St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-03

the state like Whlrlwind. Minnesota
is opposed to high protection by at least
$4,000 majority, andif the issue is made
squarely upon that question the result
will demonstrate the truth OF what l
say
Suppose all of these elements could
be united upon a ticket headed by
Hon. Knute Nelson, for instance, as its
candidate for governor, does anybody
with common sense doubt that he would
be elected by large majority?
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"You Democrats, he continued. "are
constantly throwing away your Oppor-
tunitieS in Minnesota by your everlaSt-
ing QuarrclS. The only way in which
YOU can possibly win is to make
square issue upon this question"
Look at Dunnell, Tor instance. He
is prOtectioniSt at heart, and if he
dared do it. he would support Reed
from the start to the finish for speaker,
but he knows that the First district is
overwhelmingly for tariff reform, and
that If he were to do so he would be in
evitably beaten for reelection by Judge
Wilson, hence he will probably hedge
by supporting Cannon, who, while not
much of a tariff reformer, is not high
protectioniSt like Reed or Mckinley"
"A great many people think that
Knute Nelson is out of politics for good.
| know that this is a mistake. He is
ready at any time to lead in the organ
state. and his highest ambition is to go
to the United States senate as tariff
refOrmer. As a candidate for governor
on ticket of the kind which ! have
suggested, he would carry 80 per cent
of the Scandinavian vote of this state
and would be elected. | know that this
is true in my neighborhood, where not
less than one-half of the vote is Nor
wegian and Dane. Almost to a man
they are opposed to protection, and If
they ever get an opportunity to vote
sQuarely on that issue the result will
show it."
Elected governor on such a ticket
Nelson would become formidable cam
didate for the senate. He might not
be able to beat Davis for reelection,
but he would succeed WaShburn beyond
doubt. The adhesion of Davis to pro-
lection was great disappointment to
his friends. He is not prOtectiOnist at
heart, but his intense admiration for
Blaine, and his great craving for seat
in the senate forced him to take the side
which he did, both in the campaign of
1886 and afterwards in that of 1885,"
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"Davis is personally popular in spite
of his recently developed protection
ideas, but not nearly so much so as he
has been. Besides this, his intimate
friends admit that he has not sustained
his reputation in the senate. Look at
Jack SpOoner, of Wisconsin, for in
stance. There is man with infinitely
less ability than Davis, yet he has
forged far ahead of our senior senator
as a figurehead in politics, He has
push, energy. tact and political Sagacity,
Speaking of the First district. in
which the gentleman resides, he said:
The fight then next year will, with
out doubt, be between Dunnell and
Wilson. and it will be hot. The knOwl-
edge that this is coming will have
great restraining influence upon Dun
nelrs course this winter, and has al
ready imposed a great and unnatural
timidity upon him i'll the matter of ask
ing for the removal of Democratic Office
holders in his district. In times gone
by Dunnell was the most INSCRIPTIONS
dispenser of political patronage in the
Northwest. He went at the business
with an AK, and wherever he found an
opponent in Office in that district. no
matter whether it was Democrat or
Republican, off came his head with
out any ado. In most cases where
he has recently made changes, he has
involved himself in difficulties, and in
many more where he has refused to re-
commend them he is being roundly
cursed by his supporters for what they
term his inaction and cowardice."
"Only last week the Spring Valley
Vidette. a paper which has always sup
ported him, and bOlted Lovely in 1886
at Dunnell's behest. came out and gave
him a terrific scoring for his inaction,
and particularly for his failure to ap-
point soldiers to office"
81 last wear the anti-Dunnell Republi-
cans gave as all excuse for supporting
him that he promised never again to be
a candidate for congress in that district.
DunnellS friends now qualify that by
saying that he meant he would not be
candidate OF his own volitiOn; that if
the party saw tit to nominate him he
would accept. Everybody knows what
that means, and that he is already lay
ing the wires for reelection. The fact
is, Dunnell will never be satisfied until
he gets into the senate and dies there.
He will be re-nominated beyond ques-
ton, because there is nObOQy left to sue
ceSSfully contest with him and the OPP
position has no candidate upon whom
it can combine. If Dunnell were to
conclude to retire his choice would be
DE-. Morgan. of Albert Lea, but that
gentleman, ] learn, is about to remove
to Mankato, which will take him out of
the district.
"What is Albert Scheffer about po-
litically?" inquired a GLOBE reporter
of Scheffer Republican from the Fifth
district yesterday.
ALBERT Schetfer," said the gentle
man, Twill be candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for governor in the
year of our Lord 1890. You can lay a
weeks salary on that proposition and
win. Some of his friends have advised
him to wait until 1892, but he won't
have it, and he is going into the fight
with vim. Scheffer IS the man who
elected WaShburn senator, and it is
said that he did not cast his influence on
that side of the evenly balanced scales
until he had secured pledge from the
latter and his friends that they would
at least let him alone in his proposed
contest for governor for next year. Al
bert is a slayer, and has pretty long
head on him after all.
j.
"Of course Gen. Jim Baker will OPP
pose Gov. Merriam'S reflection" said
Republican politician yesterday. "He
has a grievance, and those who know
him can readily appreciate the fact
that it is one which cannot be placated.
After having made hot fight for the
banker candidate and carried Blue
Earth county against the combined CO.
horts Of J. A. James, Eli Warner, and
all the relatives of the army of state
grain weighers from that county, Gen.
Jim demanded as his reward place on
the railroad and warehouse commission,
but was refused. This is said to have
been the first case in which the gov
ernor raised the cash payment cold
deck on the army of spellbinders who
perambulated the state last fall and
painted the evils of Democratic success
in livid cOlors."
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"When the cold news fell upon the
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