St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-24
DAVISTO THEFRONT
Cushman K. Will Be Proposed
for President by Min-
neSOta
IN THE NEXT CONVENTlONl
Congressman TaWney to Bo
the Leader of the Davis
Forces.
THE SENATOR'S AMBITION.
Failing the Presidency He De.
sires to Be Secretary
Of State.
IN THE NEXT CONVENTION,
THE SENATOR'S AMBITION.
cushman K. Davis for president,

DcNl 10 lOI
That will be the rallying cry Of the
Minnesota delegation in the next Re-
publican national convention.
And the GLOBE now predicts that
a solid Davis delegation will be
chosen despite any and all opposi-
ton. OF course, outside of a few
men in Ramsey, and even a smaller
number in Hennepin, there will not !.
be any opposition; but the men who
are planning the Davis boom are
amply prepared to carry their point,
and they will.
Congressman Tawney can be men-
toned as strong and open advo-
cate of Davis. He will most likely
be the leader in the movement, and
it can be set down as certain that
the wires are already being laid.
The combinations and the circum-
stances underlying these combina-,
tions are such that the Davis men
will be in a position to gather
strength at every stage Of the game.
The biggest card that will be
played in behalf of Cushman K is
MO 10 lIle
labor leader at the time of the Chi
cago strike. This will be backed up
by his speech in the senate sustain
ing the action of the president in
the same matter; and still another
trump card will be the much dis
cussed article recently published in
the North American Review.
70.
ported with any real hope that he
can be nominated for president. He
will be given several complimentary
votes, and his friends confidently
expect he will get some votes from
the other states, so that he will have
very respectable following to start
with.
1T rs not proposed, either. to play
|. for second place. In the event of an
Eastern man being nominated for
president. Senator Davis considers
himself as clever and able as any
man mentioned for the presidency
and rightfully so. He stands ex-
ceedingly we'll among the senator's:
the country at large regards him as
casions he has easily touched the
heights of craftsmanship. With all
this, he is an uncompromising par
tisan in party matters, and has an
unbreakable hold on the affections
of the rank and file of the Republi-
can party in Minnesota, if not in
the Northwest
The senior senator's ambition. fall
ing the presidency, is not to preside
In the senate. His disposition is
such that he could not bear to be
made dead to the world, practically,
Tor four years as presiding officer.
his mind is too active, his scholar
ship too complete, his ambition too
absorbing. He is a worker above
everything, and he likes to be at the
front of the fray when great forensic
battles are being waged. But
DAVIS HAS ONE AMBITION !,
that will develop as the next national
campaign closes, If the Republicans
shall be successful. That ambition is
to be secretary of state. For years his
studies have been seriously directed to-
-
bitton may be realized Those compe-
tent to judge have often pointed ont
his accomplishment i'm the field of in
tefhatlonal law. 1t is undisputed that,
outside of Senator Morgan, there is mo-
man IN the upper branch more thor
oughly equipped in this respect than
Davis. While others have depended for
thelr knowledge on spasmodic reading,
the brilliant Minnesotan has delved
deep and steadily into the solidest kind
OF BOOKS and documents concerning our
foreign relations. Several Of his formal
speeches on the subject have been
widely commented upon. While men
Of different political schools might not
lhdorse his arguments, nor accept his
conclusions, all admitted the soIiditv
OF his knowledge. and wondered at the
vast amount of information he had att
his fingers ends
whoever may be nominated for presf-
dent that man and his friends will have
to do business with the Minnesota dele-
cation If he wants to secure their yotea
early in the contest. The fact will ba
emphasized that Minnesota gives a
large Republican majority, and has
heretofore been reliable without much
attention from the national leaders.
Her solid Republican delegation in con-
gress will be put in evidence; and i'd
will be asserted that the state deserves
signal recognition from the party if it
should triumph in the presidential cleo
ton. Cabinet officers have been chosen
from this state before, and as Cleveland
took scholarly Western jurist for his
secretary of state, it will be urged q
Republican president could not do bet
ter than offer the premiership to a
Western leader of high attainments
and sound reputation.
Should Davis be made secretary Of
state, that would simply help the next
senatorial situation in Minnesota most
admirably. This consideration will
bring to his support men who might
otherwise be hostile, and will make
them exceedingly anxious to help his
promotion. So all things considered, it
will be safe statement to reiterate
that delegation instructed for Cush-
man K. Davis for president will go
from Minnesota to the national Repub-
lican convention in 1896