St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-25
What Hennepin County's Del
egation Is Now Being
Called at Home.
Original Cases Begun Against
the Census People
QuaShed.
New Warrants Are Immedi-
ately Issued for Their
Arrest.
General News Of the Day as
Gathered by Vigilant Globe
Reporters.

There were few anti-Merriam Re-
publicans to be found in the city OF
Minneapolis last night, but their num-
Der was very few indeed. Those of the
town under cover of darkness, and i'm
mediately sought the quietness of their
homes. They realized that they had
been beaten-woefully routed. They
were conscious, in fact painfully SO,
that they were never in the fight from
the start, and that the whole delegation
the forty-fve as they were fond of be-
ing called-cut less of a figure in
the deliberations of the Republican
state convention than did the repre-
sentativeS of the forests of Beltraml
county; and as often as they thought of
this melancholy fact, the big salt tears
coursed down their cheeks. and they
sought some secluded corner where they
might weep, unseen by their hated and
triumphant rivals. AS for the partisans
of the successful man from Ramsey
county they acted not at all as they
might lave been expected. They did
not exhibit their satisfaction to the
world in any demonstrated fashion.
They seemed to think that the
expected had happened-as OF
course it habitat their position was
indorsed and that they would appear to
better advantage as proud conquerorS
to whom such an occurrence was an
everyday matter than as eXultant vic
tors. Among the wise old heads and
brainy men of the party in Minneapolis
the Hennepin delegation to the cOnven-
ton was last night universally regarded
with contempt. There was not word
in extenuation of the course which
the delegates have followed from
the start. From the time the
delegates were chosen down
to Yesterday, when they were so I'M
mercifully sat upon in the convention,
the action of that body was pronounced
as silly, foolish, aSSnine, unreason-
able, pig-headed, nOnsenslcal, etc." II
the men who failed to attain the dignity
of meeting a political Waterloo. but
who were whipped in little preliml-
nary skirmish, had many sympathizerS
in the city last night, they religlously
kept out of sight.
What effect the result of the conven-
ton will have in the Flour City is, as
yet, largely matter of conjecture. Mer-
Ram will not poll the vote in Hennepin
which he did two years ago. lie has
made many enemies here. His being a
st. Paul man will, to certain extent,
as has been claimed during the prelim-
mary campaign. initiate against him.
He will lose other votes through the
failure of Hennepin county to have a
representative on the state ticket. This
matter is one which causes a good deal
of soreness among all factions OF the
Republican party in Minneapolis. and
the blame for it is laid entirely
at the door of the county's delegation.
The famous manifesto in which 1t was
declared that Hennepin county wants
nothing and will take nothing has al
ways been looked upon as a piece OF
assininity, but, now that Hennepin
county is really and truly left out in the
wide, wide world, at the mercy OF the
waves and currents OF stormy polltl-
cal sea, it is more strongly denounced
than ever. 1t is generally believed that
Minneapolis could have had the state
treasuryship had the cards been
well played. The same is true
of the lieutenant governorship. Those
who think that Minneapolis should
have been given the second place on
the ticket are not all ClOugh men.
Many of them unhesitatingly say that
Clough was too weak for the nOmina-
ton. They are, nevertheless, of the
opinion that the lieutenant governor
should have been named from Henne-
pin; if not Clough, some good strong
Republican. of whom there are many.
This it is that makes many Re-
publicans sore this morning. With the
present feeling against the head of the
ticket prevailing in the county which
pools the heaviest vote in the state,
there is no man on the ticket to hold the
party in line. The vanity of the party
is wounded, and it will cost the ticket a
good many votes.
Last night in the rotunda of the West,
good many Republicans of influence
and standing, few of them active poll
ticianS, however, most of whom had not
yet returned from st. Paul, stood
around. smoked and roasted the dele
CATION. Col. w. S. King was the center
of one group: The rotund form OF
this old-time Minneapolltan took on the
agility and action of the professional
acrobat, and his voice sounded like the
noise OF the angry sea on rOck-bound
shore as he denounced the puerile fool
ishness of the men who went to the st.
| Paul convention, and of the men who
sent them there. He had no use for the
men who could not see far enough be-
| fore them to discern that Merriam had
| ''cinch" and that the interests of Hen
nepin county demanded that he
| be not so StrenuouSly opposed.
Capt. Jddson n. Cross was
another who could see no merit in the
action of ''the As" Judge M. B. Koon
| lifted up his voice-or rather opened
his lips-to calmly and emphatically
| state that it was shame Minneapolis
was given no representative on the
state ticket. "There was no use of it.
Minneapolis could have had a place on
that ticket as we'll as not" said the
| judge. A GLOBE reporter met Judge
Rea on the street.
"HoW do you like the result of the
convention, judge?" he was asked.
| II don't know what it is. [ haven't
heard" And he critically examined
the top of the lumber exchange.
| merriam was nominated on the first
ballot"
"What was the vote?"
"Merriam received $50 ballots, Mel
son, "a, Braden. a."
| "Only los against him." sadly came
from the Judge, after short mental cal
culation. swell. l expected he'd be
nominated" and away he went up the
street, shaking his head as if in sorrow,
The feast of crow begins to-day. but
the unpalatable dish is so served in the
garlic sauce of reflection or stupidity
that it is all the more disagreeable to the
feasters. 1.-The delegation went to ST.
| Paul without candidate, without a
plank to stand on, without an even
family defined purpose in view other
than to vote against Merriam. They
had nothing upon which to make a
fight. They might as well have staid al
home" Those were the words of one
Republican. They express the thoughts
| of many.
The reported disagreement between
R. B. Laugdon and "Uncle Loren''
Fletcher is confirmed from an authentic
source. The rupture is of about three
days standing. Mr.. Langdon objected
to the interests of the party being pre-
JUDGED by the implacable hostility oil
"Uncle Loren" The two old war horses
will not drive double any more. They
are enemies. Both are fighters. and the
end of their disagreement is not yet.
wzu, M aH-D NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.