St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04


lively Democratic platform and with
certificate of good standing in the party,
issued by bosses who are better known
by their motives than from their con-
victions. Neither the bosses nor their
mOuthpieces are ready to admit this, but
it is significant that both have ceased
talking about the Bennett law as the
chief evil of mankind. and are ear
nestly cultivating the friendship of ster-
ling Democrats instead o.
Renegade Republicans.
One need not go outside of Milwaukee
to learn that an anti-Bennett law plat
form prepared to please Lutheran Re-
publicans will precipitate a fight in the
state convention, and interviews with
Democrats from the interior show that
the adoption of such platform will in
vite bolt against the ticket, which
candidates will be averse to cOntending
with. 1t is easy to set down candidate
for some place on the ticket and fill out
a slate with candidates for all the other
places. 1t is equally simple to declare,
as the probable platform of the party,
the particular one upon which that can
didate desires to stand. But the Wis
cousin Democracy has not yet nomi-
mated any candidates, and has adopted
no platform, and the only GER
tain thing about it is the I'M
certainty. The old-time Democrats
are showing a disposition to take the
reins again and drive down the Demo-
cratic road. Their ability to do so is
above the power of the Republican
managers and their city accessories to
prevent. They will be assisted by
many men in Milwaukee who cannot be
safely ignored. The candidates for
places Oh the county ticket cannot
afford it, and will not jeopardize their
own chances to assist corporate mana
gers whose interests are closely allied
with those of Boss Payne, of the Repub-
lcan camp. No man of intelligence
doubts that the Republican managers
will stoop long way to conquer the
Lutheran vote, and few people imagine
that they will not be generally success
full. 1t is within the range of short
memories when the scholarly Horace
Rublee
Took Vacation
to escape the necessity of supporting
Blaine, and on his return apologiZed
over his own signature for an attack OH
Carl SchurZ, who opposed Blaine; but
the Sentinel supported the lingo states
man. Blaine was a bigger man than
Hoard, and the Sentinel is the same size
now as then.
This talk about Mayor Peck growing
in favor is misleading. Anybody at all
familiar with the campaign in Milwau-
kee last spring knows that the humorist
is not as strong here to-day as he was
when nominated for mayor, and no one
knows it better than those who are
booming him now and who opposed him
then. Mayor Peck was nominated in
spite of the Milwaukee bosses, who
favored another candidate, and he
was elected by great variety
of influences, to none of which did
the local manipulators contribute. 1t
is no kindness to Mayor Peck to mislead
him, and it is no help to the Wisconsin
Democracy to be humbugged in the in
terest of individual ambition. The
men and papers which now claim that
the nomination of Peck for governor
would take the Bennett law issue out
of the campaign, because the mayor
stands for the party position on that
question, are generally the samee-aS
those which proposed to read the Her
aid out of the party. Yet some of them
know, as do great many other eOple,
that Mr.. Peck was an OutspOken friend
of the principles of the compulsory edu-
cation law, and had so declared himself
to friends, was vouched for in the
opposite way without his knowledge or
consent in the convention, and only
took
The Other Tack
when he appeared before the conven-
ton to accept the nomination. The
question was then held not to be an
issue by Mr.. Peck's friends. and he was
supported by the friends of the law as
we'll as by the enemies of Mayor Brown
and of the law. But it is not Mayor
Peck that these people are supporting
now. Step behind the eX-pOstmaSters
and other federal officials and you will
not have far to go to find the Apollo
Belvidere of the Cleveland administra-
would like to be governor of Wisconsin.
Not for the sake of being governor, but
to keep an ambitious eye upon
the United States senate. With
in fortnight it was given out
as coming from an intimate
friend of Villas at Madison that he
would accept nomination for the gov
ernorship. His home organ approved
the idea in double-leaded type. Then
Col. Villas caused it to be stated Offici-
ally that the announcement of his can
didacy was made by an irresponsible
person without authority, and prudent
Iy refrained from saying that he would
not be a candidate. The Surmise Is
that the other candidates will be driven
from the field by booming Peck, as May
or Pratt, of Oshkosh. has been, and
then when the convention meets, if it is
concluded that the chances are good
and the Villas men in control, the dele
gates may be
Stampeded to Villas.
and the possibilities of carrying the
legislature kept safely within grasp.
Opposition to this plan of procedure
will be manifested, and it will not be of
a passive character. Even those who
would not contest with Mayor Peck are
apprehensive of the plan and alert to
checkmate it. If past glory and achieve
ments are to be the final arguments the
majority are likely to go back Of the
date when some Of the present dictatorS
discovered the Democracy while run
ming away from Blaine. Judge Mallory
is likely to have majority of the
delegates from Milwaukee and still
have minority of the votes
in the convention. But his follow
ing will never go to the man
from Madison. Neither will that of 81.
II. Gray, of Darlington: Judge Cate. of
Stevens Point, or Col. Bouck, OF Osh |
kosh. Meanwhile the gravity of the
Republican situation may be snmma- |
rized in the fact that Chairman Payne,
who has heretofore manipulated legiS-
latures at will, is seriously talked Of as
a candidate for assembly from the safely