St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-26
HOWARD STILL STICKS.
The Republican Committee Fail
to Force Him OF the
Ticket.
Another Attempt to Be Made This
MOrning-The Money
Raised.

one yesterday noon and the other last
nlght-the Republican county commit
tee has its white elephant, as it is
pleased to call Tom Howard, still on its
hands. They assert that it is the most
unmarketable object that they ever had
on their hands; they can't get rid of it
even with a bonus pinned to it.
Their meeting at nOO was held
to receive and act upon MI. Towards
promised answer as to whether he would
withdraw. His answer proved a disap-
pointment, for it was u~neouivocally,
MOI What consideration the COM
mittee offered him, for such there are
excellent reasons to believe they diu
offer. is not known to all absolute Ger
tainty. Naturally enough the commit
tee, to be in keeping with the nigh
moral ~pretensions of the party, deny
that any money consideration has ever
been asked or offered. and as each one
was approached with the query, "How
much money
Does Mr. Howard Wantse
looked into the eyes Of the q~uestloner
with a look of establishment, mingled
with injured innocence, and replied:
"None whatever. Mr.. Howard, if he
~ Us Ohf 80 w ~ puISiy " liz EOONt
of the party. He only wants to be salts
fed that he is really an injury to the
ticket" This story didn't go. The re-
porter looked elsewhere among leaders
of the party for light Oh the mysterious
business.
Ay, but there is method in their mad
ness! And the reporter found it out.
The story that the party was trying to
put Howard off the ticket because he
was too tough tor them, and that other
story that Howard asks nothing, but
purely for the good of the party, are
ictions which would do credit
to a fisherman. Nj. j. Bell is
the nominee OF the Peoples party,
and also OF the citizens committee:
they think he could WIN in the race
against the popular Charles L.. Haas, if
he were Endorsed by the Republicans.
This is the scheme which the committee
has been holding executive sessions day
after day to cOnSummate. But Tom
Howard is no fool; nobody ever accused
game, and he will not be made a
monkey of.
A Republican VINO knows all the Sc
cretS of the party, or at least ought to,
revealed this much. He said that How.
ard at last made the proposition to the
committee that if they would put Tom
ConrOy on i'll his stead and give him
(H0Ward) a satisfactory consideration,
he would step off. Tom Conroy advised
with his Republican friends upon the
feasibility of accepting the nomination
if it were rendered him, and they told
him that they believed he would get
into trouble if he did so. Conroy had
made up his mind to decline the honor
if offered him; but the committee in
the1neantime decided that 1t was with
out power to make a nomination, and
that it could only indorse some candl-
date who was already in the field. an
opinion which was matUred, it is said,
under the artful wire working of E. r.
Mcdonald, who is playing MIR. Bell for
a winner. This, of course. saved Mr..
COnroy any further worry Oh the sub
jectof declining.
Now. the question was, how much
money would it take. The informant
says that the committee figured that
Howard had been to an expense of
| about $500. and that they would give
about $500 additional. The thought they
had hit upon
A Winning Figure;
but Mr.. Howard laughed at them. He
wanted 5000, the informant says. And
it is this difference of opinion between
the committee and Howard as to how
much money should be paid that has
beenfthe occasion of several of the re-
cent executive sessions.
The meeting of yesterday noon adj
jOurned to meet again in the evening.
The committee was all assembled at s
| D. IN. and the doors were closed. There
lowered around in the waiting NJ.
j. Bell. E. f. Mcdonald II Tom How
ard. and eve SO many more who were
deeply interested i'll the outcome. After
a long time a leading member
of the committee appeared on
the outside, and was at once
surrounded by the anxious outsiders
and pumped as to what progress the
committee was making. He was guard
ed in his replies, but said that it was
the intention of the committee to put
Howard off. He admitted that some of
| the insiders were of the opinion that
the committee had no power to put
| Howard off without his consent. but he
thought the majority had resolved to
try the experiment. The gentleman
disappeared inside the door soon, and
| then nothing was heard from the clos
eted roemfull for an hour.
At length the door opened and Mr..
Howard was called inside. A half hour
later and all of the committee stepped
| OulSIGG CACtUJ TIT tAcCuliNG SuUcOll-
! mittee and Mr.. Howard. Another thirty
minutes crept slowly by and MIR. How
ard emerged from the door and the
members of the committee on the out
side returned to The room. Fifteen
minutes the door remained closed, and
mel it opened and the {
Committee Filed Out. :
They had adjourned. They informed
the ranOrter that they ba6 adjournaai
sine die. and Mr.. Howard was still on
the ticket. Mr.. Howard was still on the
ticket. but the committee had adjourned
to meet this morning. when manv of
them hope they will succeed in carrying
a. majority vote in favor of showing
Howard off the ticket without his
consent. They didn't want Mr.,
Howard to know that they M
tended to meet again, for they
feared he would file his certificate
early i'll the morning, and thus put an
other stumbling block. and probably a
fatal one, i'll their way. But what thew
proposes to d0,a as he informed the news
paper man. Il do not propose to he
showed off the Ticket said he. Ito
please a few there who are my avowed
enemies. The first thing in the morn
ing L shall file my certificate, and that
will put an end to all this work"
Earlier in the day Mr.. Howard init
mated 10 several parties that he would
have stepped off the ticket had not the
Pioneer Press aSsailed his character.
He said, furthermore, that he should in
stitute suit against that paper for crimi-
nal libel.
j.. III. Schumacher resigned from the
committee, as he is going out Of the city,
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