St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-16
SCHEMING FOR SENATOR .
The Hennepin Delegation Consults On
the Quiet.
PILLSBURY AND WASHBURN.
Minor Offices to Be Thrown to Secure
the Senator for Minne-
aD0lis.

Behind the closed doors of the Union
League club rooms, yesterday after
noon, an important conference was
held. While it was not secret, and
thoguh the doors were really unlocked
only few outsiders were present, and
they were tried and true Republicans
who were ION the inside of the deal
and could be depended upon to keep
their own counsels. The Hennepin
county delegation to the legislature
all Republicans-waS in session,
called together by two of the most
active schemers of the devoted band.
Edward j. Davenport and Eugene G..
Hay. The meeting was not caucus,
but merely consultation and the theme
was-how to get a United States senator
from Minneapolis. The situation in
this regard is crammed full of interest
to politicians and in order to appreciate
it little explanation is necessary.
Minneapolis wants the junior senator.
Every politician is agreed on that, but
the agreement ends there. The Situa-
ton takes on three distinct heads:
First-Anything to elect WashbUrn.
Second-Anything to defeat Wash
burn.
Third-Anything to elect Piilsbury.
1t will be readily understood that the
Pillsbury referred to is Charles A.. by
all odds the cleverest and clcarest-
headed member of the Pillsbury family.
Charlie has never announced his candi-
dacy and has even gone so far as
to intimate that he was not
a candidate. but it is well
enough known that he is not
only in the field, but is an active candi
date, and has already several very sa-
gacious plans which would end in his
elevation to this office. Washburn is,
OF. course, candidate. He has made
all preparations for victorious fight
from the beginning. But Washburn
has more enemies at home-powerful
enemies than any man prominent in
pubic life. 1t is only necessary to say
Washburn to make the comb
Fletcher and Pillsbury fighting cock
i'll the city. Charlie PiIlsbury has no
such antagonism at home and is per-
sOnally much more popular man than
Washburn. 1t is presumed that he will
be warmly supported by Fletcher and
Ladgdon unless the latter, in looking
for dark horse, should chance to STUN
bic upon himself. Each OF this trio has
the orthodox senatorial reQuisite-un-
limited money: and none, in the event
of his election, will be out of place.
and in that regard, in the
pleutocratic upper house of
congress. Fletcher would like to down
Washburn. He would also like to down
Sabin because he believes the retiring
senator was influential in beating Nc
Gill and nominating Merriam.
The Hennepin delegation to the legis-
LOT Of
eleven representatives and three sena-
tors, and all of them but one are Repub-
licans. They were not elected upon a
basis of their choice for senator and
are badly divided except upon the hope
that Minneapolis may carry OF the
prize. AS nearly as can now he figured,
six of the thirteen are for PillSbury.fv
for WaShburn and two doubtful. 1t is
believed that Ed Davenport is the chief
of the Pillsbury forces, and that Eugene
Hay Freeman Lane, john Day Smith
and George Savage are in line for the
same end, while Harry Downs, Seven
EllingsOn, John Underwood and Lars
SwenSOn are set down as heading the
Washburn contingent. Harry Hanks
and Ed Comstock are placed as
fav0ring Pillsbury, between the two,
with David Clough and +. A. HuSher
doubtful. This is about the situation.
But there is one additional fact. 1t is
said T.. 3. Walker put more money into
the Republican campaign fund than
any man i'll Minneapolis, and that he is
liable to loom up at any moment as
dark horse in the senatorial sweep
stakes.
Within the past ten days about fifty
applicants have sprung up in Minneap-
En-, IL E.
the legislature, and members-elect have
been pursued and bothered ad nau-
scum. Eugene Hay has also been an
nounced as candidate for speaker of
the house. Hay has so lately come from
Indiana that he hardly knows the
streets of Minneapolis, but he already
holds one Office and wants another. If
he cannot get it from the legislature he
will expect it from the government.
This is the situation brought down to
the conference yesterday:
When the delegation was assembled
in due form, eXhOrtationS were made by
Ed Davenport and Eugene Hay. 1t was
on the SenatOrShip. and 1t was repre-
scented as of the highest Importance
that Minneapolis have that position. To
secure it Hennepin must abandon every
thing else. and members must decline to
pledge themselves for any office, from the
highest to the lowest. Even the speak
ership must be thrown overheard, and
it Is understood that in relinquisiling
that Hay expects to be rewarded by
succeeding Baxter as United States dis
trict attorney. Nothing was said of
any of the candidates for senator. No
names were mentioned and nobody's
toes suffered. Each one thought
his own think. and the burden of
the conference was to impress
each member with the Importance of
keeping free for any and all trades that
would make vote for a Minneapolis
man for senator. The opinion was pri-
Vately expressed, however, that in the
Fifth the minneapolis candidates would
play the Kilkenny cat act, and that an
might get in between them.
us Merriam a candidate??" was asked.
''NO, he Is for Sabin."