The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-29
MACHINE new OILED
OLD REPUBLICAN GANG RALLIES
AT THE MERCHANTS TO
MEET KNUTE
FOR NELSON HELD A LEvEE
ParIOr Five of the Old Pile Was
RedOIent With the Scent of Old
Fashioned Axle Grease-The Cam
Paign of 1000 to BE Fought In
Minnesota With the Old "Push"
I'm Command.

Republican politicians were thicker
! around the Merchants hotel yesterday
than flies around the tap of a sugar
| barrel
| knute Nelson started from Alexandria
for Washington yesterday morning, which
| required four hours lay-over in st.
! Paul, and the glad tidings must have enna
UP and down the line fast. for by the
trains of yesterday morning began to
| pour in the Republican clans.
The First district sent Capt. Sam r.
Van SAINT, former State Senator A. T.
| Stebbins, of Rochester, and J. M. Diment;
| the Second had bigger list. L. P. Hunt.
OF Mankato, Was on hand, and Mayor
| Currier and r. D. Hubbard, of the same
| town, were here, presumably and con-
| fessedly in the interest of a railroad VEN
ture. Singular perhaps, that Hunt
| couldn't keep away from the Van SAINT
| Stebbins-Ei Warner-Charley Whitney
crowd of politicians, railroad or no rail-
road. Collector Peterson, of Nicollet
county, dropped in to see the senator,
| too
There was quite a string from the
| Third district. julie Lawrence, of North
|
no one attached any matches to the I'M
| derground mines of his local editor and
personal friend, Joel HeatwoIe, and KEEL
sey Chase, of Faribault, was on hand in
| glove with some Of the politicians, or, as
! they were masquerading yesterday, rail-
road promoters Of the more remote parts
| of the state; for example, A H. Reed, of
Glencoe, and w. B. Mitchell, of st.
| Cloud. Job Lloyd, of LIE Sueur, was
| about
| Eli Warner and John Zelch were on
! hand to represent the Fourth district,
whether the Fourth had anything to say
about their assumed Importance or not,
and everywhere there was evidence of the
re-oiling of the old machine.
John II. Steele, of Minneapolis, was
over In the afternoon. but his feet soon
| got cold waiting in the outer corridor for
the old machine stripe OF politicians to
| get through bdsking in the sunlight of
| King Knute's favor, and John wrapped
! his threadbare political mantle around
| him and went up to the capitol to get
hot about the way he was thrown down
! two years ago.
The Sixth was represented very much
1
| Everyone came who was not locked up.
| Senator Buchanan started for home in the
| morning, 1t seemed, but some way or
| other he felt the ground swell and was
on hand in time to give HGGte the glad
| hand and talk over the old, old times
when they ran c. F. Kindred out Of Min
nesota politics. AL Ferris of Brainerd,
was in, too, and ]. Adam Bede washed
| his hands of his editorial duties long
| enough to mingle with the powers that
! be. Charles S. Benson, of st. Cloud, was
! on hand, as was Resident Rirector Mitch
| ell, Of the normal school there Frank
| B. Daugherty was down from Duluth,
| and Fred A. Hodge, of Pine City, dropped
in from somewhere-beIieve he said he'd
! been down in Wisconsin on little bust
| ness French, the Monticello thought
| molder, was around, as was Dan Gum, of
Grand Rapids, and w. F. Street, Of Be
| midi. Knute and Fred Won Baumbach
| saw that Alexandria had voice in the
conference of the day, and, taken all in
all, nearly every corner of the state had
/ its interests protected CD by the presence
| of a representative.
| The Van SAINT and Collins people wanted
| to know of Knute whether it was true
| that he was going to declare for Bob
| Evans for governor when he got back
| to Washington Knute said chow ridicu-
Collins men wanted a denial that could
not be considered in the sense of an
| equivocation at all They wanted to pin
! the foxy AleXandrian down to a fiat de-
| NAL, but the best that they could get
| out of him was that he was not antago-
| nizing any of the candidates for governor
why, how could he?"
| 'All 1 want" and Knute smiled that
same smile that he smiled at Albert Lea
| that time when he said he was ardently
| supporting Washburn for the senate.
| "Al] l want is to have the Republicans
! get together and pick out a strong man
| who can command the general support
| of our people,"
| And, indeed, it is said that Knute sings
Regrets" every time he thinks how al
| most simultaneously he and Merriam and
| Tim Byrnes and the Minneapolis Journal
began booming Evans
| Some of the other candidates for gov
! ernor seem to be so sensitive about a
| thing like that. Van SAINT, for instance
| bamboozled in one convention and prom
| 1sed the next, only to be tossed in the
| air at the finish. and then to gather up
| his bruised anatomy and crawl back into
| the party band wagon-who could think
! that slayer like Sam, who had seen all
the ups and downs of politics, would
| take umbrage at a little coincidence like
| that?
And yet Sans friends have been really,
1 worried for fear the administration was
| trying to job him. They didn't think
| it was right for the hangers on of the
! Mckinley administration to try to hog
! the thing by debating who should be gov
ernor as we'll as who should lick stamps
/ at Eyota. Some Of Sans friends even
! thought that Collins friends were in with
/ a cut-throat scheme to ruin his S. reng< h.
and when they saw Loren w have the
| senator pinned up against the wall last
night, and heard the senator say,
| Now, you know. judge, I'm not
opposed to your candidacy" they
! could not tell whether they were
| getting the political confidence game or
/ whether Bobby Evans was the country
boy who had daIlied with the three funny
| little shells at his first circus.
But Van SAINTS friends are hopeful.
! They say that with the First and Second
| districts solid, whether Mr. Nelson viii
! stand for it or not, they can laugh all
| competitors in the face, If the machine
! keeps its hands off Ramsey. Some of
! Sans friends, however, have found a new
element for alarm, and that is in some
| of the jealousies of the Ramsey politi-
clans which promise to spoil Vans hopes
| here by local dissensions Some of Van
! SAINTS warm friends have been travelling
! around roaring about kiefer and declar-
! ing that his scalp would be hung on the
! outer flap of the Wah-hoo-Wah braves
! wigwam next spring. Now Van SAINT does
not just see what relation his guberna-
| torial candidacy bears to the question as
| to whether not Mayor Kiefer has been
| fair in his dealings with the commits ion