The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-10
THEY URGE A. SPIRIT
OF CANCELLATION.
Democratic leaders Want Dem.
ocratic Delegate Convention
to Act ConsevativeIy.

men to represent the state. at the st.
Louis convention who will work to
harmonic all the interests in the par
ty.
1t is felt in many quarters that there
is little excuse for Minnesota Demo-
Gratis not getting together on some
common ground and sending delega-
ton to the national convention that
will avoid the nomination of an ex-
tremist in any direction.
The recent meeting of the state CEN
trail committee in ST.. Paul had the
good result of giving members of the
committee an opportunity to discuss
the issues and weigh the relative ner-
its of various men mentioned in con-
neetion with the. Democratic nomina-
ticn for president. Since the meeting
was held there have been reports that
the committeeman have been talking
over matters with their constituents
at home and the result is a better I'M
Outstanding of the conditions not only in
Minnesota, but throughout the country
at large, and as the greatest good to
the greatest number is sunquestionably
what the rank and file Of the party de-
sire above everything else, the indi-
cations are that the delegation will go
to Duluth determined on meeting the
questions presented in friendly man
ner and formulating platform and
making selections of delegates to st.
Louis who will express the sober senti-
ment of the Minnesota Democracy.
A prominent st. Paul Democrat, who
requested that his name be not used
as he did not want to appear in the
role of dictator, said yesterday: i'7e'
Il believe that the Duluth convention
will be one of the best and most ear
snest conventions in the history of the
party in this state. We possibly may
not all agree, but / think that the De-
mocracy sof the state will show good
judgment If it adopts a platform and
makes selection of its delegates with
an eye single to the best interests of
the country and the party at large. l
may not be able to have my own way
In everything and my neighbor may
not agree with me on all things that
ome2before the convention, but l am
hopeful that Cancellation and compro-
mise will be the watchwords of that
convention and that the convention
will adopt some middle ground. I
think We should send delegates to. st.
Louis who will vote for5some good man
who supported the candidates of the
party in the last two campaigns, and
about twhose Democracy there can be
no question. The present-6fay. zDemo-
Gratis cannot be expected to go back
to old men and old issues, but there
are several good men in the party al
ready mentioned as possible candi-
dates whom Democrats of every school
can consistently support. I have no
unkind word to lsay ssofs Mr.. Bryan
there is no consideration which could
tempt me, to ma1ign that great man
but he is animated by the spirit of the
crusader and will not willingly let go
of the old issues and take up with the
new. The Republicans have given us
plenty of ammunition upon which to
makeethe fight; we need have no fear
of any dearth of issues, and if we but
nominate a clean, able, fearless, g.
gressive and yet reasonably conserv-
ative man, we shall have made long
step towards a victory in the autumn"
County Treasurer Metzdorf has as
yet made no final decision as to being
a candidate for reelection. Many
friends have called upon him lately
and urged him to make the race for
sheriff in the fall, but he has, told them
dill t1lcI lie WAS uIlQGClu0Q. 1t Is PROP
able, however, that he will be a can
didate to succeed himself as treasurer,
and in that event opposition for a re-
nomination is improbable.
Senator Ole Mausten-the man with
the iron grips down from AitkiIl
county to ming1e with the politicians.
| Mausten. is one of the earliest and
most stalwart friends of former State
Auditor Dunn, and he says that Aitkin
county is enthusiastically for Dunn for
governor.
C. R. Bostrum, of Austin, pronii-
nent Republican of Mower county, was
at the capitol yesterday. He said
| there was some Eddy sentiment in his
county.
J. M. Diment is receiving substan-
tial support from the papers of his
| home town-Owatonna- several
other towns in the First district, as a
candidate for district delegate to the
Chicago convention.
Lyon county is said to be the fight
| ing ground on the gubernatorial ques-
| ton. There has been a sentiment in
ST. Paul that possibly c. C. Whitney
| had the county solid for Collins, but
/ later advices from Lyon indicate that
| the sentiment among Republicans of
| the county is not wholly in accord with
| the earlier estimates and that Capt
Whitney will not be able to deliver the
| goods.
| Friends of G. B. Young, of Tracy
are said to be looking for V. B. Seward
| of Lyon county, and if they ever catch
up with him there will be something
doing. The story goes that Young re-
| ceived assurances of the Seward sup
| port in his candidacy for district dele
| gate from the Seventh district. and
/ he and his friends proceeded on the
theory that Lyon county would have
no other candidate. Later it was an
| nounced in one of the Marshall papers
| that Seward himself was a candidate
/ and it has not been denied. Young's
friends regard the Seward candidacy
I as nothing less than treachery, ano
are working with that understanding
| of the case.
1.-THE political complexion of many
of the Montana mining camps has un-
/ dergone a great change since the Boe1
| war; said DR.. Arthur Jordan, OF
| Marysville, Mont, who is at the Mer-
| chants en- route home from triI
| East. ga great many fthe employees
! of the mines and of the smelling plants
are either English or Irish, and wheI
| the. Boer war came, and the United
/ States government preserved an .atti
| tude of neutrality, and, in fact, the
/ Americans were about the only friends
Hin orliSh miners raro