St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-26
TRADING OFF DAVIS.
The Friends Of the Senator
Are Dissatisfied With the
Situation.
They Claim That the Interests
Of Davis Have Been
Disregarded.
The GubepnatOrial and Sena-
torial Campaigns Are to
Be Divorced.
The Registration of Yesterday
Shows a Gain All Along
the Line.

the Republican state central committee
and the head of the state ticket.
And the campaign of the great friend
of the Pacific railroads will be managed
from this time OH regardless of the state
committee and of Knute Nelson.
This is Il peculiar state of affairs. and
goes far toward explaining some of the
moves made by the Davis men during
the past few days. The Monday even
| ing meeting at the Metropolitan was not
a scheme of the state committee, but
was mapped ont by G. A. Severance,
Senator Davis law partner, and was de
| signed to boom Davis, without regard
to Nelson. This disregard of the state
committee angered that body, but when
q protest was made the Davis men made
the charge that the legislative contests
had been neglected by the state COM
mittee all the time. money and atten-
ton of that body being devoted to the
cause of Nelson and the wheat gam
blerS.
The facts of the matter are" said
| one of the Davis manager yesterday,
THAT we could have gone further and
| told BiXby and Jamison that they are
deliberately imperiling the election of
Senator Davis in their efforts to elect
Nelson. AS a matter of fact, the state
central committee does rot know any
thing about the legislative fight. They
do not even have a complete list of the
Republican nominees in the various dis
| tricts, and no information worthy Of the
name regarding the contests being made
by the opposition"
what do You propose to do about
| it?D
1.-The friends of Senator Davis are
| fhnrnnnhlu nrnycnd - uac rho rnnix,
land they propose that the state com
mittee shall devote some attention to
the fight for the legislature. knute
Nelson and a few state officers are not
all that the Republican party has at
stake in this fight"
When Secretary Bixby heard of the
complaints of the Davis men and the
| charges they have made. he is reported
to have made a few statements more
forcible than elegant. He maintains
the state committee has done the best
that it coulo for Senator Davis, but that
his fight has been an uphill Il from
| the start.
Down at the bottom, however, Sena-
tor Davis aud his friends are afraid of
Nelson, and in every move he makes
they see danger to their Union Pacific
lido. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
Davis was bitterly opposed to the NOM
nation OF Nelson until within a few
weeks of the Republican state conven-
ton. 1t was Senator Davis who tried
to get John Lind into the field. and who
later Oh encouraged Lieut.. Gov. Ives.
In fact he, Senator Davis, did not cease
i'll his opposition to Nelson until ne was
satisfied that he would be nominated in
any event. In this connection the fol
lowing review Of the situation. pub
I IIChnd in tho ar ODE on limo 0- Loot io
Interesting:
The Republican state convention.
which will meet in ST. Paul the last of
next month, promises to be an interest
ing affair. The friends and managers of
Senator Davis are making the strongest
fight they are able against the nominal
ton of eX-CongresSman Knute Nelson
| for governor, and are the strongest sup
porters Lieut.. Gov. Ives and eX-Gov.
McGill have. Many of the best friends
Senator Davis has are strong Nelson
men,, and his course in opposing the
Alexandria man has made some of them
decidedly lukewarm in his interests.
The strong stand he took for President
Harrison in the late contest has also
%alienated the old guard which was for
him because he was for Blaine.
But the cause of his opposition to the
nomination of Nelson is plain to be
seen by those who know the kind of q
campaign that will be made in the case
of the Douglas county mans nomina-
ton. With Davis it is a fight for the
legislature; with Nelson the nominee.
the battle will be made first for the con-
| troll of the state government and second
for the Legislature. Davis distrusts and
fears knute Nelson. and has never hest
| tated to a%utagoniZe him. In this he has
been ably seconded by Congressman
| John Lind, who thinks his path to fut-
ure honorS Will be made more easy by
the permanent retirement of Knute
| Nelson.
Senator Davis, however. is wasting
his time and energies. He has no more
chance of being returned to the United
States senate than that other warm
friend of President Harrison, the big,
burly and lazy Frank Hiscock, with
whom by the way, Mr.. Davis agrees on
every public question, from the method
OF allowing the Pacific railroads to cheat
the government ont Of the millions they
owe it on to the tariff QUESTION. 1t is a
question whether the Republicans will
~, auie to carry this state this year by
even the small plurality of two years
ago: but even though Harrison is given.
the state by $4,000, which no sane Re
publican will claim, Mr.. Davis will still
fail to nave a majority in the legislature.
The opposition to the Republicans
nave control of the upper branch of the
state legislature by a majority of five,
and not one of their number can be in
duced to vote for Mir. Davis. TO Insure
MIR. Davis return te,the senate the low
er house next winterymomust contain at
least sixty Republican members, and
such a number cannotsbe secured. The
Alliance and Peoples PARTIES will have
separate state tickets, and separate con-
nresSional tickets. but dthey will unite
III the legislative fights. and there will
be few Republican members elected in
the Old Alliance strongholds of two
years ago. The legislature, made up of
representatives from Small DISTRICTS is a
representative body land usually reflects
the sentiments of the people OF all parts
OF the state, and if the house that is to
DE elected does this the senior Mime
sofa senator has no possible chance of
reelection.
Senator Davis is not in harmony with
The people he represents on the tariff.
He is not in harmony with them on the
Pacific railroad question.
He misrepresented the Republicans OF
the state in supporting President Harri.
son as against Blaine.
For these and MANY other reasons he
Wliie nut UC oCIt UdCh W w dSulllk lOU iOI
tleneXt SIX years.
Inc correctness of the above review
is now plain to every one. Senator
DAVIS is beaten, and he blames it all
upOn the state committee. and now pro.
poses to take a hand himself. His
friends are to keep a careful watch on
the state central committee, and when
ever trades are made to help Nelson the
other side will take a hand.
NELSON is not going to be snapped
off for Davis" asserts the state com.
mlltee.
Davis shall moi be sacrificed to heir
Nelson out" cry the Davis men.
1t is a pretty tight, but it is not diff.
cult 10 fOresee that when it comes to
game OF trading h Davis men are no.
in 1t with the other fellows.
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