The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-01
DEMOCRATS ARRANGE
FOR A Big SMOKER
Invite All Precinct Committees
men to Join in a Social Ses-
sion March z.

At a meeting of the Democratic city
and county executive committee last
night at Democratic headquarters in
the Globe building, at which every
member of the committee was present,
1t was decided to give a smoker to the
precinct committeeman at Federation
hall, Third and Wabasha streets, Mon
day evening, March 7, at 8 o'clock.
There are 525 Democratic committee.
men in the city, and invitations will be
issued to them to participate. A COM
mittee was named at last nights meet.
ing of the organization to secure
speakers, and an entertaining proc
gramme will be provided for the even
ing Every member of the organiza-
ton will be present and the meeting
will undoubtedly be of unusual inter-
est.
AT last nights meeting OF the ex-
ecutive committee arrangements were
completed for the two meetings Of the.
Democratic judges Of election sched-
uled Cor tonight and tomorrow night
at Democratic headquarters. The
judges of the First, Second, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh wards will
be present at the meeting tonight, and
those OF the Third, Fourth. Fifth,
Sixth and Seventh wards tomorrow
evening. The meetings will be held at
s o'clock and Corporation Attorney
Michael has consented to be present
and give the judges the law which gov
erns their work. 1t is urged that ev-
cry Democratic judge be present at
the meeting for. his ward.
All the township and possibly two
thirds of the organized villages, with
quite a percentage of the cities of the,
state, will hold annual spring elections
on Tuesday, March 8. The caucuses
are now being held and proportionately
the heartburnings will be as bitter as
though vastly bigger things We're in
volved than the offices for constable
and poundmaster.
George B. Winship, editor of the
Grand Forks Herald, would make an
ideal candidate for governor of North
Dakota" said Henry Then, a Bisbee
banker, at the Merchants yesterday,
"but Winship is altogether too indie
pendent in his political attitude to ever
wear the yoke. He recently resigned
a federal position at Grand Forks, it is
said, to be unhanpered by feeling of
obligation to the bosses of his state,
and now there is talk that the old
timers in North Dakota politics will
establish a rival morning paper In
Grand Forks to give Winship the fight
of his life. e. Y. Searles, of Hillsboro,
is another good man who is mentioned
for governor but do not think he will
land rs he can't be handled as easily
as some of the others who stand
much better chance of winning out in
the state convention.
Senator T. M Pugh, of Duluth, is at
the Merchants. There is very little
politics talked in our section of the
state" said the senator. Sentiment
has not crystallized in favor Of any
one of the three candidates for gov
ernor and it probably won't for some
time yet. A few men stand on the
street corners in Duluth and talk as
though the campaign were on, but the
great majority of the voters have thus
far paid very little attention to the
skirmishing of the politicians. ~
Col. w. S. Foster, of Litchf1eld, who
Is said to be setting up the pins pre-
paratory to making another try for
congress in the Sixth district, was in
the city yesterday. He came from the
West, breaHfasted at the Merchants
and made his departure. Fosters ele-
ments of strength remain to be seen.
The resolution indorsing r. G. Dunn
for governor, adopted by the Anoka Re-
publican city convention, is being dis
cussed in the state press. The Anoka
Free Press, friendly to the Princeton
man, charges that Henry Lee, who Of