The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-22


Make Things Cory for It's Op-
pOnents If 1t Can Gain Control
Van SAINT Forces Will Fight Bit
terly Any Attempt to IndOrse Col
ins--Antis In Strong Force.
Special to The st. Paul Globe.
MANKATO, Mimi, March 21-The
white-winged dove Of peace, with a
battleaX in her bill, is lowering over
the Republican party of the Second
district tonight. She will alight at
Hunts hall at II o'clock tomorrow, and
the ak will be used to reconcile the
waring elements. If L. P. Hunt gets
the weapon first it viii be used to chop
the under-pinning from that sturdy old
veteran, Van SAINT; if Morey, of Vino
ma, gets the weapon, farewell to Ed.
Weaver's aspirations for congression-
al nomination, and if the tool falls into
the hands of Dan Shell, of Worthing-
ton, he will chop off Cloughs whiskers
and sever his own connection with the
capitol commission, with one blow.
Around the corridors of the Saul
paugh tonight, there are fifty more or
less Well-known politicians who are
willing to prove that they are here in
the interest of harmony and every man
Of the lot has a knife up his sleeve.
The Van SAINT people are not strong
numerically, and the other fellows
would have everything their own way
so far as he is concerned but the peace
convention has gotten out of the con-
troll of It's sponsors. 1t will turn down
Clough and Van SAINT but it will make
tremendous row in another direction
for L. P. Hunt, E. 1. P. Staede and
Weaver will try to secure an indorse-
ment of the latter's candidacy for the
congressional nomination, probably.
Word of this was sent out this morn
ing and every postmaster within 100
miles will be here tomorrow to protect
McCleary.
Van SAINT won't make a fight, his
man, Morey, says. Ex-Minister to the
Netherlands Estes, a friend of Van
SAINT, says the captain told him he
would not defend himself from Hunt
and his crowd. But the little man
from Winona will not be without
friends in the peace convention. His
friends will endeavor to show that he
has no connection with the machine
| that they propose to anathematiZe. I'VE
are not of Clough nor with him. they
will declare, and they will fight bitter
ly the attempt that gay be made to
indorse Collins.
Gaylord Lamb, of Mankato, is going
about tonight with a blue book show
ing any one who will listen to him
that Collins ran from 10000 to 14,000
ahead Of his ticket in '94. Lamb has
Collins resolution to offer. M. E. l..
Shanks, Of Fairmont, who is at the
head of the McCleary forces, will sup
port that resolution If Weaver gives
any evidence of helping himself to a
congressional Endorsement. Shanks' son
is postmaster at Fairmont. He himself
was chairman of the convention that
nominated McCleary. He will be sup
ported in any stand he takes by Basils-
mout, Of Wells, who wants to be post
master; w. B. Sketch, H. Strum and
E. Rucker, of Jackson; Deputy Oil In
spector Tuberg, of Mankato; J. A.
Everett and H. H. Booney, of Fair
mont; L. G. Beebe, postmaster at Win
nebago City; R M Wheeler, of
Owatonna: G. G. Spaulding, of Maple
ton, who wants Ito be postmaster
These people are McCleary men first
and anti-Van SAINT afterwards. They
are willing to turn down Clough and
Van SAINT, but not to help Collins by
helping Weaver.
To Turn Down Clough.
The Weaver candidacy has upset all
the calculations of the people who
agreed to come to this meeting to dis
cipline Clough and his man. 1t was
probably at the bottom of the call for
the convention. They don't like Dave
Clough hereabouts, but Messrs. Hunt
and Weaver are too willy to commit
themselves to a policy of aggression
without some definite aim. The turn
ing down of Clough and the Winona
man was made an excuse to take
snap judgment against McCleary and
In favor of Weaver. That is the tip
among the talent here tonight Wheth-
er they will dare do it now that the
plan is known is another question.
The leaders of the faction that wants
to secure peace by throwing Van SAINT
into the Mississippi are holding a meet
ing tonight. The tip went out after
supper and they gathered in the office
Of DR.. J. w. Andrews; there are not
many Of them in the inner circle, but
they had a tremendous row. In the
meeting Ed Weaver. L. P. Hunt, H. p.
Hayes, of the Sleepy Eye Dispatch; E.
B. Huntington Of the Window Report
er; G. G. Whitney, Of Marshall, son Of
the public printer. and DR.. Andrews.
Hunt started the row by submitting
the resolution he intends to put before
the convention tomorrow 1t set forth
that the aim of the convention was
purity in politics; that the same could
not be attained if the chief executive
and every officer of the state under
gubernatorial patronage was to COM
bine to control the Republican party;
that such combination had been form
ed, and a candidate for the governor
ship was being forced on the party;
that the machine in politics was alb
horrent to Republican ideas, and it and
it's candidates was hereby repudiated.
And names were given; the names of
the chief offenders against Second dis
trict ethics. The governor and Van
SAINT came in for personal fagellation
Whitney opposed the resolution He
pointed to the inevitable split that
must come from such charges being
preferred against he governor Of the
state, and he prevailed.
The resolutions, as passed, condemn
machine politics, point to the past to
prove that. If the machine prevails
next fall the Republican party will be
defeated. Without mentioning names,
the resolutions notify Van SAINT,
through Clough, to get off the track,
and when adopted they may go farther
and declare that, If the machine pre-
walls in the state convention the lead
ers of the Second district will oppose
the slate.
No Machine Rule.
After the meeting Weaver admitted
that a meeting had been hurriedly
called this evening; that there were fif-
teen or twenty people present, and
resolutions Of the tenor described had
been submitted. He denied their adop-
ton Asked specifically what the con-
| vention would do tomorrow, Mr.. Weav-
or said. "Tt was ca He'd to notify Tho