St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-06
WHERE WILL IT END :?
Is the Question the Republic
ans Are Asking Them
selves Just Now,
Is They Begin to Conjecture
the Influence OF the Gen.
SuS War.
Is Mayor Babb Trying to Hoo
doc Potter With His In
dorSement?
The Judiciary Beginning to
Attract Attention--Usual
"Non-Partisanship."

Who can solve the puzzle that Henne-
pin county Republicans are wrestling
with now? Not even the shrewdest and
most adept politician of them all. They
are at sea so far as knowing, or even
guessing approximately the result of
the present muddle. Some think the
trouble will end if Hennepin county
delegates to the Republican convention
cast their ballots against Merriam. But
this is nothing to be relied on. The
feeling between the friends of the
governor and his enemies in
this county will not stop at the
state convention. If it were to termin-
ate there all would be well, but the anX->
iety that pervades the systems of Mime
apOlis Republicans is based on the sue
cess or defeat of w. r. Merriam. 1t is
the result of this throat-cutting they are
anxious about, and they have good rea-
son to feel alarmed. If they could set
tie the Merriam fight in the state con-
vention, and bury all internal dissen-
SionS there, they would have less to fear
for. But i'll either case mischief is
bound to be done, and the great party
of the people ~ in Minneapolis may
uIl(l IL W ULl6lI SOIIOM l1dG CH0u OiIOy
were foolish to let such small matter
as census dispute disrupt THE Repub-
lican party of Hennepin county.
The past week has been one Of con-
ferences with the Hennepin Republic
ans, and though their midnight meet
ings have been productive of much in
formation to the participating members,
there has been no harmony whatever
The breach caused by A. J. Boardman
In refusing to call the county conven-
ton when asked to raised the first war
cloud, and since then this cloud has
grown darker and heavier, and unless
blown out of sight by breezes of har
mony there will be one of the most de-
structive political cloud bursts ever re-
corded in Minnesota. There seems to
be a determination in the ranks of the
g. o. p. to cut and slash their once side
by-Side partners when they come up
FOR office. Like a contagious disease
the dissatisfaction is spreading, and it
has already entered where it was a per-
feet as we'll as absolute stranger. No
Dne regrets this more than ID. NJ. ClOugh
and A. j. Boardman. Both were in
elined to keep the census miSunder-
standing where it belonged. but such
hotheaGS as F. F. Davis and Judge
Shaw could not think of such thing.
They saw an elegant opportunity of
making considerable political capital
put of it, and they are not OF that school
Of lawyers that is ashamed to call for
what they do not see, if they want it.
With such state of affairs nothing but
defeat awaits the great party. The
Etrangest feature about all this war is
that even the warmest of leaders is slow
to admit the facts which are open to all.
They are still hopeful of being able to
shake hands over the bloody chasm when
the state election has done its work, but
that will be impossible. 1t is war to the
knife, and all the whips in the party
cannot prevent it.
1t was a good deal of a surprise
to Hennepin politicians, irrespective
of party, to see Mayor Bab6 come
out few days ago in favor
of Aid. Potter for mayor. Either
made up or Babb takes this meGhodical
way of defeating Potter. The mayor
knows as well as any other man in Min
neapolis that his administration is not
what he claims it to be; that the great
majority of MinneapolitanS are opposed
to it; that they want more liberal and
less hypocritical form of local govern
ment, and that for him to indorse any
man for that office is tantamount to
uniting the advocates of a liberal adj
ministration to oppose his choice.
Surely Mayor Babb is too cute
a politician not to know this,
and. if he and Potter have fallen
on each others necks. they should
have had sagacity enough not to repeat
the tableau in public so soon. 1t is a
well known fact that both these men
have not hitched we'll for some time.
The misunderstanding which afterWard
Tlpened into strong political rivalry was
caused by the mayor refusing to appoint
friend of Potter named Brennan on
the police force. Potter went before
the police commission, as the records
will show, and asked 10 have Brennan's
application considered. The mayor pos
itively refused to consider it. and here
is where the trouble began. If Mime
apolis Republicans have succeeded in
bringing these two men together they
have certainly done great deal, but it
luoks more like an effort on Babb'S part
to kill off Potter than anything else.
1t is practically settled in Republican
quarters that change must be made in
the municipal court if Hennepin county
will elect a Republican legislative ma
jority. Judge Emery 'sfecent criticisms
on the administration, though we'll
founded, are not taken by the Republi-
cans in the spirit in which they were
given. The Republican leaders think
that the Judges business is to attend to
the municipal court, and if gambling
and open saloons on Sunday are toll
Grated by the administration, he is not
to blame. His fault-finding they regard
as slap in the face to the Republican
party of Minneapolis, the inference
being that similar state of affairs may
be expected if Republican mayor is
elected to succeed Babb This is the
way the Republicans regard his talk,
and for meddling in something that was
none of his business they propose to re-
lieve him of all responsibility so far
as good city government is concerned
when the legislature gets down to bust
ness. This, of course, may not be news
to Emery, but it is true just the same.
The only man who Endorsed Emery's de-
parture was DR.. Burrell, and what such
an Endorsement means need not be
dwelt on here. Emery's friends say he
regrets having used such strong Ian
guage, but saltpeter will not save him if
the Hennepin delegation to the legiSla-
ture is Republican.
There is quite hustle being made by
certain Republican lawyers for the va
cancies that will occur on the Hennepin