St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-11
THE GREAT FIGHT.
An Uninterrupted Reign OF Twenty
Six Years in Min
nesota
By a Party That Has Fostered Mo-
nopoly and Created Money
Kings.
Why the Democracy Enters the
Campaign With Such
Rosy Hope.
The Sentiment Which Indicates Ames
Nomination and Triumphant
Election.
He VIII Buckle on His Armor and
Garry the War Into Every
Precinct.
How King Kelly Has Routed His In
emies in All Parts of the
State.
The Campaign in MINNESOTA.

The Campaign in MINNESOTA
The Democratic campaign in Minnesota
this fall, considered impersonally, renects
the change that has ccme upon the natlon
since the control Of the government passed
away from the Republican party. IN
state in which it has long been consldereu
in a hopeless minority-whlch gave the IdSI
Republican presidential nominee over
40 600 maiority--the Democratic party
nusheS itself to the front this fall, prepared
not only for an aggressive campaign, and
not only hopeful, but actually connoent Oh
capturing the power in Minnesota and add
ing the state to the list of those in which
the people govern themselves, This conn-
dent pretension, as they style it. IS met Dy
most Republicans with cOntemptuous
sheer and an increduIOus smile. and IL Is
only the few who have carefully Analysed
the situation and noted the silent and steal
thv action of change, who are prepared to
admit that the Republican grip on Mime
sofa is relaxing to a degree approaching the
danger pOint. 1t is not an insignificant TACT
that leaders of the Republican party, Tor
the first time. are subordinating fitness for
office 10 popularity and strength with the
masses and there is that cOnSiderate and
rareful weighing of men and Judgment be-
tween candidates that betoken they are en-
tering an electoral battle in which the for
mer disparitv of forces has disappeared.
Nor is it insignificant that these same Re
publicans are manIfeStlng an eager desire 10
parcel out nominations Ill such style that
the foreign element OF population shall get
the lions share.
THE sCANDINAyIAE VOTE
is a matter of earnest Solicitude with them,
for it is apparent to their most careless OBJ
server that surely, and not very slowly,
either. il is drifting from them and toward
the party dominant in national politics.
The past year has marked a radical change
in this respect, and from the ranks OF these
newly made Americans have sprung many
leaders. all of whom are staunch Democrats.
Yielding to a demand for change OF sentl-
ment. MANY prominent Scandinavian news
paDers have cast loose from the old party
and Joined the Democracy. the pressure in
some cases being so great that the change
came even when it carried change of man
agement with it. The fallacy preached for
twenty years by Republican orators and
organs is bearing bitter fruit to-day. For
years il has taught the newly arrived emil
grants from transatlantic countries that
upon their allegiance to the government de-
nended their safety and happiness. and that
their fidelity to the party in power meant
their continued peace and prosperity. With
many this doctrine has become thoroughly
ingrained and will not be neglected now.
Others were assured the triumph OF De
mccracy meant commercial disaster and
mercantile and manufacturing decay: their
ewes are now open to the deception and
their power at the ballot box will be thrown
against their deceivers. This is not an idle
Dlatitude but an assured tact.
THE LABOR VOTE
is another great source Of uneaSness to the
Republican leaders. The tOlling masses
have recognized at last that in the Republ-
can party they view the power that for so
long has fostered monopoly and created
money kings. and that, during an uninter-
rupted continuance Of power for twenty-six
years in Minnesota, has taken not one
definite step for the amelioration of the
condition of labor, though filling its party
platforms with jingling, glittering gener-
alities-empty nothingneSs. Recent cleo
tions in various points throughout the state
indicate with certainty that the men who
toll have determined to test their strength
through the ballot box, and that this strength
has been thrown in direction dramatically
opposite the Republican party. The labor
vote is strong in Minnesota, and in the COM
ing election will be a potential factor-and
against Republicans.
THIRD CAUSE
operating very strongly against the Repub-
lican party in Minnesota at this time is
found in the temperance attitude of thai
4,,,fI-
nose as a vast colossus on the liquor Ques-
ton. By distinctly straddlng 1t. it is losing
heavily on both ends. The ProhibitionistS,
with a strictly defined position, are drawing
from it most of its voters who hold ultra
temperance views, while from the other
end are dropping off the anti-sumptuary
believers and the adherentS to the doctrine
of complete personal liberty. The Prohi-
bition party, more thoroughly organized
than ever before, and deeply incensed al
the reprOacheS heaped upon it by the Re-
publicans. will poll the largest vote in it:
history The liquor men, also organized
for protection, are forced to vote against
the avowed champions of high license anG
will carry with them the sympathizns
strength of thousands. Between the Pro
hIbitiOnists at one end and the liquor meI
at the other, the Republican party find.
itself between the upper anC
the neither milestone, its life slowly
going with the heavy pressure.
This is the position in which the Repub
lican party finds itself in Minnesota to-day,
and these are the reasons why the DemOc
racy enters with such rosy hope contest
always heretofore one-sided slaughter.
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
has thus far assumed no shape especially,
attention having been wholly directed tt
the fight being waged. with SO little appar-
ent effect to date, against the bosses, Kelly
and Doran. 1t is fair to presume the bull
of the party has no interest in this san.
culinary warfare and its result. further
than to CLEAN from il whatever amusement
it may afford. AS far as it has gone the
bosses have decidedly the best of it. With
the exception of the Hennepn county con
tingent the participants in that memorable
convention of July l seem to have me-
with dire defeat. In fact, wherever The
issue was raised and the fight SQUARED,
made, the KellyDoran forces have won an
undoubted victory. In Minneapolis there
was no thought of the bosses. In Ramse,
county the ants are weltering in their gore
while the remains of D0nnelly are scat
tered all over Dakota. Judge
Smith and DR.. Rhodes OF Stillwate
are among the missing, and Daniel Bucl
Is not numbered among the elect O
Blue Earth. T. E. Bowen, of Sleepy Eye
snd ]. J. Thornton, of st. James, seen
alone to have saved their distance. Will,
this is the result of the Fuller onnelll
ambitious effort to tear the crown from TIN
dual Kelly-Doran head, foreshadowing tn