The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-19
oRACLEs WHO SCENT DAVIS, DE-
FEAT IN THE GEORGIA MAR
BILE DEBATE,
RETRACE THEIR OWN STEPS
FORGETTING THE ARGUMENTS
USED TO DRIVE M'CLEARY
FROM STATE POLITICS.
TAMs BIxBY AND HIS BOOM
Seem to Be Doing Very Well, AL
though Not Given to the Sun
light Long.

Aside from the personal factor, itself
no we'll defined element in the political
problem that is more or less obtrusive-
ly forcing itself upon the people of
Minnesota, the calculation is constant
ly being made more and more intricate
by the bobbing up of issues which had
not been anticipated, perhaps, but
which the ambitious were quick in
recognizing as Of strategic value-to
the possessor of sufficient generalship
to locate himself properly thereabout.
The capitol construction discussion
is the latest and at present the warm
est of these, although as matter of
Geld and barren fact, the intensity of
this discussion, sometimes seeming to
be very hot indeed, is in an inverse
ratio to the distance of the locality
from one or more of the large stone
quarries in the state. The one excep-
ton which proves this rule is Mime
apolis. There is, as there has been, an
element of more or less political in
f1uence in that community which built
up its claim on party popular favor by
appealing to local passions at times
of bitter rivalry between the cities,
and which has ever since been keeping
the flames famed as we'll as it can,
realzins that it's expiration means
their political retirement
These men are now engaged in
portraying daily from their curb-stone
pulpits to anyone who will wait to lis
ten that 1.-The action of the capitol
commission means the defeat of Sen
ha hoc ok hCn CHI
by Gov Clough will be rewarded with
Davis place." that that other able
champion of Minnesota stone, Bob
Dunn, will make Ed Weaver hot race
for the nomination for governor" and
all that sort of thing. Just what con-
nection Senator Davis has with the
decision of the capitol commission that
Georgia marble should be used in the
walls of the state capitol is not made
to appear in these lucid clairvoyanr
crayon drawings of the political future,
unless it is that the present senior
senator from the state of Minnesota
is resident of ST. Paul.
Some of these Sidewalk Roscoe Conk-
llngs, in embryo, of course, as yet,
have worked themselves into such
fine frenzy that they can not remem-
Ter from one minute to the next their
last previous representation, but as
each succeeding analysis of the politi-
cal ENHANCEMENT reveals beauties I'M
seen in former Dreams the interest is
kept UP and those who are fortunate
enough to live in the Mill City are re-
called with some choice phantasies
hourly.
When it YVES intimated by the people
Of the second district, who have at
least geographical claim to a good
state office next year, that the choice
Of the second district for governor of
this state was James T. McCleary, of
Mankato, there was the greatest pop
ping of political small bottles in Min
neapOlis that has been heard in long
time. From around Bob Evans home,
in picturesque KenWood to the classic
regions around the university, where
the Clough and Wyman families rest
their weary bones, could be heard a
united valiant protest.
No, no, let Ed Weaver, or Senator
Miller, or Dan Shell, or Capt. Whitney,
or some other Second district man be
governor, but not McCleary. With an
eloquence worthy of more sincerity
these handy manipulators of campaign
catch-phrases challenged the nominal
ton of McCleary for governor on no
less broad grounds than the salvation
of the national honor.
So great had been the Mankato
mans success in the halls of congress
that not only was he needed there by
his state. but by his country. His
fame had become national; his power
wide. To take him out of the national
congress would not only be to give some
Minneapolitan dangerous competitor
for job at the capitol, but it would
inf1ict a loss on the state that it would
take years to repair. The fidelity of
Eastern states to their able congress
sional representatives, was cited as an
1c,t -.
as governor.
and the changes were rung again on
the name of Blaine as an example OF
what there might be in store for Min
nesota timber in congress.
Now, the same men who started like
squirrels from rotten log when the
McCleary boom echoed back and forth
among the green-clad hills of the
Minnesota valley are trying to scalp
Davis. whetting their dull blades on a
milestone of Minnesota stone, forget
full of the fact that the same argument
which they used to drive McCleary
out of the state contest applies at
every point in the line as an argument
for the return to the federal senate OF
Senator Davis. 1t is simply a case of
a peanut politician blowing hot and
cold at one and the same breath.
Tams BiXby's boom for governor was
precipitated just too late to catch the
country editors in time for comment
this week, but it will be we'll to watch
next weeks papers around the state,
for the Red Wing man is very popular
with the thought-mOlderS in his own
party, as we'll as elsewhere. His cleo
ton repeatedly to the highest office
in the gift of the Press association,
which the editors of that party formed
some time ago, is criterion of the ia
vor in which the tactful Tams is held
by his co-laborers in the field Of extra
urban journalism. Messrs. Bixby and
Mitchell and the rest object to the
term Country editors now. Although
it is only three days since the BiXby
boomlet was formally exposed to the
warmth Of the sun, it is thriving well,
and already some Of the would-be gu
bernatorial timber, which was at first
inclined to treat the thing as huge
hoax, is beginning to grant that Tams'
familiarity with the Office, scarcely
less than his admitted qualifications as
a political manager and organizer.
make him a dangerous competitor in
the race for the nomination in 1898.
The Mankato Free Press insists on
the RELOCATION of Secretary Of State
Albert Berg and Supreme Court Clerk
Darius Frank Reese to political OBJ
livion, and would fill the state ticket
this year with men from the country.
leaving the senatorship for st. Paul
and Minneapolis to contest for. Editor
Hunt protests that he would not for
the world appear in the light of array
ing the country against the cities, but
he merely suggests that, in fairness to
the noble army of Republicans who
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