The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09
Ch0UGH'S SUCCESS
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governor n 1898, rather than make
fight in Ramsey county, which he had
calculated would be with him. Clausen
also got on, as did Doc Schiffman, the
only other active worker of recognized
political sagacity in the coterie. Eli
" amer is to go to the state senate as
d part of the understanding.
Ben Smith was offered the position
of candidate for attorney general on
the slate, and he accepted it too quick.
There was a question of what to do
with Berg. Berg is politically regarded
about like a Georgia pond, only an inch
deep. But like the same pond he is
spread out over d large territory, and
it vas a question what to do with him.
He had two terms, which is the limit
for that position. Still he wants it.
SO does another gentleman of his ma
tiCnality, named J. w. Peterson. Which
one the slatemakers decided to put on
the ticket will develop in day or two.
The man selected for lieutenant gov
eInor is the only one whose name the
c. l o b has not learned.
So the Republicans of Minnesota need
not worry about who they Will select
for the ticket next fall Gov. Clough
and Samuel r. Want SAINT and few
for them. All the voters have to do is
to vote the names marked Republican
and return home and let it go at that.
If there are any Republicans in the
state ambitious for a place on the
state ticket, they had better curb their
ambitions and save themselves disap-
pnintment, for they will not have any
more chance to get on the ticket than
a ra bbit That is unless Judge Collins
can be induced to enter the lists and
Lead fight to break the machine.
Every day. it IS claimed, adds to the
strength of Gov. Coughs plans and
! lessons the chance for upsettlnS them.
Hennepin county's anti-machine Re
publicans are being watched closely. II
is there the opposition fight may be
expected to start, if at all. If they
can carry Hennepin and number OF
the northern counties can be lined up
against Van SAINT before the plans
have been completed to swing them
the other way, Van SAINT might be de-
feated or the slate broken. Otherwise
it is all over, but the shouting and
any trouble that the Democrats and
| PnpuIists may be able to make.
Just what is the cause of Gov.
| Clough's unusual interest and activity
| in the movement is question. 1t IS
understood that the whole machine
movement is against Senator Davis
| Warner wouldn't be in it If it were
friendly to Davis. Warner blames
| Senator Davis for the fact that he
I ONarner) is still doing a little insurance
! business instead of holding federal
appointment. So that was a considera-
| ton in taking the responsibility or de-
livering the Ramsey delegation for Van
SAINT. Gov. Cloughs own attitude to
Senator Davis was Illustrated in
small way Friday when he failed to
| Of ha
! of regents of the state university ana
| gave the place to Rev. S. G.. Smith,
! Ramsey county Republican who is seen
/ in most of the local conventions. NOW,
whether Gov. Clough aspires 10 a po-
sition in the United States senate or
not is also one of the things the
! Globe has been unable to learn.
Some think he does and others holo 70
! the belief expressed in print some
J months ago that the governor will be
| content to receive the appointment OF
! surveyor general of logs and lumber
/ for the Minneapolis district, as the
price of his activity. But whatever
! he NAV hope for. it is no longer a Sc
cret that the same forces that are pc
/ ing applied to infict slate on the re
publicans of Minnesota will be applied
/ to turning down Minnesota's distin-
guished senator c. K. Davis.
Senator ]. T. Wyman, of Minneapolis,
Yesterday declared himself out of the
| field of gubernatorial candidates, into
which a number of his friends nave
been forcing him, willy nilly. MI. wy
man says: .,,4ao+o 7 10
not wish to be understood as declining some
! thing that has not been ohered 10 me, pus ~
would perhaps be false moaesty on my Pc pa =
| 70 trv to disguise the fact that nave peeh
| ,,roo6 To become a candidate ana nave re-
! ceiyed the assurance of support from sIedI
! many men whose enlistment in my pShaiL l
| regard as a very great compliment. NOT uo
,1eon to saw that | would not like TO pc
governor of the state of Minnesota; would
! esteem It a great honor, as Would any man
Vet nv Discrimination to enter into contest
for nomination which to carry with 1t
the honor it should bring, ought 10 come
! without a struggle, together with the He'yy
demands of my business, have cohpe!l . NE
| to decline the very fattering oHers oI supp, !
hioh hove received. and to say TO my
f Wi,lnd that am not and Will not be can
! didate.
E71roer Adams. of Fergus Falls, chair
r,an of the Republican congressional
conomi+tee in the Seventh district says
that Eddy will be returned, as Will, ne
| Y1redic+s page Morris, from the sixth.
| Coustock talk he says, meets with
much favor in the Red river valley, and
If is not impossible that the Moorhead
ex-congressmen will appear before the
convention as an important candidate.
A veracious and unprecedented % po-
| litical writer on one of the MinneapO-
lis papers says that the Democrats of
the silver persuasion are going to ride
trough shod' over their allies of other
predictions and run Justice Thomas
Canty for governor with the decision
in the Stevenson rate case as a battle
cry. This plan, he says has the ap-
/ prevail of Chairman Jones, of the Dem
ocratic national committee.
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