St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-06
JOHNSON is DROPPED,
WaShburn Trots Out a New
Candidate for Col
lector.
He Goes Fishing for a "Rep-
reSentative Seandi-
navian'
And Thinks He Has Landed
Him in One Ole
Lucken,
Whom He Recommends to
Senator DaviS--Steener-
son Talks.

shaken" Marcus Johnson-that Is. as
HalvOr Steenerson remarked jokingly
to the Atwater statesman yesterday,
the Mill City senator has just learned
that Johnson is not "a representative
Scandinavian"
"Well, if Washburn waits until ask
him to recommend me for collector"
replied Senator Marcus to this shot,
'he will be great deal older than. he is
now. never asked him to recommend
me, and | never intend to do So"
Shortly after Senator Washburn re-
turned to Minneapolis for his holiday
vacation. the dread specter of an Of
Tended Scandinavian vote so disturbed
his slumbers that he decided to sum
mon what he was pleased to term a con-
terence OF representative Scandinayians
to look over the field and decile npon a
man tOf collector. This cen erence
was held at the West hotel, anu is said
to have been composed of Ole Il.
Lucken, treasurer of Polk county, sey-
eral uf his friends and Senator Wash
hurn. Il he result of the conference
was that MIR. Washburn agreed to rec
ommend Mr.. Lucken's appointment as
collector of internal revenue, provided
he secured the Endorsement of Senator
Davis. This Endorsement, of course, as
MIR. Washburn we'll knew, can never be
gotten.
But there's method in Washburn's
madness, and he hasn't thrown arcus
johnson overheard, if at all. for moth
ing.
His new candidate is Norwegian of
good ability and quite popular among
all classes of people in his county of
Folk, he having been treasurer OF that
county for about ten years. But Mir.
WaShburn did not select him for either
his ability or his nationality, in particu-
lar. Mir. Lucken'S location
DID THE WORK.
He halls from the home of HalyOr
Steenerson. and the Minneapolis senaz
tor, anxious to ''fiX'' things in that quar-
ter, naturally enough dropped upali Ole
Lucken. But Mr.. Washburn didn't an
nOunce his change of candidates with
the blare of trumpets nor the din Of the
Blethenian BaZoo; he simply posted off
to Washington to start in upon another
campaign against Senator Davis. and, as
one of the latter sstaunchest supporters
said yesterday, with excellent pros
poets of doing 'Cush' up again." 'f'
In fact, Senator Washburn forgot to
tell even his old Candidate Johnson. or
his devoted Wildt, of Faribault. of his
change of heart. Mr.. Lucken, however,
| was not SO careful, for when he got
| back to CrookStOn. he not only scat
tered the 'glad tidings" everywhere,
but fairly swamped the mails with COM
munications to his friends, asking their
support, the consequence being that
| Mr.. Lucken is known as an active cam
! didate in the Fifth district, and, strange
| to say, without the support of the Fifth
| district congressman. Mr.. COmstOek,
| the latter having indorsed Capt. bona
| hover, of ST. Peter, in return for Con
| gressman Lind's Endorsement of HalVOI
| SteenerSOn for district attorney.
And thereby hangs tale, which goes
| TO prove that portion of the balance OF
Gene Hays Endorsements were not gen
uine. 1t will be remembered that ex-
| Gov. McGill formerly resided at St
| Peter, and is a great friend and sup
| porter of Capt. DOnahOwer for collector
of internal revenue. Well, shortly after
Steenerson and DOnahower had SHE'D
| their castors into the ring as candidates
| for the respective offices of collector
| and district attorney Col. j. K. Moore,
| the ex-governor's private secretary and
| trusted tenchman,
! WROTE a LETTER
| TO Mr.. SteenerSon, telling him that al.
| though the ex-governor realized the
fact that Mr. Steenerson had hand in
| defeating him in the last convention, he
| cherished no ill-will toward him, and
| suggested that Steenerson and bona
| hover pull together. ain this way
| said Mr.. Steenerson, ''Mr. DonahoweI
| secured the Endorsement of Congress
| man Comstock, and also that of John
| Lind; so that do not think that Gov
| McGill ever recommended Hay"
"What kind of a Elan is this Mr.
| Lucken?" asked the GLOBE reporter oil
MIR. SteenersOn.
"Mr. Lucken," answered the affable
Halvor, us very popular in Polk county,
where he has long been county treas
| urer. He is NOrsk. and | fancy this
will prevent his being taken up, as
understand the senators are looking f0l
/ that anomaly known as a representa-.
| tive Scandinavian This reminds me
of the law passed by the legislature g
| few years ago providing for the EN-
| plOyment of a professor at the uniVeT.
| Sity TO teach the Scandinavian language
The authorities didn't know what to do
for there is no such language. There
| are, however, the Scandinavian Ian
+, guages, such as the Swedish, the Nor.
wegiau and the Danish; but there is nc
| such thing as the scandinavian Ian,
| guage. For these reasons representa-
| tive Scandinavian cannot be found.
| "The only way l can see out of the
| difficulty" continued the genial Halvol
with a smile, "is for the senators to re-
| peat the
| DAIRY COMMISSIONER ACT
and lump the salary and perquisites OF
| the collectorship, aud divide the sum
| equally among Wildt, of Faribault, rep
| resenting the Danes: Johnson, of Kau
| diyohi, who stands for the Swedes, and
Lucken, of Polk, a Norwegian. This, al
any rate, is the only way to get repre-.
| sentative Scandinavian
elbow does SteenersOn take his defeal
for the district attorneyship?" is ques
ton that naturally occurs to the poll.
tician, and one that the obliging HalvoI
| doesn't care about answering directly
However. he did smile at the claim thai
'Gene Hay had been appointed on the
| strength of his Minnesota Endorsements
"The list was very short and weak in
| the beginndg," said Mr.. Steenerson
'.and have been Informed that many
of the gentlemen named on that list
never recommended him at all. am
| certain Attorney General Clapp did not
| and there are several prominent at.
| torneys in HenHepin county in the same
boat. However, he got the appoint.
ment, and that's all that counted afteI
ALL
While tho Polk county statesman re-
| fuses to do much talking on the subject
he can't help showing that he is very
| much disappointed over the Hay ap
peintment, and If he does not show NJ