St. Paul daily globe., 1888-03-23
ASPIRATIONS OF AMES
Is There a Scheme to Freeze
Out the Minneapol-
itan?
The Democratic Executive
Committee Holds a Myste-
rious Secret Session.
Senator Dupant, Of Saltwater,
Kicks Long and Hard for
AmeS.
An Adjournment Taken Pend
ing the Return Of Chair
man DOpan.

Several gentlemen whose faces wore
an innocent expression, but whose eyes
blazed ominously, gathered in the office
of Michael Doran on Jackson street
shortly after noon yesterday. They
were: Col. NJ. w. Glenn, A. Il. Ankeny
and Henry Morse, of Minneapolis; {;
Robert Miller and Ansel Oppenheim, of
st. Paul, and j. G. Wise, of the MankatO
Review. They were awaiting Mr.. DOran,
who was expected to arrive from Chi
cagO. Messrs. Ankeny, Glenn, Open
helm and Wise represented the exec
utive committee of the Democratic state
central committee, of which Mr.. DOran
is chairman, and Mr.. Miller is secretary.
The object of the gathering, as it leaked
out, was to fix up Q scheme to down
Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis. in the
was received that Mr.. DOran was
showed in somewhere on the Mime
sofa 81 Northwestern, and would be
unable to be present. Mr.. DOran had
called the meeting, and his absence
gave a setback to the assemblage, but
as each gentleman looked to Mr.. Miller
as the interpreter of Mr.. DOran's wishes,
they concluded to walk quietly over to
the Merchants hotel and there hold a
secret conference in room No. 80.
They were there joined by Senator E.
w. Durant, of Saltwater, who was on
hand to prevent any scheme against DR..
Ames' gubernatOrial aspirations.
What occurred in that mysterious
chamber none but the gentlemen who
were permitted to be present know, but
one thing manifested itself, and that
gave the whole scheme away. SEN
atOr Durant's voice could be
heard easily. What he said was
very emphatic and to the point.
He didn't chew words with
the anti-Ames men. He kicked and
kicked hard. He placed the executive
committee in position of anything
but sharmony. Neither Mr.. Miller nor
any other gentleman there was a match
for him. When the meeting adjourned
the Merchants o minute longer than he
could we'll avoid, for he quietly put on
his overcoat and took the first train for
Saltwater. He was hot, mighty hot,
to put it in the mildest way,
After the conference was over Mr..
Miller, in reply to the inquiry of a
GLOBE reporter, said the object of the
meeting was to arrange for transpOrta-
tiOn for the delegates and others
who wanted to 90 to st. Louis. Mr..
Ankeny said they had looked over con-
siderable correspondence pertaining to
Democratic club organization in differ
ent parts of the state.
Whether this was all the meeting ac-
complished or not, there were several
rumOrs floating around the Merchants
rotunda. One was to the effect that the
meeting was for the purpose of setting
a date for and calling big gubernatO-
rial caucus of the state. Another was
that the committee had got into a
,wrangle and had adjourned until Mr..
DOran should arrive to patch up mat
ters. Another was that the committee
had talked over scheme of having
but one county delegation in
each county selected for both
state conventions. Mr.. Miller denies
these rumOrs, but when he was asked
what the meeting had accomplished, he
said it "had accomplished all it had set
out to dO," and when asked what that
was he replied: "YOu will find that out
in the FUTURE" He was very Dysteri-
Gus, which tended to give weight to the
belief that something was up"
The question, "WhOm do you prefer
for the Democratic candidate for COVER
nor?" was put to Mr.. Miller. He an
swered: 81 have a preference, but l
won't say who it is now." Neither
would Mr.. Ankeny give out his choice,
but he made side assertion to Mr.. Mil
ler that ''if Mr.. Ames was the Demo-
cratic nominee he would carry Mime
apOlis by storm"