St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-19

NEARLY TO BLOWS
Congressman Fletcher and
Ex-senator Buchanan Come
Together
IN The WINDSOR LOBBY.
The Lie and Other Choice
Epithets Pass Between
Them,
IN THE WINDSOR LOBBY.
AND IT TAKES BIG ARMS
To Pull Them Apart and Pre-
vent a Genuine 0ld-Fash-
Toned Scrap.

State Senator c. Il. Buchanan. or Little
Falls. nearly came to blows in the lobby
of the Windsor hotel yesterday after
noon and furnished an undignitied side
show for at least 200 members OF The
Legislature.
Had it not been for the prompt inter-
vention of bystapGers the chances are
Fletcher would have had his face beaten
into a ''pulpless mass" for Buck
man is an aDlc-bodied fellow phys
ically, even if he is a cripple, and Your
Uncle Loren is rather diminutlye in
size. A great amount of feeling was
shown by both men. and they made no
choice of English in their heated col
loquy. The little prohibition members
who were witnesse; to the affair were
shocked at the profanity, but everybody
else was tickled. 1t sort of relieved the
intense strain on the nerves OF the
masses. for the crowd in the hotel was
about evenly divided in sentiment, and
they all wanted to see genuine old
time scrap with kicks thrown in.
Buchanan 1t appears was standing
near the clerks desk talking to party
OF friends. The Nelson men were feel
ing little good, and the Washburn
cohorts were little down in the mouth
owing to the appearance OF Nelson coin,
hence the line was drawn somewhat
distinctly and both sides were OH the
lookout for trouble Buchanan was
gesticulating and showing his pleasure
at the turn the race was had taken,
when Your Uncle Loren entered, and ia
company with a couple of friends
stopped opposite the Buchanan crowd.
The sight of Buckman's happy face
was too much tor Fletcher. and. step
ping within ear shot of the crowd, he
sent a shaft into Buchanan which stuck
i'll Buckman's craw.
You ought to be ashamed of the
company you are Keeping" said
Fletcher to Buchanan, "how you can
have ANY self-respect at this time is a
huge mystery to me, you traitor"
"Whal'S that you said?" cried Buck
man flushing a violent crimson, and
raising his fist he called Fletcher
name that wouldn't look well in print,
and rushed at the congressman with
appraised arm and clinched fist. In an
instant more he would have struck the
little congressman had not friends
promptly seized both men and
rushed them apart. Your Uncle Loren
was game, and stood his ground await
ing the onslaught. People wondered
afterwards what the result would have
been. The men stood about ten feet
apart and giared at each other say
agely. One or twice they tried to pull
away from the stout arms that held
them as if anxious to get at each other
and tear hair and pull teeth and do
lot of things. but they hadn't the
strength left to break away.
"What do you mean by calling me
traitor?" Missed Buchanan.
You know what | meant" said
Fletcher, meaningly, land Senator
Sabn and Senator Washburn know
too"
You are a liar" cried Buchanan
angrily, while he struggled to get at his
little antagonist.
'EAnd you're another" cried Loren
right back, and then from his lips came
a torrent of abuse that would have
caused Billingsgate fish woman to
hide her head from very envy. The
liar passed between them freely, and it
seemed as il they couldn't call it often
enough. When the thing was warm
when it was good and hot-William
Hennery Eustis stepped between the
belligerents and counseled peace. His
Offices were lily received. and as
usual the third party came in for his
share of abuse. Eustis tried to get the
two men to shake hands afterwards, but
they were too hot. and they wouldn't
shake hands, that's all. The fight, or
the attempted fight, was the subject of
OH the dreams of the members and they
hurried away to the state house.
The fight between these two dates
back some time. Buchanan was Sabin
and then a Wash0urn man six years
! ago, but he is here in the interests Of
Nelson now. When the five members
| from the Little. Falls district
| came here the Washburn men
raised the cry that they were
not representing their constituents
in coming out for Nelson. Then the
citizens Of Little Falls called a mass
meeting and appointed committee to
come to st. Paul and see that the five
members did vote for Nelson. Buck
| man was made chairman Of the COM
mittee. and that explains his presence
here at this time Fletcher was like
| most Washburn men last night, consid-
erably out of sorts. and that explains
| the little congressman's soreness.
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