The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-14
TOWNE and DUBOIS
THEY HAsA BOTH BEEN sUG-
GESTED TO SUCCEED RE-
GENT BARTO
MERRIAM IN EVANS BEHALF
Supervisor of the Census Is Here on
"Private Business" but He Is
Circulating the Good Word That
Can Be Nominated for Governor
Next Fall.

Can Be Nominated for Governor
Next Fall.
When former Lieut.. Gov. Alphonso
Barto died recently at st. Cloud he left
two vacancies for the governor to fill, the
most important of which is his place on
the board of regents of the state univer-
sity. The term of Mr.. Barto expires in
1901, but within few days, no doubt, the
governor will appoint his successor.
AS at present constituted, the board Of
regents has Judge Greenleaf Clark, Rev.
Samuel c. Smith and Judge Thomas Will
son. of st. Paul, and former Gov. John 8.
Pillsbury, Sidney M. Owen and Judge
stephen Mahoney, of Minneapolis, while
Col. William M. Liggett, while credited
to Benson, has lived at or between the
cities for years
The governor superintendent of public
instruction and president Of the university
are members of the board ex-oficio. and
aside from these there are only two MEM
bers now left from outside the TWIN
Cities, Elmer E. Adams, the Fergus Falls
editor, and former Lieut.. Gov Rice, Of
Willmar.
Mr. Barto was the only member of the
board from the Sixth district, and as the
First district has MISREPRESENTATION
In view Of Judge Wilson's long identifca-
ton with Winona affairs, political and
educational, there seems to be little doubt
that the vacant place will be given to
some Sixth district man.
Among the names which have been con-
sidered by Gov. Lind, is known to be that
or Charles A. Towne, who is a scholar Of
admitted attainments, master of Eng
1sh' IN the best sense Of the word master,
as well as being learned in French and
other languages. living and dead A grad
uate OF the University Of Michigan him
self, 1t is urged that he would be more
In sympathy with the needs and scope Of
| a. western university than If he were the
product Of some older university in the
East Three Of the members of the pres
ent board, Gov. Lind, Elmer E. Adams
and Judge Mahoney are alumni Of Mime
sofa university itself, which would give
the Western element something of a rep
| resentatiOn.
Another name which has been suggested
In connection with the vacant regency Is
that Of Mr.. J. A Dubois, Of Sank Cen
ter who was appointed last winter on the
board Of directors Of the state normal
schools, but whose nomination was with
drawn by the governor from the senate,
as 1t was found that the law forbids the
appointment of two members on that
board from the same county. W. B.
Mitchell. Of ST. Cloud, resident director
| OF that school, forbade the possibility Of
DR.. Dubois appointment.
The other place left vacant by Gov
| Barto's death is one Of the inspectorships
of fax, hemp and spinning f1bres, created
by the bounty law of 1897 for the en-
| couragement of the production and manu-
facture OF long line spinning fibres and,
spinning lows from home grown flax and
hemp The law provided for a commits
sion OF three, one to be a practical flax
and hemp man, another the dean of the
agricultural college, ex-off1cio, and the
! third member Of the board Of regents
OF the state university. Mr.. Barto became
member of this commission to represent
| the regents.
w. r. Merriam reached home yesterday
morning, ostensibly to look after the in
terests of the census bureau, of which
he is at the head, but incidentally, at
least, II not primarily, to see what can
| be done to carry the state convention
next spring for Bob" Evans Mr.. Evans
| Is the administration candidate and SEN
ator Nelson, in return for helping to land
Merriam in the census bureau, has Sc
cured few days rest for William r,
to come and look over the field Aside
| from the fact that Bob came from In
diana, he is pretty we'll known at the
| White house, too, through his service
| on the national committee, and it is
| pretty we'll understood that the admins
trat1on would like to see some one elected
governor who would be agreeable to
Nelson. The report that Van SAINT had
corralled the solid support Of the First
and Second congressional districts as
far as can be told at this time, seems to
have reached the White house, and this.
with the reported activity Of Clapp, in
the pulpit and out of it, and his friends,
nhiQf1U ont Of + IN
ator Nelson, on his return from Norway,
to send hurryup call to Washington
for the old Merriam band wagon, on
which the Republican henchmen were
wont to Chamber In the old days any
time w. r. or his shrewd man Friday,
TamS, rang the bell.
Gov Merriam's arrival was quickly
published to the politicians, and he held
quite levee yesterday. When a re-
porter met him he said that unquestion-
ably the thing for the people of Mime
sofa to do was to return Senator Nelson
for another term. Indeed, he did not be-
lieVe there would be any opposition to the
senator's reelection when the time came.
He did not say whether he thought W.
d. WaShburn would take long sea yoy-
age, or just what effort was to be made
to secure his restful silence during that
period, but he liked to talk about the
state campaign, too, and said that the
strong, clean man, who was thoroughly
approved by the people of the state This
OF course would not necessarily mean
Evans, but when in his next sentence he
said that the locality from which the
candidate hailed would not cut much
figure, 1t suggested the fact that the
geographical objection has been the one
oftenest fired at the Minneapolis man by
his adversarieS within the Republican
fold. 1t is dollars to doughnuts Capt
Van SAINT will be up again before night
fall to see what progress Mr.. Merriam
has been making
Mr.. Merriam also told the reporter that
the issue of expansion or anti-expansion
would not figure in the next campaign.
The Democrats, he said, would not be
able to agree upon a platform that op-
posed the Republican policy of expan-
sion. Mr.. Merriam did not explain how
close he had been drinking to the foun-
tainhead. of pure Democracy when he
imbibed this pearl of CONCEALED wisdom,
but spoke 1t with conviction that adj
mitted of no doubt that he thought it
had been having, half year before the |
convention of the party.
But Mr.. Merriam has other troubles
| There are 5000 clerkships in the census
bureau, and there are 1900 applications
for the same.
Incidentally the Minneapolis Journal
which has been negatively advocating
the nomination of Evans-by meeting In
| its own way. the objections made to his
nomination by, the practical politicians
| prints over the signature of its Wash
| ingtOn cOrresDOndent the following.