St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-07
ONE OF THEM is ON G0ODNOW.
INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS
Z ABOUT THE ANTI-CLOUGH CAM
s.. PAIGN IN MINNEAPOLIS.
COUPONS THAT WEREN'T VOTED
Because the Presses Were stopped
Hunt Is Opposed to Attorney
- General ChiIds.


Byrnes, the debonair Minneapolis wire
puller, was elected sergeant-at-arm of
the coming Republican convention In
the Mound city, he went around to the
Southern hotel to engage rooms dur
ing the convention in which to have
his headquarters. In order to make
sure of the Eligibility and convenience
of the rooms offered him, he first asked
to know where other delegations had
been assigned. The manager of the
hotel, however, surprised him with the
information that no rooms had been
engaged as yet, and Timothy was be-
ginning to wonder If he had struck
Bourbon hotel, when the proprietor
added, as an afterthought:
I'VE have a telegram from man
named Severance asking US to hold
eight rooms for Davis, but we haven't
done anything about lit. Do you know
who this man Davis is?"
Mr.. Byrnes' rosy face was suffused
with an unusually brilliant carminetint
as he advised the boniface that this
man Davis was only" candidate
for the presidential nomination; that he
came from Minnesota, and that Sever
ance was his law partner. Mr.. Byrnes
also gave the gentleman few statis-
tics in regard TO the wheat grown in
the North star state, and advised him
that if the farmers We're able to get
tHelf wheat III curly, hlLileSotG Wouid
have as many guests in his hotel in
June as any other state in the Union
with the possible exception of Illinois.
Which goes to show that Minnesota
lost nothing from the real estate
boomers standpoint, when Mr.. Byrnes
was elected.
The other story pertains to John
Goodnow. It Is related that there was
a conversation between Joe Manley,
OF Augusta, Ne, and Ret" Clarkson,
of Iowa, whose right name Is John
S." on the same day that the Mime
sofa outfit was IN ST. Louis pulling
wires for handsome Tins election. Joe
has been secretary of the national COM
mittee of the g. o. p, and had full con-
troll Of the reports, so that he thought
he ought TO know all the leaders in it,
but he was stmnped when he ran
across the name of John Goodnow.
RET" he said, ST know this man
Byrnes pretty well and he amt bad
sort, but when did this man Goodnow
get into politics, / always thought he
was a base ball player or something"
Loren Fletcher tells this story, so it
must be SO.
1t is now charged that the anti-Clough
leaders in Hennepin county, when they
were circulating their now famous man
ifesto, neglected to confine their solicit
tation to the ranks of Republicans. Sec
rotary Of State Berg, who is back in st.
Paul, after ALTERNATING for a week or
two at Center City, declares that at
least one of the signers Of that round
robin is Democrat, and he names Fred
z. Wheaton, who is the editor Of the
Pythian Advocate and shing light in
the councils of the order, whose patron
saint is the brother of the late Damon.
Mr.. Berg has also attained conSidera-
pie erudition in the learning Of the
8odge, and he and Editor Wheaton have
III several occasions measured political
1aHceS after the lodge had adjourned
and the rites had been restored to the
sacred ark. And Berg declares that
Frederick is not only Democrat, but
SO enthusiastic a champion Of the creed
of Jefferson, and of Hancock, and of
Cleveland, that when he sets about a
debate at night. the incandescent lamps
pale before the heat of the Wheatonian
Argument, and night becomes as day
beneath the effulgent brilliancy Of the
EDITORS enthusiasm.
A Minneapolis paper innocently re-
marks that the committee which is
'ferninst' Clough is in daily receipt of
pledges from voters in various parts Of
the country, declaring the intention of
the signer to support the crusade This
recalls singular eXigency of the publ
cation of that manifesto, which, it will
be remembered, was tipped off, eX-
clusively to an evening paper in the
Mill City. That paper printed below it's
manifesto a coupon like those used in
sewing machine voting contests and the
like, to which the anti-C lough man.
from Greenland to midas coral pre-
cinct, was to sign his name This was
printed to some extent in the mail edi-
ton of the paper, and in a few copies of
the city edition, but it had not gone far
when one of the long heads in the coun-
ellis of the ants discovered the shifting
of the breeze, and it was decided to stop
the press in the middle of the edition
long enough to chop out the coupon idea
and insert few selections about rooms
for rent and other miscellaneous, but
purely non-political matters 1t took
some of the Journalistic enthusi-
asts longer to tumble to themselves
Editor L. P. Hunt of Mankato, is
booming 3. D. Smith for attorney gen
eral, on the theory that the Second dis
trict ought to have either lieutenant
governor or attorney general this year.
And that Gen. Childs has held the posi-
ton as long as any man ought reason
ably to desire to do so.
a Jury Out Two Days.
In the suit Of Adolph T. Rosen to re-
cover from the Great Western road