St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-02
Old CLoUGH PUT UP THE JOB
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
ANTI,S POLITICAL COMMITTEE
OF SAFETY
u SO, 1T WAS A sHREwD MOVE.
To Get the 100 They Missed Heavy
Weights and COrraIIed Beard
less Boys.


Clough manifesto published in Mime
apolis a few nights ago did not sign
the round robin under the enthusiastic
influence of meeting where the faith
full touched elbows and thrilled each
other with electric currents Of indig-
nation.
No, these signatures were secured by
one James McMullen, who does not sign
the manifesto himself, either from mod
esty or discretion, after personal solic-
1tation of those who did sign, and per
haps a great many more who would not
This fact might not have been brought
out except that the committee, in the
eXuberance Of it's enthusiasm, took oc
casion to play preference in newspa-
pers, and gave its manifesto exclusively
to the Evening Journal. The Evening
Tribune felt that, after the way it had
stood by EustiS during the administra-
ton, printing all his worl6house statis-
tics and speeches at church Socials. 1t
was entitled to better treatment than
this, and it cut loose. All of which goes
to show that the kicked canine some
ty organ is turned down, the taxpaying
public can get an occasional glimpse OF
some, facts
There are two James McMullens in
Minneapolis, and the one who is most
active in politics, while he does not
spell his name as the Tribune spells it.
is James MacMullan of the garbage
combine. The rest of the garbage COM
Dlne is John Goodnow, and it will be
noticed that Mr.. Macmillan did not
even get the signature of his business
partner. Perhaps he thought John was
too busy playing Tim Byrnes for place
IN the national sweepstakes, but at
any rate the name of Goodnow is most
conspicuous by its absence. Now, John
is supposed to be close to Clough, al
though some suspect that 1t is the con-
nguity of the Malta with a stiletto.
MACMILLAN is close to GoodnoW. and
two propositions arise. Johns business
partner is promoting this thing, either
to Kill off Clough, or by a premature
illumination. to draw the fire of the
enemy, disclose their weak points, and
render the Clough campaign more di-
rect in its attack At the capitol the
general conclusion is that the governor
has done well by the plan, if it were his
tic not only has on record in black and
Write the most open of his opponents,
possibly excepting the unusually eau
tlous Eustls and the valorous ManniX
who evidently saw, or thought he saw.
the inner secret of the new committee,
but he has found that in order to find
one hundred men to sign the round
robin, the calculator or circulators Of
the same had to ransack the office
buildings for young lawyers, and to
draw from the quiet walks of business
men whose citizenship consists chiefly
In paying taxes, and voting perhaps
once IN decade. That these men have
an eminent right to criticise the admin
lstrat1on IS conceded; the circle of their
investigation is viewed with doubt; and
the extent of their political influence
with little fear. The ants ransacked
the lumber trade and got BardWelI and
Robinson and Charles A Bovey. They
Z did not get MIR. Hoveys partner, John
De Laittre, although they did get H. NJ
De Laittre, of the present legislature
They did not get c.. A. Smith, frequent
ly mentioned as a mayoralty candidate,
and one of the most influential lumber
men politicians in the city, generally
considered. H. f. Brown is not with
them, even going so far as to write a
letter to the papers in which he calls
the signers, ''sore-head hangers-on,"
and greets their down with the ma
chine cry with the admonition that
people who live in glass houses should
not throw stones. He says that if the
signers can show a man of political
ambition, who, in Gov. Clough's posi-
ton at the time of the senatorial fight,
would not have done as he did, he
will show the committee of safety
white blackbird. OF course, Mr. Brown
stands pretty close to the machine"
and the committee will undoubtedly
Z come back at him with more or less
personal directness, but then he has
\ had his Say, and is more to be feared by
the enemy, he has sinews OF war that
can stand heavy draft in the cam
paign of his friends.
Whether or not the circulation of this
was with Gov. Coughs connivance, it
is plain that there are some good
names lacking. Ex-Gov. John S. Pills
bury has not signed, nor did his
nephew, Charles A, who wants to be
relieved Of his business duties long
+ enough next June for him to visit st.
I Louis and get around among the boys
again. There may be another senator
ial fight some day, and it's just as well
to keep in touch with. the movement
The apparent apathy of such men must
be source Of some consolation to the
7. governor. although he may have
reason to view with alarm the oppo-
sition of such intrepid leaders as Frank
e. Holton, president of the Tenth ward
Republican club; Jack Mcconnell, the
acknowledged boss Of the Seventeenth
precinct Of the Fourth ward; T. S.
Mayer, the president of the Young
Mems Republican club, and Fidus
Achates of Coroner Kistler; Jasper
Gibbs, the Afro-American restaurateur:
F. M. Barnard, who did his first cam
paigning under the Republican ban
ner in 1894, with Sumner L. Trussell
and George H. Fletcher; Charles &.
Bond, the justice of the peace for the
north district, and John H. Van Nest,
whose barn is one of the two polling
places in the Third ward. How can the
concentrated force of such powerful
dignitaries be successfully resisted is
the problem which now confronts the
Clough campaignerS. Perhaps Cal
Goodrich, who has not signed the mani
I festo, can help the party to solution
Calvin is somewhat young in expert
ence in state campaigns, but he is a
4 successful manipulation Of municipal
campaigns, and seems to be favorably
inclined to the governor, as the ants
have only signed three of the members
OF the city council which Mr.. Goodrich
has sometimes been accused of owning
Robert G. Evans last night tele-
graphed S2.40 to the Princeton Union,
as payment for his subscription until
Nov. 10. This is rather more than the
regular subscription price, but Mr..
Evans was SO much pleased with the
Issue of this week that he decided he
: must have 1t at any cost. It's most
conspicuous editorial contribution Is a
column article on the anti-machinists
of the Evans type and Mr.. Evans Is too
old a politician not to keep well in on
the anti-literatuTe himself. The edi-
torial tells Mr.. Evans what the Union
thinks of him in language trenchant If
not Chesterfeldian.
The Caledonia Journal, which Is
State Senator Roverud's paper, sug-