St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-24
Some Idea of the Fight Being
Made by Local Repub-
licanS.
Leading Candidates Prefer to
Trust to Doodle, Not
Committees.
The Hot Snider Campaign,
Death of the Old Sol H. H.
der Racket.
Committees Tremble Before
the Wilson and Winston
Tidal Wave. ,

The Republican campaign in Henne-
pin county, take it all the way through,
from national candidates down to alder.
men, is very singular and miXed-up
sort of affair. Practically the work
devolves upon two committees, the
county, headed by A. j. Boardman, and
tho city, headed by Gov. McGill'S weigh
master, George W. Marchant. With
| out stopping to comment upon the fact
that the state pays Marchant for other
work, it may be said that very little
reliance is placed on either committee
for other than routine work by the can
didates who expect to win. The presl-
Dental fight is in charge of the league,
manipulated by that shrewd and battle
Scared veteran of fifty successful cam
paigns, Timothy f. Byrnes. This
organization devOtes itself to flooding
the state with literature, divided into
three classes; first, passionate APP
pealS to Irishmen to vote against
England by voting for Harrison,
who has repeatedly insulted the
Irish, and Morton, the British banker:
people to vote the Republican ticket on
high moral grounds; third, appeals to
the German vote to stand by the Repub-
lican party because it believes in per-
sOnal liberty and free whisky. This is
about the substance of the work done
by the league. with ''ltS $500 men,
bers," as a local paper claimed. Banker
Merriam, for governor, trusts not in
| committees. Committees may get out
tickets and make canvass to perfec-
ton, but the astute st. Paulite has
other weapons at his command. Ger
tain tried and truSty men are appointed
bOOdle-bearerS, and are spending their
| time putting money where it will do the
most good. 1t is believed this money
came from Merriam, and that he has
more to put in during the last few days.
1t is evident his managers believe in
"perSonaF' campaign rather than in
placing their trust in an ordinary COM
mittee.
THE MOST DESPERATE FIGHT
being made is that under way in behalf
of Capt. Snider, the millionaire mine
owner. L. 3. Hart and A. II. Hall have
temporarily abandoned their law prac-
tice to hustle for the captain, and it is
reported there is the snug sum OF $780,
600 to be expended, if that amount is
necessary to Snider's election. The
captains campaign at home is based on
port a Minneapolis man, and this idea is
brought out in South Minneapolis pa
per which boOmS the captain as Min
neapoliS man at SO much per boom.
This runs counter to the Merriam idea,
which is to keep down the city feeling,
but it is case of save himself who can,
and the Snider forces are making deS-
perate fight. Several local papers have
made sudden flops and flung the Snider
portrait to the front, but that may have
no connection with new presses, etc.
There has been great ructiOn in the
county committee over an assertion that
A. II. Hall has been booming Snider at the
expense of the county ticket. Hall was
placed on the committee upon Snider'S
demand for representation. He was
afterwards made secretary, and now
comes the complaint. 1t is said there
was a merry war of words at the last
meeting. and that finally a member said
that as long there was no money and no
enthusiasm he would move the COM
mittee adjourn sine die.
Members of the county committee say
they are making a hard and winning
fight for the county ticket, but there is
an air of evident insincerity about the
statement that discounts it at least one
half. Several of the candidates them
to hustle for themselves, and that things
will be so stirred up in the city that
their entire ticket will be buried in the
swim. Recent developments made from
the county attorneys office in regard to
the small percentage of trials, coupled
with the statement that the gam
bling interest will be thrown
solid from the Republican ticket.
have tendency to shake the hope
that the ticket may pull through. The
Endorsement of j. ii. Eye by the Farm
and Labor party, OH the ground that he
was PrOhibitiOnist, has raised great
laugh. and when man is laughed at he
is in danger. All through, the Repub-
licans are very weak in hope and are in
mighty dread of having everything
swamped by the tidal wave that is roll
ing or for Wilson and Winston.
IN THE CITY CANVASS
the Republicans are at their wits ends.
Some OF the committee claim to be able
to control the next council, but in their
private councils they admit that the
outlook is very slim. The prospect for
Capt. Babb and the city ticket is so de-
cidedly blue that the committee is
badly handicapped, and they now fear
that the immense majority which seems
certain for Winston will carry the alder
manic ticket through in wards which
would otherwise be Republican. There
was serious talk yesterday, in unofficial
quarters. of taking Babb off the ticket,
but it was agreed that this would be an
admission of weakness that could not
but be disastrous. No new man could
be put OH at this time and hope to win.
There is one phase of the city cam
paign, and indeed, the entire campaign,
that has been sadly miSused. The Re-
publicans started out on the old-soldier
racket and worked it so hard that i'm
many cases they not only Disguised the
general public. but the old soldiers
themselves. The old soldier, now that
he has been removed from politics, will
continue to receive the respect and
gratitude he deserves, and the bloody 4
shirt will be folded away forever. Min-
neapOliS Is entirely done with il. "a