St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-25
KING CUSh" SCARED
Davis Headquarters to Be
Opened for Business at
the Merchants.
The Nelson Boom Alarms the
Candidate Of the Pacific
Railroads.
Washburn May Take a Hand
to Save His Own
Seat.
The State at Large Getting
Ready to Demand a New
Deal.

Senator Davis has secured headquar
ters at the Merchants hotel for use in
his campaign for d reelection TO the
United States senate.
This action of the senior senator, six
weeks in advance Of the opening of the
legislative session, and earlier than has
been known for years, shows pretty
clearly which way the wind is blowing.
If Mr.. Davis and his friends felt the
confidence they have been expressing
they would never have made prepara-
tionS TO ''do business" so early i'll the
game.
This hurried change of front from
confident bluSter and braggadoclo to
alarm and CONSERVATION, has been
brought about by tidings from the coun-
try districts, where booms are spring
ing up favorable to number of candi-
dates. The talk of Knute Nelson has
alarmed the Davis men more than any
thing else, for reasons that are evident
to those on the inside of affairs in the
Republican party. The governor
elect is hard tighter, and
man who is afraid of no
one, not even king CuSh." the man
who bolted the caucus of his party
in 1915 and endeavored to secure his
election to the senate by aid of Demo
cratic votes. Knute Nelson, by the
way. was Il member of the state senate
in 1875 and was one of the men who de-
nounced Davis for his course at that
time. Whether the breach was made
then or later, the fact is certain that
Knute Nelson and &. X. Davis have not
hRan allipS in nolitipS for wears
And Nelson knows that had it been
in the power Of Davis to defeat him, the
Republican state committee would have
gone elsewhere for a gubernatOrial can
didate.
Davis was the last man to let up in
the antl-NelS0n war a year ana less ago.
The shrewd and able Washburn saw
the handwriting on the wall and fell in
line for the Alexandria statesmen sew
eral months earlier i'll the contest.
When this happened many politicians
were certain that it meant that Mr.
Washburn would
Aid in Defeating Davis.
This supposition may be correct 1t
was based on the ground of ''good poll
ties" the science of which is pretty we'll
understood bv Hon. w. ID. Washburn,
all who know him will coneede. There
reasons follow:
At the present time the total popula-
tion of Minnesota Can not be far from
100000, of which number less than
100000 are found within the limits of st.
Paul and Minneapolis.
And yet the Twin Cities have both
members of the senate.
This condition of things cannot in the
nature of things continue very much
longer.
The state outside the two cities is al
ready restige under the complete dom
ination of the two cities.
If man from the agricultural dis
trictS of the state does not succeed
Davis. nothing can prevent such man
taking Washburn'S seat two years
later.
These are some of the reasons that
have led many to think that Senator
WashburD will take an active part In
the contest, and will do his level best to
secure the election of man from out
side the cities. Whether Mr. WaShburn
would favor the governor-elect
for the place is not known, although in
the matter of location nothing better
could be asked. Besides. the views of
Mr.. Nelson on the tariff question are
liberal and nearer the line the Republi-
future if they hope to succeed. The
Mill city senator is man of independ-
epce and originality, and possesses the
power to adapt himself to circuu.-
stances. He is progressive politician
if nota progressive statesman.
"The Republicans carried the legis-
lature through the efforts of knute
/ Nelson," said we'll known Republican
yesterday, 'and he Is entitled to what
ever of the fruits of the victory he may
desire. Had any other man than Mel
son been nominated for governor the
Democrats and POpulistS would have
had the senatorShip to dispose Of"
Clapp Has Strength.
Then there is another man who would
make q creditable and able senator
who halls from a locality that is even
more desirable for MI. Washburn's pur-
poses than Alexandria. This gentle
man is none other than the present
attorney general of the state, Hon.
Moses Z. Clapp, of Fergus Falls. Mr..
ClapD has number of friends in both
branches of the legislature, no less than
eight of the senators being avowed
partisans of his. In the house he will
in several important sections. While
the names of these men at
this time it is perfectly safe to place
Gen. Clapp's strength at not less than
fifteen, all of whom he can get without
turning over his hand. What q little
work will do for the handsome and elo-
quent attorney general can best be eStI-
mated by Frank IS. Kellogg, one of
Senator Davis law partners, who ran
up against "Mose7 in the Republican
state convention of 1886. Mr.. Clapp is
not an avowed candidate, and he does
not believe in making campaign for
the Office when headquarters have to be
opened ''f0r business" six weeks in adj
vance of the meeting of the legislature.
Like Knute Nelson, Gen. Clapp holds
views on the tariff question that are de-
cidedly at Variance with those enter
tanned by Senator Davis. Nelson and
Clapp are, by the way. warm friends,
and have been for years. ever since the
attorney general wrote the low tariff
platform upon '"hich Nelson ran for
congress in the old Fifth district.
Obeys His Masters.
Is it any wonder that the agricultural
districts of the state are becoming
affairs? Here is an agricultural state
represented in the United States senate
by representatives, or at least one rep
sentative, OF any and all interests
save those of the people upon
whom every business man must
rely for future prosperity and
business-the farmers OF the state. If
Senator c. X. Davis were true and
faithful. representative of the people of
this state the situation would be differ
ent, for these two great cities have no