St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-22
BOUNCING BUCHANAN,

The Ex-senator. and Talk of His
Candidacy for Surveyor Gen.
eral.
Will Buchanan be appointed surveyor
general?
This is the question that is agitating
the minds of many of the leading Re
publicans of Minnesota. On the one
hand Senator Buchanan, formerly OF
Sank Rapids, but, since the last session
of the legislature, of st. Paul, calmly
asserts that he is booked for the place
by both senators and nearly the entire
delegation to the lower house of con-
gress, and declares that his services to
Washburn at the last session entitle
him to the appointment. His claims On
Davis are quite as strong, having nom-
mated the senior senator at the time OF
his election in January, 1887.
On the other hand, however, Senator
Ward of WaSeca, asserts that Mr.. Buck
man accepted pecuniary, cOnsidera-
ton of something like $4,000 for his
| services at the time of WaShburn'S cleo
ton. and that the junior Minnesota
| senator has no intention Of asking for
| Buckman's appointment as surveyor
general. and. more than that, Senator
! Ward has said that Buchanan can't be
! confirmed even if he is appointed by the
| president. And from another source
high in the councils of the party comes
the information that ex-senator Sabin
has been collecting some very damag-
ing testimony, which will be placed be-
fore the senate when the willy Buck
mans name comes before that body
! if it ever gets there at all.
"SenatOr Buchanan is seeking this
| appointment as Fifth district man,
understand" said leading Republican
| of that section to GLOBE reporter a
| few DAYS since, ''but want to assure
him that if he depended upon our peo-
| pie for that appointment he would never
| get it. The feeling in many parts of
| the Fifth district is very severe on Buck
man, and his appointment will be re-
| ceived with disgust in all quarters of
| the district. | notice that he cites among
| his supporters the lumbermen of Min
neapolis. l don't believe he has the
support of half of them. Indeed, L
would not be afraid TO wager suit of
| clothes that outside the pine land
| ringsters he hasn't the support of
reputable lumberman. Wouldn't
/ it be a pretty how-de-do to appoint q
I
| The welfare of the Republican party of
Minnesota demands the appointment of
a man who will protect the pine lands
/ and expose the gigantic steals that have
| gone on there unrebuked for years past,
| from the time "Bill'' Washburn won
| his military title, down."
1 Recent information from Washington
| points to Buckman's nomination by the
| president in the near future, and it
| seems to be a settled thing that he will
| be Endorsed by both senators. A
fact equally as we'll settled is that
his confirmation will be opposed by all
| the influence ex-senator Sabin can mar
| shall to his aid. The absurd idea of
senatorial courtesy" which has full
SWAY over the American House of
Lords" in ordinary cases might be de-
| pended upon to pull Senator Buchanan
| through; but the charges against him
| which will be filed, it is claimed, will
make it extremely doubtful. Then, too,
| Mr.. Sabin has number of warm friends
among the senator's, who may be set
! down as certain to see that all these
charges get before that august body.
Another point that will be used with
| considerable effect, is that he is now a
resident of st. Paul, and that if the
| Office of surveyor general is filed from
| st. Paul and Minneapolis there will not
be single federal appOintee of the SEN
ators who comes from that two thirds of
the state which lies north of the Twin
Cities. 1t now seems altogether likely,
and, in fact, p. w. Wildt, of Faribault,
late a candidate for collector of
internal revenue, is authority for the
statement, that Capt. DonahOwer, of st.
Peter will get the collectorship, and he,
Wildt, the Office of marshal, thus giving
every atom of senatorial patronage to
st. Paul and Minneapolis and the coun-
try within a radius of sixty miles of
these cities on the south. AS Uncle
Loren Fletcher remarked, Editor Joel
P. Heatwole, of Mortified, may have
"more bowels than brains" but there's
no denying the fact that Joel's position
on the federal patronage question is the
position of every country newspaper of
moment in the state. The fact that
Senator Buchanan and his friends urge
his appointment Oh the grounds of his
being Fifth district man, shows that
they fear to urge the appointment of
another Twin City man.
The whole question then is, are the