St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-01
DAVIS SHOWS FIGHT.
He and His Friends Will Com
mence Work at
Once.
DEMAND THE DELEGATION.
Prof. MeCleary Has Com
meneed His Next Cam
paign for the House.
SENT EACH MEMBER A BOOK.
To Abolish Indian Contract
Sehools--A Curious Pan-
sion Case.

constant communication with him. and
did their level best TO head off the Mel
son movement.
During the next session Of congress
he will make more speeches than he has
been accustomed to make since he has
been in the senate, and, more important
than this, he will keep in closer touch
with his old friends all over the state.
Unless he loses interest he will be in
the fight for the delegation TO the ma
tloDal convention, especially if, as now
seems probable. Nelson and Merriam
start out to control it. If these two
gentlemen prove to be for Mckinley,
Senator Davis will
Demand the Delegates
for himself. and then 90 in to get dele
CATION that he can turn to Reed or Alli>
son. He is rather more friendly to the
Iowa man than to Reed, but either Of
them will satisfy him.
And the interesting and important
fact in this matter is that the st. Paul
senator will have the support of three
of the Republican members of congress.
Tawney. kiefer and Fletcher. kiefer
and Fletcher are already committed to
the Maine man, and TawIey will be
with Davis al every turn.aS he has been
for the past four years. The fact that
the men who control the delegation will
in all probability lie the ones who will
control the patronage explains the rea
sons for the anxiety as to the control of
the delegation and why the senior sena-
tor regards it as all important that his
friends control it.
In case the Republicans carry the
next national election, nearly all of the
important federal Offices will be filled
in the first two years, or before the cleo
ton of 1898, at which the legislature
that will have the duty of choos ing
successor to Senator Davis will be
chosen. In this contest the control Of
all the best offices in the state will cut a
considerable figure, and il The appoint
meuts are made by Nelson the Davis
NEIL will simply not be in it.
Another Country Senator.
There is little talk to the effect that
il Davis is not chosen no other st. Paul
man can win, and that the country will
get the other senatorial seat. This talk
greatly pIeaseS the friends of both Con-
gresham Tawney and the Mankato
schoolmaster. who are figuring OH re-
naming members of the lower house
until that time, and thus being able by
means of the control OF the country
postofficeS to strengthen themselves for
the next contest. The Second district
member is again hard at work writing
letters and sending literature TO all the
editors in the district, and preparing to
head off the fight that Editor Hunt and
other WaShburn men have promised 10
make against his denomination. The
professor believe in cultiYating the
local editor, and he dues it more COM
pletely than any of MS colleagues.
In this connection very good story
on McCleary's senatorial campaign is
revealed by the records Of the govern
ment binderY. Under the law each
member OF the lower house is entitled 10
twenty eight copies OF the congressional
directory each time a new edition is
printed; any additional copies must be
bought and paid for by members. AS
soon as the professor came back to
Washington in December he proceeded
to lay i'll 40 additional copies, on which.
and those Of his quota, he had printed
in gold letters the names OF the men,
beers of both houses of the Minnesota
legislature. and about the middle of the
month each representative and senator
received his copy with the frank of MIR.
McCleary on the cover to indicate TO
whom they were indebted.
Having previously written neat
letter to each of these gentlemen COLI
graduating them on their ''magnif-
cent" victories over the hosts of De-
mocracy and Populism. the professor
had reason to expect better treatment
in the senatorial fight than he received,
but the method is all right, and he will
continue to follow it with hope for the
future.
PensiOning Aged Sons.
The United States senate has during
the past few years gained the reputa-
ton of being ready to pass almost any
kind of a measure that will take money
out OF the treasury. Every appropria~
ton bill is increased in the senate after
passing the house, and by threatening
to hold up the entire measure the lower
body is obliged to yield. 4 sample of
the prcdigality of the senate has just
been furnished in the passage of bill
ITO pension Joseph w. Snyder. crippled
so of soldier of the war of 1872" Or
course Mr.. Snyder is probably in need,
but he never served III any army or the
United States. and there is no more rea-
son for the government keeping him
the balance of his life than for its sup
porting any and all crippled and aged
people i'll the country. Mr. Snyder, by
the way, resides in Pennsylvania, and
and senatorial courtesy helped Senators
Cameron and Quay to push the bill
through the senate. The bill deserves
reading. because its lack OF merit is so
apparent. 1t follows:
THAT the secretary Of the interior
be, and hereby is, authorized and re-
quired to place on the pension roll the
name of Joseph w. Snyder, the aged
and crippled son Of Jacob Snyder, de-
ceased, late private in Capt. Rogers
company, of Pennsylvania militia, in
the war 1912, and TO pay him pension
at the rate of IS month from and after
the passage of this act"
Carrying Gut Their Contract.
In the late campaign the American
Protective association took q prominent
part in behalf of Republican congress
sionai candidates in all parts of the
country. During the progress of the
campaign it was charged that the Re-
publican congressional committee had
made deal with this organization by
the terms of which the Flfty-fourth con-
gress. if Republican, would abolish con-
tract schools among the various Indian