St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-26

Inc ngureS given above are the re-
turns of the Harrison vote of 1888 and
the Merriam vote of 1890. The same
counties in 1890 gave Hon. S. Nj. Owen,
majorities, and handsome ones in
nearly every case. But now for an il
lustration of the effects of
The Proposed Change
in the apportionment. Polk county, at
riam only 6S3 votes, and good Judges
state that the Republican vote in that
county the coming fall will be no larger,
and yet the number of delegates to
which Polk county will be entitled UNI
der this deal will be no less than fif-
teen, or one for every forty
votes cast for the Republican
state ticket in the election of 1890. Take
Ramsey county on the other hand. Here
Harrison received II, l65 votes, and on
the basis of five at large and one dele
gate for each 800 votes cast for the
Republican ticket in 1883 the county
will be entitled to forty-fiye delegates.
In 1890 Ramsey county gave Gov.
Merriam 1856 votes. This number
divided by forty-five shows that it takes
200 Ramsey county Republicans for
each delegate, while i'll Polk county
forty will be required. This is hardly
square, and will insure trouble il
adopted.
The meaning of this move is not diff
cult TO divine. 1t is first Of all anti
Harrison, and. after that, blow at
The BIG Cities.
There are several aspiring leaders
who propose to dictate the nominee of
the Republican party for governor this
year in Minnesota. They fear the
strength of the cities and hope by
throwing about 400 extra delegates into
the convention from the coun-
try they will be able to swing
the convention. If this can be
done at the first convention there
will be little difficulty experienced in
repeating it when the convention for
the nomination of state ticket is
called. Among the men who are
credited with being in favor of this
scheme stands Chairman Heatwole, and
it is a curious fact that he is just now
credited with a good large and healthy
boom for the gubernatorlal nomination.
With the organization in his hands, MIR.
Heatwole is in the vantage ground, and
may know that the proposed change
would be 4 pretty good thing for him.
HeatwoIe's Choice.
Chairman Heatwole is not Harrison
man. and personally is said to be OPP
posed to an early convention. His
choice of n date is some time toward the
last of May. But this will not be the
date selected for the convention, the
other fellows being in the majority.
The date will probably be fixed either
for the last week of March or the first
week in April. Although this has
not been settled yet, the fight
for seats in the Minneapolis CON
yention has already commenced.
The Washburn organs are already
screaming against kid" delegation,
while the men for whom the Minneapo-
lis senator failed to find offices are up
in arms against the project of electing
Senators Davis andWastibura delegates.
For several months it has been an open
secret that the younger class of Repub-
leans in ST. Paul and Minneapolis have
made combination to defeat the two
senators if they ask TO he elected at
large. Tie district conventions will
also DC against them. The Cause of this
combination is simply the fact that the
senators have had enough of the honors,
according 10 the kids" and if they
have :iot tie good sense and taste TO
step aside they will be defeated.
sscpubfican Convention.
Tie Republican state convention will
have to elect the four delegates az large
to The Minneapolis gathering, of which
st. faa. Will have one. Minneapolis one,