St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-15
AMES-DORAN.
Some of the Gossip to Be Heard
in the Second District.

tut occOnu
Special to the Globe.
MANKATo. May IA. - Hon. Daniel
Buck, in discussing politics at this
place, said: lit has been stated that
at the caucuses here Saturday evening
the contest for delegate to the state con-
Ventlon was between Hon. John F.
Meagher and myself. There is not
word OF truth i'll such story. L was
not candidate for delegate to any con-
VentlGn. Our term of court commences
tomorrow and | could not go as a dele
gate to the state convention even if |
wished to do so. That there is a revo-
luton against boSSiSm going on here
was pretty clearly demonstrated at the
caucuSeS Saturday evening, when all of
the leaders of that obnoxious system
only saved eight of twenty-eight dele
gates by personal appeals and the
hardest Kind of work at the polls. Per-
Sonal Quarrels should be banished from
our ranks, and then with good candi-
dates we can win Democratic victory
IN the coming campaign. Another
III NJ that desire to call attention to is
the dlScouraging effect that the
mention OF the name of Morton
,. Wilkinson as an opponent to Rep
reSentative Lind has upon Democrats.
-, why not pick up some good man like
Tom Bowen. OF Sleepy Eye, and not be
casting around among mugwumps for
our candidates? We have had no luck
with them, and l will cite the case of
horace Greeley as terrible example.
But we, the true and tried workers of
!he Democratic party, are to be cast aside
i'll the interest of some man who can be
controlled by clique of politicians re-
gardless of the wishes of the people.
Editor John {. Wise,of the Mankato
ReVleW. was outSpoken. No one de-
ploreS, he said, more than | do this
unfortunate controversy between
MeSSrS. AmeS and DOran. but | have
not changed my opinion in the least that
MI. Doran is the proper person to head
our state delegation to st. Louis.
II do not see how the idea got abroad
that we were to nominate a candidate in
opposition to Representative Lind at
our county convention tomorrow, for it
is expressly provided that the con-
gfeSSl0nal nominating convention shall
meet the day before the assembling of
the convention which is to nominate
state officers.
was very much amused at the ticket
III the held Saturday night at our local
caucus which was headed The Ames
Ticket. 1t did not say whether he was
candidate for governor, vice president
OF delegate TO the st. Louis convention.
but the inference was drawn that it
must mean ali three. If Mr.. Ames wants
to be governor he should be content to
run on one ticket and not be so unani-
nous i'll putting himself up for every
ONCE OF position that presents itself"
QUIT QUARRELING.
State Senator 4. Nj. Pope-I have not
paid as much attention to politics re-
Gently as might have done, but am
convinced that nothing but harm can
result from the internecine quarrel be-
tween AleSSrS. AmeS and DOran.
OF course it is to the interest of an op-
ponent TO keep up this fight, but both
these gentlemen are good men and rep
reSentative democrats, and they should
be willing to bury the hatchet in the in
tereSt OF party predOminance. If Blue
Faith county and the Second Congress
slonal district had been properly at
tended 10 III the last gubernatOrial cam
palgn AmeS would have been governor
to-day instead of McGill, and if the fight
between these two candidates comes up
again this year Mayor Ames will win it,
certain. He made the best run that any
Democratic ever did in Minnesota, and
ne is one OF our strongest men to-day
This talk about Albert Scheffer is anus
ing. The Republicans will not nomi-
nate him, and the Democrats have no
right to. In any event, if Mr.. Schetfer
should be the candidate against Mayor
Ames, the latter would beat
him TO death in this district.
Maj George y. Clarl-As an old-time
Democrat and party worker for the
past thirty-four years can not express
III hitting terms my regret at this quarrel
between MessrS. Ames and Doran.
Their respective interviews printed in
the newspapers have done the Demo-
cratic party III this state incalculable
harm. and there was no necessity for
such action. SO far as | am personally
concerned, | am an AmeS man, but /
would favor laying both Ames and
Deran on the shelf and putting up some
good Democrats who are friends of
President Cleveland. This state con-
Vention is not in the interest of Ames
or else | have been grievously mistaken,
for l have been under the impression
all along that we were to send delegates
to ST. Louis to make president and not
some political boss for Minnesota.