St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-20
SAD And SOLEMN
An Air Akin to Woe Pervades
Minnesotians' Head
quarters.
It Is Not Exceptional, and
There Is Good Reason
For 1t.
indications Of a Permanent
Burial Of the Grand
Old Party.
The Delegation, However,
Has a Front Seat
and a Tab,
Powell Clayton Stamps the
Dakota Episode a Bad
Precedent.
Evidences That the Conven-
tion Will Soon Develop
a Deadlock,
Which Can Be Broken Only
by Blaine and HaP-
riSon.
Rumors of Pistol Practice at
the Credentials Commit
tee Meeting.
At Any Rate, One Member
Fell in a Dead
Faint.
Which Can Be Broken Only
by Blaine and Har-
riSon. .
Rumors of Pistol Practice at
the Credentials Commit
tee Meeting.
At Any Rate, One Member
Fell in a Dead
Faint.
snecial to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 19.-TEe air of solem-
nifty which peryades the Minnesota
headquarters tonight is not exceptional
for it prevails everywhere, and there
is reason for it. The opening day
of the convention bore more resPm-
bance to a funeral occasion than
gathering together of representatives
filled with buoyant spirits. Singularly
but appropriately enough the first mu-
sic from the band was a dead march.
Then came Chairman Thurston's allu-
sion to Blaine, in which he compared
him to the heart of dead Bruce. This
was followed by the introduction of a
reminiscence of a long dead past in
the person of John G. Fremont
whose tottering limbs bore him
to the platform from whence he
proceeded to speak in sepulchral terms
of men and times now forgotten. 1t
was ghostly day all around, day
which signified that the silver cord of
Republican success had been forever
locsened and that the pitcher of Repub-
lican supremacy had been
BROKEN AT THE FOUNTAIN.
so l am not surprised that the Mime
sofa delegates wear such woeful faces
to-night,o or that they speak only in hated
breath. The enlivening scenes of the
convention were scarce less consoling
to Republican hearts than the funeral
aspects. The gag law applied to
the Kansas delegation. who wanted to
protest against centraliZing all the
power of the convention IN the hands of
the national committee, and the angry
personal quarrel between Wise and Ma
hone were incidents not calculated to
inspire defeated party with hope of
success. fractional strife and the SUI
premacy of boSSism are evidences of
PARTY DISINTEGRATIoN.
l feel sorry for ovr Minnesota Repub-
licans tonight, but l can't give them
any encouragement. The fates are
against them, and they must submit to
the unerring indications of permanent
burial of the grand old party.
So far as the location of seats in
the convention hall is concerned.
Minnesota looms up with her
usual facility for getting to
the front. The Minnesota standard is
planted in the front row. and the Min
nesota delegates sit Immediately under
the eye of the presiding officer. Iowa
is one row back, with Dakota showed
away off to the southwest corner
While Judge Moody was making al
appeal to-day tor the admission
of Dakota's ten delegates his voice
could scarcely be heard at the speakers
stand. In reply to Judge Moody'S ap
peal, Chairman Thurston announced
that the national committee had de
cided to admit the full Dakota delega
ton during the temporary organization
That's a bad precedent and we viii
be sorry for it some day." remarked
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, who hap
pened to be standing by my side at the
time. Suppose the nominee of this con
vention has to
DEPEND ON DAKoTA'S TEN VOTES
for his nomination. won't it raise {
howl?' he continued. Doesn't it seen
to be the policy of the body to refuse al
precedents?" 1 ventured to remark
"You are right, that's what they ar,
uOlllS. i0 Icllll6u Will cOuSlueIdDlt
warmth. 1t is no wonder he wa
warm. -Four years ago he was named b,
the national committee for chairman
but the convention took the matter il
its own hands and elected Lynch. To
day the voice of Kansas was suppressed
by gag process, when she asked tn
privilege of recording her vote fo
Congressman Warner in opposition t.
ThurSton.
Delegate Steenerson has the distinc
ton Of being the first Minnesotian to
AIR HIS ELOQUENCE
in the convention lrall. 1t was marcl
stolen on Frank Davis, but it was wei
done. His motive was sensible effor
to dispose of the Wise-Mahone en-
broglio.
1t must be very lonely in political Gil
cles up in Minnesota, for it does seer
that every Republican politician of not
from our state isin Chicago. There wer
over 200 visiting Minnesotians at tn
Grand Pacific to-day, and the cry is ''Stil
they come" The damper which Thurs
ton threw on the Blaine movement tC
day has stimulated the Allison forces
and they are making big demonstration