St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-16

meeting. which consumed 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 be announced
by Chairman Winston as soon as the
different gentlemen decided upon can
be communicated with, which will
probably not be later than Thursday.
y AS soon as Gen. Becker reached home
last evening lie set about writing to his
Funning-mates on the ticket inviting
them to conference on next Friday at
which time the members of the state
central committee will be present. At
this meeting the committee will DC COM
pletely 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. IL
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 polled for our ticket
this year than in 1890. l hope to hold
every Democrat who has been with the
party in the past two contests. l know
tnat we are to receive some reinforce
ments from the other parties, but 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-
pubiicanS are numerous i'll the Mill
City who are bitterly opposed 10 the re-
election of the present governor, and
many of the most prominent have
volunteered the information that they
propose to cast their votes aud use their
influence in behalf of Gen. Becker.
"These letters are confidential" said
Gen. Becker. ''Or would surprise you
by mentioning the names Of a number
of the writer's"
Immediately after the meeting OF next
Friday the active work of the campaign
will be commenced. Speakers of ability
are to be placed in the field and kept
there. All the candidates are enthusi-
astic 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 tor con.
gress have not improved the situation
as far as Nelson, himself, and the state
ticket are concerned. M
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 a dictator"
In Otter Tail the Republican conven-
ton 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 Bixby.
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.. GrOnGahl 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 candi.
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
| it we'll. His machine has thus far
not ''slipped cog" Bixby's possessing
the qualifications so needed to make up
the expert political "boss" to such a
remarkable degree. He has become
absolute in his county, and when the
good people of Wsnamingo. or Vasa. or
Hay Creek, or Minneola, or Lun, or any
other township, desire to lay ont a road
| or elect supervisor they first send
delegation to find out whether Tams
will condescend to grant them permis-
sion.
Great is the ''boss" of good, big, fat
county like Goodhue, where all that the
boss has to do to perpetuate his reign
is to watch out and control the county
| conventions.
| Going back to the North. Senator
aWashburn and his friends probably feel
coutident that the nominee for the SEN
| ate in the district composed of Kittson
and. Marshall. Hans Grindeland. is q
fgood staunch Washburn man. The
people who live near Mr.. Grindeland
say that he has always been good Mel
/ son man, but perhaps he has changed.
L. Likewise the nomination of Sam
iiSweningsen for senator In Mower
county must make all the Washburn
managers rejoice. and when jacobson,
of Lac Qui Parle, receives senatorial
/ nomination in his district in a few DAYS