St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-01
". Fl. Eustis Says the Day OF
Second Terms Is Gone
Forever. II
Nobody Interested in the Sue
cess of the Tail of the
Ticket. -.
Some Tall Shouting for Blaine
Expected at the Right
Moment. <

While not solitary man of national
Republican Importance has shown up
in Minneapolis as yet. and while the
city is on hospitable cares so intent that
it is obivious to all else, there is one.
fact which is already so eonspicu0uslys
apparent that it cannot be overlooked
1t is that the coming great convention
will not be the cut-and-dried affair that.
so many anticipated and feared. 1t will
be anything else. The politician who
carries off the nomination will only do
SO after very fierce fight. The Harriz
son men may talk of the number of in
structed delegations and the Blaine
men may shout of the ''great popular
feeling" for their feeble. demi-god, bnt
the fact is that the fight is more open than
it has been in any Republican conven-s
ton since the grip of Grant slipped from
the throat of the party. Most of the:
local politicians will, in their cooler mo
ments, admit the truth of this. much as
they may shout in public. The slafri-
son cohorts are the most confident. On
the face of the state convention results
they have the numerical strength, and
they talk accordingly. The Blaine fol-
lowers are talking platitudes and ex-
pecting some sort of miracle to land
their idol OH the crest OF the wave. But
there is great deal of quiet work which
is not going in the direction of either
Blaine or Harrison, but which may be a
powerful factor ia naming the next vie
tim of the popular will as expressed at
the polls next November.
But of this Minneapolis knows little.
and cares less. And it is greatly to her
credit. When the effort was making to
secure the gathering for the Flour City.
the pledge was given that in the freel
air of the Northwest the sentiment of
each delegate would be allowed full
play and there would be no local in
t1uence as to choice or platform. This
pledge the city proposes to redeem. The
men vino are i'll charge of the vast and
complicated arrangements, while they
are most of them active politicians, are
giving no thought TO the candidacy of
this OF that man, or to the engrafting of
this or that dogma in the platform. but
are putting in their time and energy to
making perfect the arrangements to
Hospitality receive and care for the
CIOWuS IHdI are eAptCtSU. LIcy dIG Hul
trying to dictate to the delegates where
and upon whom their choice should
alight. On the contrary, they announce
to all that they will be the guests4of the
city during the convention, and as
guests they will be accorded the fullest
liberty of thought and action. The
country and the candidates will applaud
this action.
This convention work is great un-
dertaking. Ask any man who has been
giving to it his entire time for the past
two months. The city is full of it. 1t
absorbs and dominates everything else.
Beyond the scores of men who are ell
trusted with minor details which do not
occupy their entire time, there are fully
one hundred good and competent men
who are doing nothing else from morn
till night but struggle with The problem
of how to SO care for the convention
visitors that they will quit the city with
the firm idea that it is the only cOnyen-
ton city in the country. This is now
the supreme ambition of every loyal
Minneapolitan. and he is deserving of
all plaise for his sacrificial deyotson.