The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-10


Positions on the Railroad Conn
mission HIVE Already Been Mort
EageiI-NO Life in the Republic
an RankS-Dar Reese Experien-
cos a Series OF Frosts.
It is now stated as a fact and general
ly believed that Tams BiXby has de-
clined to take up the Republican cam
paign, and that Judge Steele will have
to fight it out with the odds against
which he is pitted. 1t is true, as pre-
viously stated in The G. o b e. that
BiXby has been urgently appealed TO
by letter and by wire to come back and
take hold Of the campaign, but those
nearest him DO not believe he viii touch
the job.
one cf Bixby's closest political and
personal friends said TO @ b e man
last evening:
Don't you fool yourself with the idea
that BiXby is going INTO that commit
tee now. he is too good politician to
take any chance on breakipg his record
with q campaign that has been so mis-
managed as this one. Mark what l tell
you; Tams viii stay with the CnOctaws
and CherOkeas until the trouble is over.
II William Henry Eustis wins, it will
result will be an equivOcal Endorsement
of the Bixby style Of campaigning, and
the difference between his majority and
that Of the rest of the ticket will be so
great as to put Eustis out Of it in
1900"
And this it must be remembered is a
Republican view of if, coming from a
man who VIII vote for Eustis, and in
spite Of personal dislikes of the once
director of the Guaranty Loan and the
personal promoter Of the fortunes of
the Bracket family.
THE STORY BACK OF 1T
Back of Bixby's present attitude
there is a motive-and a story. Toward
the close of the preliminary campaign.
when it was found that Van SAINT could
not be beaten except by union of all
the opposition forces, Bixby was sent
for by George Thompson and the rest
of the push" in charge and appealed
to take charge of the Eustis campaign
as general manager. He told them that
he had already promised the leaders
in his own county that he would not
oppose the election of a Van SAINT dele
cation. and the best he could do was
o. to stay here in st. Paul and see the
delegates as they came in and direct
the trading and in a general way pro-
mote the interests of the frost indiVid-
, ual who had been picked as a winner
10y the LOWry-PeaYey-C Canadian Pa
cific syndicate. The proposition was ac-
cepted as entirely acceDtable to the
ants, and BiXby was installed in St.
Paul as the local and general director
of the Eustis campaign. When he took
hold, there was not semblance of an
organization or any system Of a cam
paiSn. Eustjs was claiming the earth
and trusting to general results. Bixby
= Ii =
in fOrty-eight hours everything was
changed. Three days before the con-
ventiOn the Van SAINT men knew
they were beaten, and knew who had
done the job. They vainly tried to
stampede the Eustis vote to Collins,
and resorted to every expedient they
could think of to head off Eustis. Eli
Warner was bobbng around like a fly
in a bowl of buttermilk, and Gov
Clough was cursing the combina ton of
circumstances that made him power
less to stem the tide. In desperation
they appealed to BiXby to ''let up
but the little brunette from Red Wing
was having his inning and getting even
with Clough and Warner and Reese
and the rest of them who harpOoned
him SO successfully during his absence
from the state, While his own guberna-
torial boom was supposed to be in
cubating under their care.
Aicii CdliIe Tie udy OF the COnN6t4C1OH
There was no time UP to within thirty
minutes CT the roll call when Bixby
could not have changed the current of
events. for he, and only he, had con-
troll of enough delegates to hold the
balance of power. He stood by Eustis
to the last, and Eustis was nominated.
THEN EUSTIS SPURNED BIXBY.
That evening friends of Bixby's wait
ed on Eustis to urge that Bixby be put
in charge of the campaign. They fairly
fell dead at his answer. Said he:
L am under no obligation to Mr.. Blk
by and will not permit him to have
anything to do with the management
OF this campaign. He was always a
Collins man, and would have thrown
NE Gown at any stage Of the fight If
ne could. He IS a machine man any,
how, and / cannot trust him or any one
over whom he exercises his influence.
This whole st. Paul gang is against
me. ard / am going to put in an entire
~ new set of men,
That Wss the thanks BiXby got for
one ECstiS campaign that he made, and
1t is not likely he will make another
one for the same man. The day he
left here he was asked If he could be
back to take part in the campaign, and
remarked, with a sardOnic smile. that
he was afraid his duties on the Dawes
commission would be so pressing that
hn could not get away.
Steele and ElIStiS' friends bo oo-..