St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-25
PLAN TING OF WIRES
Politicians Not Idle While
the Legislature Was in
Session.
CAMPAIGN MAPPED OUT.
More Attention Paid to Poll
ties Than to Making of
Laws.
A THREE-C0RNERED DEAL.
Gibbs, Douglas and Wilson ON
the Slate for the Fall
of 1895.
A THREE-C0RNERED DEAL.

The legislature which has just ad-
1ourned contained, or is supposed to
have contained the material for the
filling of about all the state and con-
gressional offices which will be made
vacant with the expiration of the
year 1896. If this supposftion is
based on false premises there will be
some pretty badly disappointed
citizens about the time for the hold
ing of the state conventions. During
the session of the legislature just
closed the campaign for the year of
1896, so far as it relates to state and
congressional nominations, has been
pretty thoroughly mapped out, and
when one comes to look at it he finds
the most complicated set of combina-
tions that have marked the slate in
this state for years.
To begin with, the lower house
contained two candidates for gover-
nor who made no secret of their
ambition, and who trimmed pretty
close to the line wherever there was
a chance to gain popularity with the
masses. One of these was Speaker
Van SAINT and the other john l..
Gibbs. In the contest for the
speakership, Van SAINT proved him
self the better worker of the two,
and while ne did not particularly
strengthen himself as speaker he
made no enemies and few mistakes.
Gibbs, on the other hand, was in
a better position to make political
capital than was the speaker, and
it is generally understood that he is
a principal in several strong al
1iances looking to the support of
various sections of the state. One
of these combinat tons contains w. B.
Douglas, of the Seventh district as
a candidate for attorney general,
Drum Beater Jacobson, of the
Second, for lieutenant governor and
Gibson S. Ives for congress in the
Second district. This combination
grew up out of the @:..
IVES IMPEACHMENT
case, and the friends of Judge Ives in
the Populist ranks, it is expected, will
help to carry out the deal in recogni-
ton of the friendly support of the
minority which carried the victory in
the house. Incidentally it is expected
that Frank Wilson, of Redwing, will
be taken up as a club to beat out
the political life of that once dis
tinguished statesman and great
American letter-writer, Joel P. Heat
wole. In case of an emergency that
might freeze Douglas out of the nomi-
nation for attorney general he is to
succeed Paper Collar Eddy as the
congressional candidate in the Seventh
district. In case Frank Wilson should
prove too light a weight for Heatwole
the western end of the Third district
will present formidable candidate in
the person of NJ. ]. Bowling, chief
clerk of the late Iamented house of
representatives, though Bowling was
not in on the Ives deal
One thing is definitely fixed and de-
termined, and that is that School
master McCleary is to walk the plank
in the Second district. Lew Hunt, of
Mankato, will pound McCleary on one
side and Frank Day, of Faribault, on
the other. and between them it is
expected that the little Canuck will
have to give in. But he is a fighter
and it is shrewdly suspected that Day
is making the bluff for the congress
sional nomination in order to drive
McCleary's friends into the support
of him Oay) for lieutenant governor.
In the senatorial contest last fall how
ever, McCleary showed that he pos
seSsed one quality which overshadowed
all others, and that was the quality
of fighting. He refused to be bluffed
then, and he may refuse when the
fight comes a year hence. Day is
known to be out of sympathy with
his party on the question of finance,
being outspoken for free coinage,
while McCleary stands, as he stood
before, with both feet on the gold
standard platform. Day says no man
can again be elected to congress from
the Second district except on free
silver platform, while McCleary is as
firm in his support of the
GOLD BUG DOCTRINES
as he was when he stumped the dis
trict last fall. Mr.. Days recent dec
laration that he stood "squarely on the
Republican platform" was accepted
by some as an indication that he was
preparing to recant, but to a GLOBE
reporter yesterday he made the dec
Iaration that no number of party
nominations would elect a congress
man in his district on a gold standard
platform, and if this is his convic-
ton, and there is no reason to doubt
1t, he will construct the Second dis
trict band wagon with silver dollar
this remarkable vehicle he will have to
this remarkable vehicle he will have to
make his campaign, unless he takes
more water than he usually does when
once committed to a proposition.
A prominent figure in the specula-
tionS of the slate makers who was
seen around the legislative halls a
good part of the time during the ses-
sion was William H. Eustis, of Min
perennial gentleman from the rural
village of Minneapolis. Mr.. Eustis has
a gubernatorial bee as big as a bale
of hay, and he is nursing it as care
fully as a corporation lobbyist would
a sick member. He made a host of
friends during the session, and there
are, in addition to these, several dozen
citizens of Minneapolis who would be
pleased to see him honored with the
nomination for governor.
There is another gentleman who
blushingly pleads guilty to residence
in Minneapolis, and a desire to be
nominated for governor, and just a.
this particular time he holds all the
high trumps. He has the
NINE POINTS OF THE LAW
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