St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-15
D0|NGS OF DEMOCRATS.
Interesting Gossip Of Low Tariff Party
Men.
MR.. WILSON WILL RUN.
Mr.. Rand's Position Discussed---Land-
berg's Mission---Matters of Per-
s0nal Politics.

1t is stated on undOubted authority
that when the proper time comes Hon.
E. M. Wilson will be announced as will
ing to become the party standard bearer
as the candidate for governor, provided
the nomination is given him without a
fight. He has always said he is not
seeking political honors or office, and is
not candidate for governor, but close
friend is authority for the statement
that he has been induced to allow the
use of his name. The friends
of DIR. Ames have always be-
lieved and confidently asser ed that
Mr.. Wilson would not allow
his name to come before the convention,
and this announcement will probably
cause Encouragement of their plans.
They are confident DR.. Ames will re-
ceive the nomination and equally conf
dent he can be elected. They say he
can get a vote in Hennepin county no
other man can touch, besides getting
the full party strength. On the other
hand, the friends of Mr.. Wilson can
hustle about and make friends and votes
in an astonishing way, and that If nom-
mated he will do so.
*
The attitude of that pleasant faced
and astute young Scandinavian, Judge
Lars M. Rand, is being discussed with
interest. Two years ago Rand was a
rampant AmeS adherent and raised his
voice for the doctor on any and every
occasion, but it is now said he is leaning
toward the Doran side of the see-saw.
A Democrat said yesterday: 1.-TWO
years ago, in the county convention,
when Rand wanted the nOminotiOn for
judge of probate, Ames threw his in
fiuence to him and he got it. l don't see
how Rand can very well desert Ames
now. l understand Rand is candidate
for alderman in the Sixth ward, though
he does not say much about it,"
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John Lanberg, who went to Balti-
more as the delegate from the Scandi-
navian Democratic club to the cOnven-
ton of the National Association of
Democratic clubs, has returned, and is
very enthusiastic over the results of the
club, ci1 and H' J. T. s Butcher, 'ta''Isic Of St.
Paul, the Ramsey county club.
Mr.. Haynes was made the Min
nesota member of the executive COM
mittee and chairman of the state exec
utive committee. He will appoint three
others. A. L. Ankeny, of Minneapolis,
having already been named. The AL
gonquin club had no delegates present,
though Maj. Landberg sent up the name
of Q. A. Cornman to be accredited. The
delegation called on President Cleve-
land in body, and in reference to this
call the Baltimore Herald says:
''The presentation then went on with
out interruption or delay until John
Landberg, secretary of the Scandinavian
Democratic Club of Minneapolis, con-
fronted the president. He had snowy
and his residence. He said: ''Mr.
President, you have won the respect
and confidence of the ScandinavianS of
Minnesota, and we are going to carry
the state for you" II hope so," replied
the president. 1--WE look to your State
with considerable degree of hopeful
ness and with little uneasiness, but
our hope is greater than our fear"
~
There was hot discussion at the
corner of Eleventh avenue and Frank
lin street, Friday evening, which was
the source of considerable amusement
to the OnloOkers. Two Democrats were
discussing the political situation when
Col. Underwood, whose proportions
have grown as the honors have been
shOwered upon him, hove in sight. He
had hardly had time to get in the ordi-
nary amount of cheap talk, which he
has always ready at hand, before Mark
Smith charged him with being "a turn
coat of the most virulent type. In my
day." he continued, ''you have been a
saloon keeper, a Methodist, Prohibition
candidate for sheriff, and now you are
playing the Republicans for suckers"
For time the air was blue and the
colonel evidently thought he could
squash Mark as easily as he can preside
over Franklin avenue improvement
association, but the doughty president
was made to feel otherwise, as he, amid
the laughter of the crowd, retired into
the wigwam of j. III. Parry, where they
both cOnSOled themselves by setting up
the pins for the next aldermanic con-
test.
Aid. StOft-The Democratic party
should call attention to the scandalOus
way in which this city was gerrymand-
cred by the last legislature in order to
try and keep the council Republican.
The way the wards are made up now,
one-half of the population of the city is
represented in the council by nine alder
men, while the other half is repre-
sented by thirty aldermen. The Fourth
and Fifth wards contain about O,0O0 in
habitants, while the Twelfth and Thir-
teenth wards contain less than 1,500 in
habitants, and yet after our next cleo
tion the Twelfth and Thirteenth wards
will have the same number of aldermen
as the Fourth and Fifth wards.