St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
CLOUGA IS SLATED.
Outside Forces Combining to
Place Him on the State
Ticket.
Hennepin Must Be Held In
Line at All HaZ-
ards.
Clapp Pulls Into the Race
and Mcclure Disap-
pears.
The Fight Narrowing Down
Considerably--"Tim"
Byrnes Appears.

Yesterday was emphatically day of
''shut outs" in the Republican pre-cOn-
vention hight.
Attorney General Clapp announced
himself as candidate for renomina-
ton, and this disposed of Auditor P. j.
Mcclure, of Polk county, as an aspirant
for the nomination of state auditor.
Senator 'sDave" CIough, OF Henne-
pin. was agreed upon by the slate
makers as the Minneapolis man to be
forced upon the ticket, in spite of the
protests of William Henry Eustis and
the balance of the Hennepin delegation,
and this does up both o. l.. Cutter, of
Anoka, as candidate for auditor, and
Senator Gid S. Ives, of st. Peter, for
lieutenant governor.
All sides agreed that F. P. Brown, of
Faribault county, should go on the
ticket for secretary of state, and thus
was Col. Hans Mattson 'shut out.0
The Norwegian delegates learned that
P. W. Wildt, of Faribault, was posing
under their coIors, when he should have
hoiSted the national emblem of Den
mark, and he was dropped into large
sized hole.
William Henry Eustis vociterously
claimed 245 votes for the anti-Merriam-
ties. but it was the general opinion that
William and the balance OF the Henne-
pin delegates had commenced to realize
that they had plunged headlong into
the mire, and were trying to discover a
way of extricating themselves with be-
coming grace.
The Hobbies of the Merchants pre-
scented an interesting appearance yes
terday. Many of the candidates and
more of their supporters were seheming
and plotting just as earnestly as though
they were about putting up winning
ticket. Gov. Merriam's lieutenants
were visible everywhere, although they
didn't appear to be doing more than
watching the delegates who had, and
were arriving. OF course, they kept
careful eye on the operations of the an
ti-Merriam workers, but this did not
appear to take much of their
Eustis was about the only man putting
in any work for "Nelson or Braden," as
he phrased it. n. H. Gjertsen and John
Goodnow tried to help Mr.. Eustis along,
but they couldn't keep up with his
claims in the early part of the day, and
utterly collapsed when the news came
that st. Louis county had been captured
by the governor. The different depart
ments of the state government were all
represented very strongly, the only en-
pioyeS at the capitol who were not on
hand and at work being the lady clerks
and stenographers.
Senator Buchanan was here, there and
every where urging the claims of his
friend, Hon. j. c. Flynn. for auditor.
No one escaped him, and late last even
ing he announced that so encouraging
had the outlook become that "Brother
Flynn had announced himself as can
didate." Up to that time Mr.. Flynn
had refused to enter the race, and
openly make the fight. The enthusiasm
and ardOr of Senator Buchanan, how
ever, finally brought him out, and late
last evening he asserted that he would
remain to the finish. F. P. Brown,
the choice of Southern Minnesota Re-
publicans for secretary of state, moved
quietly about. meeting the delegates as
they arrived. and felt very confident of
securing third place on the ticket.
Many of his delegates from the Second
district reached the city last evening,
and at once took off their coats and
went to work for him. Col. Mattson
dropped into the lobby during the after
noon, but remained but a very short
time, his assistant, Col. Stockenstrom,
being placed in charge of his interests,
Although many of the candidates
opened headquarters early in the morn
ing, the crowd stuck to the Hobbies.
Gov. Merriam and the Ramsey county
delegations are located on the second
ho Pr,
and Parlor A, while the ''kids" have the
ladies' parlor. Senator &. S. Ives has
ROOMS. Col. Bobleter A and B, Col.
Mattson 81 and so, j. C. Flynn 10 and
30, p. V. Wildt K, and the Hennepin
delegation is to be found at Parlors l.,
Nj and n.
Senator Clough, Sam Hill and Henry
Brown, of Minneapolis. were among
the hardest Merriam workers yesterday,
and late last evening it was announced
that MIR. Cl0ugh had consented to go on
the ticket for lieutenant governor as
the Hennepin representative on the
ticket. When this was preached to Mr..
Eustis he declared that the Minneapolis
men would accept nothing of the kind.
I'VE passed resolution" he said,
Ito the effect that we would
neither ask nor accept a place on that
ticket. Now, if we are men and meant
what we said. you know that we will
never consent to the conventions fore
ing any man from our county ON the
ticket. This boom for Clough is being
engineered by the slickest politicians in
the state, and is designed to prevent
the Hennepin county delegates setting
up the cry that the largest Republican
county in the state has no representa-
tive on the ticket. Gov. Merriam is
really at the bottom of the scheme, and
CIough has been selected partly
for the reason that outside Sam Hill, he
is the only Merriam in Minneapolis of
any prominence, and partly because the
governor is strong friend of Clough.
These forces find able assistants in the
ranks of Flynn and Mcclure, who are
anxious to drive o. l.. Cutter, of AnOka,
out of the race. OF course, the friends
of Senator Ives, of st. Peter, don't like
hope to secure more than two of the
six nominations that are to be made,
and these two are almost dead
sure to be Col. B0bleter for state treas
urer and F. P. Brown, of Blue Earth
City, for secretary of state. While the
slate-maKers haven't got In their deadly
work to any extent yet, the ticket may
look when completed something as fol-
lows:
Governor, ". R. Merriam, Of Ramsey
county.
Lieutenant governor. David NJ. Clough, OF
Hennepin.
Secretary of state. F. P. Brown, Of Fari-
baulJ.
Treasurer, Col. Joseph Bobleter, of Brown.
Auditor, j. G. Flynn, of Morrison.
Attorney general, M. E. Clapp, OF Otter
Tail
Clerk of the supreme court, Charles p Hol-
comb, of Washington.
This "slate" presents the three neces-
sary elements for success, according to
Col. Hans Mattson's Minneapolis Swed-
ish organ, for it bears the names of
representative citizen of each of three
nationalities, Norwegian, Swedish and
German. Mr.. Brown, though resi-
dent in this state since 1854. was born
in Norway, although many would take
him for s'dowp East Yankee" Col.
Bobleter, of course, represents the Ger
mans, and Sheriff Holcombe, of Still
water, the SwedeS. The latter, how
ever, may have to give way to a
representative Swede from the First
district, in order to have that district
represented on the state ticket. We're
P. w. Wildt, of Faribault, Swede, he
would be given the nomination. This, of