St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-27
How the Race for the Nom
nation Seems to Be
Going.
Republican Campaign Opened
and They Wish It We're
Closed Again.
City Council Wades Through
Routine--Local Cholera
Scare.

either. These primaries tonight will be
for the election of delegates to the con-
gress ional convention next Tuesday.
Plenty OF interest will attend them. for
there is something of a contest for this
nomination. At this distance it is i'm
possible to come within several hundred
statute miles of guessing the nominee.
-Four candidates are in the field
James w. Lawrence. w. Ii. Lynn.
o. Il. Erickson and Ben Davenport
The look of things indicates that Law
renee may have more votes in the con-
ventlOn than any other one man. 1t is
extremely doubtful, however. whether
he will have enough to nominate on the
first ballot. No man can tell what will
be done after the first ballot. 1t often
occurs that the first is last ard the last
first. Ben Davenport will come from
the East side with a good many votes.
He will not have all the East
side wards solid. but he will have
depends, however. on whether he de-
cides at the last moment to make Wig
orouS trial for the nomination. Up to
this time he has been passive candi-
date. All three of the others have taken
steps to get the nomination. On the
street one hears rumOrS OF cOmbina-
ton OF the Lawrence and Davenport
forces and of the Lynn and Davenport
contingents. But these rumors are as
reliable as such rumOrS always are.
Around Minneapolis yesterday one
could hear nothing but good words for
the ticket nominated by the Democratic
county convention. Democrats and
Republicans alike agreed that it is as
q al Mt oc ~ into q
field by any party. A few could be
found who thought the nomination of
Buxton instead of Peterson mistake.
On the other hand, just as many hailed
that nomination as the proper one.
The Peterson boom came too late.
The movement in his interest
began only the day before the conven-
ton. The time was SO short that the
sympathy argument was the only one
that could be used with effect. But no
one denies, even the closest friends of
Peterson. that Il. j. Buxton is one of
the strongest candidates for county
treasurer that could be named.
All Is not strictly harmonious over in
the Thirtieth district Oh the Republican
side. 1t is only on account of the con-
test that was OH between j. L. Wyman
and Fred Barrows for the legislative
nomination. Barrows' friends say Wy
man did not exactly tote fair" Wy
man was not an Out-and-out candidate
until the last moment. 1t is said that
he even congratulated BarrowS on the
certainty of his securing the nOmina-
ton. A few minutes later Barrows
was laid out cold. and the man who had
congratulated him was the nominee.
Barrows met Wyman on the street yes
terday and told him that he thought the
Wyman boom had been trained up in
dark and devious by-paths. Those who
heard the conversation say that Wyman
admitted that it would have been better
had his candidacy been a little more
open.
1t may be noticed, in passing, that
Fred Salisbury, the Democratic nomi-
nee in the Tllirteth, from the Second
ward, is Barrow's son-in-law.
The Journal tries to make point bv
declaring that a man cannot find out
who the Democratic legislative candi-
dates are unless he looks in tile direc-
tory. Possibly the journal man can't.
business men, however, know r. c.
Henricks, of the Twenty-ninth. George
Blocker occasionally meets an ac-
quaintance. Nobody ever heard of P. b.
winston, of course, and A. Nj. Goodrich
at whom the Journal smeered two years
ago because he was printer, turns out
to be one OF the most worthy of the
members Of the library board, and the
Journal has quoted members of that
board as saying so. The Journals
editor may remember S. A. Stockwell,
too, and b. f. Christlleb and N. p. Mel
son. And so one might go on
through the whole list. But per
haps the Journal meant the
Republican Legislative ticket. How long
has it enjoyed intimate acquaintance
with l.. o. Merriam. John Holmberg, G.
A. Carlson, w. b. Mcintyre and others?
And doesn't it wish it never knew
Charles S. Cairns, the mouthpiece OF the
| crusaders?
County Auditor Ledgerwood declares
| that most of the voting precincts of
Hennepin county will have to he reds
tricted in order that they may be re-
duced to 400 votes or less. according 10
| the law under the Australian system.
George w. Marchant need not hold
back the call for the Republican city
convention any longer The attorney
generals office has decided that a new
| judge of the municipal court must lie
| elected in place of Z. b. Elliott. Judge
| Elliott was appointed only to serve out
| Emery's uneXpired term, not to hold on
| for full term of six years.
w. K. Hicks, the irrepresSible drug
gist. is enjoying a little aldermanic
boom.
The Ninth Ward German Democratic
club will hold meeting Sunday after
| noon at o'clock at Kort'S place, corner
| Spring and Jefferson street northeast
An evening paper claims to have dis
covered that Mayor Winston's candi-
| dacy for the legislature is actuated by n
desire TO wear possible United States
| senatorial togo. Well. togo wouldn't
| look bad on him, would it?
The Prohibition congressional con-
vpntinn which was called tn meet to-day