St. Paul daily globe., 1889-12-24
GOPHER HUNTING.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald has discovered that
President HARRISON has been hunting
gophers in Minnesota, as we'll as prairie
chickens in Illinois and wolverines in
Michigan. The Herald correspondent
has been investigating the causes which
led to WAsHBURN's victory over
DAVIS in the matter of EUGENE Hays
appointment, and submits to his paper
the following explanation of Mr.. HAYS
selection:
First. he Is Hoosier by birth, education,
and experience, and is an old personal
friend of Gen. HARRISON. second, in the
position of district attorney ne VIII be able to
further the political fortunes of Secretary
WINDOW Third, he is Endorsed by Senator
WASHBURN, who believes that president
who does fairly we'll the first term should
have second term. Fourth. he is a useful
man at national conventions. and was at the
Chicago gathering last year putting in some
solid work for Gen. HARRISON.
This is precisely in the line Of what
the GLOBE has had to say on the same
subject, and is additional confirmation
of our prediction that Mr.. WINDOW has
made up his mind to break into the SEN
ate when Mr.. DAVIS term expires.
The Herald correspondent then recites
the history of the WINDOM-WASHBURN
combination, just as it is known here
in Minnesota, and how that EUGENE
HAY was made useful in winning over
the president and the attorney general,
both Indiana men. He then relates
how CUSH DAVIS took sledge-ham-
I:er and went for that combination.
Uphill and downhill DAVIS hammered
the Observation-Disclosures
BURN-HAY combine. He made all
the members pull for breath, and Mr..
HAY had to come to Washington sew
eral times to weld the pieces. For
months the struggle went YEARLY on,
and the issue remained uncertain. But
at last it was finally determined, and
the nomination of Mr.. HAY went to the
senate" IF HAY be confirmed" says
the Herald correspondent, ''he is eX-
pected to set to work at once fixing the
pins for the legislature which is to be
elected next fall, and which. if the
plans do not miScarry, is to replace Sem
ator DAVIS by Senator WINDOW"
1t will be of interest to Senator
DAVIS friends here at home to learn
how he is taking his defeat. The Herald
man imparts the information in this
style:
The friends of Senator DAVIS tell me that
he is not alarmed at this phase of the situa-
tion. They say he is willing TO test his pop
ularity before the peopie of the state. But
be is mad all over at the administration-not
biindly mad, but philosophically angry. His
good right arm is tired from hammering the
combination which has at last proved too
much for him, but while it is resting he can
get in some left-handed blows. Just what
his tactics viii be is not stated. but / am as
sured the president will find that CUsH DAVIS
is fighter not to be despised.
1t happens that Senator DAVIS Is a bosom
friend of Senator FARwELL. and day it was
roticcd that the Illinois senator was tenderly
welcoming his colleague from Minnesota to
that vale of sorrow where both senators from
Illinois dwell. Possibly they will agree on
some plan of campaign. l should put conf
dence in Senator DAVIS because, unlike
Nessrs. CULLoM and FARwELL, he does not
look upon the constant exercise of the vocal
organs as the only means of warfare known
to politics.