The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-17
TWIN CITIES ARE MENACED.
MESSRS. EASTMAN AND HEATwOI,N
WILL NOT GIVE THEM FUR
THEIR POLITICAL FAVOR.
is CLAPP FROM THE COUNTRY.
some OF the Rural Papers Have Dis<
owned the Ex-AttOrney Cen
eral AS Such Recently.

lCrS 10 pe Snled into the ring whether
by his consent or not, is that of S. #.
Llttleton, of Kasson. The Dodge coun-
ty representative has been supposed
hitherto to be ambitious rather for the
attorney generalShip than for the place
OF the chief executive of the state. but
some of his friends have urged him TO
become candidate for the greater
place, trusting possibly that the adver-
tlsing may help him ultimately to get
the lesser. The judge, as he is affec-
tlonately termed by his legislative CO.
horts, has made a reputation in the
legislature as a fighter for his friends
rather than against his enemies. His
friends cite his conspicuous part in the
Ives Impeachment trial of 1895 and in
some of the lively battles of the last
session as showing an ability worthy
OF advancement while socially. they in
s1st, he would be anything but a frost.
The fact that his speakership boom
last winter died early, it is urged.
should not initiate against him, as his
section of the state sent another for
midable candidate for the place in the
person of Joseph Underleak.
II the next legislature should be ask
ed to pass a bill prohibiting any state
oHlclal drawing salary of more than
$l,5OO year from residing more than
TWO weeks at time in any city of more
than 100000 population, it would be but
the extreme development of the spirit
which one or two of the Republican
papers on the outside are dinning into
the heads of their subscribers. Joel
j.. HeatWole, on the south, animated
perhaps, by feeling that if the country
should get the gubernatorial plum, it
m TO- hf 6r-(yH
News office, is culling the blue book for
lists of departmental supernumeraries
VINO rent houses in the Twin Cities.
Whlle Alvah Eastman, in whose bosom
the milk of human kindness has been
soured ever since it was curdled by the
stroke of lightning that demolished the
Anoka insane hospital scheme is bear
ing down the brunt of the fight from
the north. With HeatWole it is a case
of the country against the cities; but
with Eastman it is more specifically a
light of the nofthern part of the state
against the rest of the world All that
Alvah wants, according to his Cwn
story, is an Archimedean lever of har-
mony from the Anoka county line to
Rainy Lake river, and the Sixth and
Seventh congressional districts will
name the Republican ticket of 1898, Just
as they elected Knute Nelson governor
and senator, just as they raised Graves
and Lee and Jones to house speaker
SHIPS, just as they elevated Loren w.
Collins to the supreme bench; just as
they boosted Bob Dunn into the au-
ditor's office, and Clapp into the at
tOrney generals seat With these pre-
cedents shedding benign halo over
the political situation, Alvah can see
nothing but hope ahead of the Sixth
and Seventh districts, and while he
seems somewhat uncertain as to wether
the standard bearer of this advancing
host of heavenly harmony shall be his
own toWnsman, Judge Collins, his boon
companion, Bob Dunn, of Princeton.
the Moorhead hustler, Comstock. or
Moses E. Clapp, of Fergus Falls; Alvah
does not seem to be able to agree with
himself.
Gen. Clapp's candidacy. by the way,
does not exactly meet with the apprO-
val of the Mortified end of the anti
city fight. A number of Joels follow
ers insist that Moses has been out of
the wilderness so long that he has be-
come a confirmed city man, and that
he must run, if at ALL as such, and not
as a ruraliSt.
Ex-Gov. Lucius F. Hubbard is men
toned prominently as a congressional
candidate in the Third district. Be
tween ex-de jure governor Hubbard,
and ex-de facto governor Bixby, Red
Wing is well supplied with trotting
stock for the preliminary canters any
way.
1t is intimated in Minneapolis that
the prospective legal partnership of
the two Bobs,' Judges Russell and
Jamison, is in the nature Of a rent
economiZer only. Judge Russell will
want place to look after his law prac- =,
tice, while Judge Jamison is seriously
considering race for congress, if re-
ports are true. And by the way, he is
another Red Wing boy. The spirit Of
politics seems to run as warm in the
product of that town as molten metal
from a babbit pot They do say that
Jamison's love for politics is so strong
that since he has been on the bench he
has been nervous lest the judicial
ermine he spattered by grease from
the party machine he used to play
with and which it was so hard to keep
away from.
While Robert G. Evans might not re-
sign if some political gyration should
whirl him suddenly and without warn
ing into a seat in the capitol, either
here or In Washington, his dearest am
bition is asid to be to get a seat on
the bench of the federal court. There
is one thing about that branch of the
body polite which makes 1t offer SUI
perior attractions to any other, and
that is that there does not have to be a
general housecleaning every time new
carpet is laid in the presidential parlor.
Robert G.. sagaciously figures that "for
life or during good behavior" is just
about the right length Of term for
man whose heart is centered in his
profession while it is a nice clean job,
if not an "easy" one 1t is proposed to
give Minnesota two judges, and a bill
is now in preparation for introduction
in congress. If it passes there are sew
eral reasons to believe that President
Mckinley would permit Mr.. Evans to
look the new property over first.
p Minnesota. as it now stands, pro-
vides more business for the federal
district court than any other district in
the United States. 1t has six divisions,
and it is necessary to hold court in
each division at least twice every year.
And yet, North Carolina, Virginia.
Alabama Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi. South Carolina, Michigan,
Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois. Arkansas,
Iowa and Missouri each have two
judges, while Colorado has three, and
Tennessee and Texas three each.