St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-25
A PROHIBITION PROBLEM.
Will Robert Taylor Double His
Vote of Two Years Ago?


Vote Of Two Years Ago?
Special to the Globe
OWATONNA, Oct. 24.-The progress Of
the Prohibition movement in the First
district is a puzzle that Hermann might
conjure his brains over and not be able
to say what is going to become of ii OH
the 9th Of November. When Robert
Taylor was nominated by the Third
party for congress in this district the
prediction was freely made that he
would double his party vote of 1886 and
give his party an impetus it has never
received in this section. Until Dun
nell was nominated the reports from all
the nine counties of the district were
favorable to Prohibition gains. and a
consequent loss to the Republicans.
But with DunnelfS new prominence
and the putting into operation of plan
formulated by the Republican state cen
trail committee, heavy work began on
the Prohibition element to bring them
back into the old party lines. 1t was
DunEelFS first move to flood the Pro
hibition sections of Dodge county.
Steele. Mower and Freedom with
Shrewd manipulators. whose business it
was to bring argument or something
stronger to bear on weak-kneed ''drys."
and induce them to make pledges 10
vote for Dunnell. In the arguments
made something similar to this was
said:
You cannot elect ProhibtiOniSt in
this district. and all of your efforts only
serve to defeat a Republican and elect
Democrat. The Democrats are friends
of the saloon interests, and the ReDub-
licanS never have been. YOu can better
afford to elect an anti-saloon Republican
than a saloon Democrat. If the Re
publicanS win in the nation this year,
and Mr.. Dunnell is elected. your DropO-
sitiOns TO control the liquor traffic Will
honestly be considered
Men, too. in other localities have said:
IF the legislature remains Republic
an this year, and Dunnell and Merriam
are elected, they will use their influence
to have a prohibitory constitutional
amendment submitted TO the people,
Again 1t has been said to some:
Mr.. Dunnell is a Baptist. and has
been conspicuous in temperance work
and the cause Of morality. He repre-
sents the Temperance Republican party.
and since your vote for Taylor would
be thrown away. you can do the next
best thing by voting for Dunnell. who
stands nearer to your partys views
than Wilson does
These arguments have had some eff
feet certainly, for there is dropping
in Prohibition enthusiasm and a per-
ceptible lukeWarmness as to their can
didates. This is not so in every Prohi-
bltiOn center in the district, but there
are few of them that have escaped the
depression caused 10y the SOphiStry of
Dunnelfs arguments. The Prohibition
vote i'll the district two years ago was
1.500. To prevent any new acceSSions
Will not be of as much benefit to Dun
nell as to reduce the figures below those
OF 1886 and to secure for himself every
vote SO changed. He appreciates this.
know, for there are more Dunnell
workers to-day in the Prohibition
strOngh0ldS of the district than in the
Democratic fOrtreSSes of Wabasha and
WinOna. Every appeal on the grounds
OF passion. prejudice, partisanShip and
kindred religion are being made to
them, and if they are not successful il
Will be because the PrOhibitiOniStS have
developed sentiment of consistency
never manifested by them in Minnesota
before.
DUNNELL AT HOME.
One of the measures of a mans pOpu-
larity is his standing with his own
toWnspeople. By this test. an iceberg
would be more popular in Owatonna
than Dunnell-the citizens would rush
en- maSse to embrace an icicle before
they would hasten to train 10 welcome
Dunnell home from congress. He has
lived here sixteen or seventeen years.
and yet to-day the PillSDurys. of Mime
apOlis, are better known in OwatOnna
than Dunnell, whose white mansion
stands on a sun-kiSsed hill and froWns
behind closed blinds upon the place
about. The resident of any place who
purchases his supplies in Chicago or
New York, who keeps his moneys in St.
Paul, who passes day by day through
the business circles Of his city. like
shadow, with cheer for no man: who.
in fact, lives 4 sullen. secluded
life, with none of the milk of
human Kindness for his ncighbor,