St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-19
Minneapolis Republicans Have
La Grippe Rather
Bad.
The Extravaganza of the Ad-
ministration Has Over
taxed Their Systems,
And a Disordered Condition
Exists in Both City and
County.
Gossip From Inside Sources
About Those Who Are
Pulling Strings.
Sitting sneezipg I received your letter.
La Grippe is going. and so am L
To be in The race if l don't die.

1llu tNS more fcau j SDeeZ6u the ESIlef,
La Grippe is going. and so am L
TO be in the race if / don't die.
These four lines of heXameter can be
appropriately applied to large number
| of Minneapoiitans just now. They are
! all in the race for something political
! from the Office of governor to that of
| | rd high eXecutiOner at the dog pound.
Minneapolis wants the next governor of
| Minnesota, ard the Republican time
keepers aver that they will name him.
| 4 few points OF interest to Republicans
| generally, and Minneapolis members of
! that persuasion in particular. have arisen
during the past week which may hurt
Minneapolis Republicans seeking state
offices very much.
1t has been an open secret for some
| time that Joel p. Heatwole, of the
| Northfield News. has been bitterly op-
| posed to the Twin Cities. and to give his
| pent up wrath chance he opened the
| tiOodgates of his bile on the Minnesota
| senators in series of communications
| to Pres dent Harrison, setting forth a
| few plain facts on how the Minnesota
| patronage was being confined to the
| pap-seekers of Minneapolis and St.
| Paul, without any regard for the coun-
! try that worked so hard for party sue
cess and got so little in return. To the
ordinary individual unacquainted with
political tactics it would appear as If
Joel knew very little in writing such
v0luminous communications to the
| president on matters which properly be-
longed to the senators and rep
resentatives of the state, and
that the best he could posi-
bly, hope for by so doing
would be reply to each, such as he re-
ceiyed. Joel, too. seemed to be put out
a great deal, as it were, when he saw
the correspondence which passed be-
tween him and the president and secre-
tary published in the Twin City papers.
but that was just what the Mortified
editor wanted, and he accomplished his
purpose in good shape. He never sup
posed for moment that the president
would pay any attention to his letters,
but what he wanted was to get the
whole correspondence on the subject
given to the people of the state in order
that they might know just what he was
quietly doing for them. In other words,
he started out TO ''do up'' the Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul Republicans, and those
of the latter city are much chagrined
over the publication of JOel's letters.
LOREN FLETCHER IS SORRY
| he ever accused Joel of having more
bowels than brains, because Joel's re-
! cent prankS have stirred up the coun-
try boys and they are bad animals when
! they get aroused. Loren is clever. but
! he was not clever enough for the
"Northfield kicker" as he has been
| dubbed, and the Minneapolis boys, who
are pledged to help Langdon or McGill
for governor and Fletcher for congress,
| are much disappointed with Fletcher.
| They say he ought not to have noticed
L. oil
| avoided stirring up the country against
| Some of them go so far as to say that
| unless the country is pacified be-
fore the coming Republican state
convention. LangdOn might as
will stick to his railroad building and
Fletcher to his milling interests, as try
to get any political honors. The Sean
| dinavian leaders are also worked up
! considerably over the turn affairs have
taken, for they see in it possible OPP
| position to their new candidate for sec
! rotary of stdte viz: A. G. Haugan,
cashier of the Scandal bank. 1t is said,
| on good authority. that Hans MattSOn
and Mr.. Haugan have come to an un-
| derstanding whereby the former is to
| be candidate for reelection up to the
| last day, when he will announce his
| withdrawal in favor of Mr.. Hangar.
| thus preventing the possibility of any
| other man getting the nomination. 1t
! would then be too late for a new can
| didate to gather enough strength to
| beat Hangar. The latter's friends,
! however, fear that the country may rise
| in its might next summer and make the
| nominations without consulting the
| cities.
| ANOTHER HIGH FENCE
| OUnr which fhn Miunnanplic Offinp cnH1y-
ers will find difficult to crawl is the way
| Senator Davis is being walked oven at
| Washington by Senator Washburn,
though the latter is the junior. This is
not by any means pleasing to Davis or
| his friends, and the latter are not slow
| in speaking how they feel in this mat
ter. Washburn. they say, saddled hay
| onto them and then came along and
| pushed Marcus Johnson into the Office
| of collector of internal revenue. The
report of a happy understanding exist
| ing now between the two senators is all
! boSh, and the politicians all know it.
| Minneapolis Republicans are cogni z mt
of all these and dozen more obstacles
! in their way TO glory, and the result is
| that there will be good deal of fault
| finding on all sides before the frost
| leaves the ground.
| The Minneapolis legal lights are still
| in sweat, so to speak, over the
| NEW UNITED STATES JUDICIAL DISTRICT
that is soon to be established in Mime
sofa, with Minneapolis as headquarters.
! They are all anxious to help Judge Mel
| son, but of course they must wait for the
passage of bill creating the district
! first. Congressman Lind has bill pre-
pared making six districts in the state.
but it fails to make any provision for a
AN..Lx ,,,Ll < -
| bill, introduced a short time ago, covers
this point The Minneapolis Republi-
cans of course favor the Davis bill and
! the attorneys of that political faith are
| almost wild because of Lind neglecting
the most important feature in the whole
business. Speculation as to who will
get the life job are rife, but OF course il
can be reasonably approXimated. There
are many willing enough TO accept and
a few of those who are competent would
not accept the Office at any price. OF the
latter class is Col. r. G. Benton. He was
once city attorney in Minneapolis, and
did not feel easy until he got out. Since
then he has kept close to his law prac-
tice.
1t is thought that Bob Evans will
make great effort to get the office, and
being member of the national commit
tee, ne could draw on that for consider
able backing. Frank Davis was pos
sible number short time ago, but an
fortunately for himself, he has made
some bitter enemies, who are power
i'll themselves politically. The general
impression is that some of the district
court judges will get the plum. If it
were left TO the legal fraternity as a
body, without regard to politics, the
honor would fall on either Judge Smith
| Or Judga Orhrau hut thew are Demo.
Gratis, and could not get it. Judge
Hooker played such.a strong hand last
year in politics generally, that he can
not be passed by unnoticed. The plum.
however. is not ripe yet, and it is moi
safe to count on too much.
RELIGION IN POLITICS.
Brother Burrell, of Westminster
church, has had his own share of trou-
bic during the past two weeks. He at
tackled the present city administration
on its halfway system Of enforcing the
Ion fkafl1s