St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
SUNDAY SIDESHOWS.

The funniest opens here Oh Saturday. The
Windsor hotel will be the headquarters of
the athletes from Chicago. Col. Monfort is
making extensive preparations for the event.
and the hotel is likely TO be turned into
gymnasium. The clerks, chambermaids and
tellboys are practising gymnastic feats in
contemplation of the event.
O.
LAWYER Merrill, of Aitkin, has hitherto
been a stalwart Republican. But the Nc
kinley outrage and the other overt acts of
his party have sickened him, and he can no
longer be counted in the fold. He was at the
Clifton yesterday
Il viii never vote a Republican ticket
again." he asserted. l am not promising to
vote either the Democratic or the Farmers
Alliance, or any other ticket. for that matter,
mind you 1t is my opinion at the present
that will remain purely independent, and
my course will not be in sympathy with any
one party.
what do think of the congressional sit
uation in my district? lam confident that
II. c. Stivers viii be the winner. He is
levelheaded politician and he has an honest
and convincing way. He is not an orator,
but he can make telling speech. / noticed
that in his course III the house of representa-
tiyes last winter he made an enviable record.
He never attempted to debate any measure
unless he had something to say. and he has a
happy faculty of saying things that carry
great weight and influence whenever he
takes the floor"
Hon. Charles A Ebert, the Minneapolis law
yer and Democratic war horse, was in ST.
Paul yesterday. Il have been down TO Red
Wing he said, ION a peculiar case. The
Minneapolis Salvation Army invaded the pre-
cincts of the down-riyer town few days ago
and offered the declaration that they would
never eyacuate the place until they HAD con-
verted every saloonkeeper IN the place. They
worked hard and enthusiastically to that end,
but their efforts were futile. The saloon
keepers organized and fought back They
had their voluntary saviors arrested as dis
tur6ers of The place. and have been down
there defending them. 1 will get out a writ
of habeas corpus tomorrow, and will have
them out of durance tefoce shutdown"
o.
Picnics-the .old-fashioned sort where ev-
erybody enjoys himself and sees to it that
everybody else is in a like happy condition
were the order of things yesterday The
most pleasant of these gatherings, possibly,
was that held at Becker's place in Inver
Grove, across the river. Among the patrons
W as j. j. Ahern. the astute clerk of the
municipal court, and he reports royal good
time.
''The politicians in our district are in that
peculiar condition that is called in Pima
fore at skies and seyens' I" said Col Chaun-
cey l.. Baxter, of Perham. at.the Ryan yester-
day. Mr. Baxter is the attorney for the
Northern Pacific road in the upper portion of
the state, and he is in st. Paul on business
connected with the road. He is Democrat
of the most pronounced type, and. should he
accept nomination, would be very likely
leader of the party in the next campaign for
congressional or legislative honors. Since
his father. the venerable Judge Baxter, of
Fergus Falls, withdrew from the political
arena to accept a judgship. the friends and
admirers of the two have looked upon c. L.
with the hope that he would take up the
partisan threads right where mis- father
dropped them some three or four years ago
to assume the judicial ermine. But he is not
fully convinced, however. that his material
interests are staked in politics, and he has.
therefore, never yet authorized the use
of his name i'll connection with any office.
Yet it is suggested, this motive modesty that
restraints himwill be overpowered some time,
when the voters in the district come to the
front i'll an insistent way.
o
Yes, the parties are all broken up Mr..
Baxter remarked, as the reporter pressed him
for an opinion. 1.-The Farmers Alliance
party has a strong hold, and it is partly gen
orally conceded they control the balance of
power under ordinary circumstances, at least.
There is a trio that are leaders of the
party however and they are badly rent
These three are Senator Hompe, Halver
Bohen and Mr.. Brandenborg. They
We're all, formerly, Republicans and
were considered leaders in Otter
Tail county. Well, they held their annual
meeting of the Alliance short time ago in
Fergus Falls, and Brandenborg was elected
president and Bohen secretary. Brandenborg
summary declined the honor in the event
Bohen accepted to serve, and the fight was
on. That was the very first public demon
stration of the feeling that had existed ina
covert way for many months. Bohen is q
popular man with the masses. He is now
serving his third term as register of deeds of
the county, and it created quite a sensation
when lie withdrew from the field and left
Brandenporg to work out the problem with
out further embarrassment But the wound
is deep. and is not likely TO heal very soon
Still. eXigencies are likely TO keep the two
from making a bad rupture in the party. 1t
will be an interesting fight, but l predict
fusion with the Democrats will be the ultima
tam, ana such a course will win. Halver
STEVENSON, of Crookston, is partly certain of
the Republican nomination Tor congress.
The Alliance party will undoubtedly nomi-
nate Hompe. and the sensible course for the
Democrats to pursue is to indorse him. The
Democrats certainly have no hope of elect
ing man on purely party lines, and should
they put up q man to run against Hompe and
Stevenson the chances would favor the lat
ter