The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-30
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GEN. CLAPP SAYS SENATOR
DAVIS CAN STAY EAST

No Opposition to His Reelection
The Former Attorney General
Has Embarked In a New Venture.
the Sale OF Wire Grass for Man.
ufacturing Purposes-He Is Now
Gentleman Farmer.
"Cushman K. Davis never ought to
have to come home this year to secure
a reelection to the senate" said Moses
e. Clapp yesterday. There Is no OPP
position to him in the Republican
party. at least. There cannot be any.
The time is inauspiclous to attempts
to unseat him. He is the foremost
man OF his party In the senate today,
and he will be kept there, as he ought
to. l doubt If there is any one in the
state who would accept a nomination
against him."
Gen. Clapp. by the way, came into
Minnesota from q rural community,
Otter Tail county, and he is going back
to the soil for livelihood, although
not entirely abandoning his lucrative
law practice.
The former attorney general has, in
partnership with George H. Wyman,
Of Anoka, a large farm In Anoka coun-
~, t1iIu II Is lfllS year luIHIIS OUT d
very profitable crop Of wire grass,
which is being sold to st. Paul fac
tory, which manufactures it into mat
ting, binding Irvine and the like.
'The wire grass" as the gentleman
farmer explained to G l o reporter
yesterday in his Office. "is the first
vegetation that grows on a drained or
very tough, strong fiber There is
a lot Of 1t on our farm, and it has just
found a fine market"
In parts Of the state where the dry
Ing process has progressed farther, the
wire grass gives way, Gen. Clapp ex-
planned, to the more succulent delica-
cies of pasturage
Dwight W. Meeker, editor Of the
Moorhead Independent, so called be-
cause 1t is the organ Of the Republi-
can party, of which Its editor is Sec
rotary of the county committee. was
in ST. Paul yesterday.
Mr.. Meeker predicted that Frank
Eddy would be reelected by a large
J. Ryder had a chance to be elected
into the state senate from Polk county,
although the senatorial district Is in
clined to be strongly Populistic.
Wise Republicans, who, however, are
not in touch with the Kiefer machine,
are touting this for a winning ticket
In the Republican county convention:
Clerk of court, Rogers; auditor, Fitz-
gerald; treasurer, Lindahl; register,
Krahmer; attorney. Bigelow; sheriff,
some one who has not yet been named
prominently.
It is better than even betting that
not one of the men named would ad-
NIT that the others would all be on
the ticket with him. Of course the Of
fees disposed OF that way do not make
the whole ticket; there are the judges,
the judge Of probate and the abstract
clerk to consider. Those officers are
not the whole thing by any means. but
the candidates for them might make all
sorts of trouble with that ticket. That
Rogers will be nominated goes without
saying-unless there should be some
thing very unexpected happen.
Fitzgerald is not so sure, but If ne
only has to beat Ames in his own ward
In order to be noninated-and that
seems to be the proposition-then he Is
safe enough.
Bigelow Is a promising young man,
but Just where he gets his strength Is
not apparent. for none of the war
horses are running training schools for
the youngsters; they are taking care
OF themselves. Bigelow, however, will
beat Anderson for the nomination If
that is all he has to do. Zollman has
laid down at the solicitation Of Ander-
son, and it Is now straight running be-
tween Bigelow and the present incum-
bent. Horace has no strength at all,
but he has Anderson beat to stand
still In one respect; he has no record
to rise UP against him.
So far no one has interfered with
Krahmer and he will be nominated,
but Lindah1 Is by no means so sure.
He has very astute young man for
an opponent. 1t never was said Of Mr.
Arosin that he was out looking for geld
bricks and he seems to be firmly cen
WINGED that he can win out. He Is rot
just the sort Of Scandinavian that Is
popular in the First ward, but ca
pacity for wearing homespun does not
command as much admiration in that
section as it used to. His clothes will
not be counted very much against
Arosin, and he Is a very acute poll
tician; even more foxy than Mr..
Lindahl-which is saying much It is
an even thing between them.
It Is the attitude Of the Kiefer push
that is bothering all Of them. The
question that is being most actively
canvassed now, when combinations are
about to be made is this: Can Kiefer
extent Of delivering the goods to Ames
and Johnson? Every politician in the
Fourth ward will tell you no-but then.
they don't make good guesses on Kie-
fer in the Fourth. If he can do for
Johnson what Johnson did for him in
the Eighth, then there will be a re-
vision Of the slate all the way down
the line. 1t is not his own strength
that Billy Johnson will go into the
convention with. 1t will be the Kiefer-
Ames- Sharood- Horr- Gerlach combine,
that will be behind him. If Johnson Is
strong enough to be nominated for au-
dftor. then Ames will be strong enough
to be named for sheriff, and then the
row will start. The Fourth ward will
go into state Of open insurrection.
George Irish is not infatuated with
Maj. Libby just now, but he would
sooner be alone on a desert island with
Libby than live at the court house with
A1nes If Ames gets too strong they
will most assuredly combine against
him, and then Col. Kiefer will have to
look out for his ice house. AS things
steDd now the independent ones are
working themselves into state of fine
training, trying to keep Kiefer's friends
from rounding things up. Within
day or two the Kiefer outfit will have
things under control. or the mayor
will come out and say that he never
was in (which will finish Ames and
Johnson.
The shrievalty fight is getting Inter
csting. It is the one good thing that
the Republicans all hunger for Ed
Milham, who said before he went to
Indianapolis, that he was not a candi-
date, has backed into the race and he