St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-12
TALKS WITH TRANSMITS.


agriculture of North Dakota. who spent yes
terday in st. Paul. Is a tall, rather stout gem
tleman, hardly over thirty-five years of age.
lie bears slight resemblance to the re-
nowned Alex. Mckenzie, and is said to be
almost as good manager. During the past
month he has been extensively mentioned in
connection with the Republican congress
sional nomination. He was asked in regard
to his candidacy last evening, but was in
clined to avoid declaring himself
Il have been mentioned" he said, '.but
that is all. l presume there will be some OPP
position to Congressman Johnson. 1t would
be strange If there were not. You see he is
man who has always made many enemies,
and they usually put in all appearance at a
convention when he is seeking q nomina
ton"
viii Senator Casey secure reelection to
the senator
las things stand today l think he would
have no difficulty in being reelected" an
sWered Commissioner Helgeson, but no one
can tell what will happen in the next few
months. Senator Casey has made good
senator, / think, and is a great deal stronger
than he was at the time of his election"
"Col. Morton, of Fargo, attacked your crop
report short time ago, Mr.. Helgeson; what
have you to say in answer to this:"
81 think Col. Morton's attacks OH the
wheat crop estimates have been sufficiently
answered. p" replied the commissioner "There
is one point / think that deserves
10 be touched upon. Col Merton
asks how can the yield of wheat
be estimated where threshing has not been
done! How do farmers know what their
wheat will average until they get it threshold
The answer to these questions is very simple
u nnrfJnu n nxubn to- r.
been threshed. Machines began working
last year Dis usual in different localities in
every county all over the state and threshed
as much as they could before the cold
weather came on. The wheat unthreshed
grew III fields contiguous to those where
threshing was finished and from this fact
the farmers are able to form intelligent and
reasonably accurate estimates of the yield of
wheat That has not yet reached the machines
we know the acreage absolutely, as that is a
matter of official record, reported by the as
SCISSORS. If the unthreshed grain formed a
solid. unbroKen block in one-halt or one
quarter of the state or In half
dozen counties or single county,
there would be some force in Col. Nor
tons criticism. Our report agrees almost
exactly with the United States government
report, and l think ours is more nearly cor
rect for the reason that we have at present
three times as many correspondents in each
county. We handle the returns in the same
manner"
Commissioners Helgeson several years ago
had combat with Senator Jud La Moure. in
which the senator did not come out far
ahead This is pretty good evidence that, if
congressman johnson has an opponent in
Mr. Helgeson, he will have rival capable of
| giving him severe cOntaSt
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Lieut.. Gov. G. S. Ives, of st. Peter, arrived
in ST. Paul yesterday morning accom- panied
by Maj. A. l.. Sackett, and the two spent the
evening chatting with friends at the Mer-
chants. Lieut.. Gov. Ives is taking a lively
Interest in the Hompe- Donnelly warfare now
being carried on in the GLOBE. In his posi-.
ton as presiding officer of the senate Gov
Ives was necessarily mixed up in the pro
ceedings of the body
TN Senator Hompe's first letter, think, u
he said. ''he probably uninlentionaily lief
the inference that | knew OF the plan made
up by some of the Republican senators to
organize the senate. AS matter of fact I
did not. | was not at the hotel the evening
before the opening. and the first 1 knew of
any plan was when Mr.. Donnelly came into
my room and made his demands
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DR.. Comegys Paul. of Chicago, is at the
Ryan.
W. W. Ranney. prominent attorney of
Austin, is at the Merchants
Hon. Hugh Ii. Price. of Black River Falls,
Wis. dned at the Merchants yesterday.
E. II. Wright and wife. of St. Cloud, are at
the Merchants
Il
~ Senator G. A. Glader of Kandiyohl county,
dropped into the city yesterday. Senator
Gfader is the gentleman who performed the
feat of stealing grave yard at the last ses
sion for his constituents having received
the passage of q bill removing the occupants
OF Swift county burial ground down TO
New London, in Kandiyohi, where a monu-
nent is to be erected by the state. Senator
Glader also securedthe passage of bill pro-
viding for the leasing OF the state lands in
his county which has proved SO successful in
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