St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12
A Contest Between Two Ele-
ments of the Republican
Party.
"Doe" Fish Finds One Of the
Sage's Confidential Cir
cularS.
And Sorrows" Over the Fall
en- Greatness of His Old
Friend.

Davis. The recent overwhelming Ut
feat of the Republican party i'll the ma
ton has put new face on Minnesota as
well as national politics, and the Re-
publieans who cherish ambitions that
can be gratitied only 10y the success OF
the party in the future in this state are
decidedly FESTIVE. 1t is daily becoming
more evident to them that Senator
Davis reelection can 40 them no good,
while at the same time it is almost GER
tain to hasten the downfall OF the party
in the state.
"We have got to change our position
Oil the tariff and the force bill, said
members of the Republican state central
committee yesterday. The people are
not with us on these questions, and 1t
will be the sheereSt folly to persist III
course that will insure defeat. The re-
election of Senator Davis will be taken
by the people to mean that the Repub-
licanS of Minnesota propose TO Stanu
firmly by the issues on which we were so
overwhelmingly Repudiated.
The Republicans of Minnesota have not
been high prOtectiOniStS at any time III
the last dozen years"
That this feeling is growing every
day is proven clearly by the course OF
the Republican papers OF the state.
Up to within few days every
party organ religiOuSiy proclaimed
that there was and would be no opposl-
ton to Senator Davis reelection. Now,
however. the papers, however loyai 10
the senior senator, have been Obliged tn
take notice of the situation. This was
shown by the article published i'll the
Minneapolis Journal of Saturday.
1.-The opinion of some of the Republl-
can leaders. men who are high in the
councils of the party" said the journal.
lis to the effect that there will be long
and bitter fight in the old capitol build
ing this winter before Senator Davis is
| chosen to succeed himself. Some even
| 90 so far as to say that Davis can hardly
| be elected at all, and that this fact Will
| be made very clear before the legiS-
| lature conyenes. Coming from such
! good authority this view of the SItua-
| ton can hardly be sighted, and the
| Journal prints it for what it is worth,
| that its readers may understand the
| situation perfectly.
For more than week the members OF
| the legislature have been turning their
| steps towards st. Paul. Several of the
senators and several members OF the
| house are
Already in the Field
! and have taken possession of their win
| ter quarters. Many others are coming
| and going, spending one or more days
week i'll the Capital City, and meeting
| in little groups ut the Merchants to
| compare notes. The candidates for
| legislative places have been busy col
| lectlng opinions from the members VINO
hover around st. Paul and from those
| who have not left their homes. anu
Hail q
! the news eenterS, and are being re-
| ceiyed with considerable respect"
Other Republican papers have also
| taken notice of the contest, and today
| there is not county in the state where
| the fight is not on between the ultra
protective tariff theory aud those OF the
| other class who believe in learning by
experience. The fact that Senator
| Davis has had clear field for year
| has undeniably given him an advantage,
and had President Harrison won he
would have been invincible. But the
defeat of the president has altogether
changed the situation, and the party Or
gans are being forced to look at 1t III
different light. The Journal alludes to
| this changed condition in an apologize
manner, saying:
'.In the first place, there is the old
state on the tariff, that he is too high
tariff"
Demands Of the Country.
The demand by the country for one of
the two senators the Journal diSmisSeS
far too slightly; for while the farmers
and merchants in the outside districts
do not make as much noise as well-paid
ward heelerS, they do a great deal of
thinking, and there is no denying the
| fact that the people outside the Twin
Cities have for some time cherished the
| idea that it is neither fair, right. nor
| lust for two cities, that are really
one. having both the United States
senators, while the country with
| three-quarters of the population has
none. OF course this condition of things
cannot continue, and, if representa-
tive of the outside districts does not
succeed Senator Davis, nothing can pre-
vent such man taking the seat Of Sen
ator Washhurn two years later. Wheth-
er this fact has worked its way into the
heads of the friends of Mr.. WaShburn
cannot be stated absolutely. but the fol-
lowing from the Minneapolis Journal
seems to indicate as much:
Opposed to Tashburn.
Zone of the chief things against Mr.
Davis at this time, and the thing that is
being discussed very actively in ST.
Paul. is his alleged disregard of court
esy in his Intercourse with his equals
and men who are being depended upon
to help him. 1t is said that Davis is en-
tirely lacking in diplomacy, and has
been so careless in his intercourse with
Minnesota leaders as to ALLEVIATE them
in many cases. The difficulty that
Senator Washburn has IN getting along
with him is we'll known. Davis is ac-
cused OF being stubborn. high-tem-
pered, dietatoral, selfish and egotiSti-
cal. If can get measure through in
Washington without the support of
Washburn he does it. and the junior
senator does not hear of it till it comes
to him through the press. Ii he has to
ask Waslfburn'S help, he dues it in a
disdainfuI way, always leaving the i'm
preston that he does II simply because
he has TO.
This is the story that has come from
Washington time and time again, and,
while Senator WaShburn has never con-
| firmed it, it is believed by great many
people, who say it is the way Davis acts
toward leading men at home. His per
Sund following in the state Is quite
| large, but it is, for the most part. con-
| fined 10 men who have no especial per-
! sonal acquaintance with him. The SELL
ator is said 10 have very few personal
| friends among the Minnesota politicians.
yet this, of itself. would hardly be suffi-
cient to bring about his overthrow.
Ibis personal following in the state is
quite large. but it is confined to men
who have no special personal acquaint-
ance with him. He is stubborn, high
tempered. dietatoriai, selfish and ego
tiSlical."
Does not this mean that the friends of
Mr. Washburn arc in the anti-Dayis
| fight?
Senator WaShburn is not Mckinley
| tie, nor is he believer in the force bill,
aud evidence is not lacking to show that
he dos not think very much OF MS col
| league who Is.
poe FISH SORROWS.
And the Cause Is the Fallen Great
| ness OF he Sag
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