The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-06

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SAINT, of Winona, has ambitions and
neat little scheme to despoil Senator
Moses E. Clapp of his seat and land
the governor of Minnesota in it, if Van
SAINT fails to land the coveted noni-
nation for vice president, has come to
light.
Van SAINT is playing his hand in the
congressional game to curry favor
with the national administration and
began dealing the cards Immediately
upon his return from the vice presi-
Dental boom trip to Washington.
Through the unfortunate utterance of
an administration candidate for the
state senate the game to lay out Clapp
in favor of the astute statesman from
Winona was run down.
All over the state senatorial candi-
dates have sprung up in opposition to
those senators who stuck to Clapp two
years ago, and while Van SAINTS hand
showed plainly enough without other
corroboration, the administration ma
nipulatioH has been disclosed beyond
cavil by The admissions of the-new adj
ministration candidates.
The Republican mix-up in the Third
congressional district furnishes a fair
example of the handiwork of the adj
ministration, which has appeared in ev-
cry congressional district in the state.
In two or three districts the governor
of Minnesota and his cohorts have
been unable to make trouble for the
congressional candidates, but in each
of the nine, numerous legislative can
didates have been sprung and they
are, in a majority of cases, aspirants
to the state senate, which will elect
Senator Clapp's successor.
Show Hand in Third. .ssiaz
In the Third district the clumsy at
tempts to cover up the administration
work have proved more than abortive.
The Third district men have the goods
on Van SAINT and have documentary
as we'll as other evidence to substan-
tiate their claims. No one attempts
to deny that G. S. Ives, of st. Peter,
is the administration candidate for
congress, nor that Whitford, Wilson
and Reed, staunch friends of the gov
ernor, have been thrown down for the
st. Peter man, no more than is 1T at
tempted to deny that p. w. Morrison,
of Carter county. has been made the
dupe of the administrators alleged
cleverneSS.
The administration papers are sup
porting Ives as warmly as they are
knocking Tawney and boosting Knat-
void in the First district. They started
the same kind of game against Nc
Cleary in the Second district, but have
laid down their cards since their mis-
calculations resulted in leaving the
Little Schoolmaster the only Repub-
lican aspirant to his seat.
Knife for Fletcher.
In the Fourth district Stevens had
the cards stacked against them, but in
the Fifth they landed and repaid James
Peterson for his legislative bone car
rying by supporting him for the nomi-
nation against Fletcher. In the Eighth
they laid a powder train for j. Adam
Bede, which that irrepressible gentle-
man seems about to skip over without
singeing a hair. Some of their legis-
lative stacks will undoubtedly fall
down as nicely as their congressional
manipulations have in two or three in
stances, but the fight is being made
good as far as lies in the administra-
ton power.
For instance, in the Third district
appointees of Van SAINT, who were for
merly bitterly opposed to Ives, have
come in out of the wet and are BOOM
ing the relic of the late lamentable
tax commission day and night The
Third district staff has not been con-
sidered large enough, and, just to
make good, more appointees from the
Second district have been drafted into
the service and are working overtime
for Ives, even to the point of bringing
pressure on laborerS in their employ.
Morrison is the dupe of the Van
SAINT game, but the attempt to belittle
Jones, of Red Wing, has proved some
thing of boomerang. They have per-
sistently read him out of the running,
while Republicans affiliated with some
of the other candidates are forced to
admit that Jones is coming up strong
and is not only not a tail-ender but
dangerous factor in the race.
Frame Anti -Clapp Slate.
If Ives could be nominated and elect
ed he could reasonably be expected to
frame up an organization to handle the
house nominations two years hence
The senatorial tickets are being taken
care of at the present writing. Promi-
ncnt members of the last legislature
who are candidates for nomination to
the senate and who voted for Clapp
two years ago have been told fatty by
the administration strikers that they
cannot receive the administration sup
port and administration appointees are
booming opposition candidates.
This is by no means confined to the
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