St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-24


| ever, and all he would say was that
| II the Twin Cities insisted upon an
uninstructed delegation, they would
| probably have to go without any rep
resentative in the delegation at large.
For sixteen years successfully Min
| nesota has been buncoed out of eX-
| pressing its choice for president by
means of one device or another and
| the time has passed when it can longer
| be tolerated / have been a supporter
| OF Senator Davis for years. voted
! for him twice for United States SEN
ator when he needed my vote and
am still his friend. But this is no
| time for men to work upon friendship.
| If Senator Davis wanted to get a cab
met position. there are other means
than to come out as a presidential
candidate, gather a few votes about
him and then throw them where the
| people do not want them cast 1 do
| not say that the Davis boom is really
| Reed programme, but the people will
see to it that no chance is presented
| to thwart their evident choice. At
Mankato. today, the delegates were so
eager to declare for Mckinley that
one of the delegates, a farmer who
| had drawn UP resolutions for instruc-
tons, could not wait until the conven-
ton was properly organized before he
| presented them. The convention could
do nothing but take them up and pass
them, and they went through with
whoop.
THE convention selected known Nc
Kinley men; then followed up the Sc
! lection with instructions, and some of
the delegates wanted to make the
thlng sure by instructing for McKin-
| ley again.
That is the way the people feel, and
! there is no mistake that one of the
first things the convention will do to-
morrow will be to pass resolutions for
Mckinley; if there are any candidates
for delegates who cannot accept in
| structions, they will have to stay at
| home"
! The contest between r. G. Evans and
! Il. b. Walker for the position Of dele
| gate at large was very much in evil
dence last night. Neither side did very
much missionary work among the dele
gates at the Nicollet house, but there
was hardly visitor at the West ho-
te' VINO did not hear from both sides
/ during the course Of the evening The
| delegates from outside arrived on the
scene thoroughly informed as to the
! situation in Hennepin county, and turn
ed their knowledge to their own adVan-
tage. The second district delegates, for
instance, canvassed the situation on
the train coming up from Mankato, and
friendly to Evans.
Nevertheless, as soon as they arriv-
ed in the city they were special objects
of solicitude on the part of the friends
| OF T. B. Walker, and heroic effort was
being made to swing the Second dis
| trict away from Evans. Senator Barr,
of Mankato. said that he was very con-
fident that a majority of the delegates
would be for Evans. He had always
been popular in the district and while
the district was for Mckinley, they be-
lieVed that Evans would go to ST. Louis
and do work for Mckinley that few
other men could.
Representative jacobson. from the
same district, is for T. B. Walker. 81
believe that we will elect Walker" he
said. g Bob is a good fellow and we
all like him, but we are strong McKin-
ley men, and 1 believe that Walker
better represents our idea than Evans
does. Evans has friends in the deler
cation, though"
The general sentiment seemed to be
that Walker was not making any great
inroad on the delegates from the coun-
try. This was a point where Mr.. Evans
was strong, and it was hard to turn the
delegates from him, even though they
were posing as radical Mckinley men.
Most of them seemed to be willing to
wait and see what Hennepin county
ually asking about the latest develop
ments in this district.
The man who could give any def
mite information regarding the relative
strength of Evans and Walker in the
Hennepin delegation was n wonder.
Both sides held meetings last night and
it was impossible to tell from these
gatherings who was in the lead. Each
seemed to have about as much strength
as the other. If anything. the friends
of Evans seemed to be the more numer-
Gus.
tt c W. lkar men were cla ming that
Evans would have but very few more
than half Of his own ward-the Eighth.
They were willing to concede him one
majority in the ward. Out Of the en-
tire delegation they were only willing
to give him about 25. The Evans men,
on the other hand, were claiming ma
jority of 25 at least, and James Mac
Mullen predicted that Evans would
have 100 out of the 116 delegates. One
out-and-out Mckinley man said that he
intended to vote for Evans. He be-
lieved that he would represent the sem
timent Of the convention, and at st.
Louis he could do five times the work
for Mckinley that Mr.. Walker could,
simply because he was acquainted with
the politicians from all over the coun-
try.
The Minneapolis Flambeau club is
prepaHing to go in a body to the ST.
Louis convention, having been prom
ised good seats by Sergeant-at-arms
Tim Byrnes.
Chairman Tams Bixby will be at
Room 22S. West hotel, this morning,
where he will issue tickets and badges
to delegates. All parts of the hall, eX-
cept the parquette, are open to the gen.
eral public without tickets.