The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-26
THE ST PAUL GLOBE SATURDAY. MARCH 26 1904.
EUSTIS PRESERVES
PROFOUND SILENCE
81
Gives No lSIonsof Declaring His
Intentions Regarding Gu.
bernatolia! Candidacy.

William Henry Eustis, the Mime
apolis politician who has put the
sphinx to the bad in the matter of
silence since his return from the Ber-
mudas, nearly two weeks ago, threat
ems to keep it UP until April Is and
then come out with a statement of his
intentions with respect to the Repub-
Hcan candidacy for governor
Eustis since his arrival in Mime
apolis has sought the society of his
closest political friends in an effort to
locate himself in their affections. Dur
ing his prolonged absence the fight
waxed warm between the three rival
candidates already in the field, and the
name of Eustis, once a power in Re-
publican councils and always reliable
for use in arousing enthusiasm at
their meetings, had become byword.
Nearly all his old friends in Hennepin
county had tackled on to some one of
the other candidates., and there SEEM
ed to be little doing in his direction.
He has been keeping close tab on their
movements, however, and is known to
have had several earnest consultations
with some of his WarmeSt admirers in
the hope of arriving at decision:
Thus far he has come to no conclu-
sion, and While he is billed to address
Republican gathering in Minneapolis
next Tuesday night, it is considered
improbable that he will make any dec
iaration Of lhisaintentions at that time.
L have itsas near first hand as it
is poSSibles toa get it," said a we'll
known Minneapolis Republican to a
q reporter yesterday, that Will
liam Henry Eustis will let the politi-
clans guess oWhile longer. He will
make statement of his intentions
with respect to- the Republican nomi-
nation for governor not earlier than
April Is. At about that date he will
announce his decision, and while I am
as close tos Mr.. Eustis. I think as any
of his political friends, I can't forecast
with anything like certainty what the
decision wfh~be. 1t may possibly de-
pend yerya9nuch on what assurances
of support are rendered him in his own
county in the interim.
The situation is very badly eompli-
Gated in Hennepin. There's Ray w.
Jones, who, wants second term as
lieutenant governor. Naturally he is
not using any .dragnet to bring sup
porters to- Eustis and to press him to
get into the game. Undoubtedly Eus-
tis-should he become a candidate for
SOVCiIl OuIus .COlllnS sup
port in Hennepin more than he would
Dunns. The Collins and Eustis friends
are largely off, the same cloth, while
the Dunn supporters in Hennepin are
FOR the most part men who are posi-
lively fer him no matter who becomes
a candidate. I do not think that Eustis
has any idea of becoming a candidate
for congress. in the Fifth district"
- Taon1ovy1of ooYuorco a.. x1yitf, II, 70 az,
may besinclined. to throw Easter bou-
quets at James A. Tawrey, the Winona
congressman for his fearless cham
pionship of the weak the other day at
| Washington, when he succeeded in
lacking an amendment to bill carry
ing an appropriation for. miscellaneous
postal expenditures, providing that no
part of the appropriation should be
used for telephone service in postoffices
where the postmaster is required by
an order of the postmaster general to
| use no other telephone service than the
Bell or those companies controlled by
the Bell company.
The amendment was designed to
cover the case of the st. Paul post
office, where,rtWo- months ago, sixteen
! telephones of the Twin City company
were removed on an order Of the post
master general. The Northwestern
Telephone company's instruments are
still in operation in the federal build
ing. The removal effected a saving of
sixteen times $42. and the postal au-
| thorities at Washington explained in
the order removing the Twin City
phones that it was done for the sake
| of uniformity; that the older company
had connections in all the principal
| points of the Central West and the
East, and as the instruments were
primarily for the use of the inspectors
| in communicating with the local office.
the Bell cernpany's instruments an
swered in a larger degree the purpose.
In his declaration of war against the
big telephone monopoly, Tawney may
have served the public good turn, but
his motives, it appears. are not entirely
unselfish. Down at Winona there is
which Tawney is said to be the prin-
cipal owneE:,. it has a close traffic
agreement with the Twin City. and
none with the Northwestern, which
doesn't like the little fellows in the
business. On his recent visit to Min
nesota. the Winona statesman is said
to have perfected deal by which his
sis with the. Twin City corporation,
| and his little play at Washington the
other day, it appears. was inspired by
nothing loftier than the policy of boost
and knock. 1t was intended to help
his friends and to injure his business
rivals: only that and nothing more.
! And thus is another Republican bluff
at strangling the octopus exposed.
| E. T. Young, the Appleton lawyer
! who Is a candidate for attorney gen.
] eral, has returned from attendance on
! the Ortonville convention, and pro-
| fesses to be very well satisfied with
| the way his candidacy is being received
| in his home district. 1--WE shall have
| the largest representation in the state
convention of any congressional dis
trict in the State" said Young yester-
day, leading Hennepin by a comforta-
] BILE margin. The Seventh casts the
biggest Republican vote in the nine
districts, and it will have but two
places on the state ticket should Judge
Brown be renominated and I be select
ed for attorney general. The basis of
representation in the nominating con-
vention will be on the vote cast for Van
/ SAINT for governor two years ago, and
| this will give us a smaller representa-
ton than at the Minneapolis conven-
| ton of last week, but, of course, the
other districts. will suffer in a corre-
| spending degree. / have every reason
| to think that. the Seventh district dele
gates will be aaunit for my nomination
| for attorney general
| The congressional situation in Hem
nepin county is still unsettled, though
| it is expected that Frank M. Nye will
/ formally announce his candidacy with