St. Paul daily globe., 1888-03-15
Five Good Men at Logger
heads Over the Gubepna-
torial Nomination.
Some Interesting Gossip on
the General Lay Of
the Land.
Neither WaShburn nor Ram
sey Can Get Minnesota's
Vote at Chicago.
WHO WILL GET 1T?

Merriam, McGilI, Scheffer, Rice
and Gilman After the Guberna-
tOrial Prize.
cam l going to get that nomination
for governer?" is the all-absOrbing queS-
ton with dozen or more Republican
candidates at present, and that oft self
put query keeps them ''a-thinking and
a-thinking'' many hours of the night,
and makes them waste much OF their
valuable business time. And it's anus
ing to hear them talk. One would suppose
each to be the most innocent Speciman
of humanity existing, and as far from
any ''Scheme" as the righteous man is
commonly supposed to be from Satan.
Oh, no! None of them are in any
scheme; each is ''in the hands of his
friends" Not one of them yet knows
whether he will be candidate or not.
All are very undecided and all are hard
at work.
The candidates who have intimated
desire to receive the nomination are w.
r. Merriam. A. r. MeGill Albert
c. A. Gilman, of st. Cloud. There are
several more, but the five gentlemen
mentioned are formidably against each
other in the field. Lieut.. Gov. Rice
and Charley Gilman are waiting
for the time to come, but they
are working quietly and finely
all the same. The press of the state is
divided between Merriam, Scheffer and
McGill. Gov. McGill has only two
staunch supporters among the editors of
the state, viz: Collins, of the st. Peter
Tribune Ghe governors own organ),
and Lamphere, of the Moorhead News.
MI. Merriam is hopeful, and he man.
ages to know just where Senator Sabln
is at any given time. and what the Still
water statesman is doing. Still, he
denies that there is any common under
standing between them. Mr.. Merriam
is very wary in his conversation, and
doesn't criticise his enemies very
strongly.
Senator Albert Scheffer is particu-
larly averse to Gov. McGill. He labors
under the impression that the man with
the magnificent jet mOustache has, in
all his executive appointments, sought
to further the political interests OF Gov.
McGill.
MIR. SCHEFFER SPEAKS BOLDLY,
openly and above board He doesn't
think the appolntive offices in the
power of the governor should be used
that way. He thinks those offices are for
the general good of the public, that they
should be filed wisely, regardful only
of the public veal. and that the public
interest in the appointment of these
officials should be far removed from any
private political consideration.
''If this thing isl to go on from year to
year." says Mr.. Scheffer, ''why not let
us have king? He would have bet
ter class of men around him."
init
regarding his own prospects of the can
didacy. he would not deny, of course,
that he was candidate, but he wouldn't
say positively" that he was one yet.
zone thing" said he; II wouldn't
have taken the Office Oh the vote McGill
got.' Again he said, Il wouldn't take
the nomination the way McGill got his"
There is no question about it that Mr..
Scheffer is an out and out candidate Gn
the hands of his friends)against the field,
and he confidently relies upon the sup
port of the German voters in the state.
There is little doubt of the possibility
of him receiving strong support from
MI. Lienau, the proprietor of the Demo
cratic German newspaper, the Volks-
zeitung. Mr.. Lienau would support any
good German candidate on general prin-
ciples. He has returned from his Cali
UP, dlu lC w
Rome howl" before the campaign is
over. He says he ''means blood" Mr..
Lienau fancies he has not been treated
too we'll by the local Democracy of Ram
sey county.
e Mr.. Scheffer positively declared that
he is not candidate for the. mayOralty
of the city.
II could get it, 1 think, if 1 wanted
it." he asserted confidently, which
statement he modified by saying that he
thought if he wanted the nomination
for mayor. he could get it without oppO-
sition from either party-for he be-
lieved Mayor Smith would drop out and
let him have the whole thing to himself.
And if Mr.. Scheffer was elected thus
unanimously for mayor, where would
Mr.. Merriam's gubernatOrial chances
be?
In cOnnecti with the subject of the
gubernatorial nomination there are
three interesting queries, viz:
Why was Lieut.. Gov. Rice in Wash
ington when it was commonly supposed
he was at the Hot Springs?
Why was Senator Sabin steering DR..
Hollester. of Austin; Senator A. NJ.
Crosby, of Luverne, and other good fell
lows into Mr.. Merram'S bank the other
day?
Why is Albert Scheffer a low license
and low tariff man, and yet a Repub-