St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-07
HOPE IN THE REsURRECTION
This Seems to Be tie Last Cardo f
Ered's Friends.

This Seems to Be tie Last Cardo
Fred's Friends.
Baff1ed, beaten, bruised, badgered,
bounced. buhkOed, Bleeding, bam-
Doozled. blasted, branded, bullied, bust
ed; torn, thrashed, twisted. trampled,
throttled, the Wright faction of the Re-
publican party do not know where to
turn Oh look for deliverance.
In fact, there seems To be no deliver
ance since their intended legatee got
onto their game and refused to play.
And still, like the knight errants of
old. they stand in battle array, ready to
break lanceS with their opponents.
There is something almost pathetic in
the zeal with which they cling to Mr..
Wrights skirts and sink or swim (prin-
clpally the former) with him.
There was greater activity in the
Wright ranks yesterday than there has
been since the meeting in the mayors
office last Saturday winch tricked DR..
Wheaton.
Gen. ChropOdes Bucephalus Brun-
son, Col, Harris Richardson and Capt.
Ed. S. Bean appeared to be the military
officers who were seeking to bring the
party back to love and admiration Of
Itself and of each other. They were
scurryIng about the city from one end
to the other, and by nightfall appeared
to take neart of hope.
1t is argued by the Wright men that
as long as no legatee can be found
Wright himself ought to stand as the
representative OF the first Republican
administration st. Paul has had for
many moon. They claim that it is
very unfair for eX-Gov. McGill, in ad-
dition to being a Minneapolis man, 10
come into the race and administer the
same dose he SO much condemned when
w. K. Merriam defeated him (McGIlD
for the nomination for governor for the
second term and left instead an empty
resolution indorsing his administration.
McGill, they say, knows how it is him
self in the matter of one term.
1.-The convention next Tuesday can
not fail to indorse Wright's adminlstra-
tion," said one man yesterday, .for not
TO do so would be to admit that the
party had made failure and is not
entitled to further support from the
people. To refuse to nominate Wright
and not indorse his administration
would be such a double condemnation
Of ourselves that whoever we selected
would be doomed to defeat. If the ad.
ministratlon is to be indorsed by reso-
luton. would it be any worse to indorse
the man who made the administrations
said the Wright champion.
This argument appears to meet with a
good deal of approval. and another COM
mittee is liable TO he assembled at the
mayors office today by Gen. Chiropodes.
ETC., to consider the question of the res
direction and decide whether thew
shall not make their last stand in the
last ditch for Col. Fred himself, who
represents himself much better than
any collar on some one else's neck
could.
The McGill and Doran men are by no
means idle. This is especially true in
Doran'S case, where the word has gone
down the A. p. A. line to support Doran.
This fact diSturDs the McGiIl-Doran
alliance. because some Of the friends
OF McGill are ardently against that foul
organization, and they do not want to
enter into any combination which may
pledge them to put a friend (even
though not memberl of the A. P. A. in
charge of the city government.
This is the first element of weakness
which has been developed in the Nc
Gill-Doran alliance, and it was the dis
coyeTy OF this fact that gave Wright
and his ohurcn militant so much hone
last night that there might be resur-
rectiou Of the mayor himself If bitter
and semi-religious war should break out
between McGill and Doran. either or
both might prefer the devil to the other,
ahd IN that case they could logically
take Wright.