The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-03

COL. A. r. kIEFER,
Resident of New Canada, Who Wants
to Be Comptroller of st. Paul.
medical treatment in st. Paul. and, be-
sides his ai1ment, is nursing his boom
for attorney general Up the state his
friends think he is sure enough in Cali
ifornia.
L. L. Brown Tie Winona attorney, is
receiving kindly: mention from num-
Der Of Southern Minnesota newspapers
as good timber for the Democratic
party to nominate for governor.
Julius Schmall, the Redwood Falls
editor and the last chief clerk of the
house, it Is said has transferred his
political ambitions to the secretary
ship Of the senate. Frank Clague, of
his county, is a candidate for speaker
Of the house, and this rather eliminates
Schmall from consideration as a can
didate for it's chief clerk S. A. Lang
UNI, of NPreston, who has been secretary
of the senate for a number Of ses-
siens, is handicapped in being cam
didate for reelection because Of a po-
litical falling cut with Senator
Thompson. Langum is leading the
fight for Dunn in Fillmore county,
while Thompson and A. D. Gray are
the recognized heads of the Collins
movement in the county.
Capt. c.. c.. Whitney, of Marshall,
has issued a statement that he cannot
be considered candidate for the Re
publican nomination for secretary Of
state Capt. Whitney would like to
represent the Minnesota G. A. R. at
the national encampment as a delegate
at large from the Minnesota depart
ment.
Two candidates fer Democratic nom
nations at the primary election to be
held March Is have withdrawn from
the ticket. Peter Daley, who had filed
for justice of the peace in the Sixth
ward, has withdrawn because of a
press of private business, he says The
name of T c.. Drisco1l, who had filed
for the alder1nalie nomination in the
| Ninth ward, has been withdrawn be-
cause he was yesterday adjudged in
sane and was taken to Rochester.
'aThe one chance, in my opinion, for
| the Democrats to win the presidential
election is for US Western Democrats
| to yield to the Eastern wing of the
party and to submit to the nomination
| of Grover Cleveland for president, :"
declared State Senator Julius Collar,
| of Shakopee, who was at the Windsor
hotel yesterday. Senator Collar rep
| resents Scott county in the legislature
| and is regarded as one of the strong
men Of the upper house. His district
I is one Of the few in the state which
/ is safely Democratic, and his Demec-
| racy has never been in question.
| Cleveland is the logical candidate of
| 1904. He is almost sure to carry New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and In
| diana, and with these pivotal states in
| the Democratic column the victory is
| ours. Let the Democrats of Mime
| sofa and other Western states whose
| electoral votes are never cast for a
Democratic nominee for president step
| aside and permit the East and South
/ to nominate Cleveland. The party in
the East and South will be called on
! to do the bulk Of the work, anyway,
| and why not let the voters of those
/ sections have their candidate?
81 am not saying anything against
1 William Jennings Bryan and his sup
/ porters in the last two presidential
campaigns, but, Scott county gave
| Bryan but 500 majority when the nor
NAL Democratic majority is 1.2o0 out
| of a total Of about 5000 votes. Our
Democratic vote in the Minnesota river
| valley is made UP in large measure
| Of stable, conservative Germans. They
/ are not agitators and they are saying
very little as to their choice of a presi-
Dental nominee, but let Cleveland be
the nominee and old-time Democratic
majorities viii come in from all the
counties which have shown losses. in
the past eight years.. Senator Collar
save he Is of the opinion that Dunn has
| the lead for the Republican vote in
Scott county.
/ Republican state politicians are
keeping their weather eye on Otter Tail
county, with its big delegation in the
| Republican state convention. Otter
Tail county newspapers are maintain
ing suspicious silence as to a choice
between the rival candidates., and re-
| ports which come to Sit. Paul are con-
Trajectory. Elmer E. Adams, the Fer
gus Falls editor who managed F. M
Eddy's congressional campaigns for
three terms, sets the pace for the other
| newspapers of the county in density OF
quiet on the gubernatorial situation. II
is understood that should Eddy develop
| sufficient strength to make him a fac
tor in the three -cernered fight Adams
| will come out strong for the~ Glenwood
| assist him in distributing the patron
age of the Office. Dunn, on the other
hand, has a number of the old and able
men of the Republican organization in
the county who are determined tic
bring down a strong delegation to the
| state convention pledged to him as a
candidate, and the fight in Otter Tai
county promises to be along this line
of cleavage.
L o.
Senator Lord, of Kasson, was in st
Paul yesterday in consultation with
the Collins managers. He declined to
discuss the situation In his part of the
Second district further than to say
| that prospects looked roseate for Col
Inns there.
Senator George w. Somerville, OF
| Sleepy Eye, who was brought out as a
candidate for delegate at-large to the
Republican national convention last
| week, has yielded his ambition to Gov.
Van SAINT. 1t has been made pretty
| clear that Southern Minnesota would
not be given more than one of the four
delegates at-large, and while Senator
Somerville had strong backing for the
place, he has decided to give way to
Van SAINT, that the governor may have
a seat in the delegation along with the
| two senator's and Tom Lowry. The
senator from Brown was switched from