The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-14
ONE RAY OF HOPE
ALL THAT Is LEFT TO THOSE WHO
DESIRE FUSION.
Democratic POw-WOw Held Last
Night at Which Men who Have
Been Nominated for Office Refused
to Let GO-E. A. Stevens and Ralph
Rces Express Themselves Freely
on the Subject of COalitiOn-Little
Chance Now for Union of the
Democratic and POpulist Forces
From the MINNEAPOLIS Tribune)


There is still a lingering hope in the
breasts of the managers of the Great Flu
sion Three Ring Hjppodrome, that the cor
poration can manage to patch up differences
and continue doing business at the same oil
stand, but the hope is faint indeed, and the
prospects of bankruptcy are about as bright
they can we'll be.
The session lasted nearly, if not quite,
three hours, and very plain, everyday Eng
lish was INDUCED in by some of the speak
ers although Democratic harmony pre-
vailed at the meeting. 1t seems that the
conference committee had found that they
had but one office which could be col coded
by the Populists upon the county ticket,
that of judge of probate. 1t seems, also,
that recommendations we're made, or PER
haps it was only suggestion, that the cor
onership might just well tie ilcluded in
the list of gifts to their Populst friends.
However that may have been, Ed A.
Stevens the nominee for the latter Office.
took the floor and made a little speech in
which he told the gentlemen of the commit
tee some of the dire things he would do II
the committee should decide that his office
should be part of a bargain with the hated
Sassenach, otherwise known the Pop
uists. He told the committee that he would
insist upon being retained upon the ticket,
and he further told them that today he
should demand his certificates CT nomina
tons from the chairman and secretary of
the county convention for the purpose of
filing it forthwith. II the certificate was re-
fused him ne swore by all that was holy that
he would scorn the slowness of mandamus
proceedings and take up the matter in the
municipal court swearing out warrant for
the arrest of the worthy secretary and chair
man. In the cooler mofnents which pre-
vailed later in thef evening It is possible
that he repented of his lash words, but the
If
as he was concerned He holds the fort
with the nomination for cor oner, ana defies
the triple-headed rnonst1 osity to do it's
worst. II
Ralph Rees, the nominee FOR :cgister of
deeds, while not emphatic in mis- manner
of elocution was also very decided in his
ideas, and he refused to entertain the pos
s.bility of withdrawing from the ticket. He
told the committee that he vas an ardent
admirer of fusion, but not to an extent
which would induce him to pull off the tick
ct after having paid in his first assessment
to the committee, and the expenditures of
vast sums in naturalizing people who had
previously failed to take out their second
papers. He not only had paid FOR the nat
uralization of these people: he had done
more-hired men to go out in the highways
and byways with fine tooth comb and
rake them in. That settled the matter SO
far as he was concerned. The two incidents
PROBABLY settle matters far as fusion is
concerned although the trouble is a long
time coming to a head.
II the PopuliStS want fusion thew can
have it upon the terms and the only terms
which the Democrats will now offer. They
may get the probate judgshp and thew
may not. More than that, they will never
receive. If that will satisfy them there is
little doubt but that the Democrats will
condescend to fuse. If that is not con-
sidered sufficient the Democrats will gently
Intimate that the deal is off, and invite
their erstwhile allies to go away and play
in their own back yard.
After the meeting tonight there will be
another Wednesday evening of the triple
conference, at which the ultima tum of the
Democracy will be presented to the Popu-
lists. Results should be had by that time
The difficulty in the Forty sena-
torial district is not yet settled, so it is
said and is not likely to be unless S. A.
Stockwell withdrawS and allows the place
to the Silver Republicans Albert Dollen-
mayer swears that ne has too good a
thing to warrant him in letting go, and as
out there, the trouble seems irremediabe
Some one on the conference committee
had arranged it that John T. MCGOWAN
the senatorial nominee in the Thirty-eighth
district should be included in the list Of
those who were open to sacrifice for the
sake of the party and howl went up
from MCGOWAN when the report was read.
He pointed out the fact that there was no
Opposing nominee in the district and the
matter was then dropped merely serving
to Show with what intelligence the Demo-
cratic conferees were endowed for the
work in hand.