St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-21
AGAINST AWFUL ODDS
The Fight of the ST. Paul Del
egation Has Been on the
Defensive.
flow Minneapolis Has Stood
Across the Road Leading
to st. Paul Success.
Other Matters Which Have
Initiated Against the
Sanity City.
In Spite of the Odds, All the
Minnesota Men Work Like
Beavers.
Special to the Globe


w ASHINGToN, Jan. 20.-St. Paufs
struggle for convention honOrs, which
will terminate tomorrow in victory or
defeat, has been one long and continued
series of battles against odds which
would have discouraged and baffied any
but the most resOlute and efficient man.
ayers. The majority of the delegation
here scarcely know the full measure of
the difficulty, and the people at home
cannot appreciate it, but the real man.
ayers of the st. Paul campaign alone
entirely realize what a trying and mp
hill task it has been. From the time
the advance guard arrived until
tonight the st. Paul representa-
tive have been on the defensive.
Our city is held closely allied with Min
neapolis, and the unfortunate failure of
that city to provide adequate accommo-
dations, and even display proper court
esy in failing, has steadily initiated
against st. Paul. Minneapolis may eX-
plain, st. Paul may palllate, and Clark
son may protest, but this rises up to
confront us at every turn. Newspaper
men who are friendly to the delegation
which came here in December have
since then been snubbed and are now
sctive enemies, and allow no member of
the national committee to reach Wash
ingtOn without having their complaint
poured in his ear. Minneapolis men
here admit with humiliation that this
situation is true, and agree, if St.
Paul should finally be worsted in the
fight, that it will be the largest factor
In the result.
a Second Obstacle
that has been keenly felt in the progress
of the canvass, and particularly now,
when the slightest weakness invites the
combined attack of the rival cities, was
the failure of the council to promptly
let the auditorium contract. 1t deprived
US of our standing and laid US open to
the charge that our convention hall was
Oh paper merely, with no certainty of
completion and with no guarantee that
If completed it would be upon the
scale promised and exhibited here. 1t
soon leaked out that the council had
met and failed to award the contracts,
and st. PanPS active competitors
are making the most of it. The St.
Paul people are entitled to a full
and fair exposition of the situation,
and these facts are stated bluntly and
ferSely, without mincing matters. Prom
1nent among what may be termed the
natural difficulties that have been COM
Dated IS the feeling that under all cir
cumstanceS New York or Chicago is the
natural theater for the great Democratic
assembling. Determined men have so
advocated, and it has been work of
patient argument and diplomacy to
meet and defeat such sentiment.
Though Chicago has been declared out
OF the race, the strong Endorsement that
way has been unremitting, and there
are unmlStakable evidences that in a
way and by methods distinctly under
handed the friends of Chicago are dill
gently at work. New York is an open
and powerful competitor, with polit-
Zeal influence never without fear and
respect in a Scuffle of this character.
Milwaukee, besides being strongly and
eapably represented, has a political
backing that has carried her up to the
front rank of competing cities,
Threatening ST. Paul
on every hand. The argument, freely
used and generally accepted, that TO
give Wisconsin the convention will in
sure the twelve electoral votes of that
state, has conceded strength, and es-
Pecially when backed up by the fact
that in 1890 the state gave $4,000 Demo-
cratic majority and elected eight out OF
nine Democrats congressman. The
Warmest friends of st. Paul must con-
cede that in Milwaukee, with this situa-
ton, the Sanity City has a foeman not
to be deSpiSed. The finalitv of the sit
uation and condition NAV not seem a
logical deduction from this preliminary
analysis, for tonight St. Paul finds her.
self leader. The result is that she is
threatened with combination by
all competitors. The early appearance
In the field of st. Paul, and the
unremitting and telling efforts of her
representatives here, while they have
challenged the admiration even of
rivals, have drawn the fire of the entire
opposition and placed us in the position
of fighting an entire opposing field, the
difficulties of which do not require an
elaboration. This may be accepted as a
terse and truthful representation of the
situation and of the factors and condi-
tionS which created it-all of which it
Is necessary the Minnesota people
should fully understand. The commit
tee has laboriously toiled up the hill of
difficulties, and tonight thinks it can see
the light beyond. The situation is full
of difficulties still, but some of these
difficulties, inasmuch as they must nee
essarily attend success, serve to inspire
confidence. That confidence the com
nittee now feels.
CHICAGO Is FEARED,