St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-03
Events Have Progressed

since then. The kids appeared in the
city convention last spring, every
mothers son of them fighting the NOM
ination of Wright, headed by Gen. Low
enstein, who, it will be remembered, re-
fused to support the nomination when
it was made. But they ali--with the
exception of their leader, Lowenstein,
who played the role of Achilles-moved
to make the nomination unanimous, and
succeeded at least in instilling whole
some fear into the spacious bosom of
the present incumbent of the
mayors chair. Wright has been
They could readily discern that there
was nothing to be given out for the pres
ent after his election, and they proceed
ed to capture the county beyond all
doubt, so that when the spoils come
along six months or year hence they
will be lin it, And they will be, too.
Their capture of Ramsey county for
Nelson with the aid of Rev. SIG. Smith,
Gen. Flower and OtherS-a job project
ed and executed nOminally in behalf of
McGill-and their ascendancy in the
county committee leave them masters of
the field.
This job was very neat, although
not wholly ScrupulouS one. The out
come, so far as Ramsey county is con-
cerned, is that Gen. Flower will be the
next member of the state central COM
mittee. or thinks he will. Mr.. Freaney
has refused to have anything more to
do with the remarkable outfit. But
when politics are played on the kid-cap-
itol combination plan even smoother
gentlemen than the general, and he is
exceptionally smooth. cannot always
correctly anticipate. The general may
be shockingly left in the deal in this re-
gard, if, as is said ON the highest au-
thOrity, that is one of the considerations
upon which the McGill-Nelson combine
was said to rest"
The true story of that kid-capitol COM
bine has never been told fully. 1t prob
ably never will be. The plan of CAM
paign was for the kids to distribute
themselves impartially in the several
camps. Lamb was at the outset an Ives
man, so was Zollman, so was Ames, so
also were Harris Richardson and Stan
ford Newell. There has always been a
bond of sympathy existing between the
kids and the silk-stOckings. Newell has
been the unmissing link mostly.
He played that role in the last
canvass, and after while he man
aged to enroll all the kids on the
side of the ''great uninstructed."
They fed from Ives to the band wagon.
and Stanford took them aboard-all of
them that it was not found necessary to
leave still in the McGill camp. Then,
presto, whel the Ives and the unin-
structed had combined forces every
thing was given over to McGill. with
the understanding that the ex-governor
would not be in it, even for compli-
mentary vote.
The arrangement was so consum-
mated. McGill got the county and Nell
son got the votes in the convention.
Thus the Republicans of Ramsey
county have demonstrated once more
that the genius of craftsmanship can
never be suppressed wholly. 1t may
rest under cloud temporarily. Johns
and Lowenstein and Lamb may he re-
garded as che sons of toll in the Repub-
Iican party. They both toll and spin,
and. when the product of their labors
is spread before the public gaze it is
always such as to demonstrate that the
g. o. p. is great and that in Ramsey
county 1.-The kids" are its prophets.