St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-14
HALL DENIES AN INTERVIEW
CommiSsiOnerLochren Booked
for Judge Nelson's Shoes
When He Retires.
JADAM BEDE AT THE CAPITAL.
WaShbuPn and Fletcher Fa-
vorable to RaldWin'S Red
Lake Bill.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WAsHINGToN, Aug. 13.-The num-
Der OF administration Democratic mem-
bers of congress from tile South has
doubled in the last week. Men who for
more than year past have been de-
claring that the only course for the
repudiatiou of the administration are
now on the other side, and trying to
prove that they have all along been
staunch supporters of the president, or
else they are saying nothing and trust
Ing to the magnanimity of the CleYe-
land men in their districts for their re-
nomination.
The overwhelming defeat of Ko.b in
Alabama did this. and at the same time
brought to an inglorious end another of
the attempts of the Republican man.
ayers to make break in The South. On
all sides it is admitted that Col. Oates
sQuare-toed Endorsement of The admin
istration turned the tide that was at
first strongly in favor of the Kolb
fusion. Backed, as he was, by ali the
elements opposed to straightout Democ-
Cleveland, and with the election con-
Quoted under one of the most rigid of
the modified Australian laws, Kolb had
all the chance in the world to win
and better show than the same ele-
ments combined can find in any other
Southern state at the present time.
Now that the last battle in this
Struggle for Control
i'll Alabama has been fought, and the
Democratlc party of the state has been
purified by the wedding out of the trait.
orS, brief review of the contest is in
teresting. For several years prior to
1892 there had been growing a 'discon-
tented element in the Democracy of
Alabama. which was willing to destroy
the party. if necessary, in order to OBJ
tain control of the state government.
When this assumed formidable propor-
lions the leadership was assumed by
Reuben E. Kolb, who had been one of
the leaders OF the party, aud as commits
SiOner of immigration Will be remem.
bered by the people of Minnesota as the
man in charge OF the Alabama adver-
Using car that visited the leading cities
OF the state in the fall OF 1887. Defeated
for the regular Democratic nomination
for governor in 1892. KoIb entered the
race as the candidate of the kicking or
"Jeffersonian Democrats" as they
called themselves, and the Popuiists,
and. after hard fight, was defeated by
a small majority.
This year the same combination was
made with the addition of the regular
Republican organization. KoIb came to
Washington where he met Senator
Hoar and other Republican leaders
whom he assured that he and his party
were for Stree silver and a protective
tariff"
The New EngIanders
did not take kindly TO the free silver
end Of the platform, but they waived
this point and promised to raise a
campaign fund with which Kolb was to
make the first break in the South. But
in making this deal Kolb did his cause
an injury that could not be repaired, for
while the people of Alabama are
friendly to silver they are not in favor
Of protective tariff and did not propose
that any one should auction off their
votes on that question.
Col. Oates took bold and courageous
stand for the administration and the
Chicago platform. and in winning his
great victory dealt a death blow to
kolbism and also to Republican hopes
of protective tariff votes from that sec
ton of the South. Speaking of the fund
raised by the New England manufac-
turers for koib, there is a difference of
opinion as to the size of the fund. Con-
gresham john Dewitt Warner, of
New York, who has a very good ac-
qualntance with the ways the protected
interests have of working, inclines TO
the belief that the sum collected was
not large.
II will wager that it was a very small
amount that the New Engjanders
raised for Alabama" said Mr.. Warner.
1.-The New England manufacturer is
not slow to make money out OF legisla-
ton, and he has been doing it so long
that he has come to regard it as right
that ought not 10 be interfered with.
but he seldom puts out his money
unless there is almost a dead certainty
that he is going to get what he pays
for"
Unauthorized by Hall.
This is season of the wear when
some strange announcements reach the
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