St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-06
DISCIPLINE NEEDED.
Attorney General Clapp Re-
ported to Be With the
Farmers,
And They Propose to Place
Him on Their Ticket Next
Week.
Ole Lueken Still Undecided as
to Which Fat Office He
Wants.
John Lind, Badly Frightened,
Leaves Washington for
Home.

Is Attorney General Clapp with the
farmers in their fight?
The alliance convention, which will
meet in this city in little over week,
is destined to jar the Republican party
of Minnesota pretty badly. if it doesn't
shake the old machine clear to pieces.
The efforts of the Pioneer Press and
other dyed-in-the- wool Merriam organs
to create the impression that the
farmers were certain to end their con-
vention with gigantic row have been
such lamentabIe faIIureSthat they have
reacted and set the stock of the
alliance booming. They have learned
ere this that the faction upon which
they depended for trouble-raising pur
poses is too weak to accomplish the
task set for it, and, realizing this, has
fallen into line with the recognized
leaders and workers of the movement
and has at last promised to pull
straight to the end of the chapter.
This, naturally enough, has cast a
damper on the machine leaders and
shows their organs that the farmers re-
bellion can't be downed by stories OF
improbable disagreementS between ALI
ance leaders.
'Mose Clapp will be nominated for
attorney general by the farmers" was
the blunt manner in which one OF them
put it at the Merchants, yesterday aft
efnO0n.
The subject of candidates hasn't been
discussed to any great extent by the
farmers as yet, for the simple reason.aS
Secretary Lathrop says, because
there's no need of it. There will be no
dearth of good men to choose from, he
continued. land | can assure you that
two or three of the best men in the state
are willing to take our nomination for
governor. There will be plenty of good
and able speakers to take the stump,
and feel sure we are going to wln."
Notwithstanding this Discrimination of
the leaders to discuss candidates, it is
pretty safe to say that Attorney Cen
eral Clapp will be nominated without
opposition. and, as a prominent alliance
man put it Yesterday, eff this is done,
it's dollars to doughnuts that he accepts
the nomination"
What will the Republican bosses do
with the attorney general if he accepts
the farmers nomination?
Will they attempt to throw him over
beard as they wanted. yea, intended, to
do two years ago. when Mr.. Clapp de-
cIined to take hand in the three
eornered fight for the gubernaterial
nomination?
eff the bosses attempt to bulldoze
Nose Clapp, they are likely to burn
their fingers said an Otter Tail
granger to Secretary Lathrop, Gen.
Baker and several other prominent al
lance leaders yesterday afternoon.
'-Clapp is too strong man up our way
to make it safe for the Republican
party to attempt to monkey with him,
and do not believe they will dare
attempt it. / may be mistaken in my
calculations or there may be change
in public sentiment up our way, but l
believe that if Clapp were to be knocked
out for attorney general in the Repub-
lican convention nothing would prevent
the former from carrying Otter Tail
county, with the Democrats a good
second. We have long had what is
known as the Fergus Falls ring at the
head of and in control of our local
politics, and this year there is revolt.
The county is arrayed against the city,
and. to my mind there can be no doubt
of the result. The old ring has got to
go and with it the Otter Tail county Re-
publican organization.
Can the Republican leaders force the
attorney general to decline the farmers
nomination if it is offered to him?
Republican nominations in Minnesota
are no longer so eagerly sought as was
once the case. In little more than two
weeks the state convention of the party
will be held. and there aren't a dozen
avOWed candidates in the field for the
seven state Offices that are to be filled at
the coming election. In former years
things were not thus. Have the CAM
patgn assessments become so high that
only those who have been sucking Off
cial pap for term or two can afford to
be a candidate before Republican
state convention in Minnesota? Or do
coming events cast their shadow before
them?
For governor, of course, Gov. Merriam
is the only candidate mentioned, and
will need to enter into no deals with
candidates for other positions to secure
what he SO earnestly Graves. But" as
all Old-time politician remarked last
evening, ssthe imbecility of candidates
like Bobleter, Jones. Clapp and others
allowing the county conventions to in
Struct their home delegations for Mer-
riam as well as themselves passes my
comprehension. Col. Bobleter is very
apt to have fight on his hands i'll the
convention, and may find himself OPP
posed by the solid Scandinavian vote of
the body. Now, if the Brown county
delegation were for him alone he could
use it with telling effect in the event of
certain politicians combining to Shelve
him. The same thing may be said of
the other candidates who are In SINH
lar fix
Speaking of Col. Bobleter, calls to
mind story to the effect that when
Halvor STEVENSON and his cohorts come
down to this convention from their icy
mand that the keys of the state
treasury be turned over to their man,
Ole Lucken. They claim that the Nor
wegians have less than their share of
the state and federal places appOrtioned
to Minnesota. The fact that Col. Bob
Letter is German is also being used
against him in Scandinavian circles,
where the leaders are insisting that the
Germans are all going to the Demo-
cratic party, anyway, and that they are
no longer entitled to representation ON
the Republican state ticket.
OF course, Mr.. Lucken may change
his mind again and decide that he wants
Col. Jones' place as clerk of the supreme
court, DuIlLlS pretty certain tndG lie Will
not do this until Senator STEVENSON pulls
the string and-welI, HaIvor is good-nat-
ured enough, but his arm is becoming a
little tired. If Hans Mattson can only
keep his hand on A. G. Haugan''s neck
a few days longer Col. Bobleter will
have no opponent except MIR. Lucken.
OF course. if Mr.. Hangar should enter
the field he might give the colonel
yerv good race.
J. A. Tawney, the Winona lawyer,
who has been considered candidate for
the Republican nomination for attorney
general, came up to st. Paul day or
two ago, had conference with Gen.
Clapp, and has pulled out of the race, so
that there is now no serious opposition
to the denomination of the present at
torney general.
The anti-Lind men have got up such a
racket in the Second district that that
ardent representative of the protected |
interests of the East has started home |
ward to repair his fences. He fears |
ex-Congressman James b. Wakefield |
will leap into the arena again. we'll |