St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-29
DIssOLVING TIE BONDS.

What's the matter with LOREN
FLETCHER, that Mr.. MERRIAM has dis
solved partnership with him so sud-
denly? Only few short weeks ago MER-
RAM and FLETCHER were knit together
i'll the bonds of political union so firmly
it seemed as though nothing but death
could separate them. At some affec-
Tomato period in their lives DAMON
and PYTHIAS or DAVID and JONATHAN
may have been linked TO each other by
the cords of love as tightly as MER-
RAM and FLETCHER were a short fort
night ago, but we doubt it.
To day everything is changed. The
two loving souls have been parted.
LOREN is no longer fair in WILLIAMS
eyes. He is not even passably good
looking. There has been a sudden
reyulsion of feeling, and the erstwhile
lovers are estranged from each other.
By singular concert of action both of
Mr.. MERRTAMs st. Paul organs have
opened up a lively boom for Capt
SNYDER for congress. This means
death and eternal destruction to LOREN
FLETCHER as a congressional eandi-
date, and, as everybody understands, it
is done at Mr.. MERRIAM's dictation. 1t
looks to be the cruelest sort of treach-
cry. Still, Mr.. FLETCHER has no right to
complain, for he played treaeherously
with his friend MCGILL when he went
into partnership with MERRIAM.
But what does it mean? Why this
sudden change of base on the part Of
the MERRIAM forces? Why do they url-
load FLETCHER so unceremoniously?
1t is true that LOREN FLETCHER was
cast in rough mould and
doesn't show up well in silk
stocking crowd. But that fact
was known when he was first taken
into the MERRIAM combination. 1t
can't be that the Merriamites have been
deceived in their ally, because LOREN
FLETCHER is the same yesterday, to-
day, and forever. He is LOREN
FLETCHER, and there is no other one
like him. 1t isn't because he has lost
his grip on the Hennepin county ma
chine. His hand is as steady and his
grasp as firm as when he held the wheat
ring in line to force MCGILL's nominal
ton two years ago.
To find the real reason for the sudden
rupture between MERRIAM and his late
lieutenant we will probably have to
look little closer home. In learning
his first lesson in politics Mr.. MERRIAM
seems to have suddenly discovered that
the most important movement in
his line of operations is to secure
his home delegation. Taking it for
granted at the outset that he would have
no home competitor for the nomination,
he went to work arranging his combina-
tons without regard to their effect on
Ramsey county politics. To his con-
Sternation ALBERT SCHEFFER SHES his
castor into the ring at critical moment,
and now Mr.. MERRIAM finds it neces-
Sary to rearrange his line of battle.
That LOREN FLETCHER is no favorite
in Ramsey county goes without saying.
1t is not necessary to stop and reeapit-
ulate the reasons why he is not. 1t is
sufficient for the purpose in hand
to say that when tits known beforehand
that a candidate is member of trust
organized by LOREN FLETCHER, he
stands mighty poor show for getting
the support of Ramsey county delega-
ton.
TWAS just that predicament Mr. MER-
RAM found himself in. The time is
close at hand when Ramsey county Re-
publicans will select delegates to the
state nominating convention. With
ALBERT SCuEFFER in front contesting
the nomination and LOREN FLETCHER
in rear dragging him down to certain
defeat. Candidate MERRIAM suddenly
found himself in a pickle. Something
had to be done. and done quickly. Act
ing under the impulse of the moment,
he did the first thing that suggested it.
self, and that was to cut loose from
FLETCHER.
The cord has been severed, but
whether it was wise thing to do or
not Nh. MERRIAM will find out later on.
LOREN FLETCHER is a dangerous man
to trifie with, as many an older politician
than Mr.. MERRIAM has discovered to
his sorrow. He carries razor in his
shirt pocket, and it has been flourished
with serious results in more than one
political convention. No morSel has so
sweet taste to his palate as revenge.