The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-13
CLAPp IND EVANS At i
FIGHT RESOLVES ITSELF Dox1zr
HETWEEN TWIN CITY CAN
DLDATES
IS LOWRY REALLY OUT OF RACE
politicians Say the Railway Mag
nate Is Feigning and VIII lie
in the Game at the
Outcome.

uSh ne mas not named the man
VINO snail have charge of his camDaien
Moses E. Clapp has selected head iII,is,- -
.ers at the Windsor hotel and is becorn-
ms very aggressive in his race for tha
coveted toga, which r. G. Evans of
NIiHneapoHs, also seeks as the ONLY for
nlloable opponent of the st. Paul man
zen. Clapp will, undoubtedly have tbe
~ support OF the Ramsey delega-
Iloh When the time comes for the castine.
OF votes, with the political circles %,
the pulse of the community, while if is
not m1nlmized even in Minneapolis
Senator E. E. Smith will manage the
Evans campaign
The members of the Hennepin county
oele8atlon to the legislature who met in
minneapolis Tuesday night and indorsed
Robert q. Evans as their candidate held
q meeting yesterday afternoon in Mr..
Evans office
Inc meeting was called to discuss the
pans OF the campaign that will be, waged
Iof MI Evans and fourteen of the six
teen members of the delegation who
Voted TO lndorse him were present The
absent ones, Representa- ves Jepson and
ness US
Inc delegation spent fully an hour be-
mind closed doors discussing the work to
be accomplished, but what these plans
are was Kept secret. The delegation
organized as a committee tn nron1o+e
Mr.. Evans candidacy and Senator sniff,
OF the delegation, was named as the
chairman of this committee Carl T.
Wallace will be secretary
Inc members of the delegation admit
that Senator Smith will be the manager
OF the campaign, but they all insist that
the entire committee will be a commit
tee OF submanagers and that every man
in the delegation will plan and accom-
pIlsh much work.
Residents of his own ward the Eighth.
In Minneapolis, mean to give the Evans
boom push and have taken united
steps in this direction.
The modesty of St Cloud Republicans
in asking for plums at the hands of the
incoming administration has been COM
mented on and is worthy of note. accord
ing to the opinions of certain politicians.
OF course there is c.. A Gilman. who
Is making a vtgilant fight for his old job.
state librarian, but it had been rumored
that the Stearns county fellows would
knock for more than one place up at
the capitol. The plea that they had ma
terlally reduced Stearns' old-time Demo-
cratic majority was to have been their
game, but this prop was knocked from
Under them when it became perfectly
apparent TO the Bixby crowd that, ex-
cepting the large vote cast for bo1lh
Lind and Lucas there would not have
been falling off in the old Democratic
stronghold; in fact, the shEewd Tams
was so thoroughly aware that the Demo-
cratic depreciation in Stearns was the re-
suit of his own political sagacity and
not in any way due to the worI, of
Stearns Republicans, that he is said to
have simply scoffed at the idea of ST
inc 0Io
bit of credit Had it not been for Tams'
man, Lucas, the Democratic majority
in Stearns would have gone up to the
1900 mark.
George D. Montgomery, of the Tenth
ward, IS candidate for enrolling clerk
of the sena e.
G. F. Staples, railroad and warehouse
commissioner-elect was in the city yes
terday to see Capt. Van SAINT. He said
no meeting of the newly-elected COM
mission had been held yet.
w w. Rich, the man who has been
looked upon as the discordant element in
the Ramsey county Republican delega-
ton, has come out in favor of Gen.
Clapp for the senatorship. He has been
a stanch McGill man, and was, in fact,
up to the time of the former governors
pOSILlNc SldLeIIGHI Indl ne would not De
a candidate. Mr. Rich, the house MEM
Der from New Brfgton, will be as
strongly in favor of Gen Clapp hence
forth as he was opposed to him for
merly
During today there will be a caucus
of the Seventh district house members
with possibly the senator's also. 1t is
a meeting adjourned from Moorhead last
week, but it is stated that the conven-
ton is not held for the purpose of en-
tering into consideration Of the United
States senatorial question. The Seventh
district has one favor to ask in the house,
and that is the second assistant clerk
ship, which it wants for D. NJ Meeker,
of Moorhead. He will be indorsed today
at the joint meeting.
Mayor J. A. Nichols, of Little Falls,
who is Thomas Shevlin's partner at that
place in the lumber business, was in the
city yesterday. He expressed his great
pleasure with Mr.. ShevHn's withdrawal
from the contest. He also expressed
the opinion that Tom Lowry is not yet
altogether out of the fight. Upon the
contrary, Mr. Nichols confidently ex-
poets to see the street railway magnate
actively in the race when the legislature
convenes-and so do many others.
London-Lord Mount Stephen has do
mated 425, coo to the provost of Aberdeen
fer the purpose of clearing the Aber ieeue