St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-15
MINNEAPOLIS EVENTS
Several High Moguls Of the
Republican Party Visit
the City.
They Express Great Satisfac-
ton With the Convention
City.
Journeymen Painters Voice
Their Grievances in a Mass
Meeting.
The Mystic Banquet at the
Scottish Rite Masonic
Exercises.

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Some Of the members Of the subcom-
mttee OF tie national committee arrived
Wednesday night and the others came
yesterday morning, all except } .SlOatfas-
sett, the Kew York man who was covered
with Flowers last fall but who could
not be elected governor Of New York.
He came into the city in the afternoon
OF Yesterday. Architect Adler came
along from Chicago TO see how tie CON
tractors had followed his plans IN
making the alterations In the
convention hall The committeeman
who found themselves here yesterday
were Powell Clayton, OF Arkansas; II.
). hyde, OF Massachusetts: He. Payne,
OF Wisconsin; A. l.. COnger, Of ONO;
Samuel Fessendcn, Of Connecticut; ).
SlOat Fassett, Of New York. 10 these
must be added &. +. Meek, sergeant-at-
arms OF the convention, and Architect
Adler.
Yesterday morning and part Of the
afternoon these gentlemen spent in re-
ceiVng the reports OF the local commit
tees that have been working FOR the
convention. They approved everything
that had been done. Not one but eX-
pressed himself as OF the opinion that
the people OF Minneapolis had done
great work.
In the afternoon the committee, 90.
corted by several members Of the local
executive committee and high-class pol
| iticialiS, Went over 10 look at tie rear
ranged exposition building. Architect
| Adler went over alone earlier TO view
the result Of the work OF the contractors
| from an unprei JUDGED standpoint lie
was satisfied with what had been doHe,
! and said he thought there would be no
|
| talked in the same strain. They be-
| licvcd that the Republican national
convention Of '02 would have as good
| hall for It's SESSIONS as any previous con-
ventiOn ever did. This committee IS
not doing much more than to
look over what Is being done
locally to see tnat 1t is all
right and satisfactory. Sergeantat-
arms Meeks Will spend most Of his time
in Minneapolis from now until the
meeting of the convention. lie Will
have to get his force Of doortenders,
ushers and pages. lie says he always
has applications from three times as
many people as he gives places to.
OF course the Republican moguls
talked politics somewhat yesterday,
| though they did so guaTdedly. The sit
uailOn IN the Republican camp is such
that none of them could say much. 1t
was evident that most of them would be
Blaine men if they could aYOW them
| selves. With Blaine supposedly out OF
| the race, they acted as If they wanted
to remain solid with the administration
| bv saving nothing about their opposi-
| ton to Harrison. he being the only
available man that Is left in the field.
Powell Clayton did loosen up enough
to say this:
II do not think there will be anv opposi-
| ton 10 President HARRISON nomination,
| continued Mr.. Clayton, and there should
| be none. AS TO who will be vice presidential
| nominee ! believe MIR Morton can have It II
| he wants it, There IS considerable talk in
| the East about Whiteaw Reid, but il is pos
! sibe his trouble with organized labor in New
York city woald make him anything but IL
| strong nominee. The convention VIII con
| slider all these things"
Mr.. Hyde promised that MaSsachu-
sets would go Republican, although
| Clcyeland's popularity in that state he
would admit. However. he believed
that neither Cleveland or Hill would be
nominated. Harrison and Morton. he
felt sure, would be the Republican
ticket j. Sloat Fassett never says
anything remarkable when interviewed,
| but always exhibits TO the interviewer
|
the people OF New York last fall II is
not such formidable wheel" after
all. 1t is Tammany.
Gov Burke dropped into Minneapolis
yesterday on his way home from Hot
| Springs. lie says Harrison will surely
be renominated. North Dakota will
send a delegation to Minneapolis for
| him. OF course that settles it.
The members OF the national Repub
| lican committee, who are in the city,
| were entertained at the UriOn league
rooms last night, where an informal re-
| ceptnn was rendered them. There
was very large attendance of mem
| berS. and all of them were
given the felicity of person
| ally meeting and shaking hands
With the distinguished Republican Wis
itorS. After the visiting had been
accomplished to every ones gratifica-
ton, David Simpson, president of the
league, called the gathering together
and inaugurated course of speech
making. j. SlOat FasSett was the first
speaker, and during his discourse he
said:
'Yes wanted to get New York TO get
the conventions" said he, "because
know we had the room there. You have
room enough here, too. to be sure, but it
is not all enclosed. But il Will do us
effete Fasteners good TO come out here
and camp out for a season. Minneapolis,
however. find has done nObly by us.
| We shall have ~ delegates, - alternateS,
| and 720 friends. For these you have re-
| served 35 bedrooms at the West and
some more somewhere else | believe.
But those bedrooms should explain are
all unusually large ones"
On this line Mr. Fassett ran on at
some length taking care to explain that
| every New Yorker is not Dwight
| Lawrence. Mr.. FaSSett was OH danger
Gus ground there, and all present felt
| relieved when he switched of on an
other track and worked in number of
stories on Tom Lowry and told how
much the New Workers thought of Min
neapol;s and the West. Promise of Re-
publican success closed his speech.
Mr.. COnger was the next speaker, and
| he spoke words of special praise for the
convention here and the work of the
| convention committee.
1--WE aIe all much pleased" said he,
''at what we found in the way OF con-
| vention hall. ! will confess that | was
| little fearful last winter that you
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exposition building, but find that l
was mistaken. 1t is one of the finest
halls a convention was ever held
in. AS for your local commit
| tee, will say that l
never met a better one in this conven-
ton business, and they have done
everything that could have been done.
like your citizens here. | have visited
many growing communities, but must
say that | have never been in Il city
where the citizens stand SO well in the
business world for their magnificent
push and enterprise as Minneapolis.
Powell Clayton, who was the uext
speaker, put in some good words for the
old soldier element, and prophesied
that Democracy was about to 20 under
and not to be resurrected for long
series of years.
Mr.. Hyde had a good word to say for
the convention hall and the hospitality
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