St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-03
The Democratic Candidate In
the Fifth Says He Will
Be Elected.
He Is Also Free to Assert
That Wilson Will Carry
the District.
Merriam Losing Votes Every
Day in All Of the Thirty
Counties.
Gen. Barrett Gives Mr.. Can
ning's Record in the
Legislature.

Hon. Charles Canning. the Alliance
andidate for congress in the Fifth dis
trict, was in the city yesterday. In APP
pearance Mr.. Canning is typical
granger, with the sunburnt face, hard
ened hands, and the rugged Scotch
honesty of his nature depicted in every
line of his open face. When asked by
GLOBE reporter concerning political
matters in the Fifth district, MI. Can
ming said:
sThe political pot is boiling in the
Fifth district. AS to the result, L speak
adyisedly because | have made a care
full canvass and think l am in position
to know something of popular Senti-
earth for myself, yet l am going to be
elected. AS relates to the state ticket,
Wilson will receive large majority in
the Fifth district Merriam is dead
duck, and his friends up there know it.
He is offered for sale by COmstock' S
friends, and in their hOpeleSSly deSper-
ate effort to beat me are trading Mer-
riam off whenever they get the
chance"
''WAat effect did Gilman's st. Cloud
speech have in your diStrict?'
Just the effect it was intended to
have. But want to say word III re-
gard to GilmaE's inconsistency. The
Republican state convention in St.
Paul was only repetition of the Re
publican congressional convention at
st. Cloud. ComStock bought his nomi-
nation Just as much as Merriam bought
his. And when Charlie Gilman indorses
the nomination of one and condemns
the other, he equals Satan himself for
inconsistency. But Comstock is
Charles cousin, and Charlie had a
finger in the pie at st. Cloud"
''How about the rumor that Knute
Nelson, Gilman, CemStock and jim Hill
are in combination on Fifth district
politics."
.'You will find the Big -Four unit Oh
political matters. Nelson draws the
wool over the Norwegians. The origin
al combination was Nelson for the SEN
ate, Comstock for the house. and Gill
man for governor, while Hill was to
use them all to pull his chestnuts out
of the fire. Gilman has been knocked
out, and, i expect to knock Comstock
out. while Nelson will have to buckle
against Sabin and Washburn later On
The combination is now trading off
everything, including Merriam, to save
Comstock and Knute Nelson. The
latter gentleman is now doing the two
horSe-act riding his low tariff speech
and vote on the Mills bill on one hand
and and Harrison and the Chicago high
tariff platform on the other. What a
contemplate thing the average poll
tician is. How badly the country does
need statesmen"
"You are confident that Eugene Will
son will carry the Fifth district?'
Il am. am furthermore certain that
he will he elected governor, and that
he will have back bone enough to stand
in his own shoes and not be the tool of
any ring. The Republican organize
ton in this state is rotten to the core
and must lie buried to purify the air.
The methods which prevailed in the
Republican conventions in this city and
at st. Cloud are illustrations of how ut
terly corrupt Minnesota Republicanism
has become under the ring rule. The
masses of the Republican party are
honest. The present era in politics is
one of enlightened ideas and more than
ordinary self-assertlon on the part of
the people. The people are capable of
purifying the corrupt politics of this
State, and they propose to do it by put
ting honest Eugene Wilson in the gov
ernor's chair for two years"