morning, that DR.. Ames, accompanied by
Judge Rand, in the capacity of SATELLITE
had visited st. Paul and held conference
with Ignatius Donnelly, not only set the
Minneapolis Democrats by the ears but
started the tongue of every member of
every faction i'll the city. The interest,
however, was not confined to the Demo.
Gratis but was largely shared with Republi-
cans, especially as a conviction has forced
itself upon the latter OF late that the state
OF Minnesota is not so strongly Republican
as OF yOre. Since the overwhelming change
of sentiment, as evidenced in the last cleo
ton. swept over Minneapolis. nothing has
seemed safe to them, and the name OF DR..
Ames throws them into panic. The re-
cent Republican decision to have a late
convention and a short campaign is accepted
as an admission of weakness, and, from a
Minneapolis standpoint the party will go
into the canvass this year without its usual
prestige, and really unprepared for the de-
tense it will be called upon to make. Yes
terdays state of feeling made it an easy
matter to pick up sentiments, and it was a
comparatively short time until the entire
situation was made apparent and the plan
of battle against Doran and Kelly clearly
outlined. Tersely stated, the plan was
given as follows:
First-Doran must go or the party is lost.
Second-Kelly must go or must yield to us,
help to throw Doran overheard and save
himself.
Third-An early convention must be had.
Fourth-Dr. Ames is the most available man
for governor.
Fifth-A combination with the labor, gran
ger and foreign element will surely elect him.
A prominent politician who was at st.
Paul on Thurhday, but who pulled strings
from the background laid down the above
pOstulates aud argued as follows:
1t is undemocratic to rest in one man the
power now welded by Doran, and especially
harmful when it is welded SO unceremon-
iousy and arbitrarily. Kelly is open to rea-
son and conviction and DOran is not. Doran
and Kelly were both opposed to Glenn, but
Kelly was made to see reason and change his
mind, while DOran went to Washington and
| fought him. This is but an instance, but
| will Suffice 1t has become the opinion of the
| rank and file of the Democracy of Minnesota
| that Doran is an incubus on the party. and
| that so heavily handicapped it cannot win.
| He must be overthrown or the party chances
| are deliberately thrown away. Kelly may
| save himself, if he will, by joining against
| Doran and abiding the result. We are willing
| to give Kell Y considerable leeway in naming
| the candidate for congress from this district,
| and if the state campaign is successful, as
| we have every reason to hope, we are willing
| to give him an Endorsement and continue him
| on the national committee. There was no
reason for Thursdays meeting in connection
with Kelly's absence, as the me citing was
purely preparatory and then, as 1 said, the
| lights more against Doran than Kelly. There
is only one drawback that I see, and that is
| this, Doran might refuse to call the central
committee together and thus delay the con-
vention, which might be disastrous.