The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22
IS IT DAVIS IDEA?.
SUGGESTION MADE THAT THE RI
PUBLICAN CONVENTION DE-
CLARE ITS CHOICE
FOR THE SENATORIAL ToGA.
AoCAL DEMOCRATS HELD A BACE
OFFICE CONFERENCE DURING
THE WEEK.
MANNlA AS HIS APOLOGIST.
RumOred That Consul General Good,
now VIII Plant joey BagsIock
i'm a Berth i'm Shanghai.

Some Of the politicians are wondering
who is at the bottom of a suggestion
which has been made very recently.
but quite numerously, that the state
central committee Of the Republican
party, when it calls it's state conven
ton next spring, include IN the list of
positions for which official nominations
De made the Endorsement of a candi-
date for United States senator. There
seems to be but one source from which
the suggestion could have come, If it
really was inspired and that source,
Cushman K. Davis He is conceded TO
De the only senatorial aspirant who
apparently strongly intrenched
enough to take a chance on exposing
ms strength to public gaze, seven,
elght or nine months before the cleo
ton of the senator. That it would be
bold stroke for Davis if he could
SWING the convention into an open dec
larat1on in his behalf, is admitted.
But could he? The machine men fig
ure' the wish being father to the
thought perhaps, that it was purely
newspaper idea, and that Senator Da-
Wis VIII hight his battle this time as he
ala before, in the legislative halls. q
or the astute political writers VIII =
advanced the Davis suggestion COM
ments that 1t would be an unusual leg
1slature which would have the hardi-
hood to so fly in the face of the ex-
pressed wish of the people, He would
not nave to look back over his files
very FAR to find where, In 1893, Mr.. Da-
Wis, IN spite of the general popular in
oorsement, scratched in by but one vote
over the shrewd, but over-confident w.
II. Merriam, and even as recently as
$685. Knute Nelson moved his figures
through when many of those who voted
FOR him were elected on a. Washburn
basis, Minnesota politicians, of the Re-
publican stripe at least, have not yet
reached that fine ethical level where
they can be depended upon to resort to
or abide by the edict of popular party
convention as to a senatorial nomina-
ton.
There was a select but very impress
slye political conference in a private
office in a Dalatial down town office
oulldhng last Thursday evening, at
which the mayoralty question was dis
cussed at length. The participants in
the conference were not all photo
scoped by the G o b e's latest Edi-
sonfan convenience. but chief of the
u.
his right bower, Tom Brady. Pat Scan
nell, and last, but not least. perhaps.
that tall pine, w. w. Erwin. The
learned counsel is known to be groom
ing himself to conform to the political
Ideals of the Bell-Scannell coterie. and
has latterly foresworn the sombrero
which he was wont to wear, and which
made an eloquent supplement to
his ready tongue when it came to win
nlng the confidence of the toiIine
masses. Dick and Pat figure that Ri9
has the labor end of the political pro-
bIem entirely encompassed,. with his
"Homestead and Debs defenses, and
they artfully. or artlessly, suggested
That 1t might be as well, if, in case the
mayoralty nomination should have
trouble finding the right head for Bill
70 have his own where the electrical
fluid might discover it; realizing.
however, that the silk stockings must
be conciliated, and the anti-Doran feel
ing in the Seventh ward encouraged.
So Bill appeared at the conferences
Thursday night with a natty little
canvas summer Sky-piece which COM
pletely disguised the not eminent
pleader, who more resembled a visiting
Canadian cricketer, or, perchance, a
Ceiling member of the T. and c. club.
ErWlns political faith has been
Ett!e astray from the original Jack
| sonian, in the last few years, but the
Scannell-Bell outfit argue that party
lines were so we'll obliterated last year
! In the national campaign that it will
not be hard to push a personal cam
paign through on municipal issues
next spring. This does not necessarily
mean that Mr.. Erwin is the preferences
OF the Bell-Scannell coterie.
The editor of the st. Paul Democrat
has held the nose of that worthy PROV
fuI In the nose Of the party faith
through all its vicissitudes, end he
would not be averse to a mayorality
nomination himself, It's whispered. In
the event of his election, Bell would be
chief of police, of course Erwin is
friendly. His services on the stump
are not to be deSpised, even If he
should not seem to the convention to
be the proper mayoralty timber.
A more than ordinary amusing poll
teal story which is waited from Min
neapolis, is to the effect that Joseph
I. Mannix, formerly the private secre-
tary OF Mayor Eustis, frequently
dubbed Joey Bagstock," by reason Of
some of his attributes, will shortly
abandon his present quarters in the lea
OF the naval coaling station at VIadi-
vostock, and HE himself to Shanghai.
Mr.. Mannix and Mr.. Goodnow are not
! accredited with being warm admirers
OF each other. Goodnow got Mayor
EustiS into a lot of trouble that kept
Mannix busy for months STRENGTHENING
out, and it is limited that John always
| felt that ManniX was not entirely
faultless in the airing of the $500 check
| episode of a campaign of two years
ago.
But Goodnow has always had the
reputation Of suppressing his personal
| likes and dislikes when 1t came to the
| manipulation of men in politics, in
! which he was more than q tyro. He
! has friends in Minneapolis who ara
| friendly with Mannix. The past is to
be forgotten, so the story goes. Mannix
will have clerical position in ths
Shanghai consulate. He can sweep ont
! office in the mornings and take in the
fees while John is lunching with the
| Chinese tea merchants or PERTAINS
some princely nabobs. or perchance
! taking a hand in some of Minnesota's
summer political advertisements Toe
Yields facile and gossipy. although
not severely trenchant pencil and if
business slackened. could. perhans
| send a weekly letter to each of the Min
| neapolis papers. describing the noun
tain peaks in sight, or the customs of
oriental life that struck him most
forc1bly. OF course an occasional refer
ence to the general favor in which thu
local community held the American
governments commercial representa-
| tive might elude the watchful eye of the
copy reader, and it might help some to
restore John to good fellowship in his
community before the expiration of his
| four years term. Minneapolis society
| reVeres the commercial still. Johns So
| cial faux pas may yet be redeemed.
he hopes and how better than through
artful newspaper letters.
MYRTLE Wants IN divorce.