St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-04
AS SEEN FROM BRAINERD.
Democrats VIII Gain in Crow
Wing and Vicinity.

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Special TO the Glope
BRAINERD, Minn., Oct. 3.-Coming
eastward through the Fifth district the
moment the center of the state has
been traversed. the region of the farm
eTs' uprising is left behind. The Todd
county line shuts off the territory
through which S. NJ. Owen is cutting so
wide swath, and a more definite idea
of the political situation may be OBJ
talned. The great center group of
counties, comprising Todd, Stearns,
Morrison, Crow Wing, Benton and
Mile LacS, loom up on their
merits as between Wilson and Mer-
riam or WhIteman and Comstock
and the great and general Republican
apathy and dissatisfaction cannot be
charged to any cause that Doodle will
remove or influence counteract Todd
county alone boasts any Alliance COM
plication, as there are not enough farm
ers in Crow Wing to cut any figure. and
the Alliance in Stearns county is too
limited to be felt. The claim is made
that Todd county will have 600 Alliance
votes, which probably exceeds the fact
by $50. But, allowing 500 Owen ,aen in
the county, there can be no doubt that
$50 of them will come from the ReDub-
hcan ranks and cause net loss of 400 to
the Merriam party. This and the sore
ness growing out of
The Senatorial Fight
in the Forty-sixth district will reduce
the Merriam vote in Todd to LOO, and
will leave 1,500 votes to be divided
among Wilson, Owen and Pinkham.
The Prohlbitionists are doing nothing,
and rs votes will more than gladden.
fhpIr baqrtS JiiuiHiton tho
so as to give Wilson $50 and Owen $50
would dc justice to both, and Merriam
will leave the county with just 150 plu-
ralfty as against nearly 600 two years
ago. The farmers claim heavier vote,
which. if realized, will wipe out that
plurality altogether. As many as 700
votes may be polled III Mile Lacs
county, which has developed consider
ably in two years. There is no specific
farmers organization in the county,
and the Owen vote will be small and
scattering. The Merriam managers
claim a plurality of $50 in the county.
which the Democrats are not willing to
coDcede, but with which they will be
satisfied. This county of Crow Wing is
the most peculiar in the state. 1t has
very little politics, but what little it has
is Republican. In 1886 Dr. Ames took
out plurality of 200. and in 1888 Mer
ram walked on With 344. This year
both parties claim it.
There Are No Farmers
in the county beyond few homestead
ers or pre-emptors, but Owen will get
a good vote among the Northern Pacific
shops. These men have previously been
Republicans, and any change will be
Republican loss. As many as 300 may
go to Owen, iii which case Wilson will
have a larger plurality in the county.
The reason given by the Democrats for
the faith that is in them. is the deadly
Republican fight in the Forty-sixth SEN
atorial district. The GLOBES telegraph
ic columns told the story of the eonven-
tion at Little Falls, in which j. G. Flynn,
of Morrison, after 185 ballots, was NOM
mated over Leon Lum. of Crow Wing,
and W. e. Lee, of Todd. That fight
has created great feeling among Brain
erd Republicans. which the nomination
Of A. j. halsted for the house
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