St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-26
Republicans Want to Trade
Everything for the Office
of Speaker.
P j. Smalley Declined to
Trade With Them and Is :
to Be Defeated.
Omceseekers Bothering Re-
publican Leaders in State
and County.
Possibility Of Donnelly's Elec-
ton and It's Effect on the
ID Alliance.

The Republican politicians can not
make a trade with Secretary p. J..
Smalley, and they have decided to
break him. For a week last past the
men who are engaged in working the
business organization" scheme have
been making overtures to Mr.. Smalley
by the terms of which he would be
elected chief clerk of the house, and q
Republican be given the SpeakerShip.
The main argument used in talking up
this scheme was that it would be better
for the Democrats and Republicans to
divide the honors and plums up equally
tia to allow the Alliance to com in
and elect the speaker. This argument
did not prove effective. Indeed. Mr..
Smalley is said to nave spurned it in
%dignantly.
And now the schemers have started
out to defeat Mr.. Smalley, and unhesi-
tatingly proclaim that they are going to
do 1t, whether by means that are fair OF
those most foul.
I'VE are all going in with the Alliance"
said RepreSentative-eIect w. Il. Cross,
OF Red Wing, yesterday. who was the
originator of the business rgdnIZa-
tom scheme, and is generally regarded
as one OF the Republican leaders. 1--WE
are going to help elect an Alliance clerk.
1t Smalley and the Democrats persist
i'll trying to effect an Alliance combine
ton he will be beaten for clerk; for we
shall throw our votes to a straight
Alliance nan rather than see him elected.
we may hot be able to elect Carpenter,
but there are other men besides him."
This frank avowal of the Goodhue
representative becomes important when
aiken IN connection with some remarks
dropped by him hardly a week ago. At
that time he thought it would be a good
thing for the Democrats to take the
chief %clerkship and the c~hairnlanships
OF a certain number of committees, and
help organize the house on a business
basis" Mr.. Smalley did not take kindly
TO this proposition, and now the Schem-
ers behind the cuisines organization"
plan propose to slaughter him. Will
they he able to do it?
But there is something else behind
this opposition to Mr.. Smalley. P. j.
Smalley is a man of the highest charac-
terand strictest integrity. He would
never be found aiding or abetting any
kind of jobbery. And this is not the
KIND of a man certain Interests want in
tina office of chief clerk. These people
might be able to get along with either
the clerkShIp or the SpeakerShip, hut
thty cannot afford to lose both. For
these reasons the triumph of the anti
corporation, antl-Republican element in
the fight for speaker may be followed
by the defeat of Mr.. Smalley for chief
clerk of the house.
The fact that Mr.. Smalley stands out, |
ndependent Of all trades and combina-
ions that would involve his party in a
contest where its principles would be
bartered away for Office, will uudoubt-
eddy strengthen him greatly, and it
ought to elect him in spite of the dishon-
CRADLE course laid down by the Repub-
tIcan leaders. If beaten in this kind of
a fight Mr.. Smalley can well afford to
take his defeat, and even welcome it;
for in the event of the success of this
business organization scheme the peo-
pie will be heard from two years hence
even more emphatically than at the late
election, the returns of which no Repub-
lican politician can now, Two months
after it took place, scan without a cold
chill or two.
The Republican politicians are in a
very bad place this year. Many of them
are overwhelmed with applications for
positions, and there is no place to put |
them. Promises have been given
freely. but they canno be fulfilled. The
federal offices are filled; the state audi
tors office Will 500 be turned over to
a Democrat, and thus, it will be seen,
fewer offices are left to the Republican |
bosses in the capitol than heretofore. |
The organization of the house ana SEN |
ate, which usually created temporary
places for several scores of ward heel
erS,is so uncertain that nothing Is being |
promised by the managers. The queer |
caperS cut by Minnesota at the late
election of congressman has, surprising
as 1t may seem, caused the national ad- |
miniStratiOn to pass the state by for a
while and give the eleven Republican
states a chance.
Even locally there is trouble ahead.
The change in the register of deeds
office leaves out a number of Republi- |
Guns who naturally enough want places.
Two more Republicans will be let out
OF the county attorneys office and one |
out of the Office of the judge of pro- |
bate. Sheriff Beams force is full, and
in view of the gratuitiOuS abuse show
cred upon him by these defeated Re- |
publicans it is hardly possible that he
Will take any pains to create vacancies.
The hotels are already preparing to
entertain the Alliance delegates who
will begin to reach st. Paul early next
week. and, if the number of rooms that
have been secured in advance is any
criterion, there will be an immense
crowd in attendance, probably 1,500, in
Guiding the outside workers. The con-
test for the presidency Is bound to be
bitter from the start, and the Republi-
can politicians are already predicting
that unless Donnelly is elected the
movement will go to pieces" But Dom
nelly may be elected. He has, from
present indications, carried the Third
district and a good part of the Second,
While the Fifth and First are al
most :solidly against him. The
few delegates that will be
present from the Fourth district will
undoubtedly be very evenly divided.
The election of Donnelly will be hailed
by the Republicans with much more
pleasure than his defeat, although many
ofthem talk the other way. If elected,
they figure that he will be absolute
master of the Alliance element in both
houses. and that he cad be induced to
bring the Alliance men over to their
side and thus shut the Democrats out.
In this they are undoubtedly correct;
for the little difference in the principles
Of the Alliance and the Republicans are
nothing to so versatile a genius as Mr..
DonnelIy. He would see nothing at all
ineongruous in a combination of the be-
LEVERS in a high tariff enacted for pro-
lection and exclusion, and those who
believe in 'sa tariff for revenue only"