The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
ST. CLOUD MANS BOOM FOR GOV
ERNOR NOT AN AIRY PLEAS
ANTRY. ~
CLOUGH OR M'KlNLEY VOTE?
WHICH SHALL BE THE BASIS OF
THE NEXT REPUBLICAN
DELEGATIoNf
PEAVEY, AND NOT PILLsBURY
To Be the Minneapolis Candidate
for the Federal Senatorship,
Says Harris Richardson.

The Collins gubernatorial boom will
not down. While up to this time, so
far as known, the ST. Cloud jurist has
not openly declared himself as a pos
sibility in the race, it is apparent that
he has not taken any very coercive
measures to round up his friends and
pull them off, and it is also to be OBJ
served that the judge is putting in the
present summer vacation, not summer
ing at the seaside, or studying Alaskan
scenery, as did some of his colleagues,
but in taking "short bit" rides on day
coaches over railroads in Minnesota.
The judge makes new town in the
north part of the state nearly every
day; he has friends in nearly if not all
of them, and his errand, no doubt, is
legitimate. 1t is not alleged that he
is organizing for the primaries, but it
is equally in evidence that the judge
does not want to appear either as the
forgotten or the forgotten, and between
now and the opening of the October
term will make the most of his time
liant over their dollar wheat. Next,
perhaps, to the memory that Septem-
Der, 1897, brought them dollar wheat,
will be the memorandum that Judge
Collins was UP that week, don't you
remember, and these juxtapositions are
not to be despised in politics, even
though they do not pack caucuses.
The Republicans are fscrapping al
ready over the proposition whether
the basis of representation in their
next state convention shall be the vote
cast for Clough or that which was
thrown in for the electoral ticket. On
this point the Lake Benton News says:
There is coed and sufficient reason for bas-
ing the appOrtonment for the next convention
upon the vote cast for Mckinley instead of
that cast for Clough. The vote of the for
mer more nearly represents Republican senti-
ment and Republican votes than the vote
OF the latter. 1t is well known that there
were thousands of voters in Minnesota last
year who refused to vote for Clough and who
yet ardently believed in the principles of the
Republican party. Their refusal to vote for
Clough must not be taken as an abandonment
OF their Republicanism. Though one were
convinced of the errcr of those who refused
to vote for Clough, the fact cannot be gain
said that they are ardent Republicans as
ever. And to base the representation in the
next state convention the vote for Clough
would be construed as a political disfranchise-
ment. The Republican party is in no danger
of having too much harmony in its ranks
and therefore nothing must be done which
Will tend to create i'll feeling and local
Jealouses. Nearly thirty thousand men re-
fused to vote for Clough, yet who demonstrate
ed their thorough belief in Republican princi-
pies by voting the balance of the ticket Be-
cause they didn't vote for Clough for personal
considerations, they must not be further alien
ated by refusing them representation in the
only state convention which is an exponent of
their political faith. af
Henry Feig has declared for a large
convention.
Harris Richardson, the alter ego of
that shrewd Republican schemer,
Tams Bixby, has been up in Wright
county fishing and hunting, and talk
ing politics. Harris unbosomed him
self freely to the local reporter of the
Journal. He did not talk with the
old-time hopefulness of the Republican
bosses, and he even intimated, so the
Buffalo paper says, that there was
some question who the Republicans
could put up and win with
assuming, as he did, that
John Lind would be the DEM
ocrat1c nominee. Clough, Mr.. Rich
ardson thought, would not be a candi-
day or two ago that he intended
to camp in the capitol. if possible, long
enough to see that the board of COM
missioners to build the new state
house should not exceed the limit of
their appropriation. Harris did not
think either EuStis, Van SAINT or Gibbs
would be in the race, and he had some
objections to offer to Collins, Eddy
and HeatWole. Moses E CIapp Mr.
Richardson thought was the most
popular Republican in the state, but
as ST. Paul wanted Davis reelected
senator, that put Clapp out of it. Mr..
Richardson said that not G.. A. Pills
bury, but F. H. Peavey, would be the
Minneapolis candidate for senator, and
intimated that he would be willing
to draw literally on the resources of
his line of grain elevators to secure
an election. In this view of the case,
Mr.. Richardson picked out Bob Dunn
as the logical and successful candi-
date. There was mo doubt about the
denomination of Treasurer Koerner,
he thought, while Secretary of State
Berg might possibly pull through, if
he could persuade his adversaries 20
keep the fight within certain limits.
The seemingly endless senatorial
convention which has been going on
for weeks at Winfield, To-, recalls to
the older politicians of the state and
especially to those of the First district
the Kasson deadlock, which was the
hardest fought battle of its kind in
Minnesota history. For three days
and nights, practically sleepless, sew
enty-five delegates stood fast by their
respective candidates until finally, by
the sharp practice of some of the man
ayers, the Albert Lea candidate, John
A. Lovely, managed to carry off the
nomination for congress from the old
First district, although he was unable
to get further than the polls, Judge
Thomas Wilson, of Winona, going in
to the capitol that year. OF the four
score delegates who Sweltered in that
hot August convention for three days,
there is not one alive who does not
look back with more or less pride to
his participation in one of the fiercest
political battles, ever waged on Mime
sota soil. and the same pertinacity
which characterized the fight which
occupied those three days has been re-
warded in many cases by the securing
OF high office, although the men who
were foremost in,Cthe fray as candi-
dates have practically dropped from
sight. John A. Lovely, who came out
of the convention. victorious only to
be defeated at the polls, is practicing
law at Albert Lea, Milo White, the
then sitting member, is in business at
Chatield; Mark H Dufnell, his pre-
decessor and would-be successor, is
still in Owatonna, lpraeticing law, but
has given up prominent political par
ticipation, while j. II. Mullen, the
fourth member of the famous quadrila-
teral deadlock, has been very busy
fighting the lumbernie1i since for his
fees as surveyor general. He is the
only one Of the quartette who has been
politically rewarded since he was
Lovely's manager in the fight, his law
partner, D. F. Morgan, has since shak-