St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-11
SHEET NAYINGS.

Senator-Elect Peter Nelson, of Red Wing,
| was III toe city yesterday. He hud q hard
| fight in Goodhue county, but came out nobly.
| carried through by the Democratic wave. All
the wonder Is, however, that Senator Nelson
was elected in such a Republican county,
| where it is understood that the Republicans
| had number of Scandinavian cergymen
| working against the Democratic ticket at the
| Goodhue polls. But there is one good reason
| why Senator Nelson received the support OF
| his nationality. Ex-senator o. NJ. Hall and
| himself addressed large Scandinavian meet
ing. Nothing was said by Senator Hall rela-
| tive to the past or prospective partisan pro-
| clivities of the Scandinsvlans He simply
made clear. logical tariff speech. As re-
| suit the ScandinavianS subsequent to the
| meeting said they had never heard such an
| interesting talk before, and il the tariff
| question was an issue before the people they
were going TO vote for Macdonald and Nelson.
Senators w. G. Ward of WaSeca, and E.
! W. Durant, of Saltwater, met at the Mer-
chants yesterday afternoon. Thirteen years
ago they constituted a good working team.
Both bad been Republicans, and both became
Liberals in the Greeley wing. Duraut has
made as firm a Democrat as he did Repub-
| lican and gunpowder can't turn him. Ward,
however, was too deep-dyed in the wool to
remain Liberal. and two years ago he was
the thunder-voiced instigatOr of the euthus-
iastic Blaine caucus in the Merchants hotel
dining-room. Both will sit in the senate this
session side by side, and will work in har-
mony on any mOvem Mt for the general bene-
fit of the state, regardless of political affilia-
tons.
A story is told on one of the prominent
members of the Young Mems Republican
club which rather has a tendency to injure
his record as practical politician. He was
present at the Republican demonstration in
! Exposition rink the night before the elect on
and was up as late as III or II o'clock. Con-
| sequently he was very sleepy the next dar.
| He ha agreed to go to White Bear and work
| Mt the polls in the interest of Q. A. Sand
! strom, the Republican candidate for auditor,
and after securing supply of ballots he
boarded the 2 o'clock train for White Bear
! But the fatigue resulting from his midnight
| hours overcame him on the train, and he fell
| asleep. The conductor forgot to wake him
| at White Bear, and as the train sped on,
| he still slumberel. 1t was the peaceful
| sleep of child. and the tender-hearted con-
| ductor would not wake him. as the train went
| on. When about ten miles this side of Tay-
| lor's Falls, the drOwsy god climbed OF his
perch upon the eveds of this N amber OF the
| Young Mems Republican club. and the young
man woke, one hand grasping the ballots and
| the other a gold-headed silk umbrella that he
had taken along to protect his tall hat from
| the threatening rain. The conductor states
! that before the train had fairly stopped, at
| the neat station, the young man had jumped
| to the ground, leaving both his ballots and
umbrella in the car seat. The conductor
| called him, but the Young man would not
| stop as he seemed eager to get back to White
Bear and was making three ties ut a jump.
A conductor of a freiA ht train coming toward
White B ear, states that the young man over
| took his train seven miles out and rode in on
! the caboose. but as it was nearly o'clock the
! polls had closed. 1t is understood that prom
| inent members of the club attribute Sand
| strom's defeat la grly to this fact.