St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-17
CAMPAIGN TO BE PLANNED.
At This Meeting the New
State Central Committee
Will Be Organized.
MANY ARE KNUTE'S FRIENDS,
How Smoothly Runs Chair
man Bixby's Goodhue
County Machine.
From the Sunday Globe.l

From the Sunday Globe
Gen. Becker. the Democratic nominee
for governor. went to Minneapolis yes
lerday afternoon in response to re-
quest of Hon. p. B. WINSTON, chairman
of the late state convention. At this
meeting, which consumed a good part of
the afternoon and evening. the selection
of the seven members Of the new state
central committee. as authorized by the
recent convention. was practically made.
These appointments will he announced
by Chairman Winston as soon as the
different gentlemen decided upon can
be communicated with. which will
probably not he later than Thursday.
AS soon as Gen. Becker reached home
last evening he set about writing TO his
running-mates on the ticket inviting
them to a conference on next Friday at
which time the members of the state
centr ! committee will he present. At
this meeting the committee will he COM
pletelv organized and plans for the
campaign discussed. In speaking of
the situation. Gen. Becker said last
evening that he had been most agree
ably surprised at the manner in which
the Democrats of the state are taking
hold of matters.
1.-THE Democrats are closing up their
ranks all along the line" he said. al
have evidence in this pile OF letters
from all portions of the state that leads
me to believe that there will be larger
Democratic vote polIed for our ticket
this year than in 1890. | hope to hold
every Democrat who has been with the
party in the past two contests. | know
that we are to receive some reinforce
ments from the other parties, hut first
every Democratic vote is wanted"
While Gen. Becker has received as
surances of support from all parts of the
state. from no place has come more
cheering news than Minneapolis. Re-
puhlicans are numerous in the Mill
City who are hi terly opposed to the re-
election of the present governor, and
many of the most prominent have
volunteered the information that they
propose to cast their votes and use their
influence in behalf of Gen. Becker
"These letters are confidential" said
Gen. Becker. "or would surprise you
bv mentioning the names Of a number
of the writers >"
Immediately after the meeting Of next
Friday the active work of the campaign
will he commenced. Speakers of ability
are to be placed in the field and kept
there. All the candidates are enthusi-
astc for the work, and. with the excep-
ton of the nominees for the judicial
positions, all of them will be in the field
after the present week. The Demo-
cratic voters everywhere will be in.
formed of the exact situation in the
state. They will be shown that all that
they have to do to secure the election
of their gallant standard bearer is to
give him the Democratic vote. No one
denies that the vote of the Populist
nominee is to be as large, if not larger.
than the same gentleman polled four
years ago. The increase, if there is
any. will come principally from ST.
Louis county. the Republican strong
hold in the northern part of the tate.
In the Red River valley the Populists
are holding their own, and the frantic
efforts of Gov. Nelson to force the Re-
publicans of the Seventh district to
nominate Halvor Stevenson for con.
as far as Nelson. himself, and the state
ticket are concerned.
Gov. Nelson has found out that the
most ultra Republicans In his old
district. while willing to vote for him
for governor. do not intend that he
shall set himself up as dictator"
In Otter Tail the Republican cOnven-
tion turned down the Nelson candidate
for the state senate. F. Ii. Mosher, with
ease, and after doing this they were so
pleased that they promptly buried all
four of the Nelson candidates for the
lower house of the state legislature.
In Goodhue. Chairman Tams Biyby.
after hard fight. succeeded in securing
the nomination of Ole J. Wing. a warm.
personal friend of Gov. Nelson, for
senator, and since then the name of
Jens Grondahl has been placed on the
Republican legislative ticket for the
Red Wing district of Goodhue county.
Mr.. Groncahl is the manager of the Red
Wing Republican, Chairman Bixby's
newspaper, and he defeated the veteran.
Gen. Cross, by one or two votes. In
the other two representative districts of
this county the conventions have not
yet been held, but when the time
arrives Tams and the governor will be
found on hand with the proper caudi.
dates.
Of course. there is great dissatisfaction
over these nominations, but, as old
Goodhue has large Republican major
ity, the selection of candidates by the
Republicans, or the governor and his
secretary, seems to have been made so
far without regard to the vote-getting
qualities of the nominees. Tams is
taking care Of Goodhue, and he is doing
1t well. His machine has thus far
not slipped cog" Bixby's possessing
the qualifications so needed to make up
the expert political "boss" to such
remarkable degree. He has become
absolute in his county, and when the
good people of Wanamingo, or Vasa. or
hay Creek, or Minneola, or Lun, or any
other township, desire to lay ont road
or elect a supervisor they first send a
delegation to find out whether Tams
will condescend to grant them permis-
sion.
Great is the boss" of a good, big, fat
county like Goodhue, where all that the
boss mas to do to perpetuate his reign
Is to watch out and control the county