The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
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I WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 2s.-(spe-
cial)-The man who originated the pres
| idential boom for Senator Davis, of Min
nesota, for 1904 was possessed of a vivid
imagination, to say the least. The senior
senator from Minnesota probably is as
well aware of the fact as are his friends
that the presidency is now out of hts
reach. He was anxious for the nomina-
ton in 1896, but, falling to get the sup
port Of his own state, dropped out Of
sight very quickly 1t goes without say
Ing that the Minnesota senator would
have made as good a president as the
present occupant of the White house, had
he been selected for that position in the
last national campaign. Mr.. Davis is
past sixty-one years of age, and in 1904
would be considered little beyond the
limit for SO wearing a place as that of
the president. He will probably be sat
isfied to wind up his political career in
the United States senate, and has no in
tention whatever of even asking the peo-
pie OF Minnesota to honor him by sending
state delegation to the national Repub-
Hean convention in 1904 to urge his .candi-
dacy upon that body
So far as the Republican situation is
concerned, Theodore Roosevelt, the pres
ent governor Of New York, or Secretary
Root, of the war department, will prob
ably head the national Republican ticket
In 1904, With the possibility that there will
be vigorous contest between these two
gentlemen for first place, with the chances
favoring the selection of Col Roosevelt
1t Will therefore be seen that even If
MT. Davis has any ambition to become
the Republican presidential candidate he
VIII not have the support OF the great
Eastern states or Middle West and very
little support In the Northwest Mr..
Davis. while not a shrewd politician, has
discovered, without doubt, that his polit-
tcai career will end when his present six
years In the senate draws to a close.
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Senator Nelson, Of Minnesota. is deyel-
oping a great deal of anxiety about his
official and political future. For one
time in his life Mr.. Nelson is not abso-
lutely certain that he can pull the polit-
zeal strings in Minnesota to bring about
his own success. 1t Is an established
fact that the junior senator from Mime
sofa desires to succeed himself In the I'D
per branch Of congress. There is only one
man in the state that Mr.. Nelson fears
as an opponent. This gentleman is no less
a person than John Lind, the present gov
ernor of the state. Nelson and Lind have
been political rivals for years. as Is well
known in Minnesota, and the coming
clash between them. will be the most in
teresting contest they have had, and, if
Lind accepts the denomination for the
goVernorship and succeeds, an anti-Re-
publican legislature may be the result
and IN such an event Mr.. Nelson will be
| retired to private life and John Lind will
| succeed him In the United States senate.
The prospects of the denomination of
nearly all of the Republican congress
men from Minnesota are said to be as
bright by politicians from that state here
as they have ever been in the past. AS
is well known in st. Paul, Fred G.. Stevens
will have opposition before the next Re-
! publican congressional convention, but. in
| view of the fact that Messrs. Reese and
Hiram F. Stevens Will support him for re-
nomination next year, Mr. Rogers, hts
principal rival, will probably be defeated.
If 1t is finally decided that the members
of the insular affairs committee Ofethe
house must go to the Philippines, In or
| der to decide upon. "a policy for the gCy-
eminent of these islands, two: Northwest
ern men will enjoy this jaunt.. Minnesota
will have one of the members who will
represent the committee in the Philip
pines, in the person of Mr.. Tawney. Wis
consin will send along another member
| on this jaunt, and Representative Cooper
will be the man. 1t will be recalled that
| Mr. Cooper is the chairman Of this COM
mittee, and one of the leading men in the
| house on the Republican side.
1t is not absolutely certain that the
Republican majority will consider It ad-
/ visable to have the members Of this com
mittee absent while congress Is in ses-
sion. In the event that the trip is post
/ poned until after the first session OF this
congress Closes the jaunt will be made
during the congressional recess, as there
| Is no apparent necessity for the formula
| ton of plan for the government Of the
Philippines until the war Is ended, and
| 1t Is not unlikely that the members OF
| the insular committee will find 1t advisa-
| BILE to postpone their trip to the Philip
pines until some time next summer.
! During the Christmas holidays there
| have been placed In public resorts, in eV-
| cry city in the Union, devices to gather
in any denomination OF subsidiary coin
| one might have about him which was not
needed for immediate use. 1t remained
| however, for a smooth and popular waiter
| In a Pennsylvania avenue saloon to rig
up "a plan to catch the eye of the bibu-
| lous patrons of his employers bar Inc
! idea he conveys in his card is evidently
not quite his own. but foisted upon him
| by some wit or wag.
! The receptacle into which one so inclln-
| ed drops surplus small change Is paple1
| mache representation of the pictures we
| are accustomed to see of Swiss cottages
| The contribution one may desire to make
is dumped down the chimesy-a Ia Santa
/ CIaus-but, unlike this august personage
| ANYTHING descending does not again
emerge. The little tempting and seductive
| sign placed over the door of the minla-
ture cottage, so to speak, to attract the
unwary. reads: