The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-04-16
A 'FLOSSY' SCHEME 4
How the .sJournal'' Wants to Se-
cure an Anti Clough Dele
CATION from Its City.
Jeffersonian Democrats Met Last
Monday Evening to ssBury
Caesar not to Praise Him.

special Correspondence to the UNION.
MINNEAPOLIS, April IA, 1896. The
Journal outlines editorially plan
which it thinks will serve to do up
Governor Clough in Hennepin county.
The plan is this: For all the guber-
material candidates except Clough to
unite upon one set of delegates in~the
county, and for voters to vote at the
primaries on their choice for governor,
the candidate receiving highest
choice, aside from Clough, to receive
the support of the solid Hennepin dele
cation at the State convention. For
example, if the combined opposition
got three-6fths, the anti-Clough can
didate in the lead should have the
total delegation.
If Hennepin is entitled to lis votes
in the convention, two-ffths for Clough
would be As and three-ffths for the
combined opposition would be 3d. If
the SO votes, on the basis of the pri-
mary ballot, should stand in the ratio
of p for Eustis, 20 for Van SAINT, Is for
Lees for Gibbs, 8 for Clapp, 2 for Nc
Gill. and 2 scattering -Eustis would
receive the support of the delegation,
although getting only 20 per cent. of
the support of the voters at the pri-
maries and less than half what Clough
received. The Journal thinks this is
the only way Clough can be downed IN
.Hennepin. The method is advised as
a plan to defeat the "machine.'' A
niceAuestion which might arise here
is this: Could the combination hold
together long enough to deliver the
goodss Would the Van SAINT support
;ers, for example, consent to giving the
support of the whole delegation to
Eustis, when Van SAINT lacked only two
votes Of as many as Eustis?: There are
many9nice questions here involved.
+. i. 4. Z. H. 49,.
Ithas been found that there is an
other profitable industry in town be-
sides the bicycle industry, and that is,
in holding female bicyclist races.
Misses Dottie Farnsworth, Helen Bald
win, Matte Christopher and the rest
have standing proffers to enter two or
three different wheel contests in the
Twin Cities during the next 80 days.
It is apparent that most OF the men
folks Of the present hard times have
missed their calling. They should
have been born female bicyclists in
boomers and kneebockers.
e. i. :. !.
The Jeffersonian Democrats ban
quetted in honor Of their patron saint
last evening; although only about half
of them protested to be Jeffersonian on
the money question, and the other half
Groverian. G. Porter Johnson, of
Chicago, posed as the Mark Antony
Of the occasion. He evidently came to
bury Grover, not to praise him.
& !. :. !.
+ The county attorney has dismissed
o. J.. Billings, indicted for perjury in
the alleged bribery case, and the
grand jury has dismissed Special
Agent Howard, of the Great Northern,
arraigned for bribery of jurors. Both
sides seemed to have considered dis
erection the better part OF valor.
!. !. I.
The l6 junketing aldermen and the
mayor have returned from their cruise
to the Pacific coast in pursuit of munic-
ipal reform. In their absence four of
the citizens organizations of the city
have organized to put in the field this
fall a non-partisan ticket of clean
aldermen and efficient city officials.
!.
The{Booth-T fuckers of recent Saliva
tion Army fame arrive in town Thurs
day, and the local army of red shirts
and poke bonnets will be out thou
sand strong in. their best bibs and
fuckers to receive their new COM
mander.
i. 4. 1.
The bricklayers are after the con-
tractor on the new University drill
hall, alias gymnasium building, for re-
fusing to pay union wages and employ
union men. He is said to be the only
contractor. in town who is not paying
the regulation union wages, The re-
gents and the commercial bodies of the
city have been appealed to and there
are daily arbitration councils. Mean
time, there is no work being done on
the building.
+ i.
An evening paper comes out with
the sensation that two members of the
district bench are to resign.
It is rumored that the vacant
places are to be filed by two eminent
attnrneys who have silver prOcliyities