St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-02
THE HOTEL CORRAL.

Nearly all of the delegates to. the conyen
ton of Thursday left for their homes in Va
rious parts of the state yesterday, a few re
manning during the day and taking the even
ing trains. The opinion was general that a
more successful convention had never been
held and that there remain no gaping
wounds to be healed in the future. Among
those who came In for special compliment
and mention yesterday was Joseph Leicht
of Winona. On every side he was spoken OF
as one Democrat for whom there is nothing
within the gift of the party too good TO be-
stow upon him Dan Aberle thewell known st
Paul Dem ocrat, was chatting with several
friends in the Merchants lobby ye5ter day
afternoon when some one mentioned Mr..
Leiehts name. Mr.. Abere turned and said;
Joe Lircht is one OF the best Democrats
in the state. and. if he will take it, want to
see him placed at the head of the Democratic
electoral ticket this year. He is great
worker outside of his paper, which has
great circulation and much influence. and
has friends and hosts of them III all parts of
the state. He is not opposed to Judge vii
son i'll any way, as was demonstrated by the
fact that he nominated the judge for dele
gate at large, and had Mr.. Wilson been pres
eut he would have Insisted upon Mr. Leicht
/ being made the candidate. But Judge VIII
/ son was not present, and Mr. Leicht. seeing
that the Democrats of the state desired to
send him to Chicago. CALAMITY Withdrew
from the race
Ex-Mayor John NJ. Martin, of West Du-
hth paid a visit TO st. Paul yesterday aud
dined with several friends at the Ryan Mr..
Martin for number of years was located at
Ada, where he had Il large law practice Sew
eral years ago he removed to the head of the
lakes. and was shortly afterward elected
mayor of West Duluth. Under his admins
tration. which closed bnt few weeks ago,
West Duluth made tremendous strides Tor
ward, aud is rapidly becoming very i'm
portant part of the Zenith City. Mr. Martin
was candidate at the late election, but was
defeated by q small plurality i'll three-eor-
nered fight.
Lloyd W. Bowers. of Winona the law
partner of Judge Wilson. is at the Ryan.
Joel P. HeatWele and Mrs. Heatwole are at
the Windsor.
Donald Grant of Faribault. and T. Foley,
of ST. Cloud. The big railroad contractors, are
Merchants guests.
Col c. S. Benson, of St. Cloud, spent yes
terday in the city looking after business in
tereSts, and incidentally chatting with
friends. Col Benson is chairman OF the Re
publican congressional committee of the
sixth district, aud is a political manager of
Considerable skill. De was unable to pull
Solomon Comstock through i'll the campaign
of 1890, but this is no reflection OH his skill
es q worker and organizer. The con-
tract WAS too great for any man
TO execute very successfully. But
Col Benson did one thing that some others
could not have done-he led the Hon. Solo
mon to defeat as CALAMITY as he would have
led him to victory. He never 'whimpered"
over the result and is just as good-humored
as though the result had been different. This
year Col. Benson is making no promises, but
this is because he does not know whether he
will manage the campaign i'll the sixth, but
he is doing lots of predicting TO the effect
that Il Republican will be elected i'll that DIS
triet.
Senator Craig and Representative Helm. Of
Waseca, spent yesterday in the city. looking
up their fellow legislators who remained over
for the day DR.. Craig is the author of the
reapportioument act passed at the last SEES
sion, which so fairly and equitably divided
the state into congressional districts. He is
IA strong Democrat. but Il great believer in
fairness Ill matters of this kind.
h Il was satisfied at the time said Senator
Craig that the apportionment bill was fair
/ TO ali parties AT the time was commanded
] By a Democratic leader 10 divide the territory
now in the Sixth and Seventh districts on
east and west lines. ! declined TO make a
9ehange because it would make a bad arrange
ment for one thing and because the bill
could not perome law i'll the event that
such change was made. l could see no
party advantage in such a change. think
no Of a St1 No n
complain at the divisions made by the bill.
and since Its passage have heard none
Z William 4. Ghessman, of Helena, is a Ryan
guest. 49,
I j. p Fahnlanaer, of St Cloud. the chair
man of the Stearns county Democratic COM
mittee. is registered at The Merchants
G. w Proctor Knott and Brud Tudor, of
New York, are at the Ryan.
Ex-Dairy Commissioner Warren Ives, of
Hutchinson, arrived III the city yesterday
his way home from Florida, where he has
been for several months. Mr. Ives comes
back firmly persuaded that the people of the
South are all Democrats. He declares that
the only issue there is the negro question,
and OH that ali Northern Republicans would
become Democrats i'll very short time after
their removal South. According to Mr.. Ives,
Gov. Hill made a tiae impression in Georgia
and Florida, and viii get some delegates from
those states.
"Mr Hills Southern speeches have been
distorted in the North and throughout the
country" he said ''IIill is extremely pop
uiar in both Georgia and Florida. as well rs
in other Southern states. Know that this is
trne in the first TWO states, and have reliable
information as to the situation in Others"
Mr.. Ives is looking much stronger and bet
ter than he has for several years-in fact, he
seems to be almost new man. He met his
brother, the lieutenant governor. during the
dag. but both declared that there was no pol
iiics i'll the conversation.
ON APRIL FIRST.