St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-09
kNUTE CANNOT WIN.
That Is the Final Verdict OF
the Allied Anti-NeI-
son Forces.
MANAGERS IN A BLUE FOG.
Another Fruitless Effort to
Bluff a Scandinavia
an Member.
HENNEPIN COUNTY VOTES
Go to Gov. Nelson as a Con-
sidePation for State
Pie.
HENNEPIN COUNTY VOTE'


Things were not coming their way, and
when things are not coming their way
they all feel sore-all except BiXby. If
Bixby were to get caught out in a show
er of boiling water and a Washburn
man offered him an umbrella he would
smile graciously, sweetIy decline the
prOffer. and declare that no sensation
ever experienced by mortal man was SO
delightful 10 lim as that of being boiled
alive. It's all in the way one is used to
taking things. Bixby professed the
most sanguine confidence yesterday,
while the other managers and Imitation
managers were away IN dark corners
kicking themselves and cursing the bad
temper of Nelson. which had got them
into another horrible fix. 1t was an
other case of the governors failure TO
bulldoze a Scandinavian member into
supporting him.
The man upon whom the governor at
tempted 10 use his peculiar hypnotic III
fiuence on this occasion was Senator
Larson, of Sibley county. The senator
came up here under what he considered
an obligation to support Washburn. He
had only been N town short time
when he was
Looked Up by Nelson
and informed that his vote was wanted.
He was indiscreet enough to admit that
he would vote for Washburn. THIS
made the governor mad. In his happy
moments the governor is as serene and
amlabIe as a hyena with the delirium
tremens, but sometimes he becomes
angry, and then be is real cross. He
Old Senator Larson that such cOnducJ
on his part was unreasonable. un-
patriotic and improper, and insisted that
I he Immediately pledge himself 10 vote
for Nelson. To this proposition the
senator also demurred, whereupon the
governor grew so warm that his cella-
loid collar got lost in the shuttle and ran
down mis- back like a stream of perspira-
ton. He told Senator Larson that ne
understood why he would not vote for
him.
Il am a Norwegian" he exclaimed,
wrathfully.
stIf Were a Syvede
yon would vote for me III a minute
That is the wsv with you Swedes. but
l will show you yet who is master
here
Senator Larson lost no time in getting
away from the sacred presence as soon
as he could find a chance. and it is safe
to say that he will not venture within
the storm center again until the sen
atorial atmosphere has cleared and
Kuute has got his O uietus.
In order to Offset the loss" of Sen
ator Larson (whO never belonged to
them. by the way, the Nelson men
have fixed up a deal which they claim
will certainly give them TWO votes from
the Hennepin delegation. They are not
giving out the details. so just 10 save
their press agents the trouble. the
GLOBE wiz state the particulars. For
a certain consideration the Nelson men
have agreed to AID in the formation of
new district court in Hennepin county
Attorney Gjertsen is to be appointed
Judge of this court, and his stem
ographer will answer TO the name OF
ElIingsOn.
The bailiff who will attend on the sit
tings of the court
VIII Draw His Pay
on voucher signed with the name of
Dahl, and the consideration will be two
votes from the Hennepin delegation.
The GLOBE is not inform ed as TO the
names of the Henne pin members who
are ex pected to vote Tor Nelson under
this arrangement, but possibly the
Hennepin delegation can single out the
men.
There is now no doubt in the minds
of the leaders that a caucus will be held.
The Nelson men fought it until they
found they could not defeat it, and then
suddenly discovered that it was just
the thing they long had sought. and
mourned because they found it not.
In the caucuses of the house and SEN
ate for the organization the Washburn
men had SO evidently the best of it that
the opposition to the caucus. which is to
say the Nelson men, found it eXpedient
to withdraw from the contest over the
caucus The Washburn men have
clear majority i'll each committee, and
will hold their men in line. Many even
of the Nelson men have declared that
they will not
Repudiate the Party
by a refusal to caucus, among them be-
ing Representative Gibbs, who has been
supposed to be a Nelson man. Should
Washburn receive the caucus nomina-
ton he will only need to gain fourteen
votes for the election. These he would
undoubtedly gain from the loyal Re-
publicans who are in the Nelson band
wagon today.
But the Nelson men are confident
that Washburn cannot secure the cancus
nomination, and since they are Drinci>
paIly interested to secure the defeat of
Washburn. they feel that they can 90
into the election with the assurance of
finding a candidate who will take all
their pledges OF their hands and join
with them in
Defeating the Present Senator.
There Is but little doubt that there
will be fifth man IN the field. and that
he will absorb pretty much all there is
left OF the Nelson boom, along with
such scattering aaherents of McCleary
and Comstoek as may be left at the
time of his aODaarauee IN the contest