St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-24
A DIFFERENT SONG.

admiration III Ills estimate.
OF course Davis is going to be elected.
have heard q great deal to the contrary.
/ have received a number of letters to the con.
trary, and have had great many more as
| Surances, both from Minnesota through let
ters to my friends here and from Minneso
tians here in the capital, that Davis would
! surely be beaten; but | am all the same salts
fed that nothing on earth can at this time
intervene to prevent his successful and tri-
umphant election. l have had letters from
some OF Gov. Ramseys old and trusted
friends, saying tnat there was terrible mael-
. strom raging under the apparent calm on
! which Davis ship just now seems to sail, and
that when the legislature met there would be
such deadlock against him that some one
! else would step In and take the prize. l tell
you. this is all talk. Gov. Davis has pledged
to his election maj orlty of the legislature
on joint ballot and that already without q
caucus. If the vote were taken to-day, to-
morrow, or next week, or O fortnight or q
: month or two months hence-so long as this
! legislature eXiSts-unless there should be
! some radical change Of public opinion in
| Minnesota, he would be elected. Some think
/ there is a chance for Mr.. Wiudom to come in
! as a dark horse. There is no chance at all
/ for him. He is a chestnut, and has been ever
! since Sabin was elected to succeed him. For
that matter, Mr.. Window, although, mind
you, he is a friend of mine and have always
| been friend of his, even before that seua-
| torial contest came on, had been an antique.
! He acted in the
MOST FATAL WAY,
of course, at the time of his defeat, remain
| ing here in Washington and refusing abSo-
! lutely to GO to Minnesota and take charge of
his situation. Iurged him at that time to go,
but he persistently and to me fatuously re-
| fusedtO leave Washington. Finally, when
/ his chances were altogether gone and tile
thing was doubly forlorn, up he went post
haste to Minnesota only to have his disgrace
rubbed in. He told me at that time that the
reason why he did not want to go to Mime
sofa during the contest was that the legis-
lature consisted of men whom he had never
met. He had been at home so little that he
didn't know the new generation Of men who
! had come to the surface in public affairs
| there. They were all strangers to him, and
| he was ashamed to go to st. Paul and go
| through so many introductions. When he
| did go he found the disadvantages no less
| than they would have been, and the time for
| acquaintance reduced to but few hours or q
day or two. Now Mr.. Window has not been
at home much more since he left the senate
than he was before. 1 doubt if he has as
much acquaintance in the state now as he had
then, and to think Of his being successful
candidate for the senate at this time is non
/ sense
How about Senator McMillan?''
swell, Mcmillan is more likely to succeed
| himself, ifit were possible TO defeat Davis,
than any one else. TIE judgehas gone along
in modest, unassumlng, honest way. doing
| his duty up to the fullest extent of his
! physical ana high intellectual ability, and has
made very successful senator. You may
| say what you will about his
REFLECTING NO BRILLlANCY
| upon the state in the way of speech making,
| but the fact remains all the same that his
hard work in the committee room and on the
a =,
| us in the senate
"What is Charley Gilman going to accomp-
! lish against DaviS?"
Nothing. whatever. Gilman is capital
! good fellow. and he and / have trained to
! gether great while, and think know him
about as well as anybody does, but when |
| say that to Gilman politics is simply an inter-
| eSting and exciting amLsement-a good deal
! like a hand in poker or an evening at the
faro tablet tell you the truth. He is in for
| any thing in Minnesota politics that will draw
upon his facility at intrigue, and to-day, of
course, the knife which he has for years been
ready to unSheath in Davis defense he is now
ready to plunge into his heart. After it is all
over. if the next opportunity should be one
which would give him the best chance for III
trigue on Davis side, you would find him
| coming around and saying, 'Ah, that was all q
| joke. 1 was for you all the time.'"
r q By AN OLD FRIEND.
The astute member from the Y district is
an old friend of Gov. Davis, but ne is also
a politician, and there are reasons which
now incline him to position of indiffer-
ence to Davis cause. He said:
OF course, as everybody else tells you. Da-
Wis going to be elected, but,I hope he wont be,
| and if there was any possible chance of his
defeat think you would find me doing all
could to accomplish it. 1 think he has done
more within the past year to disrupt the Re-
publican party than any other man, and 1
think all the credit given to Democrats for
electing three congressman is due to Davis.
He goes on the rule or ruin plan, make or
break, and If he cannot have his own way he
will undertake to put us all out of business.
1T is fortunate thing for the state and for
the party that, if he is to go to the senate at
all, he must go at a time when the Democrats
are in power. Ii Davis had gone to the SEN
ate in 1879, as he wanted to, ours would have
been the worst boss-ridden state in the United
States. My own district has no reason to
| support Davis, but at the same time the CLAM
our of Davis popularity has so swept over
| the counties in my country that nine-tenths
of the members of the legislature from that
| part of the state will vote for him. All sheol
and ten yoke of oxen would not pull any one
of them away from him.
A WORD OF COMMENTATOR.
The district has very popular member
who has political backing for himself, and
no matter what his alliance with Gov. Da-
| Wis. or Senator Mcmillan. or Mr.. Window,
| or Charlie Gilman, or Senator Sabn, OIL
any other prominent Republican may be,
he probably could, if he would, carry the
members of the legislature from his own
district good deal as he pleased. AT the
same time he has reasons for another course.
What he said was this:
| / have always been great admirer of Gov.
| Davis. In two or three conventions where
| his interests were at stake my friends and
| have helped him all we could. / have not the
| least hesitation in the world in saying that
| he is bright man and that when he comes
/ TO the senate he is going TO make his mark
| for himself and for US. l think he is going
to be popular as gentleman; he is going to
| take high rank as a scholar and statesman;
| he is gong TO be more than ever popular at
| home, and / see no reason why he should not
! be elected now. as he will be, with the full
and enthusiastic vote OF the Republicans in
the legislature. He has waited long for this
honor and he deserves it. His adversi-
ties have been innumerable, both in
public and private life, and
| tell you. his success touches my sympathy
| deeply. / yield assent to some criticisms
| made by one and another of our people, |
| fancy that Davis, if he could, would lead the
| party with an iron hand. He would execute
the renegades, discipline the laggards and
iue VIII De blamed II i
don't think he ought to some of them, but at
| the same time there is not q more generous
! fellow under the sun than Davis is, if you
treat him right. He is selfish. but not more
| than any of US in politics, and do not think
be is a bit too selfish for his own good. He
has been bounded and harassed long enough
TO justify some little personal vindictiveueSs
on his part and am not going to raise my
hand if he does punish some of my friends
who are his enemies.
BIT RETICENT.
The member from the &c. district at first
declined to say anything. He said:
l do not want to talk about this senatorial
fight because some of my chestnuts are in
danger of burning. would like very much