The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-12

Old Deals Be Given Prominence.
st. Paul is to remain the headquar-
tiers of the Democratic state central
committee.
This was decided at an executive ses-
sion of the executive committee held
at the Ryan hotel yesterday afternoon.
1t was also decided to tender a din
ner to Senator James K. Jones, of
chairman of the national
Democratic committee, who is just now
resting at the lake. No date was fixed
for the event, which will be subject to
the personal convenience Of the guest.
but 1t will probably be in about
week, perhaps next Thursday night.
The following committee was chosen
to look after the arrangements:
St. Paul-Thomas D. o'Brien; Judge John
w. Willis, John l.. Townley, ]. C. Michael,
Gray, James W. Lawrence, A. R. Ankeny,
M. Breslauer and William Baldwin.
Aside from these two questions the
committee did little work. There was
a general discussion of the campaign
at large, but nothing will be done un-
till the full committee meets again.
Through all the session of yesterday
there was apparent the greatest en-
thusiasm. Mr.. Winston stated that
Minneapolis Republicans were scared
to death. Not only were they in doubt
about the election Of Eustis, the fall
ure of which would not be material,
but they were afraid that James Gray,
the Democratic nominee, would get
away with the mayoralty. Directly
the mayor of Minneapolis has little in
an appointive way to distribute, but
indirectly he is in a fine position to
block the efforts Of the Republican ma
chine, and the party is seriously dis
traught lest the young editor carry off
the plum.
1t is considered extremely doubtful
whether Mayor Pratt can get a re-
nomination. The machine Republicans
say he should be given it, as it carries
with it the assurance of loyal support
from the gamblers, who have been per-
mitted to run during his incumbency,
subject to a very routine surveillance
by the police. But Pratt is open to
the objection that if elected again, 1t
would give him three terms. Mime
apolis has never had one mayor three
terms in succession, and there are a
great many who feel that when it
comes to breaking in on the establish
ed rules, it should be. with some one
broader than an executive whose chief
claim to greatness consists In his con-
tinuance Of the somewhat objection
able catering to lawbreaking elements
which Eustis originated.
Gray is practically a Minneapolis
man. He came to the city as a uni
verSity student. Made his way through
that institution on his merits, and en-
tered the newspaper business when he
graduated. He has made a mark for
himself in his profession, and has made
many friends outside of it, although
not, perhaps, a public man. Still, he has
been prominent in some organizations
which have kept him more or less in
the public eye, and the Republicans
are not a little worried as to his posi-
bic strength.
After Pratt, perhaps, the most likely
nominee of the Republicans is E. F.
Webster, of the Eighth ward an. alder
man. Mr.. Webster was elected on the
Christian Citizenship basis. His rec
ord in the council has been COMPARE
lively good, but it has been in a coun-
ell which numbered in it's members
felons and some unconvicted. That he
has demonstrated municipal ability,
such as should be required of the can
didate for the mayoralty Of Minneapo-
lis, is hardly claimed by his friends,
although they insist that he would be
all right if elected.
Some even of the party have been so
desperate in their necessities as to
suggest for the nomination that time
worn, not time-honored. ward politician,
w. H. Grimshaw better known as
Bill, who, between checker games, has
occasionally furnished a temporary
habita ton and home for Matchmaking
sheets issued purely for campaign pur-
poses.
Anyway, the Republican nominee will
be so bound up by promises not to be-
tray the moneyed Republicans of the
city into a payment of the notes which
they have made to the city treasury in
the last six or seven years that his
administration, even if elected. could be
but farce. There is not a. little cry in
the sister city for the turning out of
the rascals, some of whom are called
by name, and that, too, with the
euthritative designation Of a grand
jury's true bill.
The municipal campaign in Min.
neapolis can not prove to be other than
a source of strength for Lind. Although
there has not for moment been any
doubt Of the party ticket going through
the Mill city with a rush, the question
of majorities is not one to be thrown
aside when It comes to meeting the
articles Of the Republican machine in
some of the back counties, and back of
Duluth especially.
1t is going to require unusual assidu-
ity on the part of the few loyal mem
bers left in the old machine to pack the
ballot boxes of the iron range and Bel
trami county against the peoples ticket
this year.
If the opposition Of the grand army
were not in itself enough to defeat
Eustis, the opposition of the Scandi-
navians, full cause for which has been
shown, would guarantee the result.
Nor will there be overlooked by the
voters Of Minnesota the connection of
the once mayor Of Minneapolis with
the Bracket house-city hospital deal.
which cost the city of Minneapolis the
as yet unexcused expenditure of many
thousands Of dollars, or his aff1liation
with the pack Of Guaranty loan swind-
lerS, at whose head was none other
than Louis Francois Menage, now a
fugitive from justice.
1t was broadly intimated at the time
Mr.. Menage fed that the reason he was
not brought back was because Of the
membership of prominent Minneapolis
Republicans in the board of directors
of the swindling company
And Loren Fletcher was not the only
one, as Mr.. Eustis well knows.
Judge John H. Steele chairman of
the Republican state central committee,
spent yesterday in conference with
Messers. Reese, Berg, Dunn and Koer-
ner, relative to the appointment of
members of the campaign committee.
The committee will probably be an
nounced today. The location of head
quarters will be determined when the
executive committee meets
The Republicans of the east half of
the Eighth ward have decided, it is
said, that they want to name the sena-