St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-21
The Ailment That Killed the
Union League Republic
can Club.
Treaehery in the Ranks and
No Money in the Strong
Box.
What a Prominent Member
Says Of Aid. SanboPn's
Denial.
dump the Whole Concern
in the River Down at
Pigs Eye"


club gone out of business, or is it only
slumbering until the business of pol
tiles becomes more profitable?
No one even hears of any meetings
being held by the organization, and no
prominent visiting Republicans have
been entertained by the club as a club
for 10, these many moons. But Aid.
W. II. SanbOrn in the morning Repub-
lican organ of yesterday states that the
Union League is still an active organiza-
ton, and will be heard from later. He
Indignantly denies the facts stated in
fridays GLOBE according to this paper.
but this must be a mistake. Mr.. San
born could not have read the GLOBE
article. The actual demise of the Union
league was not asserted, on the contrary
the GLOBE article expressly stated
that the club still had a nominal
existence and occupies a small room
in the EndicOtt arcade. What
the GLOBE did not say Mr.. SanbOrn did
not deny. and he will not. for the sim
pie reason that there is an abundance of
evidence in existence to establish every
point made. In fact so accurate were
the statements that ID. f. Reese, one of
the shining lights in the camp
of the supporters of Lamb and his
allies confessed, after reading the arti-
Gle of Friday, that it was pretty straight
and must have come from some one
who knew what he was talking about.
The fact of the matter is that Aid.
SanbOrn's denial is complete confirma-
ton of all the statements made in Fri
days GLOBE. He asserted the club
was still i'll existence; the GLOBE
admitted this, but remarked npon
Its life's precariOuS character. 1t was
stated that many of the organizers had
resigned from the organization and
their reasons, or rather some of them,
were given. Aid. Sanborn did not deny
these statements. Now that Aid. San
born has started into the business of
denying rumOrs about the Union league
he may as we'll continue in the
occupation and tell whether or not he
has received letters of resignation from
any of the prominent members of the
Union league.
Some OF the designations were cOuched
i'll language that was very expressive,
so expressive, i'll fact. that the eXecu-
tive committee of the Union league
has been wrestling with them for
nearly year. In these letters
the charge was openly made that some
of the leaders in the club had betrayed
the party ticket in both the spring and
Will Aid. Sanborn deny these facts?
But there are a great many reasons
why Aid. Sanborn gave only a qualified
denial of the reports in regard to the
Union league. A member of the Re-
publican party of Ramsey county, al
most as prominent as the Seventh ward
alderman himself, was seen i'll regard
to the matter last evening and requested
to express what he knew in
regard to the Union league. He had
read Aid. Sauborn'S remarks, and he at
once said:
81 was member of the Union league, and
| don't know whether you can say the club
is dead or whether it is merely mOribund. If
II wasn't dead beyond resurrection last fall
wouldn't it give kick, however feeble, to
indicate Its existence? Throughout that
campaign it remained, in point of quietude,
at least as dacent corpse as ever made the
acquaintance OF a body snatcher. Not even
Bean, who, in conjunction with his
manager Johns, sold out everything Repub-
hcan in that campaign, got the benefit of a
resolution from it. Why did not that $500 or
some part of it, If 1t or any part of it were
intact, go into that campaign! No, my dear
sir you Democrats have gotten the right SOW
by the ear on this trip"
We'll, but you observe Aid. Sanborn testi-
fes to the healthfulness of the Union
1eague?'
oh Sanborn is all right-for Sanborn."
YVES the reply. He has constituted the
chief stock i'll trade of the kid element i'll
this community since their present disrepute
Overcame them and politically, at least, is
quite as respectable as they are-no more
no less. What did you know Sanborn TO do
in the last campaignG He worked for Beam
on, yes. on the same plan of operations as
did Johns and Bean, and the Johns
and Bean circular, which the GLOBE told
about, is fair sample of this work. He
worked for Bean and the city hall gang This
is my estimate OF Mr.. Sanborn's fitness and
~ l. - -
Ramsey county. 1t would be a good thing
for decent politics in this community, Demo-
cratic as well as Republican. if the entire
outfit were taken down to Pigs Eye and
dumped into the Mississippi some where in
that classic vicinity
Shortly after the close of the last
campaign, now nearly year ago, there
was meeting of the Union league
called. The opponents of Lamb, Reese
and Col. Kiefer protested against the
club continuing longer in existence. A
vote was taken upon a proposition to
diSband, and it was voted down by one
vote. The meeting finally broke up in
a row, and then the members opposed to
the crowd in control began to send in
their designations. For some reason
these have never been acted upon by
the club, or, if they have. no intimation
OF their acceptance has ever been sent
TO the members as should have
been done. This action for
time past has been exciting
the suspicious of the former members,
and as one of them remarked last even
ing. There may be method in their
madness"
The Union league was regularly in
cOrpOrated, and the incOrpOratorS, UNI
less they are allowed to resign, are re-
SpOnsible for the debts the organization
,fvoa In, I,oIo i. r
the Union league it never had a large
surplus for the reason that the member
ship was never large. But in The last
year and half no new members have
been received, and few of the old ones
have paid their dues. For these reasons
there will be demand made by some
gentlemen, who have resigned, that the
club act upon these resign atoms. If
this is not done there will be music, and
perhaps trouble.
1t will be observed that Aid. Sanborn
made no reference to the situation of
the Union leagne after the row which
he mentions took place, nor does he
mention the causes leading to the trou-
bic. But he will not deny that charges
of treachery to the county ticket
were preferred against some of
the prominent members of the
crowd in control. But it is
unnecessary to say more concerning the
Union league. 1t is as near dead as
any corporation under the laws of this
state can be aud exist, and it will soon
be out of pain. And it was killed by
that faction of the kids which is accuS-
toned to follow the lead of eX-chairman
of the Fourth District Congressional
committee, George Lamb.