St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-17
ROTUNDA RIPPLES.
Interviews With Various Politi.
clans Who Were in Town Yes
terday.

AnterVleWS with various POliti,
clans Who Were in Town Yes
terday.
Democrats and Republicans frater
niZed in the hotel corridors last evening
and kept up continual hum and buzz
until the approach of midnight drove
the tired delegates to their touches.
Republicans played out after days
hard work, and Democrats. intent upon
seeking rest to fit them for the ordeal at
Market hall to-day. Amid the bustlinC
throng eX-Lieut. Gov. y. Barte and
State Senator G. B. Buchanan. both
candidates for congress from the Fifth
district, were conspicuous and each was
surrounded by a cOterie of friends and
well wishers who chatfed them consid-
erably concerning their chances a month
hence at st. Cloud.
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1T was about ten days ago. said Mr..
Buchanan, "that | made up nv mind to
enter the campaign, and | would not
have done so but for the fact that
thought | had fighting chance for the
nomination. My friends were anxious
that L should make canvass. and in
Difference to their wishes have entered
the contest and propose to stick it out.
iAONN WIZ lAiS NIulllu ut
eide against me no one will work harder
for the successful candidate than my
self, for L do not propose tG
sulk in the event of defeat. One
thing that | have been favorably
impressed with is the absence of per-
SOnalitieS i'll the pending campaign. and
those who have formally entered tie
race have made up their minds to con-
duet the affairs in the most harmonious
and amicable manner. And | am GER
tain that my views as regards the pro-
priety and possibility of the defeated
candidates working earnestly for the
successful one are conceded in by all
my competitors"
"IhingS are humming Just now in the
Fifth" interpOsed Mr.. Barton, land the
boys are going to have their hands full
of business from this time until the
convention meets. 1t is pretty difficult
to form an approximate idea even of
the strength of the various candidates
among the ninety-nine delegates who
will constitute the convention, but do
not think any one man has the fifty
votes that are necessary to choice
pledged to him.
lit will be fair field and no favor,
so far as am concerned, and may the
strongest man WIN"
a
'If anybody thinks the National Re-
publican league is dead" SAID Secretary
rams BiXby, ''all that they have to do
is to drop into headquarters at Mime
apolis. We propose to be a factor in
this campaign, and this talk about the
league having been organized in the in
terest of Blaine, or any other presidential
candidate was the product of some fer
tile imagination. The basis of the
league is to uphold the principles of the
Republican party and support whoever
may be the nominee of the Chicago con-
venti0n i'll every manner possible, and
the Minnesota branch will give good
account of itself in the campaign Of
1885,"
minnesota Republicans have cause
to be proud of the delegation which will
represent them at Chicago next Month";"
said r. g. Evans, the successor of Sen
ator G. K. Davis on the national eX-
ecutive committee, land the indications
are that at least twelve of the fourteen
delegates are ardent Greshamites. At
the convention held to-day the young
element of the party achieved a notable
victory in the selection of three out of
the four delegates at large, and this
seems to have been the result of the
election in the delegates chosen by the
congressional district conventions"
Y -
Naturally enough, it was very graft
flying to me-" said Secretary Joel p.
Heatwole, ''that l was nominated by
reclamation at to-day's convention, and
L shall hurry home now and attend to
my private affairs, which of late have
been neglected considerably. | have no
heSitancy in saying that L am for Judge
Gresham as the standard-bearer of the
Republican party in the ensuing cam
paign, and | shall do everything in my
power to help his cause forward
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During my absence from Saltwater"
said j. q. O'Gorman, ''an effort was
made to defeat me for delegate to the
state convention, because it was stated
that l was friendly to Hon. Michael
DOran. My friends rallied to the rescue,
however, and not only was successful,
but in the delegation of eight from
Washington county five are staunch
adherents of Mr.. Doran, while the re-
mainder are for Mayor Ames. If it is
found necessary to lay aside both of
these gentlemen in the interest of can
didates who would cement the party
close together l would certainly give the
proposition very serious consideration.
A number of friends of w. P. Chris
tianson, of Redwood Falls, were de-
veloping something of q boom for him
as a delegate, in the rotundas last
night.
-.
Chief of Police Dorau, better known
as ''the sweet singer of Duluth" was
shaking hands with friends yesterday.
Some of DOran's Republican friends
asked him if he and the Glce club
would not furnish some music
for a Republican convention
which was to be held in
Duluth, and Doran promptly said Eyes,
indeed we will, we have been singing
together for good many years, and we
never yet have refused to sing at
funeral when requested. What time
are the services To be held2p