The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-28
WAS THAT WHAT HUNG UP I'VE
ST. CLOUD EDITORS APPOINT
MENTe
HASTINGS PEOPLE KICKED.
COULD NOT STAND FOR HIS woRx
IN THE HOSPITAL
FIGHT.
PRESIDENT MAY "HEDcE, oU TT
Noteworthy That AIvnh's Name Uns
Not I'm the List of "Recess
Appointments"

A large element of the Republican,
party In the state Is making no effort
TO conceal its citation at the failure of
the senate to confirm the nomination
Oh AlVah Eastman, editor of the ST.
cloud Journal-Press, to be receiver of
PUBLIC moneys in the land office at st.
Cloud.
Ihls is especially the case since Pres
loent Mckinley. in making known the
recess appointments of Terence V.
foWoerly and others who were treated
with equal lack of consideration by the
senate did not reiterate the Eastman
appointment.
Eastman has been an aggressive mol
ltician, and, his political foes do not
accuse him Of being the soul OF honor
lie was very severely used in the leg
lsIative proceedings OF last winter
growing out Of the Anoka- Hastings
hospital fight. in which it developed
that the st. Cloud editor and ex-
Anokan was the prime conspirator in
the plot to rob Hastings of it's coveted
insane hospital
The party was badly split on this
hospital fight, and while some of the
bitterness that was manifested at the
Eastman has been marked by the
Hastings champions for their bitterest
antagonism. He was the man who first
told Henry Hopper about the resolution
which gave the Stephen straddler the
opportunity to change his vote. 1t was
rumored when Tams Bixby was ap-
pointed to minister to the wants of the
Cherokees that Alvah would succeed
the Red Wing editor as the governors
private secretary. Some one spiked
that. The Hastings people do not
stand very well with the governor, but
there is a considerable Republican vote
In that corner of the state, and the
man who will appoint the oil inspectors
and such two years hence will find this
section mighty handy about conven-
ton and election time. Gov. Clough
does not know who is likely to parcel
out the sinecures in those days, but he
would like to have it in the house of
his friends somewhere. Eastman'S
work In the original plot had been so
coarse that even so staunch a friend
as the governor did not want to- go any
farther with its Endorsement than in
his message vetoing the Hastings bill
Then Alvah began to look around for
another place, for from time immcmOr-
ial the Journal-Press, under whatever
ownership, has had to have soma kind
o: a state graft. whether 1T was q resi-
dent directorate Of a normal school or
what. Alvah thought the land office
would be a good thing. Bob Dunn
told him that it was about the best
thing there was, and perhaps as 1t was
something that did not concern the
state at large directly. the Southern
Minnesota people might sheathe their
hammers for the occasion.
Mr.. Dunn should not have been so
sanguine. The Hastings people got to
Tawney and Heatwole in a rush, and
ed Senator Cush that while Tawney
and his editorial constituents were
booming the Minnesota senator for the
presidency, Eastman and his end OF
the state were cheek by jowl with the
Goodnow gang that were knocking
Cushman, not in the most delicate
manner either. 1t Is feared by East
mans friends, and hoped by his
enemies, that Senator Davis has gotten
to the ear of the president and per-
sUaded him that one consular appoint
ment having stirred up a considerable
foment in the state already, 1t might
be as well to stir up as little as posi-
BILE Of the other troubles that have
beset the party lately. 1t is not GER
tain, Of course. that President McKin-
ley has "hedged" on the Eastman APP
pointment, but it's Withholding from the
first batch is a straw which the fight
ing factions think may indicate a
change in the direction of the wind of
presidential favor