St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-09
PUZZLE IN POLITICS.
District Committees to Be
Named by the State Gen.
trail Committee,
Because the New Apportion-
ment Wipes Out the Old
Members.
A Hubbub Created Among
Candidates by the New
Order,
And the PoStponement Or
depad tn Allow a Gather
And the Postponement Or
dered to Allow a Gather
ing Of Forces.

The meeting of the Republican state
central committee, to be held in st.
Paul a week from next Saturday, prom
iscs to be an interesting affair. Already
there are mutteringS of discomfort by
the leaders over the programme that is
being formulated for them TO act upon,
and there is tendency to kick plainly
evident. Some of the bosses insist that
the senatorial question shall be injected
into the meeting, and some action taken
in regard to the nomination of candi-
date for senator at the next state con-
vention. The friends of Senator Davis
are insisting upon their favOrlte being
nominated at the state convention for
the reason that in the event of
a Republican legislature being chosen
it will be forced to re-elect Mr..
Davis. The opposition argues that it
would be unwise to plunge the SELL
atorial contest into the state campaign,
intimating that Senator Davis will prove
a source of weakness to the cause on ac-
count of his action on the Pacific rail
road matter. The latter are quite likely
to be in the majority on the commit
tee, and the call will not enumerate "a
candidate for United States senator"
But this is not the only thing that is
worrying the boys and giving them
uneaSiness. The Republican national
committee is a well-boSsed collection OF
statesmen. and so when they prepared
their call for the national convention Of
next year they just inserted clause
for the benefit of their friends
the local bosses. This clause author
ICES the Republican state central COM
mittee Of Minnesota, and that body in
every other state that was redistricted
for congressional purposes last winter,
to appoint new congressional commit
tees iii every congressional district OF
the state. 1t runs as follows:
The congressional district delegates shall
be chosen at conventions called by the con-
Rressional committee of each such district in
the same manner as the nomination for
representative in congress is made in said
district: provided that in any representative
district where there Is no representative con-
gressional committee, owing to the redis-
trictlng the state under the new congress
SiOnal apportioument, the Republican state
central committee shall appoint from the
residents of such district a committee for
the purpose Of calling district convention
10 eject district delegates.
This means that Chairman Heatwole
and his fellOwmembers of the state CEN
trail committee will, at the coming
meeting, appoint congressional commit
tees in every congressional district in
the state. This fact inSnreS the pres
ence of Uncle Loren Fletcher, who
hopes to be the nominee in the Fifth
district next year; of Hon. c. r. Davis,
Lieut.. Gov. Ives, Hon. 0. B. TurrelI,
Senator f. A. Day. and other Second
district candidates; of Hon. Nate King
sley, A. ID. Gray, Hon. NJ. II. Dunnell,
Gen" Jim Diment and other First
district aspirants. The entire "kid''
IF ~ x,,ifI l,f,
to secure the reappOintment of George
Lamb as chairman of the Fourth dis
trict committee. From the Sixth dis
trict may be expected the friends of the
SearleS, Hartley. Mitchell, Eaton.
Graves. and a half hundred
others, motley, kicking crew. The
Seventh district will be looked after by
j. W. Mason, of Fergus Falls, ex-COn-
gresham COmstOck and eX-Lieut. Gov.
Rice. The Third district will receive
the tender services of Gen. S. p. Jenn-
son. of Red Wing, and Capt. A. ii.
Reel, two old veterans.
There is no doubt whatever that the
members of the present district commit
tee Will insist upon being reappointed,
as each represent county, and if they
are not there will be wal. Already
there are hosts of applicants marshaling
their forces, and we'll they may, for
upon the construction of these commit
tees depends to a certain extend the
fate of aSpirants for seats in the Mime
apOlS convention as we'll as nominations
for congress.
Another thing that will cause trouble
Will be the move to increase delegates
at large from each county. This is to
be done for the purpose of cutting down
the big delegations from these cities or
rather to increase the representation Of
the country, and so prevent the big
cities from running the conventions.
The city members of the committee
will oppose this to the end. Altogether
1t will be an interesting meeting as
well as an important one.