St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-28
Simply Because He Alluded to His Pub
lie Services in His Speeches
Throughout the District.
How He Has Conducted His Own
Canvass With No Help From
Any Outside Source,
While Lovely Has Had An Army of
Orators to Buoy Up His
Waning Fortunes.
A Senseless Racket.

hands in holy horror and made great ado
about the manner in which he has been
blowing his horn" and parading his vir-
tues and eminent services before the people.
They unite their voices in howl over this
display of egotism-aS they call it-and
their sensitive souls are very much agitated
to think that man of the judges standing
should .'stoop' to such tactics. 1t is, they
shrek, beneath his dignity and in very bad
taste. Nothing like it, they assert, was
ever heard of before, and their pure and
tender hearts ache when they contemplate
the awful spectacle! Their man Lovely.
it is commended. does not tell the people
about his record and what good and whole
some measures he has formu-
lated and carried through. This is
left for Judge Wilson-and they are horri-
fed when they contrast the bearing of the
two men in the canvass. What a pity!
How sad it is that their hearts should ache.
and their modesty be shocked and their
equilibrium be disturbed! What shame it
is that Judge Wilson. after seeing such ex-
of their agitation, does not adopt
a different line of action or withdraw from
the field 1t is too bad that these modest
and irreproachable patriots should be COM
PEELED to listen to or read of the good deeds
of an eminent and respectable citizen! If a
man has public and private
RECORD TO BE PROUD OF,
and which his fellow citizens are proud of,
it is better to say nothing about it. More
important is tin a political campaign.
a man have no public record;
that his private record won't stand being
brought out in the daylight; that he has
nothing to recommend him but his claims
of loyalty to and devotion to the princi-
pies of the grand old party! When
this condition of affairs exists it is crying
shame that the man who has good record
who asks for support on that score, and
does not rely upon promises; who is recog-
niZed as a pure, and able, and honorable
man-should allude to it in any way! Why,
of counsel The reason is obvious. If Mr.
Lovely had record of which he and his
party could feel proud it would be proper
for him to boast of it himself. on the stump
and everywhere! But Judge Wilson should
not do it. He should be more tender
hearted, and have more sympathy for his
opponent and the members of the grand old
party, whose hearts bleed and whose souls
revolt when one of their beloved is being
dissected by public opinion and his antago-
mist is being carried on the popular wave
into high place, where integrity and abil-
ity are appreciated. 1t is easy to see why
the charges of ''egotism" and bad taste"
are laid against Judge Wilson. But such
drivel will have no effect. Com
parsons between the two congressional
candidates in this district will not be det-
riment to Judge Wilson. The organs and
members of the grand old party know this,
ana they are extremely anxious that nothing
be said about records. But this is what
the people and the voters want to
know about, and it has been thoroughly
demonstrated in this canvass that they are
tred5 off and disguised with candidates
who constantly pirate about what they will
do if elected, and who boast of their party
loyalty, and seek to gain votoS by an ap-
peal to partisan prejudices. The day has
gone by when this sort of ammunition is
effective. The dignity and conservative
non partnership of Judge Wilson have
produced very decided effect, in marked
contrast with the course followed by
Lovely and his legion of campaigners.
Few campaigns in the history Of the
have been conducted like Judge
Wilson's, and he has. therefore, of neces-
sity been compelled to depart from the
usual customs and
BEAT DOWN NEW PATHS,
He has been making this fight single
handed and alone. with the exception of a
few speeches by ex-senator Wilkinson.
when the Judge became too hOarse to talk.
He has had no assistance from outside the
district in any way. while Lovely has had
all the speakers he could use placed at his
disposal. These stump orators-in-
Guiding such big guns" as ex-senator
Window and ex-Gov. DaviS-have
gone about over the district lauding
Mr.. Lovely to the skies, extolling his
praises, making promises as to what he
would do in the event of election. and
doing everything possible to weaken Judge
Wilson by asserting that his public record
did not deserve the honor and credit that
has always been accorded it by the people
of the state. regardless of political affilia-
tons. These orators swarmed into the
district and went into every nook and cor
ner where it was possible to hire a hall;
the Republican managers, realizing the
danger and responding to Lovely's appeal
for aid. flooded the district with speakers
of miscellaneous calibre-and a fierce
assault was made all along the line. They
recognized the desperate nature of the sit
uation, and they hoped to overcome the
enemy by an onslaught with force very
largely superior in numbers. They hoped
to sweep everything before them by a
grand rush. And the fight was directed
almost solely against Judge Wilson, eX-
cept when time was taken to make partisan
and stimulate the zeal of the
voters by Haunting before their eyes the
ghost of the grand old party. None of
them were too modest to magnify the vir-
tues of Lovely-as far as they could do so,
which of course. was very limited-while
Lovely made no mention of his public servi-
ces. because he has never done solitary
thing during all his long residence in the
district to which he can point and say:
Gentlemen. | have done this for your
benefit and for the benefit of my state and
district" There is
A VERY GOOD REASON
why Mr.. Lovely cannot be charged with
.'egotism'' and had taste!" On the other
hand. Judge Wilson is making his canvass
solely on his record as private citizen and
public servant He is making no partisan
appeals, he is making no promises as to
what he will do if elected. His'past life is
an indication of what his future life will
be. He has confidence that the people
believe in his integrity, knowing what he
has been all his life. His record as judge
an attorney as legislator is public prop
erty. and the people have right to know
what he has done. He has no army of
speakers, like Lovely. TO acqnaint the voters
with these facts, He must, OF necessity,
do il himself. And so he goes about, in his
own dignifed and quiet way
without ostentation or a blare of
oratoricaI pyrotechnics, and gives an ac-
count of his stewardship. i'll plain and
language, which cannot be
1t is certainly legitimate
and proper for him to do this, because the
voters want to know it and this is the only