St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-14
STPAUL WILLW|N
All Washington Talking in
Favor of the Other
Twin.
Neither Cleveland Nor Hill
Will Favor Kniekerboeker
Town,
While Cincinnati Will Surely
Wear an Old Maids
Gown.
The South and Southeast Will
Vote for the North
west,
And on the Final Ballot the
Coast Will Do the
Rest.
Philadelphia Elects Blaine
Delegates That Will Go to
Minneap,
While Senator Sherman at
Columbus Talks Through
His Hat.
While Senator Sherman at
Columbus Talks Through
His Hat.
eneciel m the Globe

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-One by one
the members of the national committee
are beginning to struggle in, and now
nine of them are here ready for the con-
vention city fray. 1t is still entirely too
early to begin to shape definite results
out of the chaos, but the small, though
active, st. Paul contingent is content
with the present situation. 1t khas be-
come apparent even now it was a wise
move to have sent the delegation down
IN December to put st. Paul in nomina-
ton. Everybody talks st. Paul, and
whether it is to approve or condemn its
claims, the benefits will accrue just the
same in the way of plenteous advertIs-
Ing. Within the next day or two
Permanent st. Paul Headquarters
will be established at the Arlington, and
from that time the scattered ends of the
work Will be drawn together. 1t looks
now as though New York would not be
backed very heavily, though a formid-
able delegation from that city will be
on hand, headed by Dan Lamont on one
side and the redoubtable Tammany
boC1Cus ClOhCI, GllC
tits known that Cleveland's friends do
not favor New York, and HIPS said
enough today to make it clear that he,
too, favored some other city. Cincinnati,
on the other hand, has positively come
in. The Enquirer bureau gave
1t out j. that, having learned
there were no campaign debts
TO be paid the Ohio metropolis would
proffer her hospitality. 1t is also made
apparent that the West will combine
and ultimately make the choice of the
convention city. On the first ballot the
Pacific slope will go to San Francisco,
but that ballot will exhaust her chances,
and the vote west of the Rockies will
divide among the Northwestern claim
ants. New England will begin by sup
porting New York, and for its second
choice will fall heir to strong vote.
The Southeast
VIII Surely Vote Northwest
and the South and Southwest are Ger
tam to join the combination after the
first ballot. st. Paul has established
friendly relations with its neighboring
competitors, Kansas City and Milwau-
kee, and in the event of the Cincinnati
combination, previously alluded to in
these dispatches, Cincinnati cannot
control the committee. 1t is the con-
sensus of opinion that no city will get
the convention as a result of a direct
fight between political factions; that is
TO say, that should there be any division
on the lines of Hill and Cleveland or
Cleveland and anti Cleveland forces,
1t cannot he successfully carried
for or against any city. 1t is
matter of general remark that st. Paul
has no personal enemy in Washington,
and this is decidedly in our favor, as it
smootns the way toward the selection
of st. Paul on compromise. Every
other city, for example, has such enc
mics. Henry Watterson bitterly OPP
poses Cincinnati. Senator Pugh declares
the convention shall never go to Mil
waukee. A dozen prominent men are
on record as against the New York idea
at any stage of the proceeding. while
San Francisco and Kansas City are both
pleasant impossibilities. But no man
can be found who will not cheerfully
vote for st. Paul when once the prepon-
derance of sentiment is shown to be for
Minnesota.