St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-01
BROWN is NOT IN IT.
Quiet, Uneventful Republican
Primaries, With a Few Ex-
ceptions, Last Night.
Pillsbury. Eustis and Snider
Delegates. and Smith and
Olsen AltePnateS.
Fire Puts a Hole in the Old
State University Build
ing.
Marber Held to the Grand
Jury--South High School
Contract.

The Republican primaries held last
night to elect delegates to the double
headed Hennepin county and Fifth dis
triet conventions next Tuesday was so
Quiet as to be monOtOnOuS, except in a
few precincts. The Republicans, or
course, attribute the rather light attend
ance of the caucuSeS to the bad wea-
Their. There seemed to be little evil
dence of a fight except in the Fifthward.
This is Henry F. Browns ward and
Henry and his friends were slaughtered
The funniest occurrence was IN Browns
own precinct, the Eighth of the Fifth
ward. There the ticket was nearly all
made up when it was suggested that
Brown should be made delegate.
"Why should he be put on ?" was the
pertinent inquiry made by some of the
opposition. He has never done any
thing in the ward or anywhere else"
The question was talked over, and it
was finally decided to put Brown on the
ticket because he is a rather nice man,
with only few fobles. He will make
a good appearance IN the convention
hall. and it was thought that his pres
ence there could do little harm. Brown
gets into the convention through charity
and nothing else. When he heard OF
what had been dOne-he came to the eau
Gus late-BrOwn was not at all pleased
over the chance he stood of being left
behind. He said that he had paid his
$1,000 to the convention fund, and he
thought he should go as a delegate to
in
Ninth district of the Fifth ward c. II.
Petit was beaten. He was supposed to
be Brown man, and therein lies the
secret of his defeat. They had a real
lively time out in the Thirteenth
precinct of the Fifth ward. G. A.
PIllsbury, George Fletcher and MAJ. C.B.
Heffelfnger were defeated by the
kids and Percy Jones, Judge A. II.
Young and w. S. Upper were elected.
These delegates were instructed to sup
port anybody but Brown for place on
the national delegation. With these
exceptions and possibly a very few
more, all the old war horses will be in
the convention on Tuesday.
When the county convention meets
next Tuesday a delegation will be
selected to the state convention and the
delegates will be Instructed to support
ex-Gov. J. S. Pillsbury for delegate at
large to the national convention. Later,
when the congressional convention
meets to elect delegates directly to the
national convention, William Henry
EustiS will be chosen without the
slightest opposition. So far as could be
learned'last night. there was no OppoSi-
ton to him i'll any quarter. The second
delegateShip is not so certain. Capt.
Snider seems to have the call. a good
Al, okor nTo Tod in In
primaries last night who want to send
Robert g. Evans to the national coll
Vention. But Evans is said to prefer
the giving of this honor to Snider.
That makes II look as If Snider would
secure the second place on the
delegation. Henry F. Brown is not in
it for any sort OF place-not even for
alternate. The alternates will probably
be S. E. Olsen and c. A. Smith. In this
way it is hoped that the ScandinaVianS
will be appeased. The rames of their
candidates will appear in the official
list of members of the convention, but
those candidates will get nothing better
than a hard chair in the rear of the hall
and a chance to hear Republican ora
tory.
Affairs have so shaped themselves in
HennPpin county that it is not great
task to safely predict the outcome of
the nominating conventions, so far as
several of the principal leaders are con-
cerned.
For the governorship it is no longer
doubtful that Mayor Winston'S sails nre
catching all the winds blowing in that
direction, aud this is so generally per-
ceived that it is not worth the task of
being specific in an attempt to point out
the various causes which have turned
the political breeZeS thitherward.
Some five years ago it was prOphesied
by a political writer in these columns
that P. b. Winston would become the
leader of the Hennepin Democracy and
would be power in the politics of the
state. To judge of human nature and
a reader of conditions this prophecy
was easily made with gertrude,
A leader was in demand. Conditions
were such that those who had posed in
that office at various times prior thereto
could no longer receive recognition as
fully suitable to head political party
sought to command respect. The stall
wart form of p. B. Winston lowered
above all OppOSerS, who have neceSsar-
lily become his followers. But, while
he has become the recognized leader of
his party in Hennepin county, it is re-
markable to note with what little effort
he has gained the goal. There has
never been a single occasion when he
has been known to demand or claim
an honor. On the other hand he has,
with apparent good faith, dIssuaded
movements :tending to push, rather
than pull, him to the front. He has
never sought nomination. But, when
each has been thrust upon him, he has
proved his faithfulnesS to the party of
principles by sacrifices which no man of
less determination and perseverance
could have stood without signs of chag-
Hin and disgust.
If the election of Democratic gov
ernOr were a certainty in the coming
campaign, it would not be an easy task
for the party to find candidate with
superior capacity to fill the position;
with the election in doubt, it cannot
find his equal to make the fight, nor one
who will bring into the contesta stronger
support than he will command. 1t is
now a certainty that the Hennepin dele
CATION will go to the state convention
instructed for P. B. Winston for gov
ernOr.
There has been no special efforts ex
erted by any of the several prominent
Democrats whose names have been
mentioned in connection with the con-
gresSional contest, but in sizing up the
prospects it now appears safe to make
the prediction that w. 81. Lynn is deS-
tined to bear off the prize. Most, if not
all, the essential requisites for sue
ceSSful candidate are found in Mr..
Lynn. And first among these qualities
is observation-disclosures and the want Of
which has been the stumbling block of