St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-14
Rev. William wilkinson Finds
Truth in Buddhism and
Mohammedanism.
Fun in a Restaurant With a
Negro and an Armful Of
Bricks.

| gathering dS Il lldllOHdl convention anu
making all the preparations for the en-
tertainment of thousands of people
without being subjected to some criti-
cism; but the critics are firmly con-
| WINGED that they have abundant grounds
for talking as they do. The criticism
all grows out of what might be called
the unbuSineSslike, unSystematic meth
DDS of the committees. 1t should be said
at the outset, that but little of the crit
iciSm falls on the heads of the men who
make up the executive committee.
Those gentlemen are working hard, and
are themselves hampered by the actions
OF the SuD-commtteeS-S OF the SUBJ
committees at least. When the eXecu-
tive committee organized for business
and opened headquarters in the Bank Of
Commerce building, it was expected
that all the business connected with the
convention would be transacted there.
AS a matter of fact but a small, very
small proportion of the business is
transacted there. The subcommittee
seem to have a mania for going INTO the
highways and byWayS of the earth for
places in which to meet. 1t may not be
intentional, but some of the chairmen
OF tie subcommittee have acted as If
they thought the entire task of preparing
for the convention rested upon their par
ticular committees. They have seemed
Jealous of the executive committee and
have done little 10 assist that body In
stead of all the business and the pro-
ceedingS passing through the hands of
the executive committee, where it should
20, because that committee is the head
center of all the work that is being done,
the chairman and secretary OF the exec
utive committee sometimes have to wait
for the appearance of the newspapers
for any enlightenment on what is going
on in the subcommittee. 1t is conceded
by every one most directly interested in
the work of the committees having
charge of the preparations for the con-
vention, that it would be vastly more
satisfactory if the subcommittee would
hold their meetings at headquarters, or,
at least, keep the secretary Of the eX-
ecutive committee informed of what
they are doing.
A word concerning the relations be-
tween the newspapers and the cOnven-
ton committees may not be out of place
here. The executive committee, and
the subcommittee, too, for that matter,
have exhibited extreme Solcitude re-
garding the attitude of the daily news
papers of the country toward Minneap
oils and the convention committees.
They have been Stralning every nerve
to so arrange for tie entertainment of
the outside news paper men who will
come to the convention that they may
want for nothing. 1t is not i'm
proper to suggest that the committees
do something for the local newspaper
men. The Twin City newspapers have
been at the service of the convention
committees ever since the location
of the convention was decided,
and long before, in connection,
with efforts toward securing it. They
have held out news that would have
made mighty interestin' readin'; "they
have published everything that would
in any way help the convention COM
mittees; they have been aSsduOuS IN
their efforts to defend the convention
committees and to remove any SuSpl-
ciOn that the committees are not doing
everything in their power to make the
convention III Minneapolis a success.
But they have been working under diff
cultieS. Never has it been SO difficult
for reporters in Minneapolis to Sc
cure information about the prog
ress of a similar line of work
and by a similar line OF work
is meant the advance work for Y. p.
S. G. E. convention, harvest festival,
national encampment of the G. a. r.,
or anything of that nature involving eX-
tenslye preparation. Ii a newspaper
desires information about the work of
the accommodations committee, for in
stance, the reporter must hunt up the
secretary of that committee, or the
chairman, wherever he may be found.
The central Office has no knowledge OF
what is going OH. The accommodations
committee is merely cited as an Illus
tratiOn. That committee is no worse in
this respect than any of the others, and
is much better than most Of them.
But that shows the manner of doing
work practiced by the subcommittee.
Instead of by centralized. SyS-
tematiZed working force, the prepa-
rations for the convention are being
made by lot CT independent, irrespon-
sible organizations. The system i'll vogue
bears about the same relation to the
proper method as guerrilla warfare does
to the genuine. scientific military cam
paign. AS a suggestion: A bulletin
board, on which committee meetings
might be announced, and the centrali-
cation of the reports of the sub-commit
tees would be of great assistance to the
newspaper reporters. There is no ne
cessity for the subcommittee hiding in
alleys and meeting in back rooms.
What they have to do is for the general
good of the city, and for that reason is
proper matter for general promulga-
ton.
FOR MAYOR. ROBERT JAMESON
How does that look? That is just how
the head of the Republican city ticket
may look next fall. A quiet little boom
for Jamison is being worked up among
the Younger men of the Republican
party. He is popular and is pretty
clean man, his friends argue. 1t is not
known how Jamison stands on this
question, but few men will refuse
nomination for the honorable office of
MAYOR if rendered them. He does not
seem to be working for any such office
himself. All that is being done to for
ward his candidacy is being done by his
friends, who think he would be good
man for the place. Jamison made
good record as county attorney. That
cannot be denied by either Republican
or Democrat. He made a good record
when he was in the Legislature. He is,
pre-eminently, level-headed man who
minds his own business and does as he
thinks best. The men who are pushing
him advance another argument in his
favor, and that is that he knows how to
keep his own counsel. Jamison could
we'll afford to run for mayor now. He
has made such good thing out OF min
eral lands that he does not need to prac-
tice law assiduously. OF course he may
not be nominated, but he is one of the
many possibilities.
There are few INSTRUMENTATION
for office, that is-that have already
been disposed of by the Republicans.
First of all comes the congressional
nomination. BY common consent that
will go to Loren Fletcher. There is
small likelihood of any opposition to
Fletcher. The perennial sparring con-
test between the kids and the "pa-
triarehs'' of local Republicanism is
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