St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-04
VAST A DEAD CHEAT
Johnson'S Defeat for the
North Dakota Senator
ship.
Denial by the Senator Maker
Of the Brand New
State.
Political and Local Gossip Re-
produced in Raey
Strain.
Albert Seheffep's Political
Coup to AStonish Every
body.


cheated out of the Republican caucus
! nomination for United States senator
from that state? Alex Mckenzie, the
king. OF rather the semat0r-maker of
North Dakota, says johnson never had
the votes necessary to nominate him,
and in this opinion Senator Jud La
Moure, Of Pembina, quite agrees with
the genial Alex. Ii is safe TO say that
no two men know more about that
memorable contest than Mckenzie and
La Moure. and, were they not acknOwl-
edged to be the powers" behind the
petard which hoist Johnson so high,
their opinions would carry great weight.
Yesterdays early morning train from
the North brought in the Pembna
statesman. and Yesterday afternoon a
! GLOBE reporter found him clOseted
! with warwick Mckenzie and sew
! eraI other prominent North DakotanS
| in Room 70 of the Merchants. The
tout ensemble of the gathering strongly
! inclined the GLOBE man to the opinion
that North Dakota was about to elect
/ another senator, but as this is clearly
! unnecessary. the GLOBE man will not
! attempt to assign any particular object
! as the cause of the gathering. Who
knows but that it was purely social
gathering? It's safe to say that two
| more social statesmen never gathered
| their followers together under the roof
| of Col Welz'S famous hostelry than
the frisky ''Jud" and the more frisky
| Alex.
/ ASK Mckenzie about that senatorial
election said La MOure in answer to
query of the GLOBE reporter. He
| knows all about the matter. don't
| know anything about it. The papers
| are off their bases. anyway. on it."
Il just want to say" put in Mr.. Nc
/ kenZie at this moment, THAT NJ. n.
| johnson never had the caucus nomina-
| ton, as the newspapers have insisted
| all the time Why, if he had the ma
! jOrity of the caucus, did his supporters
| allow all adjournment? The fact that
| that motion to adjourn was carried
| ought, it seems to me, to be conclusive
| proof that he never had the nomination"
| Here. who's got cigar" burst in La
| MOure at this juucture. As neither the
| GLOBE man nor Mckenzie happened to
| have that article on hand, JUDI insist
/ ed Oh an immediate adjournment. say
| ing ''that he'd see that the GLOBE was
! given all the facts in the matter to-mOr-
| row."
Charles D'Autremont Jr., Of Duluth,
| the Democratic candidate for attorney
general of Minnesota at the last cleo
! ton. was Ryan guest yesterday. Mr..
D'AutremOnt is one of the rising law
| yers of the state, and made a splendid
| campaign against Attorney General
| Clapp in 1888. His speeches were model
| tariff-rednctiOn efforts, and fully justi-
! fed the work of the conven-
| ton which placed him on the
| ticket. The D'Autremont family
| are Democrats from away back and al
! ways at the service of their party. At
| the time young Mr.. D'Autremont was
making bis campaign in Minnesota for
| the office of attorney general, his IA
! ther, Hon. Charles D'AutremOnt ST.,
was the Democratic candidate for the
| lower house of the New York legiSla-
ture, in the overwhelmingly Repub-
liean county of Allegany. The old
gentleman was defeated, as he knew he
would be when he accepted the nOmi-
nation, but he testified his loyalty to
the party. Were all the sons of Demo-
cratic fathers like MIR. d. Autremont Jr.,
the Northwest would not be so strongly
| Republican as it now is.
A good story was related by F. NJ.
this city, formerly Of Indiana, to Sena-
tor HiXOn, Carl JudSOn. John Howard,
Clark Chambers and several others in
the lobby of the Merchants YESTERDAY,
which illustrated President Harrison's
cold and uncOmmunicative nature so
| well that it is worth reproducing in the
GLOBE.
lone day, in speaking about the pres
! Ident to an old Indiana friend, now in
st. Paul." said Mr.. TrissaI, IL remarked
that was personally acquainted with
him. 'How's that? asked my friend.
you didn't live in Indianapolis No,
| replied. met him in law suit down
| in my part of the state. Il thought So
! said my Indiana friend, for / lived
within fifty feet of him in indianapolis
for ten years and | never got acquainted
with him. nor did he ever speak to
me-"
''This has been a great year for my
part of the Fifth district" said Senator
HiXon, of Grant county, to host of
friends which gathered around him in
the Merchants lobby yesterday. II
had as high as forty bushels of wheat to
the acre on my farm, and my crop was
| over 5000 bushels. \ neighbOr had 200
acres which averaged forty bushels to
| to $4,000 bushels"
"What do know about politics?'
"NOthing. There's good lesson in
the Iowa election for Minnesota Repub-
iicanS. however. l remember voting
the Republican ticket in Iowa when
Garfield had $4,000 majority, and 1 be-
IieVe Iowa is as strongly Republican
to-day, but the people won't bow down
to the rings. l believe in the people,
| and party to succeed must stand by
| the people. Unpopular measures and
| corrupt rings will kill any party. Grant
| county was very close last year-indeed
Canning, the Democratic candidate for
congress, carried the county; but we are
| all Republicans and as strong in the
| faith as ever, but the cause of the peo-
| pie must come first. Ii rings are to run
the Republican party of Minnesota, the
| Iowa surprise may be repeated here"
Cook City is going to be the second
| Butte of Montana" said David Noble,
prominent Montana prospector and
miner Of that new commonwealth, to a
| GLOBE reporter yesterday. sit is now
busting little town in spite of the
| fact that tits yearly sixty miles from q
| nabar, station on the Northern Pacific
near Livingstone. A line of railroad
has been surveyed up along the Vel
lOwstone, but as it passes through
| part of the park. it can't be built until
some arrangement is made. We are
now trying to get bill through cutting
off a portion of the park and making
the Yellowstone the boundary line, and
have hopes of being successful.
Nv lrat do l know about the political
| difficulties that have arisen?
mot much. / am a Republican and
/ want to say that don't believe there's
anything in the scheme to Gust Senator
Mcnamara, of Fergus county. 1t won't
work, and | don't believe it will be at
| tempted. l think both parties had best
compromise, each taking one senator.
My choice of the Republicans would be
Wilbur f. Sanders, who is, by the way,