St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-05
THE POWER OF GOLD.
IfDunnell Cannot Invoke That
He Is a Dead
Duck.
Popular Sentiment Is With
Thomas Wilson and
Will Win
# a Fair Vote and Honest
Count Are Had Tues
day.
Dunnell's Friends Are Not
Confident, and Make Small
Claims.
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OwAToNNA, Nov. beyond a per-
functory speech at Rochester tonight
and demonstration at Austin, Mr..
Dunnell'S fight is ended; and ended,
too, on the part of his camp followers
with most unhappy feeling as to what
the outcome will be. Owatonna is his
home and, if anywhere, here that wild
wave" of enthusiasm that has been
supposed to follow his canvass would
manifest itself. Yet behold, not even
the spray can be discovered, and the
ear will wait eXpectant many
moons before it hears any dis
tant thunder of Dunneu surg.s.
Apathy, discomfort, half hidden
dlssensiou, treachery-the make the
''wave'' that has followed Dunnell.
And the proof of it? Friday MIR. Dun
nell came up the Northwestern road to
Dodge Center, where he spoke that
evening. While on the cars he is re-
ported as having said:
LIZ AM DEFEATED, MY OWN PARTY
WILL HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF IT."
Did MIR. Dunnell stop to think at that
moment that John A. Lovely might
have said that once; or Milo White or
William Window? Did he stop to ask
himself why Gulbrandson would not
support him, Or Day, or Mcneil or
Stimson; or why Lafayette French
said, as he did say on July IL, in the
Cook house in Rochester, and in my
presence,
ri WOULD NOT sTULTIFY MYSELF
BY VOTING FOR DUNNELL."
Probably Mr.. Dunnell did not. Be-
longing to the school of Agoists, it
would not be natural for him to do so.
Nor has he. ever probably asked HIM
self why, in district that was naturally
Republican, it should be necessary for
the Republican candidate for congress
in that district to purchase a Polish
paper in a Democratic county and for
weeks to keep men well supplied with
money in a certain ward of a Demo-
cratic city? Or why it was necessary
for him to send paid emissaries into the
Baptist and the Prohibition sec
tons of the district, or to
keep jim 0'Br:en scurrying from
one Irish settlement to the other?
Had Mr.. Dunnell been the beau ideal of
the Republican party in the First dis
trict, all this would not have been
necessary. Any Republican in that
district. who is personally and polite
ally pure, and who represents the pop
ular sentiment of the district, can be
elected there over the head of the best
Democrat that ever lived. This ought
to, and does prove why DunnelPS can
vass has been an uphill one, and admits
of the further assertion that if lie does
not spend mint of money between this
and Tuesday he is defeated. Some
money is now going out. To accuse
Dunnell or Merriam of furnishing it
would not be susceptible Of proof.
But have found this-that wherever
they have come into a town
together the next day men in the COM
munity who had hitherto taken no
stand in politics suddenly came out for
Dunnell and Merriam and began to
spend money freely. As they were men
who were usually bankrupt, their sud
den declaration of faith and visible
means gave colOring to the assertion
that they had been bought. This was
the case in Albert Lea, Austin, Winona,
Preston and a half dozen other of the
political centers of the district. 1t is a
matter that the prominent politicians of
the district have been cogniZant Of for
month. 1t has been the one thing
that has caused doubt as to Con-
gresham Wilson's reelection. Were
that removed, or could one know that
under 10 circumstances could cOrrup-
ton ever triumph over the right, MIR.
Wilson's going back would be al alb
solute certainty.
To win, Mr.. Dunnell, or the gentle
men who assume TO speak for him. must
purchase zoe votes III Winona; 200 in
Wabasha; 800 in Freedom; 800 IN
Mower; 300 in Olmsted, and 200 in Fill
more. | use the word purchase adj
visedly. The intelligent, progressive
element of the district, independent of
party, does not intend to vote for Dun
nell, and all the money in Christendom
could not compel it to. Therefore,
Mr.. Dunnell must control the
tickle and floating class of
these counties, and if they are
commercially inclined he may do so and
win. If they possess the sense of honor
that the best men in the district ascribe
to them, he is beaten. The betting men
of the district evidently think that he
is, for they are giving odds on Wilson,
and have been doing SO for the last ten
days. The Dunnell men, from eXtrava-
gent claims rs to the result, have re-
ceded to the candid admission that they
are not certain of success, and that the
margin on either side will be quite close.
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