The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-30
EVANS is OUT OF IT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTOR-
NEY Is GOING ABROAD IN
FEBRUARY
VAN SAINT TO BE NOMINATED
Challenge Was Carried Into the En-
emy's Country at the Tepee Ban
quet I'm Minneapolis Thursday
Night, and There Was NauEht
but a Warm Welcome for the
WInOna Man.

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Night, and There Was Naught
but a Warm Welcome for the
WInOna Man.
| Fer some time rumors have been afoat
| that Robert G. Evans, at present Cnited
| States district attorney for the district
! of Minnesota, would be appointed tc a
federal judgeship, the political gossips
| who fathered these stories declaring in
| the same breath that so anxious was
| President Mckinley to thus bestow upon
| his loyal supporter and Minnesotas ma
tional committeeman this signal testimo-
NAL Of his high regard that the appoint
would be made. even if 1t were necessary
to create new court in Puerto Rico, Ma
nila or, possibly. Caloocan.
From information that reached the
G / o g yesterday from seemingly re-
| liable source, this report is the expanded
! structure Of the following basis of fact:
| That the national committeeman has
| engaged staterooms for himself and fam
! lily on a steamer which will sail from one
| Of Uncle Sans west shore seaports. Feb.
| 9. for Manila
If, as has been charged Mr. Evans has
any intention Of maintaining an active
canvass for the gubernatorial nominal
ton, 1t would hardly seem probable that
| he would desert the field at such a time.
! He could, it Is true. get back from the
| scene of war, fresh with some good cam
| paign speeches that would be entirely
new and vivid in their pictures of 81 Id d
and Cavite. but what good would they
do after the convention had been held
| and another man nominated, or, at least,
| the
! ination2
Hi health is assigned by the friends Of
| the district attorney as the reason for
| his trip abroad, and the G o b IS as
| sured that request for leave Of absence
from the attorney general was the sub
| stance Of the only personal request that
| Mr. Evans has made to the powers at
| the national capital.
! That one who stands 50 close to the ad-
| ministration as Mr.. Evans would have
| any difficulty in getting small a favor
! seems hardly credible, unless 1t be that the
! prospective prosecution of that eminent
| local leader of Republican affairs, Henry
! Gallick should be deemed to compel the
| personal attention of the district attor-
ney, because Of its national Importance.
| Mr.. Evans was present at the tepee
social of the Fourth warders III Minneap.
! oils Thursday highland to all the adula-
| ton which was showered upon the deVot-
apolitan looked not askance. William
Henry Eustis was there, too, and purged
his soul Of some soaring SORROWS, under
| the guise of his blandest smile. But Van
| SAINT was the hero of the hour. They
| toasted Sam, and they jollied him, and
| they heaped maledictions on the head of
| all that was not Of, for, or willing to Join
| the sacred, snow-white company Of Re
publicans.
Knute was there, and instead of even
limiting that the party should exercise
care In the selection Of its nominees this
! time, dropped anything which might be
| assumed as a fling at Van SAINT, and talk
| ed about expansion" and ''majorb les,
and the usual ''Rah for our side" type
| Of Republican platform oratory.
! There was a string of Republican office
| holders and wilfing-to-be ofhceholders at
! the Merchants yesterday to see the Alex
| andrian before he went home, reaching
from the main gate to the clerks desk
| and entwined more or less about the ele
vator shaft and great staircase. The diff
| ference between this waiting Of the de-
voted on the august presence of the most
| high and the way the Mohammedans used
to run down to Mecca when the spirit
| moved them was that in this case the
| object Of their tender devotions was the
| sphinx a betrousered sphinx, it is true,
| but nevertheless one that could ask ques
| lions and hold back answers to other
| folks questions with the same facility
which made the old lady on the Nile
! famous
! Even ]. S. Vandiver, who Is supposed
| to know how to get secrets and things
| out Of the most burglar-proof repoSito-
| ries, reported, after an interview with the
| senator, that he had not learned much
that he did not know before. But there
nI1
| graduated from sheriff Of AitlIin county
| to member of the house, dropped in to
! see Knute but he did not have any proud
| condolences to beStow on favored friends
| when he came out Of the holy Of holes.
Senator Buchanan, of Little Falls, had the
senator's ear for time, but, as far as
| could be observed, he did not bear away
! that or anything else as trophy. Eli
| Warner was lingering around the sane
! tum, as were Frank Krayenbuhl, Sam
| Lowensten and other eminent Ramsey
county workers. Senator Daily was down
from Perham, and julius Block was up
! from St Peter to see if Knute had any
objection to his running for state treas
! urer. Knute hasn't any, as a matter of
fact but. possibly from force of habit he
! kept quiet about it, just to keep Block
/ lined up and prevent any mussiness In
Nicollet county. See? ]. ]. Lomen as
sistant secretary of state, who would
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his title and the extra salary strapped on.
was around, too, not to mention Israel
Bergstrom and Sam Langum who are
! also avowed candidates for the job which
| Albert Berg is now holding,
Senator Knatvold. of Albert Lea, was
! in and around, not to mention Congress-
man Tawney and Senator Myran, of Ada.
| Senator Young, Of Appleton, was also
| around, but said he hadn't been at the
| altar. He even intimated that he hadn't
observed that the senator was In town,
| but that is one of the Appleton mans
ways Of self-abnegation. He can, and
| does, read the papers daily.
| With Evans out of 1t and Van SAINT the
! whole show for governor, 1t was a merry
| measure that the Antitrust District
Hammer club kept up on the ambitions
| Of Sam Langum. Some were mean enough
! to intimate that the First district ought
| to be satisfied with the Lovely Start 1t
| had already, taking Van into account
| OF course, if necessary, the rest of the
| state might give the First a railroad
commissionership or something like that
/ But Langum smiled through it all, and
candidate for secretary of state although
he had no desire to cut the throat of his
| friend Van, nor would he ask his friends
to sacrifice Van for him.
| Israel Bergstrom was around looking
for the same job Langum wants. but
Israel is handicapped to some extent by