St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-24

This may seem to be trivial matter,
but it is far from being such to at least
several of the present corps of state Of
ficers who are working for renomina-
tiOnS. Suppose, for instance, that SEN
ator d. NJ. Clough, OF Hennepin county,
is nominated for lieutenant governor
and Col. Bobleter is defeated by Ole
Lucken or some other Scandinavian for
the nomination for state treasurer.
what chance would Col. Mattson,
of Hennepin also, have of being
nominated for secretary of state? I'm
der the circumstances it is not at all
surprising that Col. MattsOn should feel
rather warm over the matter. "While
there is no positive law regulating this
matter" said friend of Secretary
Mattson yesterday, sit is one of those
things recognized by custom so long
and one might say the rank, of
each officer of the state is regu-
lated by the constitution of the
state, and while, of course, this does not
command political conventions to sched-
ule them in the same way, the party Or
ganizations have in the past always fol-
lowed this authority, and Col. Matt
sons friends would like to know why a
change has been made at this time. His
nomination is reasonably sure under
the old order, for the simple
reason that two Americans will
be nominated for the two leading of
fees, and If the nomination of candi-
date for secretary of state came next,
there would be little doubt Of Secretary
Mattson being named. If the conven-
ton attempts to make the nominations
in the order they are named in the ''of-
Gain mi fhnr.f nil -
If thit new scheme is carried out it's
effects will be far-reaching 1t
will establish precedent for
naming the different offices in any
order best suited to the plans of
the men at the head of the party ma
chine in all future calls. Two years
hence certain faction may want to
name the nominee for attorney general
early in the day and it will be placed
on the call as the third one for which
candidate is to be nominated, and state
treasurer may go to the foot of
the list. AS veteran First
district politician remarked yester-
day. these things even themselves
up in the end, and the fellows who
make point by this clever manipuIa-
tion are very likely to get the worst of
it the next time" This is philosophy.
to be sure, but it will fail to comfort
Col. Hans Mattson if he is the first vic.
tim to be slaughtered.
Auditor Braden's friends do not like
the idea of his nomination being placed
so near the end of the list, when
it should come In as No. on
the list, and they are commencing to
object in most threatening manner.
They reason good deal after this man.
uer: Suppose Col. Mattson is defeated
in the convention by an American, and
Col. Bobleter secures a denomination.
there will then remain but three offices
to be filed. Attorney General Clapp's
denomination is assured, and but two
offices would be left-thOSe of auditor
and clerk of the supreme court, and
both would have to go to the Scam
dinavians. No Republican state ticket
has been placed in the field in late years
in Minnesota that has not contained the
names of representative man of each
of the two leading Scandinavian nation
alities, the SwedeS and the Norwegians.
and it Is very unlikely that a new de-
parture will be made this year. Taken
all In all, there might be con-
dition of affairs brought about in
the coming state gathering Of the Re-
publicans, when the pine ring, which,
by the way, is after Capt. Braden's
scalp because he refused to allow them
to steal all the timber they wanted off
the lands of the state, aided by the feel
ing that the Scandinavians must be
given something" might make it very