The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-02
ARE READY TO FIGHT BACK
RAMSEY COUNTY VAN SAINT
MEN SAY THEY'RE GAME

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Winona County Contributed to
It's Sons Defeat by Failing to In
dOrse senator Davis.
Ii thompson attacks US we will hold
a meeting of the men who are sup
posed to be under the ban and make
th1ngs so uncomfortable for him that
nell be glad enough to quit
That was the comment made by q
member of the Van SAINT end of the
Ramsey county delegation when the
reported remark of George Thompson
that there will be lot Of cheap poll
tlclans looking for Republican nomi-
nations In the fall. and I'll make it my
business to see about them
IL mas been frequently said that the
republican party hereabout thrives on
ulssehslons, and If there is anything Of
truth in the statement then the party
will thrive to no end this fall, for 1t is
properly torn up. w. ]. Donahower
and e. A. Sharood are about as for
apart on all questions as they can well
be, and the solid Fourth will have
trouble with the ''solid First at the
first opportunity, and both crowds are
wiling to seek the opportunity. That
they did not come to blows in the con-
Vention was probably due to the fact
that the First Is not looking for fight
or that k1ndThe oteh crowd would have
mixed up In second If there had been
chance after the poll Of the conven-
ton for then they understood why 1t
was that they had no chance to do
any business.
or course the Van SAINT crowd feel
that Mr. Thompson Is not 80 omnipo-
tent as he thinks when they consider
the appointment Of Griggs to an as
slstant place In the corporation coun-
sells office. Griggs was the very heart
ofc the canti-Thompson cpush,c andc
the appointments was given him in
the very midst Of the fight. The crowd
gave 1t out yesterday. when Griggs
had been installed, that the event
! about showed tn e strength Of Mr..
Thompson.
A politician of experience has an idea
that 1t was not the dissa tisfaction in
Ramsey that was responsible for the
| defeat of Van SAINT. Senator Davis
and his Endorsement cut as much fig
ure in this campaign as anything that
1 know" he said. 1.-THE Davis support
was not heartily with Van SAINT, be-
cause the county convention at Wi
mona neglected to toss any bouquets
| at Mr.. Davis. It was one Of the few
counties in terested in a candidate for
the state ticket that overlooked the OPP
portunity to indorse the senator.
Whether 1T was done Intentionally or
not makes no difference, but on the
sur 1t looked as though Van SAINT was
not going to tie himself up. Perhaps
1t gave color. to the report that Dave
| Clough would make q fight for the
senatorship in case Van SAINT was the
nominee for governor. Ramsey and
Hennepin, and most of the other coun-
ties, Endorsed Davis, and 1 suspect
that Davis friends didn's forget the
fact. You may depend on it that this
omission by Van SAINTS home county
| cut good deal of figure in the out
come"
Last night there was scarcely half
dozen from the country left in town.
They got out during the day and the
hotels were comparatively deserted.
Van SAINT went home yesterday morn
ing. He professed not to be put out
over the result of the campaign for
the nomination, but he was, In fact,
heartbroken. He has been running for
| governor ever since he got into state
politics. That Office has been his goal
and the convention of Thursday settled
the question forever He will never be
the nominee for governor Of this state,
| and he knows It. He put every thing on
ton and 1t is not even likely that he
could be elected for anything in his
| own county now. There was too much
| bitterness engendered in the fight that
has been going on all the year. He
has been campaigning ever since
Clough was elevated to the governor
ship, and this year the opportunity of
his life came.
He would not admit after the con-
vention that he was out of politics, but
he thought that he would do a good
deal of travelling out Of the state dur
| ing the next few years. The campaign
has cost Van SAINT good deal OF
money, but he is a rich man.
The silence of the Republican state
platform on those subjects in which
the people Of the state having a living
interest caused a good deal of COM
ment among those politicians who do
not subscribe to the general Repub-
to run on only and who believe that
| party declarations should have some
| meaning.
The G. To- e's expose of the abso-
lutte silence that had been preserved
by the Republicans on those questions
which are conceded to be vital to the
welfare Of the state, attracted very
| general attention.
"It is sort of platform that Eustis
wanted" said a man who had been in
the convention, and who had q resolu-
| ton Of his own that he did not get in
when the committee on platform was
| made up Eustis asked Mr.. Lee as a
favor to put S. R. Thayer, Of Mime
| apolis on the committee, for Mr. Thay-
err knew just what he wanted in the
| platform. The resolutions were not
reported until Eustis had been nomi-
| mated, and If the result Of the ballot
ing had been otherwise the platform
would have been very different. Thay-
err wrote the resolutions and William
| Henry is responsible for them. No
one else was recognized, for I know
| myself that a number Of resolutions
bearing on state affairs were handed
to the committee"
be candidate for Office in this coun-
ty on the Republican ticket this fall.
said:
IT think Eustis is WISE He talks
about principles rather than men be-
ing involved this fall. That's all rot
and he knows it and knows that we
all know it. He didn't want anything
said in the platform that would force
him to make fight on officials elected
by his own party. He is going out to
beat John Lind, and he will do 1t by
telling funny stories on the stump.
That's why the platform doesn't mean
anything, and I think Mr.. Eustis was
very foxy in keeping out any thing
that would make the machine push
think that they were having 1t rubbed
in. He knows as well as anybody that
platforms don't cut much ice in this
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