The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
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cLoUGH TO BElcHIEF BUTLER,
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1T IS SAID, IN THE WINDING UP OF
THE PRESENT SENIOR
SENATOR.
THERE IS TALK OF GILFILLAN.
Rumor Says That the Minneapolis
Lawyer May Be Advanced to
the Senate.

One of the most astute Of the up
country politicians, of the G. o. P. per-
suasion, thus outlined to the G o e
yesterday the programme for the de-
feat of c. K. Davis:
1T is not likely" said he, that the
candidacy Of any one man in opposi-
ton can be made SO strong that he
will be used alone for the purpose of
defeating Davis. Davis, with the con-
centrated efforts Of the administration
whose first man in the Northwest he
is to be. especially after the Hawaiian
job is put through, will be just about
strong enough to give his friends, if
net himself, the idea of impossibility
of defeat. My good friend c. K had
that before and came through, as you
The killing viii be done by the state
machine. 1t will be the Washburn job
over again, only more so. In the first
place it will be necessary to have a
governor elected who is in the scheme,
and will aid it by farming out the state
capitol patronage, at least in promises,
as Clough did. Clough viii then be re-
firing from the goVernorship, and he
will have to be chief butler in the anti
Davis kitchen. Thus he will be in the
position in that respect that Nelson
was toward Washburn, and if anybody
thinks that Dave Clough will not
have the ability and the disposition to
dc the business, let him keep~his eye
OF en-. Why, Washburn told his most
intimate friends that he had eighty
votes absolutely safe and sure, all Of
them as safe and sure as that of Knute
Nelson himself. The patronage did it,"
IF Davis defeat is accomplished.
where will be the lucky man come from
who will take the perSimmons?'
That is another matter entirely, and
with which We are not as yet concern
ed" replied the up-ccuntry patriot. 1t
will have to be man from one of the
Twin Cities. Run over the names of
the Minneapolis avai1ahles and L will
tell you what l think"
There's Charley Pillsbury."
"He hasn't the nerve nor the sand.
No matter how much money the genial
Charles has made on dollar wheat,
which wasn't a dollar he should have
kept his grip on the whirrirg mill
stones The Minnesota Flour King
would fit the hall of millionaires but
nave NY uOuUlS Sl4dlieS Gull LS
to the front"
There's Frank H. Peavey, who has
the cut and the build, and possibly the
capital requisite | don't know much
about him, but there is also some talk
about some man on the East side, who
has in former times been likened to the
Arctic weather. He is man Of parts
I might say distant parts-but per-
haps the great question is, would he
sufficiently loosen up. refer to ex-
Congressman Gilfillan..'
Evans
Bob won't do for the very peculiar
reason that he is not sound on the
money question. Now, that may be
strange. but 1 want to inform you that
while Bob has on the stump always
preached sound money, his intimates
know that his real sentiments are for
bimetalism. I calculate that as the
lines of the administration under the
moulding of Secretary Gage draw clos
err and closer an out and out declara-
ton for the gold standard, the party
will make soundness for the yellow
metal a prerequisite for the senate, in
positions, especially for the senate, in
the proba bility of the narrow margin
there for the gold standard. They
won't want Bob on that account"
AS to St, Paul0will7 Merriam come
to the front?'
Of itself"