St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-08
STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE Will
FIX THE DATE
OFF THE STATE CONVENTION.
Meeting Is at the Ryan-On the
skirnjsh Line Political
Camps Striking Tents-Forces
of the 1hree Armies With
Three Months Rations Getting
Infn s0oe;e;o,,

canyaSSlng the field with active legs
and anxious eyes, while the wild-eyed
enthusiasts who are chasing the Popu-
list bubbles, are blowing their tin horns
and straining their lungs Just as Justify
as if they had never gone into the rush
and been trampled in the dust. The
Democrats, with that grim determina-
ton which Grady iInmortalIZed, undis-
mayed either by past defeats or the
gloom of the present, sure of their
ground and firm in their footing, and
grandly confident
THAT ever the truth comes uppermost,
And ever is justice DONE
are forming their hollow square to re-
sist the combined assaults of their
hereditary foes the Paternalists. fight
ing under the colors of Repuolicanism
and Populism.
In The wider field of the state the Re
publcans' display a confidence in vic
tory i'll the vigorous scramble of candi-
dates for the minor places in the CAP
itol. Nelson's nomination for governor
is conceded for the same reasons that
made his nomination two years ago an
imperious necessity. He is expected TO
again hold in line all element of yot ers
who had begun to feel the old Scandi.
navian impulse for individ ual freedom
stirring revolt against the denial by
the Republicans of the right of free ex-
change Of labor's products. and were
breaking away in droves from the party
whose early devotion to human fire edom
had won their allegiance. After pull
ing the state ticket through by the
charm of nationality. Nelson is expected
to play hand IN the game in which
two senatorships are the stakes, one of
which, it the game wins, will fall at
oilce to his share and the other in due
time will go to the author of the ad-
dress to the Alliance in 1890.
Brown would be secretary of state
again, but the Swedes are getting rest
i've, and the slate has the name of Berg
OH it.. 1t had it on two years ago, but
Brown sponged it off and wrote his own
onSwhen the convention met, and he
may do it again. There is a lively
scramble for the authorship. with the
greenhorns betting on Bob Dunn and
the seasoned ones backing the field
against him. Dunn has the boys, but he
will find on the 1ltn OF July that
the pine and railroad lands have the
delegates. They know that Bob was
after the former instead of Auditor
BIermann with his legislative prod. and
that both want more plant man in
that Office than they have found Bier
mann to be, or think Dunn would be.
They have both united to prevent Bier
mann's Endorsement by the Populists
again, because they have found him re-
fractory and with old-fashiOned and, to
them, stupid mott ons about duty. When
he refused to certify to one of the land
grant companies the list of choice lands
it had selected. its leading counsel OBJ
served: I'VE wouldn't have this bother
if we had elected our man,"
Over in the Populist camp that hope
that ''springs eternal in the human
breast" Is bubbling up and running
over, notwithsta nding the severity with
which they were set down two years
ago. Donnells is blowing his horn and
getting up steam in his Omaha express
aud shouting 10 everybody to get
aboard, as his is the only through train
for the capitol.
Meanwhile his engine is coaling up
i'll the Republican yards. He will not
sit in the cab this trip, the vote OF want
of confidence in him as engineer two
years ago having been dscouragingly
emphatic, but he will he conductor and
put Owen in the cab. Owen protests
that he will not pull the Omaha express:
that people don't care to ride in wild
train with crazy conductor aud lot
of brakemen who are eating peanuts
and blowing soap bubbles when the
whistle blows for brakes, but he
lacks backbone, and when Donnelly
yells "all aboard" he will climb
up into the cab and let 'er go. Owen is
a good fellow, Democrat if he only
could sense it-could find out where
am ai?'-and it is a pity to see him
let himself be used as catspaw with
which the Republicans will rake their
chestnuts out of the hot ashes. The fact
is one well understood bv those who
get information from the inside that
ever since 1899, when 1t became appar-
ent that the Democrats ana Alliance
were running on converging lines. the
Popuiist movement was only con-
certed scheme to set the lines to diverg-
ing, and. by dividing the opposition
forces. leave the Republicans plural
lty. A few of the leaders understand
this, but the rank and file. poor fellows,
really think that they are in q new,
grand, revolutionary movement, having
for its object the disentllrallment of the
people from the grasp of the gold bu2s
and money power and rapacious corpo-
rations. While the ranks of the two I
parties glare at each other with fury in
their eyes, the leaders Uf both tip each
other the wink as they meet and pass
by.
In the Democratic camp conference
of the committee with leading Demo.
Gratis of the state who may wish to at
tend will be held at the Ryan on the
14lh inst, and the date of the conven-
ton will be fixed. The Iii isposition is to
draw the lines strictsr than ever. The
feeling is that these are the times aud
conditions when Democrats must be
more .insistently and courageously Dem
ocratic than ever. When there is treach-
cry among the leaders there is the
greater need OF loyalty in the ranks.
Out in the western counties where DEM
ocrats have been submerged by Repub-
Look on Populism as Republicans regard
the A. p. A., they don't like it, but
Tba.e aye fer khe Mest mart men Yhe !