The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-15
BIG FOUR WILL TAKE 1T FOR HIS
INDIGNITY TO ELI WAR;
NER.
WHILE REPUBLICANS FIGHT,
j. G. GERAGHTY STILL HOLDS THE
CUSTOMS COLLECTORSHIP IN
QUIET CONFINEMENT.
JONES NOT OUT FOR SECOND.
Long Prairie Man Is Not n Candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor
Scott or Schiffman.

One of the fat plums that is causing
as much trouble among the Repub-
lican magnates, lesser or greater, as
certain golden apple did once in trio
of maidens of ancient days, is the col
lectorship of customs, which is now
paying J. c. Geraghty a neat roll Of
bills every month.
Eli Warner wants It, 1t was sup
posed by his friends little while ago
that all he had to do was to ask for
it and it would be a case of Get
there, Eli" Was he not president OF
the state league of Republican clubs,
and chairman of the Republican state
central committee, and member OF the
legislature once and all that sort OF
thing? Why! his pals like Fred Schiff-
man and Oar Reese and Henry Johns
had been hanging around Geraghty's
office to see whether they thought the
wall paper was the right color and
whether they liked the furniture well
enough to visit there every day when
Eli got in. But it seems that there
are other candidates. ]. c. Nelson, of
Saltwater, is one. 1t is reported that
he has the support of Gov. Clough, and
makes the big four pale with indigna-
ton. Schiffman struck a mock heroic
at the Clarendon when he heard it the
other night and calculated with deep
feeling, How sharper than serpents
tooth it is to have a thankless child"
Did not the big four boost the present
governor into his second term? They
thought they did. Any way somebody
did, and they were making as much
noise as any one. But 1t seems that
this man Nelson was pretty good
friend of Lind. but he could not quite
stand for a free silver governor, even
if personal friendship did figure, and
he rooted hard and long in saltwater
and around for the Clough administra-
ton Now whether or not Gov. Clough
is aggressive in his support Of Nelson,
it is suspected that he is not tearing
any buttons off McKinley's coat urging
the appointment Of Warner.
And there are others who have more
or less apathy in the Warner struggle.
One of these is Senator Davis. No
personal feeling is ascribed to the sem
ator, but long before Eli applied for
the job Mr.. Davis, it is said, had
declared his belief that ST. Paul had
been granted nearly if not quite it's
share of the patronage, and he could
not consistently urge any further St..
Paul appointments on the president.
He and Senator Nelson talked it over,
and Senator Davis position was well
understood. Then Mr.. Warner Went
down to Washington. He saw Senator
Nelson and told him what he wanted.
CHI ND. "A 1ov 1rio oaU VIC
strong con-" told him he was just
the man for the place and took Warn
er'S breath literally away by the
alacrity with which he got into his
coat and hat and insisted that they
run right over to see Senator Davis
When they heard what Mr.. Davis had
to say, Eli went into the air higher,
than Andree. He is not really down
to sober terra firma yet. He got down
far enough to sound the alarm in a
conference of the big four with some
of the lesser lights at the Clarendon
the other night, and it was declared
there that it was to be war to the
knife, and the knife to the hilt Schiff-
mans poetry about the serpent's tooth
and the ingratitude and that sort Of
thing did not cut any special ice with
Davis end of it, for if Davis is under
any personal obligations to the big
four the consensus of party opinion is
that they have long since matured. II
was openly declared there that they
would make Cushman Kellogg Davis
| political torso look like the birds eye
view of the chopping block in a meat
| market and the indignant aSpirant for
the collectorship, it is reported, did
very good likeness of an Indian war
| dance before the assembled braves.
| OF course, this got to Senator Davis.
It was expected that it would. And
| they do say that c. K. has not taken
| the door plate off his residence in
| Washington, either. Some even init
mate that he will serve his present
term out in spite of the feeling en-
gendered in the big four, and pos
sibly try for another 1t seems that
he has become possessed of a notion,
however poorly founded, that he was
not sent to Washington to provide
public pap for the big four, but to