St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-31
MINNEAPOLIS REPUBLICANS. OP-
POSED TO CLOUGH FORM COM
MITTEE OF SAFETY.
]. T. WYMAN HEADS THE LIST.
WASHBURN AND BOB EVANS ARE
ALSO AMoNE THE "ANTI-MA-
CHINE' CROWD.
BYRNEs, GooDNow AND FooTE,
However, Are Not Among the Chosen
-Capta Vain SAINT at Work
Here.

licked as the Minneapolis papers say
David NJ. Ciough Is in his canvass for
the support Of Hennepin county, he is
making strange stir in the usually
| placid pool Of Mill City Republican,
ism. Perhaps the placidity, it might be
explained, is only usual when Mime
apolis politician of the Republican per-
Suas1on Is in the race for an office
where he will keep some other good
man from another part Of the state
out OF power. But in spite of Mr.
Clough's ambition-the Glob e calls
him Mr.. without regard to the other
eplthets which Minneapolis Republicans
have indorsed-Minneapoli is all torn
up, and the elephant in Col Kings
town is having a hard time keeping
both his trunk and tail out of the blood
which is already beginning to smear
the sawdust ring of politics where he
Will have to dance for several months
yet.
In fact, stranger picking up Min
neapolis paper of Republican inclina-
tlons might fancy that he were in
Parls, with the commune at its
most dizzy height. Haggard men, with
eyes, bloodshot from sleepless nights,
throng the corridors Of the public build
1ngs,- shouting Down with the ma
chine" and "Vive lie Eustis," or give
lie Van SAINT" or give any old candi-
date who can beat Clough." While
from the telegraph poles the dray
horses calmly nibble the procIama-
lions OF the Committee of one hum
dred," the newspapers clamor for re-
spect for the oracular utterances of
this august body, the spontaneous out
burst of the oppressed masses, seIf-ap-
pointed protectors of the lives and
liberties, or at least the lives and per-
quisites. of their suffering and down.
trodden fellow Republicans.
The committee of one hundred, unlike
those OF Victor Hugo's narratives, does
not meet behind the barred doors of
medieval palaces, but finds it's shelter
In paIat1al office buildings, where the
handy telephone places the chieftains
In ready communication with the COM
mlssary department, rather than with
the military. 1.-The military, unfort-
unately for the COMMITTEE, Is still in
the hands Of the enemy. - 90
But from its headquarters the COM
mttee issued a manifesto. charmingly
typewriter, and signed in very much
John Hancock hand. e-e-
With the ringing clearness of the
bulletins of the destruction of the
monarchy, the committee heads its
MANIFESTO, lin bold face type. several
plea high, Opposed to Clough." J. T.
Wyman heads the list, but it is not
nara to lind, even in7the closely written
Dunch, the bold round fist of w. Drew
w ashburn, once United States senator
from Minnesota. The manifesto is also
; signed by Howard W. Commons who
probably knows 100 voters outside of
/. the wheat pit, by that eminent states.
!, man, j. A. Nordeen, ther'D;ainni Logan,
OF the Seventh ward, and by Jasper
Glpps, who is presumably there to
throw the AIro-American vote against
the governor. Ed. j. Dayenport and
George w. Marchant, those old war
horses, who have. had some sort of
poitlcaI ONCE for practically two de-
cades, are also z"agin' the governor" so
1t is not without some reason. perhans
that he has to be in the thick of the
nght all the time. 1t will undoubtedly
react greatly to his disadvantage when
1t is found that the governor is on
posed by such an eminent citizen az
George W. Marchant, who has been
candidate for practically everything
from mayor of MINNEAPOLIS down r.
chlef com1nissary at Camp HinckIev
The committee includes a number Of
reputable business men and a lot of ex-
ONCE holders, but it does not include a
number of quite prominent political
workers.
Among those who are not recoe,-
nlzed In the batch of signatures are
timothy b. Byrnes, the sergeant-at
arms of the Republican national con-
vention, John Goodnow, the base ball
magnate, Frank M. Nye, Judges Jami-
son and Russell, Henry w. Foote. who
can be counted on pretty soundly for
io'ooo slmoleons to put the governors
battalion on war footing Nor is
James S. Trip, who comes pretty near
being the king-pin Of the heavily Re-
publican Eighth ward, on the list.
In fact, a. Minneapolis man who Is
generally credited with considerable
political sagaeity in his own town.
stated last might that Clough would
nigh water, and the committee of one
hundred. q Il
Capt. Van SAINT is utilizing his spare
time during his stay in st. Paul. Be
fore he returns to Winona he would
like to know how some of the Repub-
hcan ward bosses regard his guber-
material aspirations. To gain this in
formation Capt Van SAINT is calling
on some Of these gentlemen personal
ly. There Is nothing questionable or
unnatural in this but those acquainted
with the genial speaker of the house
are marveling much that he should
have selected for a travelling companion
State Senator Ozmun. Possibly others
have accompanied Capt. Van SAINT on
this mission, but when the Republican
boss of the Fifth ward, George Warren.
of the board of public works. was sought
Senator Ozmun piloted the Winona