St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-02
CITIES WILL ELECT BECKER
Governor to Devote His Last
Days to Converting HIN
neapolis Voters.
SKAFFAREN STILL IN LINE
Nelson Chapel Combination
Turns Down Both Rogers
and Stevens.

be made by Gov. Nelson in the happy
task of jOllying up the discontented and
dlsheartened Republicans of the Fifth
district, otherwise Minneapolis. The
governors experiences during the past
ten days have been about as delightful
as the cramp collie. aud unless all signs
fail. his experience ofthe next few days
Will be fully as thrilling. TO begin
with. he is not in very good hunor,
owing to several little things not neces-
sary to mention. but especially to a re-
cent little three-cOrnered controversy
In which he got squeezed between the
auditor and the attorney general.
Mr.. Nelson has already begun his
campaign by shaking hands with the
employeS'of the Pillsbury milIs-a per.
fornancc which did not cost him a cent.
and which. as friend of the governors
remarked on the occasion, left him
just as we'll off as ever after he had
washed his hands,"
This style of campaigning is a favor
ite one of the governors, as it does not
Involve the sacrifice of any of the town.
sites which he owns on the line of the
Great Northern road, and il can be done
very quickly. OF course, the men are
under the eye Of the foreman. and it
would not look well for them to ask him
any questions when he is honorlng
them SO freely.
Hinges ON Two Cities.
1.-The election all hinges on the result
in the two Cities" is the verdict already
rendered by MIR. Nelson's committee,
and it Is conceded that he must 20 out
of the cities with a plurality Of at least
10000 in order to be elected With this
in mind. 1t il probable that the governor
will be able to preserve the sembIance
of good temper in his canvass of Mime
apOlis, and he will be under the watch
full eye of Goodnow. who always has a
blank coal contract in his pocket.
There are one or two things,
however, which may embarrass Mr..
Nelson in his canvass of Hennepin
county. There, for instance, is
the appointment of Skaffaren as dairy
commissioner. The Swedish voters of
Hennepfn county wanted to have Some-
thing to say about the appointment of
the person who should look after the
the Woodworking American COW, the
product of whose labor was at any time
liable to be thrown into competition
with the pauper cows of Europe. Asia
and New Jersey. To these voters Mr..
Nelson made the promise that they
should furnish the man all tattered and
torn who should hire the deputies all
forlorn to guard the COW with the
crumpled horn, and inspect the barley
and oats and corn that are fed to the COW
in the,early morn, and to perform such
other functions as pertain to the Office
in question. Subsequently, when they
had named the man they wanted ap-
pointed to the place, the governor told
them that they were all right as gen.
eral abstract proposition, but in this
particular case they were not wholly
and entirely acquainted with them
selves or their desires, and in ord eT 70
familiariZe them with the
Ups and Downs of Politics,
he appointed Skatfaren. Now Skatfaren
is all right in some respects, and it must
be admitted that it has stood nobly by
the ticket and has not missed drawing
lie
popular with the governor, the dairy
commissioner, and the publisher of
Skatfaren, but it is not, on the whole,
power for great good in Minneapolis
circles. and its appointment as dairy
commissioner, as may be inferred from
the foregoing. did not especially fOrtify
the governor in the good graces Of the
people who wanted Minneapolis m an
appointed to the place.
Then there is the small matter of an
appropriation for the university campus
which the governor vetoed on about the
same day that he so literally signed
away $4,000 year for the taxpayers Of
Ramsey county. All the people in Min
neapoliS do not go to the university, but
very few of them will forgive the gov
ernol for taking petty revenge on
Representative Wyman by vetoing a
small appropriation for the university.
In this connection it may be stated that
there are still few people in Minneap.
oils who believe that 5000 a year was
enough for the surveyor general of ium-
ber at that point, and these did not ap-
prove Of the governors course in per-
S0nalIy lODDNlng against MI. w yWauS
bill to reduce the fees.
The SenatOrship.
Still another matter upon which the
Minneapolis people are cogltating is the
refusal of the governor to commit hIm'
self absolutely and unequivocally upon
the subject of the United States senator
ship. The governor has said that he IL
not candidate for the senate, that
he was "friendly to Washburn." that
he was "a candidate for the office of
governor only" and many other such
equivocal statements as these; but ha
has not yet said positively that he will
not under any circumstances accept the
election to the United States senate,
and such statement is the only
one that would really dlSarm HIM
as a senatorial candidate, if even
that would. The GLOBE has smoked
Mr.. Nelson out on the question
of the Great Northern land grant, and it
leaves to its Minneapolis readers the
pleasing task of smoking him oct on tho
senatorial question.
Apntber thing that Mr. Nelson ran