St. Paul daily globe., 1890-05-30
POLITICAL POThER.
Governor Merriam's Smooth
Friends Getting in Their
Fine Work.
Handicapped in Ramsey Coun-
ty by the Bad Record Of, ~ q
Leaders. IS lid
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So ail
A Catholic Protest Against
the Attitude Of President 4, 4,
Garfield a!99 ot
In the Subjects HandledsSbyi
the National Educational
Association. = &

Gov. Merriam'S SubOrdinateS are be-,
ginning to get live hustle on Them
selves, and it will not be their fault if
Merriam delegations are not returned
to the ''Snap" convention. Yesterday
E. r. Smith, chairman of the Repub-
lican county committee of LIE Sueur
county, held a little conference with
Deputy Insurance Commissioner E. FL.
Dearth, appointed from lie Sueur, by
the way, aud the statement was at once
promulgated that the Republicans of
LIE Sueur would hold their county con-
ventiOn for the selection of dele
gates to the state convention. on June
27. Prison Inspector Frank w.
Temple. likewise an appointee of the
present governor, resides in Blue Earth
City, and SO it is not at all surprising
that the announcement should be made
that the Faribault Republicans, ,princip-
ally Sim P. Child and Inspector Temple,
will also hold very early convention.
But these few small county c0nyen-
tiOns do not settle the fight by any
means.
And his excellency would give more
than $3.50 were he sure that the Ramsey
and Hennepin delegates would be
chosen before a new candidate is sprung.
u0 htpuDllCdIiS VI hdtllSGy cUuuty
are in bad way" remarked prom
Few reputable Republicans care to
take part in any party contest as long
as the men who are at the head of the
county and city organizations are main
tanned in their present positions. The
recent disgraceful exhibition made by
the county chairman, E. E. Mcdonald,
has damaged our prospects badly. Peo-
pie are not very apt to take much stock
in ticket nominated by such men.
Mcdonald ought to resign, but he won't
do it, The Republican party is the
minority party in Ramsey county, and
Its only hope for success at any time
lies in its leaders and its candidates
being above reproach. | am as strong
Republican as there is in the city, but
in my twenty years. residence here
never saw the Democratic organization
i'll as bad hands as the Republican ma
chine is now. The cause of this state
of affairs can be traced to the TACT that
men desiring to control the Ramsey
county delegations, a position on this
committee has come to be worth some
thing in hard cash. When men are
placed on these committees who are
there for work and nothing else, there
will be change, and not until them"
Twill there be any contest madeiln.
Ramsey county for delegates to the ap-
preaching state conyention?" r
''It is little early to answer that
question positively" was the answer.
There are negotiations on now looking
toward the bringing out of candidate
to oppose Merriam, and unless Chair
man Mcdonald and the rest of that let
do too much manipulating, think the,
followers of the present chief executive !.
will have their hands full to deliver the
delegation from this county in the con-
by the full orchestra right here
the situation is slightly different
In case the opposition succeeds
in getting together r. B. Langdon will
not be able to deliver that delegation.
There are a few men over there who's
can discount Senator Langdon as
worker and manipulation with ease, and
they will be against Merriam if there's
half show OF doing anything"
Ex-senator J. N. Castle, of Saltwater;
Hon. John F. Norrish, of Hastings,
and Hon. Michael Doran, of LIE
Sueur, helped to make up a lit
tie crowd of prominent Minnesotans
who were discussing politics in the
lobby of the Merchants yesterday.
Senator Castle is a very facetious sort
of a statesman at times, but he
said he was in dead earnest yesterday
when he suggested that the Democrats
nominate Gen. John B. Sanborn, of st.
Paul, for governor this year. Lets
nominate Sanborn," )" he said. ''and give
these free trade Republicans a
chance to do something" Gen.
Norrish, in laughing way, in
dorsed what Senator Castle had said;
and the ex-senator proceeded to narrate
an incident showing the drift toward
the Democracy Oh the tariff question.
Il was up north the other day with
John G. Nelson, the prominent Still
water lumberman," he said, land was
surprised at the way he expressed him.
self on politics. He said we had come
to the point where we had to bend or
break and for himself he preferred to
bend. There's a man, by the way. who
if he were elected governor would be
able to write his own message and
speeches and translate them into five
languages. He is an able man and
when he and men like him begin to
kick it means something"
Collector Marcus Johnson returned
yesterday from his hunting trip up
north looking as brown and healthy as a
man ever looked