The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-29

Sob soon after Jan. 1, has counted having
that clerkship well up his sleeve, but Hayes
advent in the contest puts the thing in an
entirely light, and there is strong pos
sihility of his defeat if the folk from Hayes
district stand together as they promise to do.
Thomas f. Martin, the lonely Democrat in
the Ramsey delegation, returned yesterday
from Dubuque in order to be in at the death.
Just what particular field of usefulness the
Republican members of the delegation will
alot to the Eighth ward hustler is not known,
but he is as full of hope as mix can OF
microbes. and gives assurance that though
in a hopeless minority, his voice will ever be
heard in championship of truth. justice and
Democracy, in and out of the legislative nails.
Mr.. Martin has been in Dubuque looking
after the interests Of ID. J. Hennessy. prom
inent citizen who has large property holdings
in the st. Paul wholesale district He has thus
been out of the political maelsrom, he says.
for about two weeks. He will remain here,
however, until the organization of the legis,
lature new. Mr.. Hennessy is quite ill, and
his death is almost daily expected
Rev. B. C. ellis, Methodist minister at
Kasson, is a candidate for chaplain of the
house. S. 7. Littleton is pushing him mod
estly to the front.
J. c. Hurlbut Of Douglas county. and Ed
Tanning, of Stewartsville. Olmsted county.
are in. the lists for the position of assistant
sergeant-at-arms of the house The former
will have the hearty support of Messrs
ing working hard for the election Of his
neghbor.
Henry Feig and his allies are keeping
stiff upper lip. and do not hesitate to claim
the victory with the most hopeful look, and
watch with en- unconcern which, if not real.
is well simulated the growing phalanx of
Jones' Jones, Jones votes which are coming
in from the north.
The Ferris-Dare combine has apparently
organized its section of the state with the
whip hand uppermost.
II the morning trains bring the right kind
OF people in the right numbers, the Feig,
Grondahl and Underleak factions will try
to get together at the Windsor this after
noon TO form an offensive and defensive
alliance. An old member said yesterday:
Il am going to sit in this caucus and I
take it that after its adjournment there will
be but two candidates in the race, the strong
est of the three now comprising the field,
and Mr.. Jones. It has been said that we pro-
pose to form a combination to beat out Jones.
Some of the newspapers have made give
our raIlying cry, anything to defeat the
Todd county man. We are not animated
by such a spirit, at least the gentlemen I
know not. The natural territory Of
each of the three candidates mentioned that
which he might naturally claim to have in
his support, overlaps the territory of the
other two candidates Of the trio. This con-
ference, therefore, is not a last desperate
measure. The three candidates simply real
iZe that they all can't win and so they will
caucus TO determine upon the man to whom
their districts would naturally turn in case
he were alone in the field against Jones.
Southern Minnesota has about A votes. The
Seventh district has but one man support
ing Jones, and any man we settle upon will
have more or less scattering strength. We
need but 46 votes to nominate in the caucus
OF the house. Therefore, l don't think the
Jones forces have such a sure thing of 1t
after ALL"