St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-06
LOOKING TOWARD CLoUGH.

Republicans Seeking the Man
They Spat Upon Two Months
Ago.
Ex-senator Clough is being mentioned
more and more every day as Repub-
lican candidate for mayor, despite his
emphatic announcement that he doesn't
want to be considered a candidate nor
to be nominated. However, Clough's
refusal to be candidate does not go to
such lengths as Loren Fietcher's. If
Clough were nominated without too
much of "a fight he would accept and do
his best to be elected. 1t is not just
clear, though, why the Republicans of
Minneapolis are now so anxious to NOM
mate Clough. 1t is not believed that the
men who are urging the lumberman's
claims and qualifications are in earnest,
or that they represent the feelings of
their party. They seem to have been
using hiSsname as a sort of a feeler
About TIVE months ago. when the Re-
publican State convention was in Ses-
sion, the men who were supposed to
represent the people of Minneapolis re-
fused to indorSe Clough for the nomina-
ton of lieutenant governor, and they
refused when such action meant that
the largest city in the state would have
no representative on the state ticket. If
Mr.. Clough was not good enough for
the second place on the state ticket, an
honorary position at the best, no w
comes it that he is so suddenly regarded
as the best man for chief executive of
big city?
An evening paper processes to have
tathomed the depths of A. j. Blethen's
mind, and to have discovered that the
editor of 1.-THE only thoroughly Ii and
aggressiyeR has been pounding the table
and agitating the atmosphere, as well
as clogging his press with calls for
Fletcher, from purely selfish motives.
1t is said that he wants to go to con-
greSS two years hence, and that he has
been urging Fletcher to run for mayor
SO that the old gentleman might have a
chance to kill himself politically, thus
leaving the field to Blethen. This new
story goes further, and declares that the
famous conclave of Wednesday night
was the outcome of Blethenian schem-
ing. There may be some truth in all
this, but the side-whiskered gentleman
denies it. He declares that his anxiety
to force the nomination upon Fletcher
is due solely to the belief that Loren
is the proper man to be NOM
mated. He asseverates further
most solemnly be it said, that he knew
absolutely nothing of the call for that
"confidentiaP' conference until he re-
ceived one of the secret miSSives, with
his own name attached. If A. JAY
really has undertaken TO down one l..
Fletcher he will have some sport.
If YOU want to find aldermanic can
didateS, go out to the Twelfth ward. A
resident of that section of the city is
responsible for this: Every family
out toward the falls has candidate for
alderman. In some families of three
persons there are two candidates.
except the Foster family; but then,
they are Democrats and hardly expect
to be nominated on the Republican
ticket. We can supply the whole city
with candidates, either in special orders
or job lots"
Adams wants to return to the council
from the Twelfth, but he will scarcely
succeed in getting the nomination.
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The Prohjbitionists will hold two con-
Ventions at Labor Temple to-day. The
county convention will be held in the
afternoon, while the city convention
will be held at 7o'clock tomorrow even
ing. The caucuses were held in the
several wards this evening. W. M.
Lawrence or A. j. Dean Will probably
be the party nominee for mayor.
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The Democratic candidates on the
county ticket will meet in j. R. Corri-
gan'S office, Bank of Minneapolis build
ing. this afternoon to discuss campaign
work. In the evening the delegates to
the legislature are to meet at the Jeffer-
son club.