St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-26
They Deny That They Caused
the County to Be Unrep-
resented on the Ticket.
Hennepin Boulevard Almost
Certain to Be Cumbered by
Street Car Tracks.
Minneapolis to Have a Big
Fighting Opponent of the
Great Match Trust.

no good reason why they should remain
there, or possibly, for that matter, why
they should ever have gone there, were
very sore yesterday. The cause of their
general loneliness was. to a great eX-
tent, the article which appeared in the
GLOBE yesterday morning, headed
"Forty-Five Chumps," and which eX-
planned the feeling with which that
delegation was regarded by cool-headed
Republicans who are not wont to let pas
sion get the better of them. The returned
delegates thought that they had been
too severely criticised. They affirmed
that they went to st. Paul and followed
exactly the line laid down for the guild
ance OF their feet by the Hennepin
county convention. They object most
strenuously to being called chumps and
Schoolboy politicians. They decline to
shoulder the responsibility Of leaving
the most populOus county in the state
without a representative on the state
ticket. They say that they made the
fight to the best of their ability, were
whipped, and whipped soundly, and
now they pa1pose putting the best face
OH the matter by going in to elect the
nominee of the party. Merriam was
not their choice, but the state seemed to
want him, therefore they are content to
smother their prejudiceS and fight for
his cause.
j. T. Wyman, probably as cool-headed
and able man as there was i'll that dele
cation. had this to say yesterday in re-
gard to the criticisms passed upon the
action of the delegates:
''This talk about our action" said he,
sis most unjust, We did not, think,
act foolishly nor without reason. We
did only Just what we were elected to
do. We were chosen as anti-Merriam
deleg ateS, we went to ST. Paul opposed
to Merriam's denomination, we made a
square, honest, open fight against him,
as we were expected to do, and we were
defeated by force of numbers. When
we saw that we could not secure the Sc
lection OF our man. we accepted the sit
uation. We are said to have not had
sense enough to see that we would fail.
That criticism goes little too far. We
fess to be. am inclined to think that
our ignorance of political methods is
more of compliment than otherwise.
1t was delegation of business men, not
of politicians. Seldom have L seen a
political delegation in which there were
so few men who were unfamiliar with
political methods. think If that dele
CATION had fault it was that it was too
frank. too open, too ready to tell just
what it would do, then prepared to keep
its word. That delegation followed
business methods too closely, rather
than political, and that is why IL is crit
icised.
Now |, as member of that delega-
ton, decline to accept any part of the
responsibility for leaving that state
ticket without the name of AIinneap-
oils man upon it. This city could have
been represented on the ticket, but not
by man whom the delegation would
support. By indorsing MIR. Clough a
Minneapolis man could have been NOM
mated for state office. But the dele
CATION would not accept Mr.. CIough,
its members did not want him
and of course he could not
be nominated without the Endorsement
of his own county. Now, Mr.. Clough
is an old friend and neighbor of mine.
l have known him for a long time, and
l have good deal of admiration for
him. But he was not the choice of the
delegation and SO had to be left out.
We presented the names of three as
governor as could be found in the city
of Minneapolis or in the state. They
were A. Z. Haugan, r. G. Evans and
eX-Attorney General Hahn. Any one
of them would have been &C
ceptabe to the Hennepln coun-
ty delegation. But the Merriam
men said: mo; you must accept
the nomination of CIough or you will
get nothing. The delegation would not
accept Clough. 1t was either Clough
OF nothing, and nothing was the result.
The delegation is not to blame If Hen
nepin county is unrepresented. 1t is
solely due to the action of the Merriam
faction"
This explanation certainly explains,
to certain extent, the action of the
Hennepin county delegation. 1t shows
further. however, that there is breach
between the delegation and Senator
Clough and friends-for it cannot be
denied that he has a goodly following =
which will not be closed all at once by
a word merely. While the influence of
this split may not be marked in
the gubernatorial fight, it Is certain to
exert not little influence upon local
politics. ClOugh is not a man who for
gets that he has received a smack in the
nose so soon as the blood has stopped
flowing. He remembers these little
things, and he will yet make it uncom-
Portable for the men who have deprived
him of the second honor in the state.
Now that the Republican nomination
has been made it is plainly evident that
the gentleman with the red whiSkerS is
very weak in Hennepin county. The
men who went to the convention and
@ho Nf rtu hnrQ M
cepted their feast of crow with
have eaten it, washing it down with
| the wine of party fealty. They could
not do otherwise. But all is not thus
with the voters who look after the depo-
sition of their ballots and who keep
! their fingers unsullied by the oil from
the party machine. They don't like
Merriam, and they will have none OF
| him. They said so before the conven-
ton, and they say so now; moreover
! they mean to stick to their assertion.
| John Goodnow, who was one of ''the
! forty-fve," voices the sentiments OF
those who accept the issue. John said
yesterday:
"Merriam was nominated and we were
| whipped. He was not our man, but
the convention is over. We will now
| take off our coats, work hard for him
as hard as we would for our choice
and elect him."
But Mr.. Goodnow does not, of course,
speak for the whole party. Two years
ago there we're plenty Of Republicans
who did not vote for w. r. Merriam
! Their number has been almost i'm.
measurably increased. Many Of them
were always opposed to Merriam, but
voted for him two years ago because he
was the nominee. Their consciences
have been uneasy ever since, however
and they decline to repeat the offense
| Others are enemies of the present eXecu
tive because of his administration and
because of what they have learned of hin
during the past two years. He is looked
upon in Minneapolis as the accredited
representative and the very embodt
ment of plutocracy. Plutocrats are moi
in high favor in Minneapolis. Of course
the party whip will be most assiduously
welded between now and next Novem