St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-23
Releases His Followers From
Any Further Allegiance
to the Lost Cause.
He SEES HIS WEAKNESS
First Formal Confession That
the Minneapolis Ice Han
Cannot Win.
LIND THE COMING HAN.
Probability of a Stampede OF
WashbuPn Men to the
EX-CongPessmaD.

The senatorial situation remains prac-
tcaily unchanged within the past
twenty-four hours. the only develop.
ment of any material weight being the
result Of the caucus at the Washburn
headquarters last night, and this was
SO completely foreshadOWed in the
GLOBE yesterday morning that it need
scarcely be repeated at this time. The
WaShbuTn men have for sometime re-
allied that there was no possibility of
Washburn's election. but never admit
TED it until yesterday. probably be-
cause the senator himself really be-
lieved, up to the time the Off cial ballot
was taken, that there was still hope for
him.
After the adjournment at noon yester-
day, when instead of gaining he lost
votes, the senator met his friends at his
headquarters and told that they had all
been right and he wrong. and that it
was now apparent that lie had no show.
He therefore thanked them for their
loyalty 10 his cause, and authorized
them to take whatever action they
deemed advisable to reach the end they
all desjred-namely, tie defeat OF Nell
son.
Then followed long discussion as to
ways and means, which was continued
over to all evening session.
The result of all the olanS Su omitted.
discussed and rejected was simply chaos.
The only thing approaching plan is
the general purpose to keep the name
Washburn formally before the legisla-
ture, and at the same time bring any
new candidate into the field who can de-
fleet vote from Nelson.
The plan of going TO Comstock in a
body was given more discussion and
received more general favor than any
proposition submitted. Ii was agreed
that Comstock could bring
BEOre Substa ntial Backing
to the cause than any other man named.
nj in as much as he already had a
bakers dozen votes at his back it
seemed advisable 10 switch to him. The
Minneapolis men, however. could not
be brought into line as a unit for Com
STOCK, and without the solid Hennepin
delegation behind it any Washburn
combination would be weak.
john Lind was also given long hear
ing. and it is likely that the Washburn
vote will 90 for the greater part to him.
Lind was sent for and, it is believed.
offered the Nashburn mantle. He is
said to have declined peremptOrily at
first, but subsequently qualified his re-
fusal by agreeing to accept whatever
came his way, provided it was under
stood that he was not seeking the honor
Among the possibilities mentioned as
the choice of the Hennepin delegation
T. Il. Peavy, the grain and elevator
king, was the most prominent. Mr.
Peayy is one OF the most successful
Western successes. is hustling Re
publican, something of phiianthrOPist, !
aud has the material to make CAM
paign such as is needed to unwind the |
Nelson cinch. Some of the Heunepin /
delegation are outspoken for him. and !
there are not a few outside members /
who would welcome his entry into the |
ring.
The only hope of the opposition to |
Nelson now lies In the springing new |
candidate Tor every man who is against |
Nelson and vino can be held in opposi- |
tion in the hope of a rally to his friend. |
Probably the strongest indica tion of |
the absolute certainty of Nelson's eIec-
ti0n lies in The fact that
Harris Richardson Is Init.
1t has come to be recogni zed as sure |
portent of success when Harris lands |
with botn feet on the same side OF the |
fence, for he never does it until eVery-
body else has made up their mind |
that it is a go, and then after it is all !
over he always has the documentary /
evidence to show that the battle never
could have been won but for the part
taken by Kim. The Nelson forces were
therefore very much encouraged, aud
the opposition CORES spondingly detected
when Harris injected himself into the
issue with an air of mystery tnat was
positively convincing in lis publicly an
nounced secretness.
There is battle royal over the dispo-
sition to be made of the Second district
vote when Washburn finally quits and
the members get tired of the joke of
voting for McCieary. The Washburn
managers have made bad mess of the
Second district business from the very
start. They recognized the fact that
candidacy. unknown to him,
served as pretext to hold back half
dozen Nelson votes, and they made the
mistake of trying to bulldoze the
schooImaster into quitting. If
they had explained the sit
uation to him and convinced him
that they were right he might have
come of, but when they tried to drive
him he took the bits IN his teeth and
became more positively a candidate
than ever. The next mistake they
made, and of a similar character, was
when they undertook to dictate to Dan
Shell, the Worthington mayor and eX
candidate for speaker. Dan was just
browsing along in his easy-going way,
voting for McCleary as matter OF local
patriotism, and not fully decided
as to whom he would eventually
vote for, when the Washburn people
came along and informed him that un-
less hesvoted for Washburn he would
not be given the nomination for con-
gress in 1896. Dan hadn't thought
much about going to congress. Said
he'd rather be mayor OF Worthington
and come up to the legislature every
other winter than anything else he
luayv Of and he puesSpd he'd do inst |