St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-11
WAS BEAUTIFULLY WORKED.
And Will Cut a Material
Figure in the Final Con-
summation.
LIST OF WASHBURN MEN.
Nelson Opposition Present 60
Names for Votes in the
Caucus.

senatorial contest and one which was
worked off most quietly and success
fully. was that made by the Washburn
forces yesterday in securing an adjourn.
ment of the Legislature to Monday even-
ing. There was nothing unusual in
such an adjournment, as practically
nothing can be accomplished until the
committees are announced, hence no
thought was given to the matter, and
even the Nelson men voted for 1t with
out suspecting that it had any bearing
on the political situation. AS a matter
of fact, however. it was part Of an adj
mirably prepared plan to strengthen
the forces which are now engaged in
fight against Knute the First, monarch
of Minnesota and dictator of the Re-
publican party.
The plan of the Washburn, or more
properly the PillSbury men, is as SIM
pie as it will be effectual, and the Won
der of it is that it never occurred to the
Nelson managers that they we're being
worked. The plan was agreed upon
just as soon as the Washburn men
found out that there was 10 hope of Sc.
curing the caucus nomination for WASH
burn, and it was worked out with an
attention to details that was suggestive
of the good old times when Bill King
used to cut, shuttle and deal.
Trusted agents were posted at all
points i'll the state and instructed u
mass
The Anti-NeIson Sentiment
of the various communities so that
when the members came home Satur-
day evening they would be faced with
such an avalanche of testimony that
they would simply have to weaken and
agree to vote for some man less objec-
tionable than the willy politician who
had sought to obtain a senatorial tOga
under false pretenses. These crowds
will bear down especially hard on tn ose
weak. vacillating brethren who have
not yet been able to see their way clear
on the senatorial situation, and who are
open to argument on the question.
When Representative Unpledged, who
represents the Mnuzkth district. alightS
from the train with his grip sack in one
hand, his hat box in another. and box
OF state house stationery in the 9th er,
he will find himself the most popular
man in the district. The cider barrel
at the posoffice will be tapped and
emptied, and the representative will he
escorted to the back room of laWyer's
or doctors office, and while here he will
be informed that. while the district is
not particularly strong for Washburn,
still there is feeling of the most in
tense bitterness against Nelson, and the
man who votes for this hydra-headed
mountebank will be promptly relegated
to the shades of obscurity or any other
shades that come handy. At any rate
he
Will Get the WOrs: of 1t,
and while the conversation is in prog.
ress the suggestion will be made that
the simplest way out of this diff Guilty.
and, indeed, the only way TO avoid abso-
Lutte wreck OF the party, will be to take
up all entirely new man, "some such
man, for instance, as Charley Pillsbury.
who has 10 enemies in the party, who is
a strong man and who would completely
harmouize the warning elements"
That's tue stuff, and in more than
half the districts in the state this pro-
gramme, or one very similar, was in
course of enactment last evening, or
will be today 1t will readily be seen
how effective this kind of argument
can be made when coming with every
appearance of spontaneity and from so
many sources. The men who have
oil
seen in it; they have Instructed their
local representatives., and are out of the
way-in fact, good many Of them
were present when the vote was taken
on adjournment, and the dozens of mes
sages which were sent out over the
Western Union wires to the effect that
Legislature adjourned to Monday even
ing'' would convey no further meaning
to the uninitiated than the simple in
formation of the fact.
1t was a beautiful plan, ingeniously
contrived and wonderful in the nlcety
of its execution. 1t was
Beautiful Piece Of Work,
and 1t seems almost pity to dim its
Iuster by exposure, even after it has
been accomplished, OuC Ine people nave
right to know what is going ON, and
to supply that knowledge is the proper
province of the newspaper.
Concerning the coming candidacy of
Charles A. Pillsbury or some other man
acceptable to Senator Washburn. there
is now no doubt. The fact that the
Nelson men know the plan will in no
way affect the issue, and it might as
we'll be stated right now that the Wash
burn-PilIsbury combination will go into
the caucus with at least sixty votes.
Senator Washburn has pledged to him
thirty five votes which will go, to- a
man, to the candidate he will name.
There is no occasion to quote rumOrs or
fall back on the 'well-known politi-
clan" OF "the prominent Republican,"