St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
kNENT THE GOVERNOR
Is the Talk Among the Min
neapolis Republicans
Just Now.
Merriam Will Get the Henne-
pin Delegation When He
Wants 1t.
The Doodle Investigation Pro-
noted to Keep Out a
New Scheme.
The Latest Plan to Retain
Power in Case of a DEM
oeratie Mayor.

Power IN case or q DEM
oeratie Mayor.
The efforts Of certain Republican
leaders in Minneapolis to convince the
people that the recent meeting of the
Republican state central committee was
held in the interest of the party, and
not of any particular candidate, are not
being received with as much credulity
as the leaders would wish. 1t was the
intention of certain faction to do all
they could towards getting as early a
convention as possible, In order to de-
feat McGill, but the compromise, it
seems, does not help him out very
much-so his friends say. Of course
the latter, when compared with Mer-
RAMS following in the Flour City, are
very few, and the general opinion
among Republicans is that when the
time comes Merriam will get the Hen
nepin delegation. There will be more
political work done in Minneapolis by
the Republicans during the coming two
months than has been for a long time.
The Republican party Of Minneapolis
is now broken up into three factions on
the gubernatorial question. One IS
for Merriam, a second for McGill,
and a third for Scheffer, or any
man who can beat either Merriam OF
McGill. Merriam's friends believe in
standing by him because he has barrel
Of large proportions, which he proposes
to tap often from now until November
They say this not being presidential
year, and there being much dissatisfac-
ton among the country folks, nothing
short of money can accomplish Repub-
lican success. They rely entirely on
the money factor to bring them into
power. They affirm that the Demo-
Gratis have got better chance OF carry
Ing the state this year than ever before,
and the man at the head OF the Repub-
lican ticket will not count half as much
as money in the campaign. For this
reason and no other they are deter
mined to stand by Merriam to the last,
and this fiction is made up of the most
of the leading Republicans of Mime =
neapois. They claim that McGill is
too weak, and that an ordinary Demo
crat would defeat him. The trouble
seems to be that McGill'S barrel is not
so large as Merriam's, and, as Loren
Fletcher would have more TO say than
McGill in case the latter was elected,
the result would be less satisfactory to
some of them than if Democrat were
elected.
Ex-Gov. McGill has quite number Of
friends III Minneapolis who would be
glad to see him defeat Merriam, and
they are hard at work with that end IN
view. they recognize in Merriam a
powerful adversary, and are not too
modest to confess that. he Is a very
strong opponent. But they believe
they can get enough strength from the
country when convention time
comes around to nominate their
man. They have already prepared
small pamphlets containing Nc
GilFs recent interview on being
NboOdled out of Office" and have sent
them to their friends IN the country in
the hope of creating a feeling IN favor
of their candidate and against Mer-
Ram. In some cases, however, these
little pamphlets have not been we'll re-
ceived, even by OutspOken friends Of
McGill, because Of the spirit of re-
venge that permeates them. These
friends of the ex-governor do not like
this method of soliciting political
refused to do anything more for
their gubernatOrial candidate unless
such means of procuring nom
inaliOn were abandoned. This, need
less to say, has been the first black eye
the Minneapolis admirers Of McGill
have received, and 1t threatens to spread
like walking boil all over their physi-
Ognomy. They have also found, much
to their surprise, that Merriam's free
trade speech did not hurt him as much
as they at first supposed, and, instead
of ringing that in on him, will carefully
refrain from touching that matter at all.
They propose to fight him on the plat
form of too much money in politics" "
Albert Scheffer, the Teutonic knight,
has many friends III Minneapolis who
would be glad to see him defeat both
Merriam and McGill, and they are at
work, too. They expect to be able to
hold the balance of power between the
Merriam and McGill men when the Hen
nepin delegation comes to vote on the
unit rule. The Merriam men have al
ready decided that the Hennepin dele
gaUi0n must go to the state
convention pledged to the unit rule
and the McGilland Scehffer men are just
as determined that they shall not, If
they can prevent it. The Scheffer men
in this way hope to hold the balance of
power and perhaps secure the McGlll
delegates when it becomes evident that
McGill cannot be nominated. If this
scheme. which is now settled on, is
carried out the Merriam men from Hen
nepn may find it difficult to dictate
anything. A suggestion has been made
which, if carried out, may deprive Mer-
RAM of the entire Hennepin delegation.
1t is that the McGill and Scheffer dele
gates to the convention which will elect
delegates to the state convection. hold
an ante-conYentiOn caucus and agree il
possible on the unit rule, providing,
however, that their united delegations
Outnumber the Merriam men. They
could then support McGill or Shelter as
long as either had the better show IN
the convention. This would cut Merri-
am out of any support from Hennepin,
and might be the means of defeating
him. If there is any possibility of en-
gineering such scheme it will be done,
for there are Republicans in Mlnneapo-
lis who would do almost anything to
beat Merriam.
r. B. Langdon is not going to fight
Merriam, after all, and Loren Fletcher
and Charley Gilman are very mad about
1t. Though Loren dined with the gov
ernOr last week at the Merchants, and
looked as happy as big sunfiower, still
he is not going to support him. His
sweet smiles, as he sat by the govern
or's right arm at table, evidently came
from the conviction that the latter
showed his anxiety to bury the Ratchet
and call it square, rather than from the
fact that il was buried. Fletcher con-
fessed to the states chic Executive that
he was giving no attent p 10 politics
and did not know as he 9 ted to. He is