St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-25
SWEOES AFTER PAP.
Republican Leaders Have
Been Promising Them Al
most Any on Earth.
Now There Is a Hitch in the
Delivery Of the Promised
Goods.
HUFFMAN, the Tailor, Is
Reaching Out for Mar
tins Wallet.
John F. Finerty Talks to
Irishmen--ThieveS and
Their Operations.

A few minutes after s O'clock last
evening Aid. e. G. Potter was seen 20
slide into the rotunda Of the Nicollet,
step over into one corner and wait.
Soon Aid. Loye put in an appearance,
and shortly after Aid. Lowell and eX-
Aid. Vogt and ex-Ald. Rhode showed
up. Robert Jamison, looking as inno-
cent as if he had never filed ON a min
ing claim, strolled i'll and joined
the party. This party took its depart
ure up stairs to Parlor E, where
it was received by delegation of the
most prominent Swedish politicians in
the city. Among them were G. A.
Smith and N. p. Petersen. Not long
after A. J. BOardman waddled in, in
quired Of the clerk where he could find
the other fellows and meandered up to
Parlor E. Capt. S. P. Snider and A. HI.
Hall were also among those who came
early to avoid the rush. W. A.
Plummer came into the hotel but
he did not go up stairs. He was
content to wait until John f. Peterson
came and let the eX-regiSter of deeds go
up to the parlor and represent the
Plummer interest. Plnmmer sat on one
of the easy seats until he had smoked
several cigars. Then he became weary
and went home. William Henry Eustls
also came late. He rode up in the ele-
vator. John Day Smith. wearing a
SLOUGH hat and look of innocence, came
in as if he only wanted a match for tho
stump of his cigar, but he soon found
his way up stairs. With those who were
in the room before these distinguished
politicians came, ParlOr E held about
twenty-five men.
The meeting was a select affair. 1t
was "strictly invitation" Unless a
man had his wedding garment under his
ulster and his lamp we'll filled with the
right kind of oil. he was not eligible to
a chance 10 breathe the smoke of bad
cigars that was rapidly filling the room.
The meeting was called in the interest
OF the Swedish element in Republican
politics. The Swedes have come to the
conclusion that they must be recog-
nized, and they are going to get
recognition if they have to call
to talk about it. They did talk about it
last night. There were some of the men
in the room who did not agree with all
that the Swedes were anxious to de-
UldIus Uub tuVJ Cdl IOl1 lIOUl
saying so. They kept aren OH their
tongues and talked in pacific manner.
The Swedes have three candidates who
want honorS at the hands of the Repub-
lican party. Two of them want places
OH the county ticket. N. p. Petersen
believes that he would look we'll behind
the wire grating in the office of clerk of
the district, and Soderstrom has already
announced his desire to be the next
register of deeds. He has employed an
advertising agent who preserves all the
clippings from newspapers that men
ton him in complimentary manner,
and he is sending them around the city
with perseverance that is equalled
only by The late desire of r. A. DAILY to
inform the public on the salient points
Of his typewriter biography. G. A.
Smith, the lumberman, has desire to
sit in the big exposition building as
delegate to the national convention and
his cOuntrymen would like to see him
there. That was the reason the meet
ing was called for last night. But the
Republican leaders of the Union League
have already slated G. n. Dickey for
the nomination for clerk of courts and
They were on hand to sprinkle little
oil around on the edges of the agitated
water, fearful of approaching too near
lest they be dampened.
The meeting did not break up until
nearly IL o'clock. Before it closed, two
magnates of the Uuion league-John
Goodnow and Jim Nash-strolled in,
accompanied by Henry Altnow, also
candidate for the nomination for clerk
of courts. GoodnoW and Nash went up
to Parlor E, but Altnow remained down
stairs and hung on to the edge of the
card writer's desk until the moguls re-
appeared. He would not 60 where he
was not invited, and be had not been
invited to the meeting. w. A. Kerr
came in late, too. He had to stop so
long in the rotunda to explain when he
came back from Dwight that he got up
stairs only just in time to meet the con-
spirators coming down. They came by
twos and threes. A. j. Boardman was
exceedingly non-committal-for him.
"Why, every man who wanted an
office just got up and told what he
wanted" said A. j. Boardman. Then
he waited himself into the outer world.
plotting against the Whites" was
the mysterious sentence that A. III.
Hall let fall into the ear of reporter as
he slipped out.
results and the best way to attain them,"
said Herman Vogt.
81 am busy" was William Henry
Eustis' laconic reply to request for in
formation.
AS soon as GLOBE reporter could
penetrate the gloom of tobacco smoke
up stairs, when the doors were opened,
he saw John Goodnow in one corner
surrounded by g. A. Smith and couple
of other prominent SWedes. John was
very much III earnest. and he was try
ing to convince the other fellows
against their will about something. He
talked in whispers, SO what he said can
only be conjectured. Bob Jamison had
N. 2. Peterson in another corner, and
was attempting to force something on
his mind. That was all.
The result of the meeting resolves
itself into about this-nothing. Good
now and the other ambitious young
politicians have been trying to Jolly
up" the Swedes. They want to get the
talking with that end in view. They
have gone little farther than supposed
they were going. They are in the pre-
dicament of the Irishman who
thought it would be fun to
take the bull by the horns and
have sport with him. Now they dare
not let go their hold, land the bull is test
ing their muscle. The Swedes have, in
a vague sort of way, been promised al
most anything they might ask. They
have taken their cue and began to ask.
They want too much to suit the other
fellows. Right at the start they want
the two most lucrative Offices in the gift
of the people of Hennepin county
register of deeds and clerk of courts,
and they want a place on the national
delegation, too, something for which the
old time stocking members of the party
would like to keep for them selves, for
place as delegate to the national con-
vention carries more honor with it this
year than ever before, as the con-
vention will be held in Min
neapolis and delegate will
be "a devil Of fellow"
among the men from all parts of the
country, and one of the star entertainers
of the convention week. That is why
last nights meeting amounted to moth
Ing. The Swedes asked for more than