St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-03
Who Will the Republicans
Nominate for Delegate
in Congress?
Clifford Wants It, But Nobody
Is in Favor Of Giving 1t
to Him.
Allen in the North and GpigS-
by in the Sooth in the
Lead.
The Convention to be Held
and the Division Cues
ton Considered.


tion that troubles the average Dakota
politician when he thinks about next
falls campaign for delegate to congress.
OF candidates there is no lack. But
there is something in the human con-
stitution, inherited from Mother Eve
have heard said, that likes to know be-
forehand how these things are going TO
be-a curiosity as to what the future
will be. This Is particularly the bulk
of political matters as they are treated
by newspapers. The public expect that
they will be informed pretty definitely
beforehand how political matters will
stand, who will be nominated, elected,
appointed, etc. The newspapers are al
ways ready to offer information on
these heads-which is accurate, as
they have means of proving. The
delegate question in Dakota at the
present time, presents many interesting
aspects. have already given, IN pre-
vi0uS letters, my ideas OF who VIII De
the Democratic party'S candidate; and
in this letter will endeavor to state
what the times indicate as to the other
party's candidate for this place. We
can Law down as safe ground to start
with that some one will be nominated.
But who the "some one?' This is a
big territory, and ''many are
called but few are chosen" In
the last convention at Yankton, L was
there there were several strong candl-
dates for the place. There was Gen.
Allen, the choice of North Dakota; j..
Gordon, the choice of Aberdeen, and Nj.
Grigsby, the choice of South Dakota.
OF course, Delegate Clifford had many
friends in the convention, and among
them was Mr.. GrigSby. who. was
not candidate, except Delegate
Clifford was out of the race. Any one
of the three candidates would rather
that Delegate Clifford should be nomin-
ated than that either of the others
should set it. This was the way the
matter stood. Mr.. Grigsby made no
fight for the place, but was there as a
candidate In case Delegate Clifford
could not be nominated he pro-
posed to step in and secure the support
of South Dakota. The outcome was
that Delegate Clifford was renominated,
although there was not present dele
gate to the convention who was not dis
satisfied with him as the representative
of their great party i'll congress, where
such a good man was needed to ac-
complish so much that the territory
needs. Clifford will
BE A CANDIDATE AGAIN,
but will hardly be nominated, because
every member of his party. both rank
and file, feel that he has had it as long
as he deserves it, and that not only their
party, but the good of the territory de-
mands change. There is great deal
in that little idea that the people want
change once in a while. That great
statesman and deep politician, Thomas
A. Hendricks, used to dwell much upon
this-that the people demand and must
have change. On this gr0und-it is
sufficient, if there were no others
Clifford will never be nominated again.
NOW FOR GEN. ALLEN,
of North Dakota. He is not very likely
to he nominated for several reasons.
First, as a lady of Bismarck said, when
asked if She, with all the rest of North
Dakota, was not solid for Gen. Allen for
delegate, ''Why, certainly. How could
anybody, especially a lady, help to be,
who has seen Gen. Allen button up his
coat, put on his gloves and tuck his cane
under his arm and walk off, | was
talking with a friend of Clerk Young,
of the supreme court, the other day, and
he said: 1.-The examiner of this district
informed me, when he was here last
fall. that there was considerable differ
ence between the conduct of the office Of
United States marshal under Capt. Ma
rata and under Gen. Allen. Capt. Ma
rata is good business man, and al
WAYS has the affairs of his Office in good
Shape. Gen Allen lets everything get
behind and matters all clogged up, so
that you can't make head or tail to
them" Gen. Allen, do not believe,
has the backbone to him to enable him
to secure the delegate plum, In the
second place, [ do not believe. that
North Dakota will be able to nominate
their man for delegate, anyway. One
thing is sure, they will not, if South
Dakota, with nearly double the number
Of votes, wants man from that section
Of the country. Another candidate at
the Yankton convention
WAS NJ. j. GORDON,
Of Aberdeen. Mr.. Gordon is a bright
young lawyer with future before him,
but his time is not yet. l understood
that his supporters proposed him more
for the sake of having their part of the
country represented than from any hope
they had of nominating him. The last
name on the list that l have named is
that of
NJ. GRIGSBY, Of SIOUX FALLS,
but because | have reserved his name
until the last is no reason that he is
least, but on this occasion to the con-
trary. There have been articles in our
papers to the effect that Sioux Falls had
several candidates, but | am reliably
Informed that this is mistake. Sioux
EolIc hos h,tt candidate fVhnrn
is talk that Editor Caldwell, Of
the Press, Is a candidate, that
eX-deligate Pettigrew is, that Judg e
Palmer is. This is all mistake. These
men are not candidates, i'll the first
place, because they have no inclina-
tons for anything of the kind, and in
the second place, if they did, it wouldn't
do them any good. Mr.. Grigsby is
Sioux Falls candidate, and not only
Sioux Falls" but the districts and the
whole southern parts. He was the
choice of this part of the country two
years ago, and is now. A man to make
ANYTHING of a success in this kind
business, must be solid at
home. There is no denying
the fact, that Grigsby can carry his dis
trict, without any shadow of doubt,
against Messrs. Caldwell, Pettigrew and
Palmer, if they were all candidates (as
they are not, and all working together
against him. Mr.. Grigsby is strong at
home-in fact, has "sinch'' on
the thing. He is making HIM
self solid with other parts of
the territory as he is at home.
Mr.. Grigsby is worker and schemer.
He is laying every possible wire and fix
ing up his fences wherever they are
down, and doing it with keen and ey-
perienced eye. He lets slip no oppor-
tunity to help on his boom, and those
who are on the inside and know about
such things, say that it is assuming
no small proportions. and is carrying
terror into the camps of his envious
competitors. Mr.. Grigsby has many
political friends in the territory. He is
naturally of a conservative and indie
pendent mind, and goes ahead making
friends and very few enemies. The Sc
cret of it is that he is strong man. He