St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-31
His Famous Appeal Shown Up
in the Ridiculous Light
1t Deserves.
The Correspondent Shows
How Small Is Republican
Hope in This State.
ALI the Cheer and Confidence
Shown by Democrats and
PopuliSts.

very conservatively. He interviewed
bod" Jamlson, and has plenty of fun
with his famous appeal denouncing the
dark combination" The letter says:
Every Republican manager in Mime
sofa knows that the only hope the Har-
r!son people have of carrying this state
Is in their recovery of men who have de-
serted the party of the administration
to join the party OF the farmers. So it
is that the efforts of most of the speak
ers are directed toward these "erring
brothers." Many of the newspapers, in
their alarm. overlook the fact that the
mild power is being applied by judi
clous orators, and denounce the Peoples
party as ''lunatics' and scalamity
howlerS,' just as if they were so many
Democrats.
Republican Judgment, even in the
state committee, is disturbed, and it was
shown in the fire alarm appeal sounded
on the 10Th. As | have intimated, it
betrayed desperation, and it was int nd
ed to make all its readers feel as scared
as its writer. That the chairman was
not sanguine, and that he feared to face
the threatened combination, "infa-
NOUS" shameless" ''contemptible''
and many other things between the
Democrats and the Peoples party was
announced i'll almost every line. Hav-
ing become GREATNESS and exhausted in
characterizing the ''infamy" of which
the ''conspirators" had been guilty in
combining to take Minnesota from Har-
rison. Chairman Jamison said:
Now, there must be no oyercoufidence.
lndlffQrnnap n fru To
results. From this hour until the closing of
the polls on election day every man to whom
the principles of his party are dear should
constitute himself tireless agent and
worker for the party of his faith and LOYALTY.
He knows now the dark combination that
has planned its fall. He can measure the
danger that threatens it, He can see the con-
tempt and the sacrifice that would follow
the successful issue of this pc litical brigand-
age"
There had been Overconfdence, indif-
ference, trust III the majorltles Of four
and eight years ago. True, the most
confident men were those who had
Forgotten the Returns.
The Indifference was felt by many Re-
publicans. who think that four years of
Harrison is enough, but that four years
ing for. With Harrison the Office
holders who are in will stay i'll, and
some of them are i'll i'll opposition to the
Judgment and advice of the workers of
1888. No one knows better than
Chairman Jamison that the prin-
ciples of the Republican party
are not all DEAR to all the
Republicans who voted for Harrison in
the last election, and that many of them
| are, like Knute Nelson, convinced that
reduction of tariff taxes to the extent
Inv D.;
Nelson voted, would not be disastrous
to American industries.
Party lines are weak. How badly
they are broken can be told only when
the vote is counted. The men appealed
to are i'll 1.-The dark combination" and
| most OF them are glad of it. And bear
ing in mind the Republican effort made
in the South to capture Virginia, North
Carolina. Alabama and Tennessee by
dark combination" with the Peoples
party, the closing phrases Of Chairman
Jamlson's appeal are funny. He saws:
LET no man be dismayed. If there is one
lesson written more plainly than another III
all the history of political experience in the
past 1t is that no fusion movement can COM
mand the respect and support of the people
in any American state They believe in priu-
clple And as practical measure fusion
never has been and never can be a success.
1t has been tried III Michigan, in Missouri
anu several OtHer states, ana 1t has always
been rejected by the people with the scorn
and contempt that are its proper due. .
While honor and virtue remain ANYTHING
more than names, fusion is losing game
sure OF this, strong in their reliance upon the
integrity of the voters of Minnesota the Re-
publican party of this state calls upon the
men of the state to go to the polls and ad-
minister 10 this unhoiy trade and alliance
such a rebuke as it deserves
There can be no necessity for explain
ing that this is made necessary by the
reports received at Republican head
quarters OF the condition of the state.
The Republicans. as we'll as the Demo
Gratis and the Peoples party, have their
state headquarters here. Chairman
Robert Jamison says that lie looks for
vote of 27o,0o0. That is an increase of
| only 1885 on the vote Of 1888. The in
crease of 1883 on 1884 was IS, :6s, and tile
average increase for five periods of four
years each has been more than So, 1000.
The census shows all increase of 500, 900
population i'll ten years, and there has
not been sudden check Of increase.
There is no reasonable explanation of
the small increase of the vote since 1888.
1t is not enough to say that the Austria
liam ballot law is the check. There is
too large decline. A Democrat might
be justified in suggesting that there
have been too many votes here. Ger
tainly the extraordinary shrinkage, not
to say disappearance, Of the population,
as in Indiana, furnishes food for the
student of statistics. All of the COM
mittee, however,
Agree Upon This Estimate
Mr.. Jamison says that the organize
ton of the Republicans is thorough,
lhat there is no diSaffection BECAUSE of
the action of the Minneapolis conven-
M ~tnt
dates. and the candidates for congress
and the Legislature are exceptionally
strong and acceptable men. Kuute
Nelson, the candidate for governor,
will, he believes, be elected by large
plurality, as he will draw many Seandi-
navian voters who may vote for candi-
dates for other officers on the Demo-
cratic or-Peoples party ticket. Mr. Jam
ison puts Nelson's lead for governor at
not less than $4,000, and he looks Tor the
election Of the Republican electors by
not far from the same lead over the OPP
position. The hope of the Republic
ans, he admits, is III getting out the
10000 Republicans who did not vote
in 1880. the assumption being. it seems.
that all of the stay-at-hOmes were Re-
publicans, not that Republicans voted
the opposition ticket. As for the con-
gressi0nal candidates. he hopes to see
all seven elected, but he is confident
that the Second, Fourth. Fifth and Sew
enth districts will choose Republicans,
and that in the First and Sixth districts
the chances favor the Republican can
didates. OF the Third district he is
doubtful.
There is reason for Mr.. Jamson to
talk cautiously when he predicts what
the legislature will be. in the present
senate there are % Republicans. Is
Democrats. Is Farmers Alliance men
and 2 independents. the Republicans
being 5 less than the opposition. In
the house there are 40 Republic
ans, Is Democrats, Is Farmers
Alliance and IA others OF four
classihcations. This makes the Re-
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