St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-02
Latent Feeling That Some
Convention Boomers Want
ali the Honors.
Postponement of the Pump
Investigation Just as 1t
Becomes Interesting.
No Successor to Public Ii
brarian Putnam Has Been
Found as Yet.
Past and Future Of the Single
Tax League--News From
the Courts.

Inc COuFLS.
There will be soreness galore in Min
Ieapolis before the Republican conven-
ton has come and gone. 1t will be all
on account of the way some of the
charge of the whole affair of getting
ready for the convention. The soreness
is already becoming manifest, and it
shows possibilities of rapid growth.
When Minneapolis put on her hus-
Ting clothes and set out to get the con-
ventiOn, the cry went up that it was
Minneapolis affair pure and simple,
with no faint of partisanship. The first
meeting, held in the Union league
rooms, for the initiation of the move
ment was of a strictly non-partiSan
character. All the public bodies
of the city were represented, and there
was nothing thought of politics. The
first movement made was to raise the
guaranty fund. When the business
men of the city were asked to put down
their names for good found sum, they
were not asked the color of their poll
tics. That was all right. Then came
the famous meeting in the Union league
rooms where the politics of the thing
first became manifest. Senator Wash
burn refused to have anything to do
with the movement if any Democrats
were put on the general huStling COM
mittee, and w. NJ. Regain declared that
there was no committee on earth big
nrh hi i'm
WaShburn to work on together.
All that was passed over Then
the committee went to Washington.
and the result was the convention will
come to Minneapolis. The laurel
crowned victorS returned with the cry
on their lips, This is no partisan affair;
the honor of Minneapolis is at stake, and
all good citizens must be enlisted in the
effort to take care of the convention
properly" All that was very nice. 1t
went with the multitude-for a few
days. The n-partisanShip of the con-
vention idea was manifest in the prep
arations for the mass meeting at armory
hall. Then the cry was that the
ton had done its work and that
it should be released from fur
Their duty. A demand was made that
a general non-partlSan committee of the
solid citizens of Minneapolis be ap-
pointed to take charge OF putting the
city in shape to take care of the con-
ventiOn. Again it was to be a Minneap-
oils affair. Everybody who could get
his name in the papers was confident
that there was no politics in the bring
Ing OF the convention to Minneapolis or
in the actions of the men who were so
anxious to get it here. All OF them
were working for Minneapolis, and
they had made the Republican national
committee see that Minneapolis was the
proper place TO hold the convention re-
CARELESS of politics. That was all.
A few nights later select cOterie of
the convention boomers met at the West
and virtually resolved themselves into a
general committee to take care of the
convention. They are setting out TO do
that without a word to the men who
are going to pay the freight. Hence the
soreness. The Democrats are not the
ones who dislike the manner of the men
who arrogate to themselves the honor of
taking care of the convention. Repub-
licanS feel the worst. A good many Re-
publicanS feel that few men are seek
ing to pose before the Republican party
at large as the men of influence in the
Northwest the men upon whom
will fall the honor of Secur-
ing the nomination for Jim Blaine
in his own back yard; the few
who are loyal enough TO entertain the
whole Republican party. 1t is easy to
see that there will be a good deal of
honor in 1t if the scheme can be made to
work. The thought is uppermost in the
minds of those who have been thrust
aside that the select coterie is virtually
saying, You fellows may pay for it all,
hat 81 %I,Dl Al.
sight and all that may come into view
later"
j. S. Clarkson. the chairman of the
Republican national committee, has
notified Col. John T. West that he, ac-
companied by Col. Meeks. the sergeant
alarms of the convention, will be in
Minneapolis about Dec. 10. Clarkson
asks that no rooms be reserved until after
| his arrival. That plan will be adhered
| to. 1t will not be-of the slightest use
| for any one to attempt to reserve rooms.
| The only benefit to be derived from an
| application now is that the application
will be placed on file for future action.
w. II. Hayes, the architect who had
charge OF the preparation of the expo
sition building for the Y. p. S. G. E.
convention, is at work on plans for con-
verting the building into a national
convention hall. He says that the
building can be made to accommodate
$1,000 people, but the people in charge
of the arrangements think that accom-
modations for $1,000 will be enough.
Mr., Hayes idea is to convert the art
gallery into an enormous restau-
rant with ample accommodations
| for all. The various committee
rooms, retiring rooms, press quar-
tiers and other rooms of a kindred
nature could be arranged in the rear on
the three lower floors. Particular at
tentiOn must be paid to the exits and
entrances, the idea being to have them
so arranged that each delegation can
get to and from its own section OF the
hall without Inconvenience. Mr.. Hayes
will submit his plans to the executive
committee and Col. Meeks as soon as
they reach the city.
The matter Of railroad fares to the
convention is as good as arranged now.
Chairman Finley, of the Western Pas
senger association, told Col. McCrOry
some time ago that a one-fare rate
would be made if the convention came
to Minneapolis. The association will
not take action on the matter until
ninety days before the convention. II
| is expected that the other associations