St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-14
LINCOLN CLUB HATED
By the Majority Of the Re-
publican Party in an
Ominous Way.
CALL 1T A TAMMANY MOVE.
Republicans So Alarmed That
They Call on Mckinley
for Help.
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN CLUB.
Populists Ask Why Their Com
mittee Hasn't Called
the Convention.
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN CLUB.

Just wait week or ten days, and it
VIII be so hot around that Lincoln club
crowd that there won't be ice enough to
save them" Thus spoke Republican
politician yesterday in alluding to the
executive committee that has taken
1t into its head to run Re
publican affairs in this county. The
same Republican, and another to
whom he was talking, INDUCED in the
use of some hard names and profane
eXpletives, and then went to. neigh.
boring saloon and drank four full
glasses of whiskev to wash the bad
taste out OF their mouths. Making fur
ther inquiries among Republican
leaders, GLOBE reporter found
some to condemn the state house
ring annex in most bitter terms, and
others. of more mild ways, who said it
Is mistake for g few men to take mat
tiers into their own hands just before the
county convention and give themselves
Offices that are to last for four years. and
0take the management of the campaign
out OF the hands of the party for at least
the next two years, with the expectation
that they will be continued in power
indefinitely. There has been endless
Kicking against what the few are
pleased to term "a plan of campaign"
but which the DIRECTORS assert is Tam
many hall organization gotten up by a
dozen men to further their individual
purposes.
The so-called plan of campaign was
formulated by a number of men from
the city committee and the county com.
mittee. Three were selected from each.
There is lot of stuff in the plan that
seems to indicate that the people will
have cnance in the club or committee,
but, stripped down to the facts, it is
plain that four out of seven of the CON-
mittee chosen are to hold office until
1898, or for four years. and the other
three are to hold Office until the fall of
1896, then to take the places of the
county and city committees and run
everything under the name of the exec
utive committee.
Another thing that brings up curses
long and deep is the composition of this
executive committee. and especially
those of them selected from the old city
committee. Still another complaint is
made that it is an annexation of the
state house ring, bent on debating who
shall and who shall not be candidates
for office In the county this fall. Then
another subject of contention is that
the league clubs have secured what
they want to the disadvantage of the
clubs that have no time for the leagues
Those selected as members of the
hated executive committee or trust are
f. b. Doran. Fred G. Stevens and E. l..
MabOn. of the county committee, AID
A. c. Clausen, A. Lindahl and F. s.
Bryant, of the late city committee.
Notwithstanding the bitter protests
that have been going on for few weeks
the six gentlemen named met Yesterday
afternoon in one of the rooms of the
state central committee and proceeded
with plans intended to carry out the
close corporation scheme. +. w. Zoll-
man was chosen as the seventh link in
the chain, and he as we'll as the others
proceeded to discuss plans looking to
the control of the party machinery. F
G. Stevens was chosen as temporary
chairman and A. G. Clausen as temper
AIRY secretary. 1t was decided that rules
for government of the combination
should be drawn upland F. b. Doran. F.
| s. Bryant and f. W. Zollman were en-
powered to prepare them. The com
mittee then adjourned until Monday
afternoon, when permanent officers will
be elected and they will take charge OF
the Republican party for the next foul
years no matter who objects.