St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-11
AMBITIOUS WINDOW
Laying the Ropes to Succeed
Merriam in the Govern
or's Chair,
AS a Stepping Stone to Power
in the United States
Senate.
Distant as Election Is, the
Political Undereurrent Is
at Work.
The Haste With Which Snider
Corrected a Small Polit-
zeal RUmOr.
"PnliticS never rests. y

Potter, j. c. Williams, 7. E. Byrnes and
Numerous other aspiring young thinkers
of both parties. But, from whatever
weighty source it may have sprung, the
fact that it contains grain of salt is
evidenced in that even now, when the
echoes of the last campaign have scarcely
died away, there is great deal of quiet,
earnest hustling going on. 1t is true
that all of this hustle is confined to the
party of God, morality, and w. W. Dud-
ley; for the Prohibitionists work with
out hustle, and the forIorn Democracy
has nothing just now to hustle about
except to hustle out of the offices which,
for brief and glorious term, they held
under the administration of the la
mented Grover. The bar of four
years which was placed be-
tween the Republican hustlers
and the flesh pots OF governmental
snaps has only Sharpened up the keen
desire of possession, and from Window
down the scale Of snaps to Sam Nichols
there is an energetic anxiety heavily
fraught with portent-and amusement.
There is the governor, for instance.
Though Merriam has just succeeded
slowing away quarter of his term,
deep-laid plans for the successor are
already under way.
The most startling piece of informa-
ton is that Window is an actual candi-
date for that seat, and with the assist
ance of Tim ByrneS, K. G. Evans and
the Republican league. is laying the
rope to succeed Merriam. Window
does not care for the position for itself,
but merely as the means to an end. He
has certain ambition-very bold, high
and dark-and to it's qualification he has
chosen the support of the army of pat
ronage he is now dispensing over the
diminished heads of Davis, WaShburn
and four or FIVE congressman from
Minnesota. A year ago it was the
universal belief that Window
was political recluse, sequestered from
the world of politics in a monastery of
his own land his enemies') building, but
Harrison gave him hypodermic in
lection of official elixir, and now there
creepS through his veins wild longing
to find the fountain of perpetual Office
and power. He wants to be senator
from Minnesota. He had this in view
when he sought to couple his name with
prestige in the election of Washburn;
and now he seeks to become governor as
the most ready stepping stone to public
place and favor.
Or course he will fail.
Merriam wants a denomination and
will get it, and the Window crowd will
bolt.
About the time the campaign opens
next year it will be Merriam against the
field, and anything to beat Merriam.
Several candidates will send dele
ly the fight will resolve itself
into two factions, Merriam and anti
Merriam. The latter will contain all
the Window men. all the McGilI men
and all the Gilman and Scheffer men.
1t will be an array of disgruntled kick
ers, and will be opposed by the organ
lied Republicans of the state, which
will ultimately win, and Merriam will
again make hot and golden campaign.
What Tim Byrnes and his Republican
League friends will do, between Win
dom and the deep sea, is an Interesting
question to ponder.
Down in Nicollet county 1t seems
pretty we'll settled McGill will be can
didate. From South Minneapolis comes
the intimation that the ScandinaVianS
will have a strong candidate, but
whether it will be Knute Nelson, Albert
Rice or HalvOr Stevenson, is not given.
Gilman certainly will not come forward,
and Albert Scheffer lives but for re-
venge. The friends of w. r. Todd
will light the fires of a religious
war, and the hackers of Capt.
James will vigorously apply the bel
lows. Every sore and diSgruntled mem
Der of the party of high taxation will be
on hand next year, and all of the bile
and venom will be poured into the fight
for governor. 1t will be bowling cir
Gus.
Some one said Capt Snider, of Min
neapoliS, was candidate.
Such an intimation appeared in an OBJ
scure paper and was shown to the cap
tain. 1t stirred him up from the bald
spot to box toes. He expects a second
congressional term, and this announce
ment threatened his prospects of aid
from friendly quarters. Without doubt
Merriam had been shown the same
thing, ana the mischief was already at
work Hastily seating himself, Snider
dashed off letter to Merriam, assuring
him the newspaper SQuib was the pur-
est Pigment OF an enemy's Imagination,
without foundation in fact. A special
delivery stamp was plaStered on, and
the letter sent. Ten minutes later Sni-
der feared the mails we're too slow, so
he rushed to the telegraph Office and
sent a dispatch to Merriam:
Newspaper assertion that am candidate
for governor all bosh. Nothing is further
from my thoughts.
l. St,il nv-
for half an hour, but the anxiety re-
and came to st. Paul, where he found
the governor with letter and telegram
before him, wondering what the deuce
it all meant. Snider produced the
newspaper Squib and made his explana-
ton, whereupon, over cobWebby bot
tie of Pomery, all doubts were cleared
away. Snder will be candidate for
congress once more, and there will be
no friction between him and the presi-
dent of the Merchants bank, even
when the president, during his second
gubernatorial term, shall lay the wires
to succeed Cush Davis in the United
States senate, which is the summit of
his young ambition.
These things are all in the future, of
course, but political affairs are well
taken when taken in advance.
AS far as that goes, there is a move
ment on foot now in Minnesota to set
up a delegation that will help down
Harrison for denomination in 1892. The
claim is made that Harrison is doing
everything for Harrison and nothing for
the party in the way of appointments,
and prominent Republican said yes
terday that all senators and congress
men were Systematically declining to
recommend Harrison men to appoint
ment. The old soldiers are disgruntled,
too. and some of them, in Minneapolis,
have inserted clause in their constitu-
ton that ''other things being equal, they
are not bound to support the Repub-
lican party" When the men with six
teen ounces of lead in their backs, be-
low the belt, feel this way, there is
great Generalization in the party that
saved the Union.
There has been lull in the division
of the spells lately, and since Col. Ed
wards was appointed collector of GUS
toms the only thing to relieve the mo-
notony was the fact that Col. Bob
Evans brother got position in Min
neapolis. He was rank outsider, as
they say of racers, but he got there be-