St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-17
They Only Desired Delay and
Do Not Care for a Few
Votes.
Davis Gets an Endorsement
Where 1t Will Not Help
Him.
Rogers Ahead in the Con-
gressional Contest--To
Side-Track Ives.

they desired, and do not care about the
disposition of Ramsey's thirty votes.
They never had any idea of being able
to deliver the county to Mr.. Nelson, but
they were determined that neither Ives
nor McGill should be allowed to gain
any'prestige or strength by the result,
and they have played their cards most
successfully. The opposition, and es-
pecially the Ives element of it
has Numbered and blundered fearfully
from the start. They had the votes in
the beginning with which to carry the
county for the st. Peter man, but they
threw away everything when they
joined with the Nelson men in fixing
the county convention for the Monday
before the state convention.
Why they took this course no one
seems able to explain. The McGill men
are vain enough to think that it was
because of the fear that the Sage of st.
Anthony Park would carly the county.
but they argue that with the fight i'll
the condition that it is, the field against
Nelson, an early declaration OF the
choice of the large delegation
given this county would have helped
both the lieutenant governor and their
man. When the fact is taken into con-
sideration that the McGill men have at
all times been ready to unite with the
enemy. the course of the protested
friends of Gov. Ives becomes incOmpre-
henSible.
At thesmeeting of the county commit
tee when the convention was called, NJ.
j. Costello was the only Ives man who
saw the advantage to be gained by an
early convention, and he vainlY tried to
bring the others over to his way of
thinking. Attorney III. l.. Williams.
who is so ably leading the Mccall forces
to defeat, agreed with Mr.. Costello; but
the advocates of an ''uninStructed dele
CATION" were
SOIidly Opposed to This.
and aided by the men who declared
themselves friends of Mr.. Ives. they
fixed the convention on the latest posi-
bic date. They have since been holding
meetings and parleying with the Ives
and McGill men, but they are doing this
simply for personal reasons. They do
not care whether Ives or McGill or the
two together secure the thirty votes of
Old Ramsey i'll the coming state conyen-
ton, ana they will be very willing to
concede this in return for little for
bearance or the part of the opposition.
The facts in the matter are that the
Nelson men in this county are practical
politicians, for whom the organization
has great charms. These men have
done all they could be expected to for
Mr.. Nelson, and now that they feel as
sured of his. nomination, they will be
only too willing to fix up deal which
will allow Fred Zollman, ID. F. Reese.
Henry Johns. j. V. Wilson. George
Lamb and their friends to remain in
control of the machine. while the state
delegates elected the day before the
convention may be labeled Ives or
McGill. The Nelson men have man
aged the campaign very cleverly, and
the unSOphiSticated Ives men have been
given a profitable and interesting les
son i'll practical politics.
1.-The Nelson men," said an excited
McGill man yesterday, ''have hearlded
1t all over the state that Ramsey county
is for Nelson. We all know that this is
not true. but we have no effective way
OF showing this until the convention
meets. Meantime the small counties in
the Northwest are declaring for Mel
son, and the results there are having a
considerable influence. Take Blue
Earth county the other day. The Ives
men would have made a bitter fight
had they gone in with any hope of sue
cess. They felt that Nelson's nOmlna-
ton IS assured. and, therefore, it was
hardly worth while to make fight.n
There is only one other set of leaders
. to be credited with more plumbers to the
square inch than the Ives men, and
these are the men who are charged with
the management of Senator Davis
forces. They may mean well, but they
Have a Curious Way
of showing it. The first nominations
for the legislature on the Republican
side have been made in the district
composed of Big Stone, Traverse, Grant
and Stevens. Here the Republicans
had little hope of succeeding if united
and no hope in case of split,
and. of course. two tickets were
nominated. The boiling delegates
promptly declared for the PEOPLES
party and nominated eX-Representative
Setteriund and another strong man.
The regulars named 9. c. Thorpe and
T.. L. Peterson, and then unanimously
passed resolution irStructing the two
to vote for Senator Davis, if elected.
And the Davis managers point to this
as though they had accomplished some
thing. Messrs. Thorpe and Peterson
have no more chance of being elected
than has the Republican candidate who
may be named in Scott county.
The real situation of Mr.. Davis cam
palgn is contained in the word listless.
Many of the men who pretend to he for
him are really Indifferent, and do not
care whether he is reelected or not.
During the nearly four years he has
spent at Washington, with Republican
president, he has ignored the men who
helped him secure the honor, and, while
many of them profess fealty, they will
spend little time and less money in the
A oh rf
time ago one of the men who voted for
Blk years ago. and who has always been
Davis man, said:
Il have always been friend of Sen
etor Davis, and when President -Harri-
son came in | was pushed for position.
Senator WaShburn. who really owed
me nothing, championed my cause, but
| was unable to rouse Mr.. Davis. He
did nothing against me, but he said not
aword for me. lie is said by his friends
20 be too great a statesman to devote
himself to the disposition of the offices,
but took note of the fact that he was
absent from the senate more than Sen
atOr Washburn during the pending of
my case. / don't know whether he was
sleeping or reading Shakespeare during
this time, but | do know that man
who has no time to look after his friends
will sooner OF later find that they have
NO time to devote to him.''
The Davis managers are looking over
The situation in St Paul and figuring
Difcandidates in the various districts,
Ind when the time comes they will have
full list to suggest. They would like
another citizens deal, but they will find
the Democrats up in arms and ready to
make fight in every district. even the
bloody First. In Minneapolis Freeman
P. Lane and ey-Represeptative Under
wood are to be two of the Republican
Candidates, neither Of whom IS dis
tinguished for loyalty to Mr.. Davis.
White everything is slipping away from
the Davis men in places where they
might secure some votes. they will be
eolnforted by Davis Endorsements from
Polk. Otter Tail. Pope, Douglass. Lac
Qui Parle and other western and south
western counties III wi!ici The Peoples