The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-30

district nominee for chief clerk, Mr..
Dean now sees a speakership nominee
from his own district, whose election
will react on his personal campaign,
and 1t is now too late, probably, for
him to make any alliance with the
Jones people.
The Jones people claim that as yet
they have paid no attention to the
minor offices of the list, as far as
trading purposes are concerned, and
that while they are in a position to
command Is or 90 votes more than
enough, 1t is all by a spirit of love and
good fellowship and not by the COM
merce. of politics.
The Second district will caucus Sat
urday, and will probably then examine
into the qualifications of the various
candidates for official position, as will
also the Sixth district members, who
have been so busy with the Jones cam
paign that they have had little time
to puzzle over the rest of the ticket.
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The three delegations met separately
at first, and when the Seventh dis
trict meeting was called to order, Rep
resentattVe Reeves made a statement
to the effect that he was opposed to
indorsing any candidate for speaker,
and that he would not be bound to sup
port any man whom they might name
He then left the room. Representative
Finney is-said to have taken the same
stand.
After the districts had met separate
ly, and discussed matters from vari-
Gus local standpoint, a general caucus
was had in parlors B and C Of the ho-
tel, there being slightly diminished
attendance from the total of the three
caucuses previously held.
H. G. Hayes, Of the Sleepy Eye Dis
patch, who was recently thrust into the
canvass for enrolling clerk by his
friends, has yielded gracefully to their
entreaties, and he and his adversary
Krayenbuhl are perhaps the most con-
stant members of the lobby.
julius H. Block, of St. Peter, and
Alvah Eastman, of St. Cloud, were
around the Windsor yesterday, but
they insisted that they were not par
ticipating in the scramble at all. They
did not appear in the least concerned
about the minority report for the
fourth insane hospital location COM
mission, which 1t is promised by Rev.
Sam G. Smith to present to the legis-
lature when it convenes.
John J. Boobar, of ST. Cloud, prob
ably carried off the laurels as the
champion story teller of the last house,
hut now the tables are turned, and
stories are being told on him. One is
at the expense OF the auditor of a coun-
ty whose name need not be mentioned
further than to state that it has the
largest population of any county i'll
the state. 1t appears hat this auditor,
with an eye to the meeting which took
place yesterday, met Boobar a few
days ago, and without consulting his
index of house members, proceeded to
jolly the st. Cloud man on the suppo-
sition that he still had vote in the
law making body.
I'VE want a law passed to change
the present system of accounts" !"
Don't you think that would be a good
thing?" asked the auditor. Have a
drink?"
Certainly" replied Boobar. And I'll
tell you another thing you want done"
John rolled off another scheme, and
the auditor bought another drink. He
laid down ten-dollar gold piece for
a fifty-cent piece and was out 49, so.
Chilly, the StearnS Representative
reeled off a lot Of things that he
thought the auditor ought to push,
and with each new drinks were pur-
chased. AS they separated, the auditor
asked:
"Of course, we can count on you be-
ing with US this winter"
"WeH, not exactly replied Boobar,
"you know 1 was not elected this
time"
Some of the members of the Iegis-
lature who are interested in the cam
paign Of speakership candidates were
complaining Monday night of the scar
city of Hennepin county members.
They had nothing to complain of yes
terday Steve Lovejoy was over
bright and early. and they did whis-
per about the lobby of the Windsor
that the reason for Steve's intense in
terest in the result of the anti-Jones
fight was that he wants to be chair
man of the committee on railroads.
and he wanted to hitch his sled to
the right wagon. But nearly all the
Hennepin house delegation was on
hand. There were Fred B. Snyder,
Jacob Foell, Simon Meyers. w. T. Coe
Judge Henry G. Hicks, w. r. Cray
John F. Dahl, Daniel T. Davies, S. A.
Stockwell, E. E. Smith and John r.
Cunningham. Judge Hicks, with glis-
tenfng silk tile and neatly trimmed
white beard, lowered over the crowd
like Frank Hiscock over York state
convention, and If it had been a ques-
tion of commanding presence, the ex-
Judge would, no doubt, have been elect
ed speaker in walk. The Mime
apolitans made no secret of the fact
that they were over to familiarize
themselves with the trend of events,
and, while so far as. could be learned,
none of them participated at all in the
delibera ticns Of the anti-Jones caucus,
they keptSclose to the center of the
current.
Hennepin also sent no inconsidera BILE