St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-22
REEDS HARD FIGHT.
Major Strait Lying in Wait
for Him for Past
Offences.
Did Capt. Reed Support Con-
gresham "Dar" Last
Year?
The Third District Fight Next
Year to Be a Hard
One,
And the Democracy Will
Walk OFF With the
Plum.

lobby few days ago. ''While Capt.
Reed is as loyal Republican as ever
breathed," he continued, ''he is not,
never was and never will be a politi-
clan. For some years he has been OPP
posing Maj. Strait and his gang in the
Third district, and, as cOnse-
Quence, will not even have the
support of the solid Minnesota
deleg ton. Mai. Strait will never
allow his protege, Congressman 'Dar'.
Hall to vote for Reed, and it's safe to
say that the major will put in SOME hard
ticks against Capt. Reed among his old
friends and acQuaintances around
Washington.
'.At the Red Wing Republican con-
greSSiOnal convention in 1888 Capt.
Reeds nomination for congress was
only prevented by shrewd move by
Maj. STRAIT, il will be remembered. An
adjournment was carried - when
Reed was within two votes of
the nomination, and when the next
ballot would almost certainly have
nominated him. Well, during the night
the Shakopee statesman schemed and
plotted and OAR Hall was nominated
the next day, aud Capt. Reed and his
COHSICSSlOu6tl nOLO AOASfCA
buried"
but what did Reed do? Did he go
quietly back TO Glencoe and submit to
his treatment?"
Hardly. So loud and long were his
laments and so grievous his tale of
woe that the Pioneer Press. the Dis
patch, and other Republican organs
cited him as one of the principal OBJ
stacles in the way OF the party'S re-
claiming the Third district. And up to
the day of election Capt. Reed did moth
ing to aid in the election of Darwin ).
Hall. Indeed, it is extremely doubtful
if Capt. ReedIever even vOled for Hail."
"Under the circumstances, isn't it
safe prediction that Capt. Reed will not
receive the solid support of the Mime
sofa delegation, and hence will not come
ANYTHING near an election"
But there's day of reckoning COM
ing, and neither Congressman Hall nor
Mai. Strait will be able to carry the
Third district next year. To illustrate
the general disaffectiOn against Hall
which prevails in the Third district, l
will quote from conversation L had a
few DAYS ago with a man who stands
close to Capt. Reed in the Republican
councils of portion of the Third dis
trict-a man whose support and infiu-
ence are worth so much to- Maj. Strait
and proxy Hall that one of the first
things they did on their joint trip to
Washington, was to secure him the
offer OF s., 500 job i'll the, Capital City,
and both Strait and Hall wrote per-
sonal appeals asking him to accept the
office. Well their efforts ereglsele?s.
and both Hall and Strait win frear from
him later.
"Did you ever heartfelt of congress
man by proxy" was the way my Third
district anti-Strait-Hal politician conf
meuced. I'm the course of one of the
numerous wOrdy personal conflicts
which frequently take place in our
house of representatives at the national
capital" he continued in reminiscent
sort of a way. "a New York congress
man. think it was, whose name l can
not at this moment recall, made a sar-
castle allusion to a gentleman who was
then holding seat in that body, as he
said, as the proxy of noted money
king. Well, we've got an instance of
the same thing in our district, the only
difference being that our congressman
is the proxy of Maj. Strait, while the
major does all the other 'negotiating,'
You may have noticed that Con-
gresham OAR never goes to
Washington without taking the major
along, and while the congressman may
return in few days, the major invaria-
bly remains attending to ''Some bust
ness in the departments"-that is, in
picking out fat Office here and there to
bestnw upon some politician who may
be depended upon to work day and night
for the major or the majors man next
year.
But there's a new order of things
coming in the Third district, and unless
distorted horribly in the coming reap
portiOnment, it will soOn be reliably
Democratic. The tariff reform leaven
is working throughout the district, and,
luckily. there's an abundance of good
Democratic timber to help 1T along.
Indeed. one is not eXaggerat-.
ing when he says that there
are more able Democrats i'm the Third
district than are to be found IN any
other congressional district in the en-
tire Northwest with the possible eXcep-
ton of the Fourth district of this state.
In Goodhue county are the brilliant
and able Senator o. M. Hall. Senator
Nelson, Hon. w. c. Willston, Judge
Wilder and others; in Scott, Hon. FL. j.
Peck. Eli Southworth and several 9TH
ers: in Carver, Hon. W. q. Odell, the
handsomest man i'm the district and
leader at the bar of the Eighth judicial
district: Mcleod county comes to the
front with Senator E. A. Child.
whose good, hard sense and
many genial qualities have made
him almost invincible before the peo-
pie. i'm Dakota county E. G. Stringer is
a universal favorite with strong grip
on the people: and there are hosts of
oh and inc DC lnxal Tn
the Democratic party.
But there will be no discord in the
next Democratic congressional cOnven-
ton in the Third district.
The popular, talented. and sincere
Young Ex-senator Hall. of Red Wing, will
be the unanimous choice of the cOnven-
ton. ssIf Hall will take it. | want him
to have the nomination unanimously"
said T., c.. Stringer, of Hastings, few
davs ago. II know he will make an adj
mirable campaign.and want to say that
Twill take the stump or Go anything in
nv power to help elect him."
:sDo | think we can elect him? you
ask" he repeated. "Why. my dear
boy, there's no doubt in the world
of it,"
That the nomination of hall will be
unanimously made there seems 70
doubt. for on this topic Senator Child.
of Mcleod; ex-senator Vollmer. OF
Winsted: Hon. Fl. j. Peck. of Scott;
Hon. W, g. Odell, of Carver, and host
of other leading Democrats in the dis
trict have expressed sentiments exactly
in accordance with the declarations of
State Committeeman Stringer, of Da-
kota county.
1t will be a grand nomination, and no
politician, blg or little. will have a
String on o. M. Hall. the next congress
man from the Third district of Mime
sofa.
BUDY Is AFTER BIsSELL