St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-29
AND Then WHAT?
That Expresses the Situa-
ton in Hennepin
County.
The Feeling as Regards
Both Ames and
Wilson.
How They Stand With Their
Friends and Their
Foes.
The Camp Greatly Excited
by the Big Scheffer
Bomb.
Missionary Work Now Going
On for the German
Banker.
A Candid View Of the
Complex Situation as
It Is.
Hennepin county is all right.


That is to say, there is no sign of a war
cloud among the Democracy.
If the fine work appertaining to the
political dIgits of Doran and Kelly is
felt at all in the big county, it is only in
the matter of calling the county con-
vention, which has not been done,
though little more than two weeks re-
main before the state convention. This
delay is not known to have any polit-
ical significance. Orville Rinehart,
the chairman of the county committee,
is friend of DOran, land nothing is more
likely than that the convention will be
called at such time as will please the
sachem. AS it is foregone conclusion
the county will be for Ames, the only
be the effect Oh other counties; and so
long as it is foregone conclusion that
effect will be very small.
Doran has no influence here.
There are certain men who are his
friends for purely personal reasons, and
they are warm ones. They include John
c. Oswald, John }. Ankeny, Frank L..
Morse, Theodore Basting and a few
others. They would be friendly with
DOran even as against Ames. M. W.
Glenn, Orville Rinehart and one
or two more are friendly
with Doran simply as against
Ames. E. M. Wilson, j. w. Lawrence,
A. L. Ankeny and men of that kind are
friendly with Doran, as Democrats to-
gether, without any further cause. The
rest of the Democracy hate him because
he hates Ames, and give as reason
that he is boss. The others say Ames
Doran is, or wants to be, to the state,
That is about the situation.
AmeS carries Hennepin county in his
side coat pocket, to all intents and pur-
poses, and does it without any particu-
lar effort, and certainly without any at
tempt at organization. He is not the
unanimous choice of the Democracy for
anything, but he is the choice of the
majority for everything. A can
didate for governor, he will
be supported by many who
opposed him as candidate for delegate
to st. Louis, and will lose the support
of many who were always hitherto at
his back. These are now favorable to
Wilson, but are for Ames If Wilson
should get out of the way.
The situation is about this way:
Ames has friends who love him and
will support him for anything, through
thick and thin. He has others who will
support him simply on the ground of
sociability, but would really prefer to
see some other Democrat governor.
They hold that Ames is the greatest
vote-getter in the state and that he can
control a large class which can not be
touched by any other candidate. He
can go out through the state
and by his blunt, bluff style, capture
farmer votes away from more rhetorical
and more plausible politicians. These
two classes of Ames' supporters are in a
large majority. and the opposition ad-
nit it without hesitation. The friends
of Mr.. Wilson, who label themselves the
''Clean Democracy" claim that he is
pre-eminently the best man in the state
for governor, and that at this time
he is particularly needed. The issue
is to be made on the tariff, and Mr..
Wilson is peculiarly qualified to go over
the state and intelligently discuss the
great question. They claim further
that he is man who would draw votes
by his splendid personality from every
quarter, and against whom not a voice
could be lifted in reproach. All of this,
on both sides, is undoubtedly true.