St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-11
MINNEAPOLIS,
OF a POLITICAL TURN.
Sparks That viii Have Something
Do With Making the Pot Boil.


ton IS a good one.
"What about the convention" said
MI FoOte. well. Milwaukee is still
making a hard fight for that convention.
But Milwaukee is friendly TO st. Paul.
The people down there are willing to
let il come our way if they cannot get 1t
themselves. But they will not let 1t
come TO any one but themselves if
hard fight will win it. Still, l think
that 81. Paul viii get the convention. L
think that We Staad the best show for 1t.
Nv hat about the sentiment for a
presidential candidate? You can say
that so far As | could learn Wisconsin is
solid for Grover Cleveland. l have not
been in any other state Than Wisconsin.
There Cleveland is all right. | think
that state viii send solid delegation 70
the convention for the tariff refOrmer.
Otto W. Miller has recently returned
from political center. too, and he has
heard talk Of the convention and Of a
candidate fer president.
Il want To tell YOU said Mr.. Miller
Yesterday, that those Kansas City fell
lows are going TO make 4 struggle for
the Democratic national convention. l
net good many of them in Chicago re-
Gently, and they have got the money,
and are spending il, too. If money Will
get that convention they Will come
pretty near capturing it. They say that
they are going 10 get il. and they are
doing a good deal 10 substantiate their
statements
Yes, | heard some talk about presi-
dental candidates, too. while l was in
Chicago" Miller continued. The Chi
cagO fellows seem TO think that Gen.
John Palmer would make a good presi-
dental candidate. They think every
thing Of the Old warrior down there.
They feel much as the New York state
Democrats do towards D. B. Hill since
the general helped them redeem the
state from RepublicaniSm. And whom
do you think they are talking for vice
president? No less a person than young
Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts. That
Is their team-Palmer and Russell. l
did my best 10 show them that they
were wrong, but was only guest and
could not say TOO much"
Do not think for one single instant
that the little breeze that arose in the
city council the other night between
AID. Woodward and Parry will not
figure in the next campaign. The fight
between Woodward and Parry over the
small matter of street commissiOnership
has been a long and bitter one. Parry
was beaten. That hurt his pride, he
being the senior alderman from the
Seventh ward. Then Woodward added
insult TO injury by his language in the
council chamber. That insult, fall
ing upon the wounds that Parry had re-
ceiYeu, made his sores too deep and
Virulent in their liberation 10 be healed
by little apology such as Woodward
offered. Both OF these aldermen will
be seeking reelection next fall, and
they will be pitted against each
other in the fight for the Repub-
lican nomination. At this time it
looks as if Woodward would be the man
so be nominated. In either case, it is
not improbable that the defeated candi
date will run independently. Parry will
make the fight hot one for Woodward.
He is satisfied that he has right on his
side and that he spoke nothing but the
truth when he announced that Wood
wards man had been agreed upon by
the caucus through a combination.
Parry is not the only man who thinks
that the combination story was correct.
II Will take more than one denial from
Woodward cOuched in his elegant coun-
ell chamber dictiOn TO remove that idea
from their minds. 1t is stated on very
good authority that Woodward secured
pelling Chief Runge to drop from the
FIRE department a man who was largely
instrumental in defeating the alderman
In question when he was running for
she Legislature in the Thirtieth district
last fall. That saYOrs of combination,
Dir. Woodward.
''Oh. for a lodge in some vast wilder
less.'' Is the wall that lies in the hearts
of the local Republican leaders. What
DO they want with the lodge? Why,
they want ID gather in it all the en-
thuSiastic lovers Of law and morality
who are leading the fight on the saloons
snd on the Sunday theaterS. They want
10 get all these people in the lodge ard
then burn the lodge. This Sunday queS-
ton is going to enter into the next am
paign locally, not only as applied to the
FALCONS. but as applied to the theaters
and all places of business or pleasure
that open their doors on Sunday. This
question is being brought forward in
such shape that the Republicans are
compelled TO tacitly indorse it. They do
not believe il il. but they are forced to
seem 10 believe in it. The sentiment of
the city is. OF course, against it.
There has never been any public
demand for such a crusade against the
saloons as has been inaugurated, or
against the Sunday places of amuse-
ment. such as is promised. When it is
made an Issue in this city, as it will be,
whether the city shall return bodily to
the blue laws of the New England
colonial days or remain progressive
American city, the verdict of the people
will not be couched in unmeaning
terms.
Tho ol5,-,,o,, -. -oA.l e.L
crease IN the salaries of the firemen
have incurred the enmity of the police
man on the beat. The policeman does
not cut much of a figure in politics. but
he figures little. 4 few officers have
had the temerity in the past to work
openly in political campaigns, and.
with the example of these men doing
that and not suffering for it be-
fore them, more are likely to
nd0pt that course in the future. They
may try TO get even with the aldermen
who have raised the salaries of the fire.
men. But the fremen are not kicking
Nor do they feel very thankful for the
raise. Their salaries are now only equal
10 that OF the policemen. And they have
not the graft that the man on the beat
IS supposed to enjoy. More than that,
they work, or are on duty twenty-fOur
hours day, while the policeman gets
Off with less than half that time. Just
now the frPmen are Directing to doing
work for the police department.. They
are put to work laying wires for the DO
lice signal system that the council has
ordered put in. They do not relish the
labor of handling picks and shovels
either.
There is a good deal of curiosity felt
as to how the Tribune will get along
with certain leading men in the Repub-
lican party after nominations are made
next summer and fall. For national,
state and municipal offices will certain
ly be put in nomination some of the
men who have recently been referred to
by the Tribune as 'Blaine's fool
friends" VIII the Tribune be able TO
swallow that expression and several
others equally as tender, and hold these
men up as model statesmen and candi-
dates TO vote for whom should be con-
sidered an honor? Wait an see.