The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-28
Totals III. .14e 552 5s 50 70 4 u. 8 6!

While even tre conservative figures
given above indicate denomination,
they fall twenty-five short of the num-
ber necessary to nominate. In the
tables printed in other papers the gov
ernor's column is given the benefit of
every doubt, apparently. In fact, sew
eral counties which are distinctly
anti which send divided delegations,
or have not yet held their conventions,
are counted bodily in his favor There
is no sense in seeking to thug distort
the figures, especially when the yeriest
political tyro knows that t1e men V no
are fighting the governor are In deadly
earnest. They cannot be tajoled or
bulldozed into giving MIN support,
even IL he secures the denomination.
There is no chance at ALL therefore,
that they will allow him to have even
one vote that they can control against
him.
Friends of Gen. Clapp were an
gered almost beyond measure last
evening when they read scare-headed
article in the Dispatch, intimating that
the general will bolt the party if
Clough is nominated A reporter for
the Clio e saw Gen. Clapp himself
and asked if he had anything to say.
He contented himself with the curt
remark:
This is too critical moment in the
life of the Republican party of MIME
sofa to attempt to read any man out
of it,
Other men there are, however, who
say that the long -looked-for time has
arrived when self-respecting Republi-
cans caLnot longer lay down and
cringe under the lash Of the party
whip. 1t is common report that Hon.
E. C. Huntington, editor of the Win
dom Reporter, ard Senator H. J. Mil
Ter, of the Luverne Herald, will not
support the governor If he Is nomi-
mated In fact, 1t is difficult to under
stand how they could support him with
any semblance of heartiness after so
numerically criticizing him personally
for the past two years.
Frank Day. state senator and lieu
tenant governor, has also broken away.
His paper. the Martin County Sentinel,
with the two above named, makes up
a trio of the most powerful and long
established Republican weeklies In
ton does "cut some ice" This was
proved yesterday in Rock county. From
a source regarded as reliable the
G | o e learned that Clough's friends
had arranged to turn Senator Miller
down in his own county. Last nights
advices say, however, that the eleven
delegates from Rock county will be
anti -Clough-and Miller is one of them.
While Day is for free silver and the
other two for the gold standard, their
desertion of the Republican candidate
would be all the more significant on
that account.
These men have come to that point,
like many hundreds of others, where
they consider that perhaps the lesson
of defeat would do much good for the
Republican machine managers of Min
nesota- 1t might be even possible that
they would support John Lind as a free
silver candidate, on the ground that
the governor cannot affect the settle
ment Of the money question in any
way It is absolutely certain that
Huntington and Miller would support
a man like Nose Clapp, running in
dependent before they would carry the
name of David NJ. Clough at the head
of their column.
And 1t is not an improbable view to
take, from the talk heard In hotels and
other public places, that wise and con-
servative action by the Democratic
convention on the 4th of August may
result in Democratic governor being
installed in Minnesota
One thing seems certain. Before the
Republican state convention adjourns
next Wednesday, there will be some
very plain speaking by the anti-Clough
men. 1t Is not at all unlikely that it
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