St. Paul daily globe., 1890-05-28

| ~. s4oR0ocs preml4set pre IN tss pdII- fl,
tics of the
'B | o d y
Fifth" Mr.. Stordock was Clarendon
guest yesterday. He is now running a
large elevator at Rothsay in Wilkin
county, and declares that outside of
what interest he may be obliged to take
| as good citizen, he is through with
| politics.
Before making any remarks on polit-
| ical Subjects" said Mr.. Stordock to a
GLOBE reporter yesterday, Il want to
state that do not want to say anything
unkind of Gov. Merriam. have no
| grievance against him. Whatever l
| may have against some of his friends
and backers,I have nothing against him.
| think he is man who would rather
do right than wrong, but you know
there are some things beyond his con-
troll. A man may be SO tied up that he
cannot act as he ought to. and that is
| just the case with Merriam"
''To what do you refer in particular,
Mr.. Stordock asked the reporter.
"Well, lot of rings have grown up
around the states institutions that are
robbing the people at every turn" was
the reply. "Now do not understand
| the state officers. These things are be-
yond their control. This money is given
these rings in the shape of contingent
| funds, and there is no way to root out
this corruption except by general
cleaning out in all departments of the
state government. | don't care who
does it, whether the Republicans or the
Democrats, only so it is done. Republi-
can nominations have been equivalent
| to elections so long in this state that a
change is absolutely necessary. That
| there are at present grave abuses exist
! ing in all parts of the state government
will not be denied by those conye.Sant
with affairs as they exist"
''How do the farmers of the Fifth dis
trict take to the early convention
| scheme?"
The farmers are greatly dissatisfied
over the committees action in fixing so
early date for the state convention,o
was the reply. ''It is too early for the
county conventions, and catches them
at the wrong time. They cannot afford
the time in July to take part in the
choosing of delegates to the convention,
and the consequence will be that in
most counties few politicians will get
together at the county seat in each
county and elect themselves delegates
to the convention. There will be few
real conventions held that will properly
represent the people,"
us there any opposition to the re-
nomination of Gov. Merriam in your
part of the state?" queried the GLOBE
man.
"There is now no organized opposi
ton to him. as far as have been able
to learn," said Mr.. StordOck in reply.
''There would have been an attempt to
defeat him made had the convention
been set tor September instead of July,
as ought to have been done. But the
early date of the convention has headed
off the opposition at the primaries. The
people will hardly feel bound to sup
port the ticket nominated in this way in
the Fifth district, at least. The people
up north are going to vote very inde-
pendently this year, and the contest
will be close one there. Of course it
| depends in measure whom the oppo-
sition nominate. L take it for granted,
however, that Bierman will be the
nominee of the Democrats, and, if he
| is, l believe he will carry the Fifth
district, by big majority. 1t Will not
do for the Republicans to forget that
| this is an off year, and that there are
great many splits in the party and a
general feeling of dissatisfaction and
unrest among the people throughout
| the state. In my opinion, there are
great many of us in that upper country
who will not stick so close to party as
we have done in the past. AS l said be-
fore, am out of politics, however, and
| in the future propose to make my
money out of business, and allow the
| others to make theirs out of politics, If
| they want to and can. All l desire is
! good government, and this shall work
| for whenever | can."
Col. Hans Mattson is not to have a
| WaIk-over for a denomination for sec
retary of state, nor will an eleventh
hour candidate be sprung upon him.
| F. P. Brown, of Blue Earth City, is now
in ST. Paul; and, while he has not
opened headquarters at the Clarendon,
| he is there looking over the field and
| sizing up his chances of defeating Col.
Hans in the coming state convention.
Mr.. Brown is very pleasant gentle
| shrewd politician. He has lived in
Minnesota since 1861, and for sixteen
wears of this time filled the Office Of reg
lister of deeds of Faribault county.
"While | am not an American-born citi-
zen," said Mr.. Brown yesterday to a
GLOBE reporter, 81 have lived in
| America since 1854, and | consider my
self pretty nearly an American citizen"
And he had the look of a real Yankee
from the state of Maine. He is, how
ever, Norwegian by birth, and it will
be very surprising if he doesn't make
| the contest an interesting one for Secre-
| tary Mattson along in the warm days of
July.
| A. ]. Davis, of Butte, was registered
| at the Merchants yesterday. Mr.. Davis
| is a nephew of the wealthy A. j. Davis,
who died at Butte few months ago,
| possessed of many millions of this
worlds goods. Young Mr.. Davis IS one
of the principal heirs. but will be
temporarily embarrassed in the way OF
| gaining possession of his fortune by the
| contest which has been started over his
uncle's will.
| A trio of Southern Minnesota legal
lights were registered at the Merchants
yesterday in the persons of Judge A. d.
| Perkins and County Attorney. j. G. Red
| ding, of Cottonwood county, and Daniel
| Rohrer, of WorthingtOn. Judge Per
kins has for some time been on the
| bench of his district, and is said to be
| good for it for the balance Of his days.
County Attorney Redding has for two
OF more terms prosecuted the CRIMINALS