St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-28
M'GILL TWILL SURELY Be.
Reports to the State League ALI Convey
That Much.
THE MACHINE IS FOR HIM.
The Low Tariff Trend Of the State
Proves a Snag at the Executive
Committee Meeting.

The executive committee of the Min
nesota League of Republican clubs held
an all-day session yesterday at the
headquarters, on Fourth street. The
cabal was very secret-eXceedingly so.
The members talked weather, crops,
and base ball on their way to the
rooms, and once there. only indistinct
and confused murmurs floated out over
the transom. When a GLOBE reporter
ventured in last night and penetrated
the haze of cigar smoke which
announced an adjournment, he was
told there was nothing but good news
to be announced. By this was meant
that the reports submitted from every
section were glowing with hope and the
broad bosom of the league was bloated
with the belief that the party it repre-
sented was ready to carry the state
by any majority upwards OF
$4,000. Judged by what they
said, not a member of the committee
was willing to believe that the majority
would fall below $4,000. This was the
good news that was given out for pub
LEGATION. But there was another piece
of news not SO publicly given out, but
which reached the ears of the GLOBE
scout, as the interesting result OF the
reports. 1t was that Andrew Il. McGill
was practically
SURE OF A DENOMINATION.
The league boomS or backs no can
didate, so this announcement did not
come from it officially; but a member
said at the West hotel, last night, that
the surprise expressed by several mem
berS when this was solemnly declared
was we'll feigned, for the league was a
McGill machine on the quiet. He
added:
''Charley Pillsbury has delayed his
European trip until this was made GER
tain, and there is now no reason why he
should not sail on May 1. Loren
Fletcher returned just in time to, get the
This came from Merriam partisan.
and was not without certain tinge OF
bitterness. He said afterward:
"The GLOBE struck at random when
it said the league was in the interest OF
one man, but that statement was cor
rect. The man, however. was not
James G. Blaine, as stated. but
Annrew r. McGill. This will be denied
and denounced, but have my reasons
for believing it. When the reports
were made to-day, there was an assumed
Indifference when everything was
McGill, but l could see through the
mask"
The meeting. yesterday was well at
tended. President Tim Byrnes pre-
sided, and James Bixby, the secretary,
reduced the proceedings to journal
form. E. A. Sumner, Hennepin; M. d:
Mann, Ramsey; W. S. Hayes, Redwood
Falls; D. w. Bruckhart, Steans:
I
Murray; G. S. McNTanus, Polk; j. N.
Searles, Stearns, and Justice Smith,
Crow Wing, were among those present.
1t was reported that $50 clubs have been
organized in the state and the work is
still going on. There was considerable
talk of literature, and some difference
OF opinion as to the proper matter TO be
sent out among the people. This led to
tariff talk, and here the committee
STRUCK ANOTHER SNAG
that proved very annoying. The re-
ports from nearly every section showed
warm feeling for tariff reform, even
among the Staunchest adherentS of the
party, and it was accompanied by the
pertinent inquiry: eve want re-
duction of our tax burden; the Demo-
Gratis propose to give it, now what is
our party going to do about it?" Sew
eral members of the committee cling to
the protection idea, and this brought on
the suggestion that if low tariff dOctrinal
documents should be sent out and then
the national committee take the eX-
pected protection leap, the deuce might
be to pay. Members were very reticent
about the result of this discussion, and
it was difficult to get at the exact de-
tails. When the committee adjourned,
the up-cOuntry members took the night
trains home, while the local members
closed up like CLANS whenever GLOBE
envoy appeared.