The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-04
SAYS he DECLINED It.
JUDGE COLLINS DID NOT ACCEPT
THE PRoFFERED SENATOR
SHIP AID INTERIM
REPUBLICANS IN AN UPRoAR
Berg Challenges Dowling's Claim to
SpeakerShip, and the Senatorial
Scramble Still Continues
Unabated.


Unabated.
Justice L. W. Collins, who was prof
ferred the senatorship to succeed Sen
ator Davis until the session of the legis-
iature, says he declined the offer, which,
he says, came from the governor through
a mutual friend
The justice sets up two reasons for
this declination, the first that his sons
are being educated In this state, and he
desires to live here, and the second that
his financial status is not such as to
enable him to live in Washington as a
senator is expected to.
Justice Collins says:
when Gov. Lind rendered the posi-
ton did not gather the impression that
he desired to embarrass Senator Nelson
or to make trouble for him in any way.
On the contrary he pointed out that he
had made up his mind that it would be
useless to appoint a Democrat, who
would simply go down to Washington
and come back again, as the legislature
was hopelessly Republican.
While M. j. Bowling seems to have
the best Of the fight for the speakership,
Albert Berg still claims to have a chance
to break down the Bowling phalanx,
hoping in his onslaught to have the
moral, If not the active, support of the
others who had aspira tons toward the
same goal. on the political theory that
all the world hates rather than loves
a winner.
sension in the Bowling forces by get
ting them to compare notes as to whom
sip 4Je4s OF ST uBSJo UPoILQnd9H IBIoMo
Berg s plan of campaign, as indicated
last night by cartoons and articles in his
the Craftsmanship of fat committees are
to go, in the hope that some two men
Will find that they have been promised
the same place, and both will then stick
the steel into Bowling.
Dowling's friends. on the other hand,
claim to have four votes In the Seventh
district, where Berg lives, and without
this, it Is contended, he has no license 20
appear as a candidate for speaker.
It Is charged by the opponents Of
Downing that the Renville man has been
the beneficiary, knowingly or not, of
! some clever campaigning for the sena-
torial nomination. Thomas H. Shevlin
the millionaire lumberman Of Minne-
apolis, who has senatorial aspirations,
and who also has important interests and
immense influence in the Western coun-
tries of the Sixth congressional district,
is accused of sending al Ferris, of Brain
era, out into the woods to stay until it
was too late for Laybourn to secure the
/ united strength Of the legislative dele
cation from his own congressional dis
tIict.
The ease with which Bowling secured
the Minneapolis delegation in the Re-
publican caucus is urged by his op-
ponents as showing that he was in with
some such deal, but Dowling'S friends
insist that they had nothing to do with
it, and that the Hennepin delegation has
merely committed all its energies to Sc
curing the senatorship for some Minne-
apolitan. whether he be Shevlin or not,
and has decided to forego the minor
places to center its fight on the main
prize.
The Second, Third and Sixth districts
will caucus today; the Seventh will meet
at Moorhead tomorrow.
Some of the St. Paul representatives
say they will enter deal with the Dem
ocrats rather than see it go to Lowry or
Sheylin,
Thomas H. Shevlin is reported to have
said that he has 100000 accessible 20
be used in the fight for the senatorship.
He has been buttonholing members of
the house for two or three days, and tho
intimate relations between him and Sem
ator G. B. Buchanan. of Little Falls, who
was one of Nelson's closest friends in
the old Kindred Nelson congressional
fight Of 1882, has suggested to many that
Shevlin has the favor of the Alexandria
senator.
Clapp for the senate and he thinks that
the Republicans of Ramsey ought to
stand soiidly for Clapp.
Gen. Moses z. Clapp, one Of the men
prominently mentioned as a senatorial
possibility to succeed the late Senator
Davis, positively refuses to be drawn into
a discussion of any topic bearing either
directly or Indirectly upon the all absorb
ing issue now before the people of the
state of Minnesota and which is attract
ing no little attention in other parts Of
the country.
To a Globe reporter Gem Clapp last
night stated: 81 positively decline to
talk politics, and that settles it
Capt. Joseph Burger, of the Second
ward. has received the Endorsement Of
the C5erman-American Veterans aSsocia-
ton for the appointment, by Van SAINT,
Of military storekeeeper.
D. G, Robinson, of AIankato. is being
urged for insurance commissioner.
Following are election expense lists fled
yesterday with the secretary OF state:
Peter e. Hanson, secretary of state elect,
$1,346.45, of which $1,000 went TO state
central committee; I. H Block state
treasurer elect, 81, 500; Henry Truelson,
$21664. e. G. Wallinder, Midroad-P opulist
candidate for lieutenant governor, $99. 80;
J. J. Hubbard, Midroad-Populist candi-
missioner, $125.50.