The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-16
MOVED WITH NELSON
POLITICAL STORM CENTER TRANS
FERRED TO MINNEAPOLIS
YESTERDAY
OLD MACHINE GOING BACK

|
Evans Men Went Through Add
mtnistratiOn Is Trying to MOTIify
the Other Candidates for the Top
of the Ticket.
1here was an, important political con-
ference In frontTof the Pioneer Press
building yesterday. none other than Rob
ert Z. Dunn and Moses E. Clapp. being to-
gether for several minutes where every
one could see them There was consid-
cradle speculatiofr among those who saw
them as to whether they had been there
ever since the day before and did not
know that the-pelitical conflict of Tues
cay was done with, or whether they had
just fallen off the Nelson band wagon
when the senator moved his headquar-
tiers from the Merchants hotel. in this
CITY, to the Nicollet house, in Minneapo-
us 1t was very quiet around Col. Aliens
pace again yesterday as far as the Re-
publican outfit was concerned, the flock
ing hundreds who had come to grasp the
hand OF the Alexandria statesman hav-
ing HE'D themselves to their homes again,
or else hurried to Minneapolis, where it
was given out Knute would hear the
| songs and woes of the Mill City contin-
| gent yesterday.
Some Of the Evans people are losing
| heart already, and are trying to make
| 1t out now, seeing the hornets nest they
| got into, that the administration is not
trying to dictate to the people Of Mime
sofa what they shall do, but merely is
trying to get the situation clarified and
| endeavor to heal up the old sores so that
a united party can come to the support
| Of whatever candidate promises to be
| the best vote-getter In the campaign Of
| $780,
So little Sammy Van SAINT rises up and
says: I'm it. Didn't I get thrown down
in the last convention, and didn't 1 be
good and support the ticket? L didn't go
around behind the barn. So Sammy,
and Sammy's friends, and Towney, and
Senator Lord, of Owatonna, too, by the
way. were both on the scene Tuesday,
not to mention Sam Langum, who had
an eye peeled to see what was coming if
| in the First district -
| That two hours was devoted to Eustis
was due to an earnest desire on the part
| Of Senator Nelson. regardless of the ma
| tlonal administration, to get William
! Henry fixed so that he would not bob
| of the Washburn faction in Minneapolis
| Republicanism.
While W. D.~Washburn would like pref
! ty well to get even by going back himself,
| the next bestirthing would be to have
some good friend take the ground out
| from under Knute's senatorial feet, and
| the senator was wary lest the former
mayor should conclude that he might be
/ stronger with the state legislature than
| with the people, especially since the
| chamber of commence did not move yet
Nelson wants to see Minneapolis fixed
| up some way. Eustis must be appeased,
| because Knute sees the finish of John
| H. Steele, and he wants to get Tim e.
| Byrnes slipped into the Craftsmanship Of
| the Republican state central committee
| in the event that Evans is the candidate
| Ii Van SAINT should be named there would
| be no objection to Byrnes especially, ex-
! Cept that Tim might not want to leave
I his lucrative law practice in Washing
| ton, save for the personal friendship he
| bears for Evans whicf1s would be good
excuse for his leaving his pension claim
| files next summer to dwell under the
| benign skies Of Minnesota. The plan is
| to get Evans at the head, because of9his
| remotenesS from the old machine. The
| leaders of the machine think that they
will be able to reckon with Bob, If they
get him, and they also recognize the fact
| that the machine is effective most when
| it is noiseless. BiXby has been thought
Of for campaign manager, but then TamS
has a record for managing successful
| campaigns, and he might not want to
| come except on his own terms Besides,
he savors Of machine, even in the re-
mote precincts of Roseau, where, by the
way, it might be we'll to watch for late
returns in the election two years hence,
! judging from some of the politlcai tim
Der that has gone into that locality.
| Byrnes, while Of the machine, has not
been so prominently identified with the
state wheels, and might be able, with his
| bland smile, to "con'' the people into the
belief that the Republicans were under
new regime. So the proposition to
sheve Steele requires the notification of
Eustis.
The Second district had a bunch
| smoothing rough spots in the Nelson
| armor, L. P Hunt and Congressman Nc
| Cleary, of Mankato; Capt. c. c. Whitney
and Collector John Peterson, all were on
hand. Joel Heatwole was up from the
Third although he claims to be an out
slider, and looked on merely.
From the Sixth were J. Adam Bede,
Jerry Howe, of Brainerd, otherwise
known as ]. J. Howe, the lumberman; G.
| B. Buchanan and w. M. Fuller, of Little
1
ator Frank B. fDaugherty, Of Duluth; g.
| G.. Hartley, who has just resumed pos
session of the News Tribune again, and
will give the Nelsonians an organ there.
Justice Collins was looking around, too,
! and he was composed enough yesterday to
| hand down seven decisions, in which only
| three were reversals or notifications, so
| the judge had not. entirely lost hope. In
| deed, it is whispered that he received as
| surances that If he could satisfy the adj
| ninstratton that he would be the strong
! est nominee, there would be no disposition
| to dictate Evans 1.-THE administration
| wants strong candidates in every state,
| it was given out t'lest there seem to be
| any lack of confidence in the party, which
| is in reality due to OBJECTIONS from local
| nominees. We do not want any more
| Ohio business. '1t 1e
| Lieut. Gov. Rice of Willmar, and Col
| lector Won Baumbach of Alexandria, were
! in the field from the Seventh, and all try
! ing to fix it up so the old machine could
| come again into control at the coming
election.
! A c. Clausen, late grain inspector,
would be restored, and L. G. Powers, late
| labor commissioner, Is to be spared from
| his census work, 1t is promised, long
| enough to swing the labor vote into line
| His popularity with that element is de-
| pended upon. G. M. Reese, although con-
| nected with some banks in Minneapolis
| which had unfortunate finishes, was
| among the Minneapolis contingent in the
| Nelson confabs, and he with Peter J.
! Sjoblom and Israel Bergstrom are, 1t is
| said, to be depended upon largely to keep
the Minneapolis Swedes lined up for