The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-03
BOB EVANS NICHE
MINNEAPOLIS HoOsEER HAS NOT
DECIDED WHERE HE WOULD
LIKE TO HAVE IT.
FOLLOW cLoUGH OR DAVIS.
ErruFR WOULD SUIT THE SPELL
BINDER FOR THE PRESENT,
AT LEAST.
THREAT MADE TO START BERG
For Governor If the Ramsey Sena-
tor Does Not Soon Line Up on
Federal Money.

To this number of we'll doomed, if
hot well-groomed, candidates in TINS
state must now be added no less dis
tipeuished a cognomen than that OF
Robert Grandiloquent Evans, the spe-i-
binder from the sycamores, whose eio-
ouent efforts have delighted the faith
full from the flooded precincts OF
egypt to the pine barrens north OF
Tower. Bob is in the field. Just what
he is in the field for seems, at present.
very much like a reformatory sentence,
indeterminate and dependent on good
behavior. If Bob finds that the gubef-
material nomination seems to be least
evasiye, his friends may be expected
to swing strongly in line for the lndl-
ana boy for the Clough succession.
The retirement of Eugene Hay from
active political life, with the somno-
lence, temporary at least, OF Ropert
Stratton and Ed Davenport, has LED
the Indiana colony in Minneapolis TO
look forward to greater things ana thls
would best be eXemplified they thlnk,
in the attachment of the preflX goVH
e1nor to the family name Of Evans.
The Republicans tried a game OF this
sort in Tennessee once with a very
dubious success, and bearing this IN
mind. the Indiana colony is going about
its boom for governor modestly ana
without any brass bands, so to speak.
It is also placing sentinels at fre-
ouent intervals along the back track,
so that no bridges will be burned be-
hind the eminent protege of the Hoos@
iers. There isn't any Cortez grand
stand play business about your OLD
friend Evans. He knows his services
to the Republican party have been
worth something, and while he is will
ing to permit the party to decide
what it shall be, he is convinced that
If it is not to be governor it shall be
senator.
Yes, United States senator. And this,
toe. his friends claim, is not In any
spirit of disloyalty to his old fr1end
Cushman K. Davis They claim that
there are times in the political history
of a people when the claims OF per
son are submerged in the demands OF
the common veal. This, they Iedr, Is
one of them They have heard with
Senator Davis, in spite Of his eminent
Dosition in the councils Of the nation.
They urge that if it should be found
that the strife is to be bitter, that II
would be better for the factions to COM
bine on a man who would at once pe
worthy of the succession, ana at lne
same time, man whose services 10
the party would give him snow ol
color to his high office.
CO. Evans
her of the national committee, as well
as through industrious service or the
stump, his fame is more than local. He
has done more than one good turn 1ol
Senator Davis. He fought Loyalty IN
behalf Of the senator when the machlne
Republicans here were turning MIN
down to send Mckinley delegates tc
Chicago. With the contingency OF de-
feat staring him in the face, say they
what better could Senator Davis dc
than relinuuish his claim to the senate
seat in favor of his staunch adherent
from Minneapolis. Their views on the
general questions of policy that may be
expected to arise are co1ncldent, ano
while the public might not give the re
firing senator the personal credlt OF
blame for the results Of his policy, ne
+ himself would have the satisfaction o1
watching the results accomplished pS
an apt pupil.
"If YOU do not secure the appoint
ment of John Peterson as collector o1
customs. the Swedes of this state WI
see that Albert Berg is nominated fol
governor.
This was the f1at-footed declaration
of a member of a delegation Wh1cf
called upon Senator Davis a few day:
ago in behalf of the senator from MIC.
ollet 1t is said that the head an6
front of the delegation was none o&hel
than City Clerk Matt Jensen, while
Assemblyman Arosin was also IN Tit
attacking party.
It was pointed out to Minnesota's Sc
nior senator by the delegation that the
Swedes had been overlooked in the dis
tribution of federal patronage in Min
nesota Col Listoe and others of othel
nationalities had been given consulate'
and one thing and another, but thu
Swedish race had not been accorded
it's need.
Senator Davis Informed his visitors
It is reported, that he would give thu
request careful consideration, but tha
was not what the delegation wanted
They wanted a pledge of his supper
for Peterson and they did not get it
Then it was that the Berg ultimatun
was thrown down. 1t was the theory
presumably. that the booming of Berg
a Fourth district Republican, for gov
ernor. in the event of his election
would seriously hamper the canvass o
Senator Davis for reelection, on geo
graphical lines if on no others. Henc
the allusion to coercive measures.
Alvah Eastman, that astute ST. Clout
politician, who would come within
John j. ingalls, definition of a states
man, except that he is neither dead no
successful, predicts that within da,
or two the Mankato school master viii
declare himself out of the gubernatoria
race. He cites the avOwals made b,
Tawney and Eddy, and ventures tn
assertion that McCleary will not b
long in getting in line.
While the Republicans are claimin
the most space, both in the press an
atmospherically for their political agi
tations the Dem-Pop' Silver Republi
can triple alliance is reported to hav
a well-defined plan for wrestling tn
reins from the hands of the presen
drivers at the next election.
This plan is said to be to call con
yentions of the three parties to NEE
ut the same city on the same day. The
n committee will be appointed by eac
for conference, the triple committee t
agree upon some basis of dividing tn
ten places on the state ticket equitabl
among the parties. 1t is suggested tha
under this idea, four for the Democrats
four for the Pops, and two for the si
yer Republicans, would be about tn
right basis of division, but as yet, ap
parently, this consideration is as ye
very vague in its outlines.
1t is Whispered about that the loca
Republican leaders have fully decide