St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-13
He Organized His Own Cam
vass Without Waiting For
the State Committee.
His Common Sense Speeches
Take With the People Of
the District.
Union Labor Men Somewhat
Demoralized Through DON
nelly's Withdrawal.
Snecial to the Globe.


section for one to obtain a striking OBJ
servation of the rapid progress that our
modern civilization can make when it
humps itself in the work of making
progress. Here is section of country
which has been settled barely decade,
and the new order of things has crowded
so rapidly the old have not had chance
to get entirely out of the way. On the
one hand are the primal conditions of
the aboriginal days; on the other, the
eye is greeted with adOrnmentS which
crown the highest civilizations of the
old countries. l stood to-day at the
entrance to an Indian tepee on
an Indian reservation watching the no
bic red man carve pipe from the calu-
met stone, which is only found in this
locality; and then, as L lifted my eye
across a stretch of prairie mile dis
tant, it fell upon the beautiful town OF
Pipestone, dotted with buildings made
of the same rock from which the Indian
was carving his pipe. Here was
AN INDIAN ENCAMPMENT
presenting the same picture that greeted
the gaze of the first white man who
visited an Indian village. But how diff
ferent the picture beyond the confines
of the Indian town. Four steel-ribbed
arteries of commerce intersect here.
The Milwaukee system was the first to
penetrate this new country, then came
the Omaha, to be soon followed by the
Burlington, and now the Manitoba has
lust finished its branch to this point.
The new is here in all its grandeur,
but it came so fast the old has not had
time TO get out of its way. From Heron
Lake, where the Omaha branch leaves
the main line, westward is a lovely
stretch of rich prairie, with only two
things lacking to make it GOd-beSSed
cOuntry-trees and Democrats. Both
are coming on, however. The good
seed has been planted and is sprOuting.
The number of young timber groves to
be seen on the way show that these
new settlers have not been inattentlye
to the necessity for tree culture. The
enthusiasm which prevailed at
SENATOR wILKINsON's MEETING
here last night was evidence enough
that the Democratic leayen is working
in Southeast Minnesota. L wish that
some of the Ramsey county Democrats
had been here last night to have caught
the Democratic fever which swept this
town. If they had been there would be
tional strife would be at an end. Morton
S. Wilkinson is making magnificent
canvass, but he is doing it all unaided.
lie was neglected by the state commit
tee so long he finally determined to cut
loose from it and organized his own
canvass and placed it under the able
management of Judge Porter, of Man
katO, who is doing as effective political
work as it is possible to do under the
circumstances. | have heard from ST.
Paul all the way down to this south
western limit of the state complaint
lodged against the Democratic state
committee that they send out too many
kid glove orators and not enough eff
fective campaign workers.
TIE COMMON PEOPLE
want to hear speakers who can talk to
them in plain United States and not
bore them with learned disquisitions on
abstract questions of government
which they can not understand, and
which would be of no profit to them If
they did. They tell story here of one
gentleman who has been billed by the
state commit ee for speeches at several
points in this section, but who has
always failed to put in an appearance,
and that his excuse for not doing so,
was he spent great deal of time in
the preparation of his speeches, so he
didn't think il right to waste his
scholarly efforts on crowd who couldn't
comprehend his Grafton. 1t is possible,
because Mr.. Wilkinson has the faculty
of taking his audiences into his conf
dence at the beginning of a speech that
he makes such an impression upon
them. He doesn't pose, nor does he
affect a stilted air. lie is an Abraham
Lincoln sort of man, possessing ability
and having won
A NATIONAL REPUTATION.
Still he is plain as an old shoe, APP
proachable to everybody and cordial with
every one. He goes around among the
farmers, and it is How are you, Mort?'
here, and How do you do, Mort?"
there. and a shake of the hand and a
slap on the shoulder. and they are all
good fellows together. That is good
electiOneering and good horse sense
politics. And yet. when it comes to
making a speech of real ability, brist-
| ling with facts and arguments and
| glowing with elOquence, Mort Wilkin-
| son eclipses the gentleman who thought
| his scholarly speeches were too valuable
| to be wasted on the yeOmanry. The
! erstWhIe greenbackeTs, more recently
sailing under Union Labor cOlOrs, have
! strong organization IN this section,
but the withdrawal of Mr.. Donnelly has
demoralized the organization. Most of
them have swung into line with the
! Democrats, and probably all of them
will be battling for Cleveland and Thur
man by the time the election comes
around. The Prohibitionists are not
doing much work in this locality,
although there is fairly good sprlnk-
| ling of cold water advocates who will
vote for Fisk and Harrison. G. H. NJ.