The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-22
AS HE BROKE THE LOG JAMS
so DOES cLoUGH PLAN TO
BREAK A DEADLOCK
cOurnginE Al Big Crop of Candi-
dates to Split the State COnven-
ton, So That Clough May Come
In as a Compromise Candidate
Henry Johns New Ambition.

Gov. Clough has torn off the mask.
His candidacy for a second reelection
| as governor is yelled so thinly that its
dlaphanouS domino could hardly de-
| ceive the cataract filmed eyes of his
most enthusiastic adnirer in Anoka
county.
The country editors who are supposed
to be friendly to the administration,
or who are expected to be by reason Of
the help the machine may have given
them in the past. have been given the
tip, and from week to week the columns
of the country exchanges TEEN ca with
comments on the excellent CO admin
strat:on of the present governor.
These are framed with a uniformity
of sentiment so marked in spite Of
| the we'll modulated differences in die
| ton, that they prove that the alb
| sence of Tams BiXby from the state
has not resulted in the abolition of the
Republican state press bureau.
Tams' work was little smoother.
That was all.
The customary paragraph runs some
thing after this fashion.
The race for the governorship is daily
growing warmer. Capt. Van SAINT.
while still strong favorite in many
quarters, has found some dangerous
rivals in the field. Then it goes en- to
compliment William Henry Eusds, jol-
lies IN Justice Collins, mentions eX-
Speaker Lee. and suggests that with
so much good timber in the field, it is
indeed a proud day for the r publican
party. The meat of the paragraph is
in its conclusion, which is, that If the
convention cannot agree en- envy one of
its new RichmCrds, SIS the champion
to be pitted against John Lind, it can
safely put the old campaigner. David
NJ. Clough in the van and let him fight
its battle as he has before.
Nothing is said about the scant plu-
rality by with he pullsd into the office
with a metapho. cally singed coat tail,
nor is artless reference made to the
recent sp* ointnie-, of his Pc sonal
friends in various walks of civil life to
fat appointments in the Minnesota
volunteers over the heads of men who
have marched, shot ard spent, in their
service in the national guard CT the
sta te.
1t is not a little significant that one
of the papers which breaks into the
field this week is the Window Rep rter.
It's editor, Mr.. Huntington, is a Re-
publican pillar His paper does not
futter with every puff of sntiment
that some spellbinding candidate may
arouse. When Huntington speaks. it is
after he has studied the map, so to
speak.
Ard he he's evidently found the
Clough board of STRAIT gy has decided
to throw Gown its Supposed residuary
legatee from Winona, encourage Will
liam Henry, Justice Collins, and every
one else who wants a taste of the fight
to so in, ard then, when the convention
is well split up, slip through a slate
that can be made uD as compromise
for the various sections Of the state.
That is the Cloush plan.
a F,ator. of the Buffalo Journal,
Is another editor who, this week falls
in .4ne for the nomination Of ClouSh as
a preferable course to the disruption
of the party by a possible defeat Of
the nominee Of a bitter convention.
L. P. Hunt, of the Mankato Free
Press, was another editor who was in
the city yesterday. L. p. has been
practically entrusted with keeping the
Second district in line for the protec-
ton of the administration slate. Capt.
Whitney. the state expert printer, takes
a run down into the corner once in
while, but ii requires a great deal of
work to keep any marked Clough en-
thusiasm in that part of the state.
The governor has shown, on more than
one occasion that his interest in the
southern and southwestern parts of the
state was not as broad as their resi-
dents seem to feel is their due.
A movement is on foot for the or
ganization of the wheelmen as a fac
tor in politics, and this is another
thorn in the flesh of Gov. Clough.
They have never forgotten the fact
that, when they wanted a delegate
sent to the international road confer
ence at the Atlanta exposition in 1895.
where some of the best engineers of
the various states discussed methods
oil fo, off i'm
provement, the governor declined to
send any one, although the expense
would have been less than 500.
It was a particularly sore spot in
the breasts of the cyclists and the
good roads association, in view of the
fact that only a few weeks before the
governor and his staff paid visit to
the busting little city Of Little Falls,
Morrison county. where a bill for Ii
quors grub and cigars was run up
amounting to $140.
The treat was charged to the city,
but when the local McCardy called
the attention of the council to the fact
that they would be held personally
responsible for the amount, the council
repudiated the bill.
William Henry Eustis is either as
desperate as Montejo or as sly as Ger
vera. His political adversaries insist
that he has no strength. But they are
watching with some curiosity the or
ganization of Eustis clubs In and out
Of Minneapolis, and they are sparlng
no effort to find out, where they can,
the names of the politicians who are
allying themselves with these organiza-
tions.
Fred Schiffmann is back with the
Republicans again, now that the stu
alton Is over. His situation is some
what anomalous, but he insists that
he cannot be blamed, especially as so
many Republicans who had no family
relationship to the Democrat Citizens
nominee voted against the Republican
standard bearer. When he says this he
g1ances covert1y at the direction of ST.
Anthony hill.
Fred, by the way, has a new cam
paign to manage. Henry Johns wants
to be speaker of the next house. 10th
as he is to deprive the galleries of his
savage thrusts at Henry Feig or even
Judge Hicks, the young Demosthenes"
of the Fourth ward would hide his
talents under the canopy that Grapes
the speakers chair. 1t is so long q
| time since st. Paul has had the speak
ership that Henry thinks his candidacy
| Is the fulfillment Of a patriotic duty.
| His usefulness to his constituency here
| would be unlessened, he thinks, and
| while his parliamentary record has in
1t more that suggests the pungent gall
| and wormwood of Ingalls, than Of the
| pain allaying lotions with which Reed
| buries all his troubles, Mr.. Johns is
| willing to take a chance.
Recognizing his own greater aptness