St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-20

should. Banker Merriam welded the
lash mercilessly, and his bidding was
done without complaint. The commit
tee met at 2 o'clock at the Hotel Ryan,
Parlor T. 1t was Republican gather
ing in every sense of the word. The
committeeman lolled their delicate forms
Oh soft-padded chairs, pressed their feet
on carpets so thick all sound was lost in
them; gazed into French plate mirrors,
toyed with cuspidors of Etrucian ware
or scratched their backs on marble
mantels from blue-skyed Italy. Every
thing bespoke luxury, the presence OF
milIionaireS, monopolists, champagne
and trufflcs, high taxes on somebody.
Scarcely an article there that the COM
mittee touched or gaZed upon but that
bore tariff duties of from % to 80 per
cent. The air was delicate. There
was the scent of high-feeding, ''public-
be-damned' living about it. A farmer
in his jeans entering the place would
have drawn back in diSmay: a laborer
in his brogans would have turned and
fled. 1t was not a meeting nor place
for the common, everyday herd TO be
seen in. The rich, the pampered, the
luxurious world only enter so gorgeous
ID place and heed the councils there held.
But there Banker Merriam has placed
the Republican headquarters, and from
hat costly place of luxury will the Re
publican campaign be conducted. Tue.
some of the members of the committee
did not appear at their ease. 1t was
awkward to sit where you can't whittle,
where dollars and cents stare you in the
face, and even the cuspidOrS forbid eX-
pectoration. 1t was awkward for some
of them, fresh from communities
where the land groans under
mortgages and the taXgatherer
is always at hand. to sit in room, the
cost of furnishing which would have
bought a farm OF its rental by the COM
mittee been a good days wages. 1t was
embarrassing to discuss measures for
the advancement of the people in a
place that smelt of gold and under the
thumb of political master whose will
is gold. These things made the COM
mittee meeting trifie somber, without
enthusiasm, and in the end, blunder-
inc failure.
The members of the committee pres
ent were John S. Pillsbury, E. P. Free
man, A. S. Crossfield, proxy for f. w.
Randall, d. Sinclair, James BiXby,
proxy for Y. o. Wemer, r. G. Evans,
Stanford Newell, A. F. jackson. d. B..
Collins, d. F. Morgan. E. G. Hunting
ton, and d. W. Bruckhart. S. d. AL
len, of Duluth, was absent.
The date of the convention was fixed
for September 5, and the representation
based upon plan so unique as to cause
admiration for the deviser of the "wood-
chuck.''
The representation will be based upon
the total vote for all the Republican
candidates in 1886, divided by the num-
Der of candidates and then estimated, as
400 vote for each delegate; there will
oe beside two delegates at large for each
county. The usual major fraction rule
prevails. The effect of this is to give
the smaller counties of the state an IN
creased representation over past con-
ventionS. 1t will make a convention,
according 10 MT. IocHeilCTS > HSuTeS, Ol
some $50 odd delegates, although an
other calculator figured out 444. The
date of the convention was not alto
gether satisfactory to every one. In
the committee meeting E. z. Freeman
urged that the date be Aug. 80, Mr..
Sinclair Aug. 90, and Mr.. Huntington
Aug. %. But the dictum had gone
forth from the Merriam men that the
state fair and the state convention could
work well together, and Sept. 5 was Sc.
lected. 1t makes the Republican cam.
paign but two months in length, and
starts it two weeks after the Democrats
have opened theirs. There were not a
few Republicans to be found last night
who pronounced it an inconceivable
blunder. 1t brings the caucuses in the
midst of harvest, and gives the De
mocracy an opportunity that had moi
been expected.
The committee meeting was not with.
q put the usual feature of excluding the
reporters as well as McGill and Scheffer
The latter would say nothing last even
ing as to what he thought of the call
but it is known that his friends regard
it very suspiciously. Tams Bixby, be
fore going to the meeting, said:
"The Republicans will carry Mime
sofa by 10000 maioIity. The soldie
vote is growing more solid for us and w