St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-13
Seven or Eight Anti-Davis Re-
publ cans Found by a Min
neapolis Paper.
Aud Actually Threatens to
Publish Their Names
Very Shortly.
Chairman Jamison Says the
Anti-Davis Movement Is
Far From New,
And Intimates That an At
tempt Was Made to Keep
1t Quiet.

IL quiet.
There has been strong opposition to
the return of Senator G. X. Davis man
ifest at all the political centers among
the Republican politicians of the state
for nearly month. The GLOBE care
fully reported this movement as it
progressed despite the sueers of its Re-
publican contemporaries, all of which
asserted that there was and would be no
opposition to the reelection of Mr..
Davis. Among the most vehement and
unreasoning of these organs was the
Minneapolis Journal. Under these cir
cumstances the GLOBE may be pardoned
the qualification it felt on seeing the
articles it had published during the past
three weeks boiled into a very excellent
review of the situation in last Saturdays
issue of the Journal. The news may be
a little aged when it gets into
the columns of the Journal. but it
finally gets there as general thing. 1t
should be stated, also, that the Journal
''caught on to" the anti-DaviS move
ment several weeks earlier than it
otherwise would have, by reason of the
fact that Chairman Bob JamisOn, be-
ing a thoroughly loyal Minneapoltan,
called at the journal office and gave the
boys quiet tip to the effect that the
GLOBE had been printing the news on
il subject concerning which the people
were very much interested.
The many columns of matter pub
lished by the GLOBE was well condensed
in Saturdays journal, so
Cleverly Boiled Down.
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was done by gentleman who is at pres
ent unattached" The GLOBE re-
printed good part of the journal arti-
Gle simply because it was glad to see the
Minneapolis paper manifest desire to
keep somewhere in the neighborhood
of the procession.
The only portion of the column and
and a half of review in the Jour
nal not 5 previously printed in
the GLOBE was coId-biooded attack on
Senator Davis. This the GLOBE was
furnished by the same news bureau
from which the journal received it, but
was not presented because the GLOBE
is not fighting the battles of either
Senator Washburn or Senator Davis.
Inasmuch as the Journal in the same
issue, while stabbing Senator Davis in
the back on the first page DrofeSSed
will be reproduced. 1t follows:
lone of the chief things against Mr..
Davis at this time, and the thing that is
being discussed very actively in st.
Paul, is his alleged disregard of court
esy in his intercourse with his equals
and men who are being depended upon
to help him. 1t is said that
Davis Is Entirely Lacking
if1d in1n hoe
in his intercourse with Minnesota lead
erS as to ALLEVIATE them in many cases,
The difficulty that Senator Washburn
has III getting along with him is well
known. Davis is accused of being stub
born. higl-tempered, dictatorial, selfish
and egotistical. If he can get meas
ure through in Washington without the
support of Washburn he does it. and
the junior senator does not hear of it
till it comes to him through the press.
Ii he has to ask Washburn's help, he
does it in disdainful way, always leav-
ing the impression that he does it
simply because he has to.
"ThlS is the story that has come from
Washington time and time again, and,
while Senator Washburn has never con-
firmed it, it is believed by great many
people, who say it is the way Davis acts
sonal following in the state Is quite
large, but it is, for the most part, con-
fined 10 men who have no especial per-
SOnal acquaintance with him. The SEN
ator Is said TO have very few personal
friends among the Minnesota politicians,
yet this, of itself, would hardly be suffi-
cient to bring about his overthrow.
"His personal following in the state is
quite large, but it is confined to men
who have no special personal acquaint-
ance with him."
The above quotation contains the
Only Original Statements
in the Journals Saturday digest; every
other statement and fact had previously
appeared IN the GLOBE.
Yesterday, however, the Journal
really ''humped itself" and secured an
interview with Chairman bob" Jami-
son. confirming what it had learned
from careful Derusal of the GLOBE
for the past three weeks. Chairman
Jamison in this Interview gave out the
fact that he and others have known of
the anti-DaviS movement for some time.
"There is no Disgusting the fact"
said Chairman Jamison, ''that there is
movement on foot among Republican
politicians to accomplish the defeat Of
Senator Davis. 1t has been known for
some time, and many good Republicans
have been trying their best to prevent
It's success. In the end | believe they
will succeed, and Davis will be returned
to the senate without opposition. What
the journal printed Saturday evening
puts the ease. as L have understood it,
fairly and without malice, and the sensi-
BILE editorial reviewing the local article
regard as one of the strongest and
most loyal Davis statements made dur
ing the campaign. 1t would be
Foolish for Any One
to say that there was no opposition to
Davis. The man who spends any of his
time at the Merchants ,or other political
headquarters in st. Paul, knows all
about the fight, and has known for
weeks. 1t is no particular secret, and
yet we had hoped that the newspapers
would not say much about it"
''Itis no particular secret and yet we
had hoped that the newspapers would
not say much about it,"
This is peculiar sentence, and may
possibly explain why the Republican
organs have heard so little about the
anti-Davis movement. sAnd yet these
same organs pretend to be newspapers,
while suppreSslng news in which every
voter in the state is greatly interested.
This is really amusing, and yet in the
face of il, the Journal had the nerve to
pr5at no less than three editions last
evening claiming that it had not
'.warmed over" the GLOBES news Tor
the past three weeks.
And the Journal has really happened
upon another rare piece of news, which
it actually threatens, mind you,
Threatens to Publish.
| In some way the alert news-gatherers
: of the lanEaal have learned the names