The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-21

willingness to run as the candidate Oh
the silver men, provided they will also
! put free silver candidates for congress
| in the field in the Fourth and Fifth
districts Fourth district white metal
! men rely on Hon. r. A. Walsh, even
though the populists nominate him
| first Judge Rea or A. d. Smith are
regarded as available in the Fifth, with
Rea largely preferred. Towne will, Of
course. contest the Sixth as an inde-
pendent candidate for reelection; and
! his friends promise the hottest cam
! paign ever seen In a Minnesota con-
gressional district.
George N. Lamphere, the ex-Repub-
lican editor of the Moorhead Daily
News, is looked on as the man who will
win the free silver nomination in the
Seventh, to go against Eddy. There is
no question, either, that the populists
of the Second district will nominate a
free silver candidate for congress at
their convention, to be held at Marshall
next week.
Leaders Of the free silver men have
| decided to have a state convention in
Minneapolis on some date between the
1st Of July and the 4th of August, the
dates for the Republican and Demo-
| cratic conventions, respectively. No
| one but John Lind is talked of for the
| head of the ticket. and it seems an as
sured thing at this moment that he will
be the free silver candidate for gov
| ernor.
A Clio b e reporter visited Minneapo-
lis yesterday and conversed with sew
eral members of the Hennepin legisla-
tive delegation. Even the most con-
servative and careful of these men in
| sisted that the delegation will be di-
| vided between Eustis, Van SAINT and
Lee When reminded that Tams Blk
by asserts Clough will surely get the
delegation. state senator said:
| well, Mr.. Bixby is not a resident of
! HennepiD county, and his word as to
how this county will go is discounted
| by his connection with the governor.
While Mr. Clough is a resident, he is
not of the kind the people of this big
city and county delight to honor. He
| will not get any delegates here, accord
| ing to the information we have. Ram
| sey's unwise course in declaring for a
solid Clough or anti Clough delegation
will not be followed in Hennepin. We
| shall divide our votes between three or
more candidates until the time appears
right for consolidation on some one of
the candidates outside of C1ough, and
then we expect to cast the decisive
| votes"
In Hennepin the main reliance Of the
anti-Clough men appears to rest on the
| alleged fact that J. J. and Sam Hill
| are backing the governor with all the
! power at their command. State Oil In
spector Hy Foote, Surveyor General
Brown, and in fact, all of thte appoint
i've state officials, are working night
| and day to defeat the plans of the anti
Cluogh men. They have the necessary
time and money to spare, and however
they have had most trying test of
| their strength and resources.
| The local Clough mana gers-Messrs
! Warner, Reese Schiffman, Sheehan ct
| al-have been resting for a day or
! two; but beginning with tomorrow
! evening they will hold series of rallies
which they intend shall Offset the work
| Gen. Clapp has been doing the past
! week in his public meetings The first
| one of the Clough rallies will be held in
| Liedertafel hall, in the Sixth ward,
! Monday evening. In addition to the
| Clough quartette named above, Hon
| e.. G.. Rogers is announced to speak;
4 and he will direct his argument to an
| attempt to prove that it is not good
! politics to seek honors from the party
| this year, nor for Ramsey county t.
bestow it's vote upon him.
| Governor Clough and his fuglemen
are becoming somewhat worried by the
fight that the Clapp men are putting
1 up in Ramsey; and this same fight is
| squirting the anti-Clough men to even
| greater exertions in -Hennepin. Out