St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01
A MERRY Time IN .:S0OTA!
THE FLOUR CITY REPUBLICANS IN A
DREADFUL STEW
ROAST FOR COL. WEST,

tramp over and Dirty His
Hotel-Row Abont a MeasIy
Little TicSet-yEhat the Colo
mel Says Abont It-Veterans in
State OF Disruption.
What stew these Flonr City Repub-
llcans are in! They are like kidneys in
/; keith. If they keep OIL there will not
be a man left in the city to vote Il Nc
kinicy Ticket when that delightful time
comes around. The Grand Army vet
Grams are squabbling among themselves;
there is Il threatened disruption of sew
eral posts and lodges. and the devil to
pay generally. The old soldiers are not
the only ones, however. The so.called
Republican nabobS are at swords points
with each other, and all together the
spectacle the local party is making of
itself is laughable. When Mckinley
left the city it is said lie expressed HIM
self as Disguised at the childish
jealousies and differences exhibited by
the Minneapolis followers of the high
tariff religion. In others words they
made hin sick. Instead of harm0nizing
the different factions, the ''rin Cod
had the opposite effect. He set them
on ears end. with tails bristling like the
quilts of porcupine.
Ii. w. Foote, the chairman of the
committee on arrangements, is out with
his little hammer now. He has sue
ceeded in getting into print story
about Col. John T. West, the worthy
and whoe-souled proprietor of the West
hotel. When Mckinley was in the city
the colonel, like true chivalric knight.
opened the doors of his big hostelry and
allowed 5000 hungry tariff men to over
run the lobby and dirty up the place in
shameful manner. Had the colonel
known how he would have been treated
for this courtesy, the chances are he
would ''e'en have tipped the Swagger-
ing braggarts out of court"
One little meaSly ticket was placed on
Col. Vests desk. the same being his
guarantee OF admission to the EXPOSE
ton building to hear the Ohio prophet
speak on his new religion just one
Ticket, nothing more. The colonel felt
pioued, and gave his ticket to one of
the bell boys. The bell boy proceeded
tn hawk it, and while ASKING some per
son il he would give him SO for the
billet of admission, Chairman Foote
ponnced upon him, and dragged him
before Col. West Now. the colonel is
a tritie choieric. and when he was re-
pr0ached for allowing one OF his bell
boys to have his ticket and sell it, he
informed the excited chairman that he
might HE himself to the place of
cloven hoofs.
Imagine the horror of Chairman Foote
at hearing himself consigned to so
fervid place! He was dumfounded;
nay. he was paralyzed. Ever since that
day he has been nursing his wounded
feelings, and the ''moguls" have spared
no pains in the roasting of the refund
colonel. Mr.. F0ote also AYERS that the
mayor showed himself in where he had
no business to iDtrude. He took Nc
kinley away 10 high school when the
committee on arrangements were look
ing for him to attend the Republican
league meeting. Mr.. Foote said yester-
day:
IF these people of the city hall don't
keep still and quit their talking back |
will have some hot stuff for the pa.
perS.' -
John Goodnow and everybody else
connected with the affair are being
SCORED. Numerically from all parts Of
the state and city. There are soreheads
III every balliwick who. failing to get
into the Exposition building, are on
the verge of quitting the Republican
party forever. Oh! it will be Il merry
time when they all get started.
Col. West was seen yesterday and
asked to give his version of the bell
boy-tcket affair. He was averse to- go
ing into the matter at FIRST. Inasmuch as
he looked upon 1t as Ridiculous He
was finally induced to give vent TO the
following:
when | came down to my office
Wednesday morning } found Il solitary
ticket laying on my desk. | supposed
it was meant for me, although there
was nothing 10 Indicate ii. 1t had been
advertised that 5000 people could hear
Mckinley in the West hotel. The
crowd came in, ran all over the house
aud dlrtied it up. When | thought of
that lone ticket began to get Warm, and
the more l thought about il the warmer
l became. One ticket was no use to
me. don't generally go anywhere
alone. 1t was therefore of no use to
me. and when SQuires, the colored bell
man, came into my Office, asked him
whether he wanted to hear Mckinley.
He is good Republican, member of
Republican club, and | gave it to him.
ABOUT O'Clock In the afternoon | saw
him and Mr.. Foote having an alterca-
ton about the ticket, and said that [
had given it to HIM; that 1t was his, and
he had perfect right to do with it as he
pleased.
Tickets were being hawked about all
over town, and it seems 10 Inc very
small business to attempt to make a
scapegoat of this poor boy. l took MIR.
Foote over to the news stand and
showed him stack OF tickets that were
there being offered for sale. [ then
took him to the clerks desk and showed
b him notes from prominent people. who
offered to sell tickets at various prices.
You may say also that Bob Evans, our
national committeeman, told me that he
had seen tickets hawKed about in the
stores. The fact of the matter is that
lot of their Foote's and Goodnow's) own
people were i'll the ticket-Selling bust
ness"