St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-18
ALL WANT The EARTH
The Candidates for Speaker
Keeping Out Of the Cap
ital City.
Unable to Promise All the
Members Chairmanships,
They Will Wait.
Turrells Friends Show Signs
OF Kicking Over the So
Called Slate.
two Candidates for Leading
Positions in the House
Organization.


During the past week more than half
of the members of the lower house of
the legislature have been in st. Paul
securing quarters and looking over the
ground, and yet 10 one is able to tell
where one in five of them actually
stands on the two main questions OF the
hour. No attempt has been made to
canvass the Republican majority Oh the
Speakership or concerning the Sena-
torial contest. This condition of affairs,
in the face of the fact that the legisla
ture will meet two weeks from Tues
day, is both surprising and unusual.
Many think that this is due to an I'M
derSl anding between the three leading
candidates for speaker on the Republic
an side. by which all have agreed to
keep out of ST. Paul until after Christ
mas. This is hardly the case, for there
is plenty of evidence to show that these
candidates are not in a state of mind re-
garding each other that would lead them
to make any such arrangement. Down
in the southwestern part of the
state there are indications that the
venerable memberfrom Redwood does
not like the turn things have taken.
and in this weeks issue of the Red
wood Gazette, his able mouthpece, a
note Of warning is sounded against the
course of the Davis men in supporting
one of the candidates. This would
seem to indicate that there is no under
standing between Mr.. Turrell and
either of the other candidates. The
Redwood Gazette editorial follows:
Turrell's Friends Protest
The Gazette feels confident that if vote Of
the Republican members of the legislature
was taken tomorrow .. b. Turrell would be
the choice of the caucus, and 1t is with
feeling of confidence over his election that
it now sOlemnly denies certain rum0rS, ana
makes certain declarations on the post of
honor at issue. II emphatically denies,
what 1t is saying that any combina-
ton or understanding exists between
MIR. Turrell and Hon. Allan j. Greer of Wa
basha, a statesman for whom this paper has
the most profound respect. MIR. Turrell
commenced his candidacy without regard to
combination or section, believing that his
long service in the house, and his knowledge
OF the duties of speaker entities
him TO the position which he seeks. And he
still stands on that platform separate and
distinct from any combination. and will re-
main there until the contest is decided.
Lee Is Slated.
1t also states here that it is currently ru-
mOred and believed that w. +. Lee, OF Long
L
that be, and while he may not be The candi
date of Hon. c. X Davis, one or two of the
latters close st. Paul legal friends are
secretly working for Mr. Lee. 1t is time that
q check be placed on these persons if the Re
publicans desire harmony in the next legis
lature, and the sooner that this check Is APP
piled, the better, 1t is also time for the Re-
puolicans or the state to throw over slated
candidates, rebuke the money powers, and
come back to the people.
The real cause of the absence Of the
speakership candidates from the center
of operations is more likely to be due to
the fact that all of them have been
working much more effectively in other
ways. There never was a legislature 1
made up of a body of men SO inclined to
refrain from committing themselves as
the present one. Every Republican |
member wants to be chairman of good |
committee, and many will not commit |
themselves until they have
Satisfactory Pledges
from the man they are satisfied will
prove the winner. This was shown |
by Mr.. TuTrell when he was last in st. |
Paul. In talking over the matter with |
friends he said:
81 would like to be chosen speaker,
but do not want to promise one place |
to more than three or four men,"
AS was stated in the GLOBE some time
ago the candidacy Of Hon. j. G. Boggs,
Of Duluth, was only announced in order
to give Mr.. BoggS a point of vantage
from which he will be able to claim the
craftsmanship of the committee on tax
and tax laws. The genial "Jim" is
pretty solid with the Minnesota Iron
company, which corporation is very
anxious that the tax laws of the state
be left as they are. This year this cor
poration, which has paid per cent div
ldends on 1000, 600 of capital, will pay
the magnificent sum of S1l 900 into the
state treasury
HI Lieu of all Other Taxes
on It's great mines at Tower and Ely.
This is less than the state paid to sup
press the strike which occurred there a
few months ago.
In case Mr.. Boggs is placed at the
head of the tax committee there will
be no danger of any change in the laws
that will affect the Minnesota Iron
company.
Aside from Mr. Boggs, the three can
didates are able and highly respected
gentlemen with hosts of warm personal
and political friends, and either of them
will make a speaker who will be fair
and impartial. MIR. Lee is a young man
who has made his own way in the world,
and, III doing so. has retained the conf
dence and repect of the people who
have observed his rise from the ranks
to the position he now holds.
Hon. Allen j. Greer is another young
man who has done everything for him
self. He commenced life as a school
master, and met such great success in
that line that at twenty-five he was
talked of for state superintendent of
public instruction. Later he studied
law, and is now practlcing with great
success in Wabasha county.
Hon. o. B. Turrell, of Redwood
county, has served a number of terms
in the lower house, and is one
of the strong men in the Re-
publican ranks in Southwestern
Minnesota. lie stands very high among
the people who know him best, aud has
several times been their choice for
member of congress. He will probably
not be candidate for Office again, and
would like to round out his career as
speaker of the house.
AT the present time these candidates
stand in about the order named. Mr.
Lee occupies the perilous position of
being slightly in the lead, hampered by
All Endorsement that is altogether likely
to provoke combination of the oppoSi-
ton forces.
DULUTH ASKS THE CLERK.