St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
BID UP, GENTLEMEN, BID UP.

The national convention of the Re
publicans having been knocked down
to the highest bidder, the next thing
to be put on the auction block is the
Republican delegate from the South.
He is rising to an ante-bellum value.
It takes quite as much to buy him as
when he was a field hand or a house
servant. He knows his value as well
as his old master knew it. He has
found out that in making presidents
he is a potent factor. When the con-
test is close, the votes from the South
are sufficient to determine the choice.
1t was so in 80, and John Sherman
has not yet forgiven Alger for buy
ing away his support, even if it made
no difference with "old Tecumseh,"
who saw nothing in it but observ-
ance Of universal usage" It was so
In 1884, when, as a Minnesota delegate
said, explaining how the nomination
was made: 1--WE went out cooning
Saturday night and bagged the game"
So VIGOROUSLY was this the case in
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come, that there rose great cry for a
change in the method Of representa-
ton, making it depend on the voting
power Of the party in a state instead
of the number Of it's senators and con-
gressmen. So general was the demand
that it appeared then as if the change
would be made without doubt But
the committee has met and the old
plan remains intact. Already the pre-
Hminaries of the auction have been
opened on a scale that promises an
unusually lively market for these dele
gates with prices ruling higher than
ever. The campaign opened in Louis
lana with an attempt to gain control
of the state committee. Warmoth and
Kellogg-what an unsavory odor Of
carpetbagism and fraud and corrup-
ton rises as the dead past is stirred
with these names-led opposing inter
terests, Kellogg for Reed and War
moth for Mckinley.
Kellogg thought he had all Of the
state committee of twenty-one except
two who preferred Allison. Warmoth,
under the circumstances, felt that the
committee was too small By some
hook or crook, or both, he procured
its enlargement by the addition Of
thirty members. The fun grew fast
and furious in the effort to get each
his share or more Of these thirty. From
somewhere the money came to War
moth to invest Did brother Hanna
come to the rescue Of his pet? Some
one did, for Warmoth is not the man
to spend his own money for others,
and that he spent it his checks amply
show. He invested it in such negroes
and whites as were for sale. He
bought freely. He cornered the mar
ket. He carried the day. He controls
the committee and the coming eonven-
tion, and. by the grace Of Doodle, Mr.
Mckinley will have solid delega-
ton from that state.
But so fast do these anxious gentle
men tread on each others heels in
this scramble for delegates first and
the nomination after, and so volatile
Is the Southern Republican delegate
and committeeman, that even while
Warmoth was rejoicing over his VIC
tory, and the comment on the whole
matter was being written. the Reed
men, led by the willy Kellogg, find, In
some mysterious way and place, q
supply of money and, before the laugh
ter and hilarity Of Warmoth's jollifica-
ton has ceased echoing through the
labyrinths Of lower town, the tide of
victory had been turned back, and
enough of these new committeeman
had been bought again to give Mr..
Reed the control Of the committee. So,
today, but Just for today, unless the
money gives out, Mr.. Reed and not
Mr.. Kinley has the solid Louisiana
delegation in his fist.
That is, Ii there is no "cooning
again in St, Louis. The Republican
delegates frc m the South ere not GO
ing to make trip in Simmer to st.
Louis either Tor health or fer love of
country. Flanagan, of Texas, was
not delegate for anything if not for
the Offices, and he could not conceive
what any one was delegate for ,f not