The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-13
QAPp IND EVANS At /.
FIGHT RESOLVES ITSELF Douv.
HEFWEEN 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.

Although he has not named the man
VINO snail have charge of his campaign
| MOSES H. Clapp has selected heado,1ar-
| ters at the Windsor hotel and is becom-
ms very aggressive in his race for the
Covered Covered toga, which R. c. Evans. of
-a .iIl'fp' also seeks as the only for
nldable opponent of the St Paul man
Gen- CIapp will, undoubtedly have tha
IuH support of the Ramsey delega-
lion When the time comes for the CASTING.
| OF votes, With the political circles az
the pulse of the community. while if is
li0' iiiliiiilllzed even in Minneapolis.
Senator E. E. Smith will manage the
| Evans campaign
The members of the Hennepin county
delegation to the legislature, who met in
minneapolis Tuesday night and indorsed
ftooert u. Evans as their candidate. held
meeting yesterday afternoon in Mr.
Evans office
Ihe meeting was called to discuss the
! pans OF the campaign that will be, waged
! Tor MI Evans and fourteen of the six
| teen members of the delegation who
voted to 1ndorse him were present. The
absent ones, Representatives Jepso1 and
/ ness.
Inc delegation spent fully an hour be-
nlnd closed doors discussing the work to
De accomplished, but what these plans
! are was kept secret. The delegation
! organized as a committee to promote
| Mr. Evans candidacy and Senator Srnttf,
OF the delegation, was named as the
chairman of this committee Carl r.
| Wallace will be secretary.
Inc members Of the delegation admit
mat 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-
pllsh much work.
Residents of his own ward, the Eighth
In Minneapolis, mean to give the Evans
Doom 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 I'D at
the capitol The pisa 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-
ceptlng the large vote cast for boah
Lind and Lucas there would not have
been a falling off in the old Democratic
stronghold; in fact, the sbSewd 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
Cloud men presuming to claim the least
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 a candidate for enrolling clerk
of the sena e.
c. 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.
Ciapp for the senatorship. He has been
a stanch McGiI man, and was, in fact
up to the time of the former governors
positive statement that he would not be
d CdHuludIe MI. ftlcl, the mousse neIl-
Der from New Brigton, 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 Senators 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 a 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 Sheylin's partner at thai
place in the lumber business, was in the
city yesterday He ressed his great
pleasure with Mr.. Shevlin'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.