The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-17
HE WILL, AGAIN DIRECT THE
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN THIS
YEAR,
Mr.. WARNER HAS A SINECURE.
WILL SERVE AS A FIGUREHEAD
FOR THE STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE.
DECIDED AT MEETING YESTERDAY
The Governors Secretary Becomes
Treasurer and Chairman of the
Working Committee.

Tams Bixby will run Gov. Coughs
campaign this year He will, in fact,
direct the campaign of the entire Re
publican ticket. The position of chair
man of the Republican state central
committee. for which Eli Warner was
selected will be a sinecure. Mr.. Bixby
will continue to be practically the
whole thing.
This was decided upon yesterday at
a meeting of the state central COM
mittee held at the Windsor hotel. The
meeting was executive and after it
was over it was given out that nothing
of public interest was done except that
the committee had approved the selec-
tion of Eli Warner as chairman of the
committee and E. NJ. Johnson, of Min
neapolis as secretary. Mr.. Johnson
hasn't signified his Willingness to ac-
cept yet, but may do so. 1t was also
announced that Tams Bixby was elect
ed treasurer, and that an executive
committee had been selected, with
Tams BiXby as chairman and the
chairman and secretary of the central
committee as members eX-officio. The
other members selected are Jacob
Gish, LIE Sueur; A. E. Rice, Wilmar;
Alvah Eastman. st. Cloud; Daniel
Shell Worthington; B. F. Howard,
Duluth, and James NJ. Dement,, Owa-
tonna
When the meeting was called to or
der by Mr.. Warner, 1t soon became evil
dent that there were a number Of
people present with something on their
minds. They discussed the outlook for
the ticket and came to the conclusion
that victory could only come this fall
by the hardest kind of work. They
snapped reports of the free silver SEN
timent in their respective parts Of the
state and, although the news in some
instances had a cheering effect, the
something on their minds remained
there. 1t gradually crept out and
proved to be a desire to know without
getting personal why Tams Bixby
was not left to manage the campaign
in a year when the shrewdest kind of
political sagacity is needed to carry
the party to success. The members of
the state central committee like Eli
Warner But the members of the
committee like victory better and they
haven't faith in Mr.. Warmers ability
at this time. In their opinion Bixby
is a giant beside Warner in the work.
They could get along without Warner,
but Bixby-well, not by a large ma
jority The result was that Bixby was
pressed into the service harder than
ever. and while he might have to do
his work in the shadow that Warner
cast. that made no difference. So they
decided to place all the funds in his
hands He is supposed to know how
to handle campaign funds by this time
and they made him treasurer. Then
they thought it was advisable to get
the actual work of directing the cam
paign in his hands, so the executive
committee Craftsmanship was the re-
suit of that. Mr. Bixby will therefore
continue to guide the destinies of the
Minnesota Republicans through an
other campaign.
An incident of the meeting was the
presentation of a cane to Mr.. Warner
by Senator Stebbins. When Mr.. Steb-
bins produced the walking stick the
members rubbed their eyes. 1t was
of metal, white metal at that Was 1t
silver? Mr.. Warmers impulse was to
wave it away, believing it was Mr..
Bryans choice but the senator as
sgred him it was not a free silver tok-
en-. but was tin-McKinley tin-which
made it all right. The senator then
made a graceful little presentation
speech, calling Mr. Warmers attention
that it was a Mckinley campaign en-
blem. Mr.. Warner accepted the pres
ent with equal grace.