St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-10
The Next Legislature Will be
Very Strongly Against the
Republicans.
Democrats and Alliance Will
Combine Upon All Politi cal
Affairs.
A Fair Reappoptionment For
Congressional Purposes Is
Assured.
The Speaker Will be an Al
lianee-Democrat From the
Country

NOW llldl llic ELECTION Is ONcl dlIu tiio
Republican party has lost control OF
both branches of the Minnesota IegiS
laturc, considerable time is being spent
in specializing over the organization OF
the house. Some Republicans still in
SiSt that Frank f. Scarle, of st. Cloud
who has generally been considered as
the railroad candidate for speaker. will
be able to pull through. but this is alb
solutely impossible At the lowest, the
Democratic and Alliance men in the
next house Will have clean majority
of twenty.
Will they unite on the organization?
Without doubt. Nearly all of the
Alliance members were supported by
the Democrats in their respective dis
trictS last Tuesday. while they were OPP
posed by Republican candidates. Be
sides this the Alliance and Democracy
agree on the main political issues of tile
day in Minnesota as we'll as the ma
tional issues.
The next speaker will in all probable
lily be taken from outside the Twin
Cities. Just who tbs man will be will
not be settled until the Democratic and
Alliance members have had an opp0r-
tunity to caucus on the matter There
is very general admiration of the gal
liant fight made by the Democracy
paign, and were 1t not for the fact
that both of the large cities have had
quite their share of honors in this drec
ton Minneapolis Democrat might be
chosen. AS il is the names of Hon. K.
I. Champlin, an Alliance and Demo-
cratic member-elect from Blue Earth
county; Hon. III. c. Stivers, a Demo
cratic Labor member. and Hon. John J.
Furleng, an acknowledgements of Move or
county. are BEING mentioned. ,B0th
Champlin and Furlong have served sew
eral terms in the Legislature in years
gone by, and all three arc most excel
lent men. In their hands, or in those
of a number Of others who might be Sc
lected from the ranks of the Alliance
and Democracy, the interests of the pro-
dueing element of the population of
this state would be perfectly safe.
With good, plain, houest man in
the speakers chair there might be
less red tape both socially and in bust
ness way about the coming session; but
the people will not grumble Mt this. A
speaker of the house is not elected for
social purposes. or, at least, he ought
not to be, and there is no reason to
doubt that when the legislature meets
men will get together and tremendously
agree OH a man for speaker.
Any other course will be suicidal to
the interests of both the Alliance and
the Democracy.
1t is particularly fortunate for the
Interests Of the people of the state that
the Republicans have lost control of the
legislature Of 1891. Before this body
will come the congressional reappor-
tlonment of the state, and the fact that
q bipartisan, or antl-Republcan. ma
Jority mas been elected will preyenta Re-
publican gerrymander Of the state that
would put the ''shoestring district of
ten years ago to shame. The Alliance
will be represented in the next congress
by Hon. kittel Halvorsen. and it will
be very strange, indeed, if the Alliance
men Ill the legislature do not insist on
district being carved ont for them in the
western portion of the state. And this
Will be only just and right. With nearly
one-f0urth of the votes OF the state in
their party, they Will be entitled to not
less than two members of the seven or
eight to which Minnesota will be en-
titled in 1892. Two strong Democratic
districts will undoubtedly be created,
and two equally as strong Republican
districts. III addition to these there
will be several in which it will be any
ones fight between the three parties.
All the Democrats and Alliance want
Ill this apportiOnment matter is justice
and fairness, and this they are in po-
sitiOn to demand and secure.
Strange as it may seem, after abusing
the farmers movement, its principles,
leaders and followers for nearly six
months, the Republicans are now hard
at work trying to win over enough of
Hnr, txNt ft,D.,1 -, q
the house. Their efforts will prove I'M
a,ailing. however, for the farmers of
the state have rather long memories,
and they will be rather slow
to surrender the very thing which
they have fought SO ilard to obtain.
They have the power to organize the
house and they will use it. for they
know That any union with the Repub-
licans will throw ali the committees
into the hands of the railroads, and thus
every advantage gained in the late cleo
ton will be lost.
the personnel of the new legislature
is away above the average. Hard
headed farmers and experienced bust
Less men predominate, and when it
comes together it will be for business.
If this business can be done in fifty OF
sixty days there is little doubt that the
members will finish it up in that time
and go home. There will be no
attempt to lengthen and draw
out the session as was done by
the disgraceful legislature of 1889, which
would undoubtedly have been in session
yet mad the laws given it authority to
hang on SO long. The ant-Republican
majority in the coming session will be
OH It's nettle. because it will be respon-
slble for everything done or left un-
done. Four things can safely be pre-
dicted Of tie legislature of 1891. They
are
First-A AlIlance speaker
of the homse will be elected.
Second-This speaker will not be
taken from either St. Paul. Minneapolis
or Duluth. all of these cities having re-
Gently had this honor.
Third-A fair confessional apportion-
ment will be made.
-Four th-It will be business session.