St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-28
STRAITS, IF HE WANTS 1T.
Tht Man Once Repudiated to Be
Given the Nomination.


Special to the Globe
RED WING, Mimi, June 27.-Time
works wOndrous changes; none more
strange, though, than when great con-
gresSional district once repudiates a
candidate for reelection to congress,
after he has served an interminable
length of time, deliberately turns tail
two years later and gives him the
honor SO lately denied. This,
unless l am sadly mistaken,
will be the outcome of the
Republican Third district congressional
convention tomorrow. If none of. his
well-laid plans and cunning subterfugeS
miscarry Mai. Horace Strait will, Thurs
day night, be a candidate for congress,
made so by a convention cleverlY filled
with men who for years have been his
obedient servants. Capt. Reed on
his own claim will go into the
convention with twenty-one, and
possibly twenty-five votes. These,
his friends assert, will come to him
from these localities: Chippewa, 3;
Dakota, 6; Mcleod, 4; Renville, 6; Kan
diyohi, 2. Reed is as positive as man
can be that he will be nominated, and
statements of Maj. Strait that he is not
candidate. But it was Charley
Espenscheid, of Hastings, who said
day or two ago that Dakota county was
NOT SOLID FOR REED,
and was liable to go to Strait. This
statement is already partially confirmed,
for two of the Dakota delegates have
Indicated their preference for Strait.
This, then, gives to Strait, with what is
already here and known to be for him:
| Dakota, 2; Goodhue, z; Kandiyohi, Z;
Rico Snntt MoaI-nr r;.
votes will be fer G. II. Strobeck, if he
remains candidate, and Swift is
pledged to ID. S. Hall, who is a close per-
sonal friend of Straits. Deductlng, then,
the two votes of Dakota from Reeds
claim the delegates stand tonight as
follows: Reed 10, Strait 81. Hall 4,
Strobeclh 6. In this table seven votes
of GOodhue county are omitted. The
delegation is divided. Seven of its
votes are reasonably sure for Strait.
The other seven will fall in line
for him as soon as il is
determined that the convention will
nominate him, or he can without them
by getting the ten votes of Hall and
Strobeck, which are his the moment he
asks for them, and be nominated. What
could better indicate the drift of
sentiment than the fact that 3. B. Her.
bert, who owes nothing to Strait, says
tonight that he is the most available
and strongest candidate the party can
name. Maj. Strait is here
HE BLUSHES LIKE A PEONY
every time his candidacy is mentioned
and denies in toto all office-seeking am
billions. But there is a lurking laugh
in his voice whenever he speaks of Capt
Reed as the only candidate before the
convention, and he suspiciously button
holes every delegate or friend from
abroad whom it might be to his interest
to see. 1t is in the air that
Strait is to be nominated tomorrow.
His organization is on the
ground. HIS plan arranged, he
has majority of the votes, and it will
be his own fault if he does not get there.
| asked the maj what he was doing in
his own interests. at which he shook
his head and appealed to Wilson, of
Shakopee, for confirmation of his state
ment that he had not gone to dele
CATION for support. Then he called
on Frank Wilson, of Goodhue, who
has been represented as anti-Strait.
All the satisfaction | got out of
him was a small grumble against
Strait and an eulogy of Simmons,
of Appleton, as a Scandinavian
who could make magnificent
canvass. The only possible show
for Reeds nomination lies in the
anti-Strait delegates going over to him
in body. This would give him, with
his 10 votes. from Goodhue, and barely
enough scattering to nominate. What is
forcing Straits nomination besides the
careful organization made for him is the
poorly disguised belief that under no
circumstances could Reed be elected
His empty sleeve and sturdy bearing
win him sympathy, but no votes. Then,
too, justly OF unjustly, the reputation of
having knitted both Strait and Herbert
clings to him, and the old enmities are
cherished. There is a Telling that he
cannot unite the party, ana that his
nomination would perpetuate party
chickering's. This, in many senses, is
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