St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-09
Republican congressman Are
Shaking in Their Shoes Over
Their Prospects.
Some Cont Not Flatter-
ing to Congressman S. P.
Snider.
Why Solomon, the Unwise,
Will Be Beaten in the Filth
District.
Several Minnesota Districts
Ready for Political Somer-
saults.

SaultS.
Minnesota will be represented in the
next congress by several Democrats.
This assertion is made advisedly. The
state was so grossly misrepresented by
factor at work, the change would be in
evitable; but the five Republican con-
gressmen having succeeded in obtain
ing denominations, it is as certain as
fate itself that several of them will re-
ceive mandatory requests from the
people to remain at home and allow
their districts to be represented by men
who will voice and vote the sentiments
of their constituents. Never was it
more apparent in the history
of the state that Minnesota is
for tariff reform and tariff reduc-
| ton, and in this respect every
one of the five congressman has violated
| the trust reposed in him. Not only has
he grossly misrepreSented the people,
but has actually misrepresented his Re-
| publican constituency, which instructed
him to vote for a revision OF the tariff.
No apology for the Mckinley bill will
meet the eXigencieS of the situation, for
that bill, framed by Eastern manufact-
urers for the express purpose of levyfng
tax on the West, makes an average in
crease of about 60 per cent of the duties
already in force. Never was Minnesota
SO stirred up over the matter of tariff
taxation, and on that issue alone are sew
eral Republican congressman doomed.
But there are still other issues.
In the Fourth. the metropolitan dis
trict, which two years ago gave such
large Republican majority, Capt. S. P.
Snider is doomed. Outside of his vote for
the Mckinley bill,which he can neither
explain nor defend. he has been recog-
nized as too narrow for this great con-
stituency. Capt. Snider is "a good fell
low" but the vast interests of this dis
trlct demand a man of more ability and
broader mind than Capt. Snider pos
sesses. Ability is recognized nowhere
more quickly than in the halls of
congress, and ability and in
fiuence go hand in hand. St. Paul
has suffered severely in the last
year, as much through Capt. Snider's
lack of ability as through his narrow
ness. 1t was not only in his failure to
command the influence necessary to
bring up and pass the public building
bill, but his narrOwnesS in Twin City
matters has lost him the confidence and
esteem of even his political friends in
this city. Hon. j. N. Castle presents a
brilliant and striking contrast to the
sorry figure cut in congress by Capt.
Snider. Mr.. Castle is brainy, gifted
and broad-minded. He is the
ideal candidate. and would make an
ideal representative from the greatest
congressional district In the nation.
His talents and his oratory would make
him at once conspicuous in congress,
and would bring him an influence that
would innure to the benefit of the Twin
Cities. He would represent the entire
| district, as might be expected of a man
OF broad views and liberal ideas. The
independent voter will contrast him
with Capt. Shider, and the result will lie
a vote for Castle. Picture, for instance,
Capt. Snider meeting Hon. j. n. Castle
in joint debate. The angels would
weep at such a spectacleI
The Democratic prospect is not less
bright in the Fifth district, once the
banner Republican stronghold of the
stote. Hon. A. j. Whiteman has every.
thing in his favor, and has opened a
brilliant and aggressive campaign, which
he will close winner. The spectacle
of S. G. Comstock, who votes as a high
prOtectioniSt, running on a tariff-for-
revenue-only platform. is enough to dis
gust even the honest party men of his
own political faith; indeed, it is vel
enough known that the trainers of thai
platform deliberately and cruelty sc
worded it as to make the defeat of Com
stock foregone conclusion. The dis
tri ct is strongly for revenue reduction,
and COmstOck took his political life il
his hands when he voted, at the dicta
ton of Eastern manufacturers, fol
the taxation Of the Minnesota
farmer. The Alliance wave sweep
ing over the western end Of
the district is the uprising against Com
| stocks high-taXation vote, and wher
that HalyorSen wave from the ives
meets the Whiteman wave from the
east where will Comstock be? Mr.
Whlteman is confident of election, ant
the situation justifies that confidence
He will leave the four eastern countie:
of Cook. Lake. ST. Louis and Carlton
with 1000 majority, the same countie:
two years ago of nearly 1000. The
great Democratic tier in the center O.
the district, Stearns, Benton and Morri
son, will add 1850 more to his column
Comstock, instead of bringing in the
usual recognition from the heavy Re
publican counties of the west, will fine
his vote split and dissipated by the AL
lance. What is left for him but inevi
table defeat? Mr.. Whiteman has {
splendid committee, and is rapidly Sc
curing thorough organization in every
county.
Many leading Republicans are will
ing to concede the election of Hon. o
M. Hall. in the Third district, while