St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-16
Republican Candidates and
Speakers Meet With Poor
Encouragement.
Slim Crowds and No Enthusi-
asm Their Lot in Every
Town.
Judge Hammons a Kendall
Man, Therefore the Organ
Says No Republican.
Striking Example Of the
Chestnut "Before Taking
and After Taking"

The Republican candidates for con-
gress in this state are having very hard
Shedding just at present. Several of
them took their nominations thinking
that they were equivalent to certificates
of election. But they do not entertain
this idea now. The people take no in
terest in them, and really successful
Republican rally has not been held thus
far. Take the meeting at which Con-
gresham Julius Caesar Burrows. of
Michigan, spoke few evenings ago in
st. Paul. The house was hardly more
than half filled, and those who were
present had no surplus enthusiasm.
Compare the Burrows meeting with
the turnout given that monumental
fakir. eX-Congressman Il. q. Horr. also
OF Michigan. four years ago in the same
hall. Then standing room was at pre-
MUM, and every time HOrr thought he
had scored good point all he needed
to do was to pause moment and the
crowd would raise din that would al
most lift the roof. Mr.. Burrows is
man of real ability, and his st. Paul re-
ceptiOn was not what it sho uld have
been. But it shows one important
thlng-the people are not with the Re-
eloquent orators cannot stir up any of
the old time enthusiasm.
But the severeSt sufferers are not the
men like Burrows, Mckinley, Reed,
Foraker and Allison, whose regulations
draw men of all parties, but the puor
lone state and congressional candidates.
TaWney, Greer, Heatwole, Searle,
Kiefer and Feig are all whirling about
their districts. but they make no more
stir, If as much, as did their predeces-
sorS two years ago. Indeed, Senator
Tawney's campaign has thus far been
an utter failure. He has nowhere
stirred up the workers that the veteran
Owatonna ''sand-hauler'' always
reached. and the people are afraid of
his corporation record. A gentleman at
the Rochester meeting the other day,
SAID yesterday:
That meeting at Rochester was
complete failure. Senator Tawney
does not appear to have any particular
strength in that part of the district, and
his reception was very cool. But then
Nelson did very little better, although
he spoke so long that Burrows was
practically crowded out. There is no
enthusiasm for either Nelson or Tawney
IN the First district, and great change
Will have to take place in the district,
or Capt. Harries and Dan. LAWYER will
come out with $500 more votes than
Tawney and Nelson.''
What is true of the First district is
doubly SO in the Second, where the
Mankato SchOolma3ter, whose nominal
ton was advocated as a reward due
him for making SO many of his normal
school pupils Republicans during the
time he was employed by the state at
the Mankato Normal school, is wildly
running up and down the district beg
ging for votes. Wherever he speaks
he helps the Democratic nominee, Hon.
w. s. Hammond. Prof. McCleary is
what is commonly termed ''gold bug.'
and he is proud of it. In all his speeches
he denOunceS free coinage and de-
clares squarely for gold standard. In
one OF his speeches short time ago he
declared that the decentralization of sill
yer In 1873 was one of the most splendid
achievements of the Republican party.
Prof. McCleary does not begin to get
the houses he did when he was state
institute conductor.
IN the Third district eX-Chairmau
Joel Z. Heatwole has wisely decided to
make no speeches, and ne is conducting
still hunt, save in the various local
papers, whose columns he fills with fiat
tering notices of himself and vague
generailtleS about the necessity for
a revision of the patent laws.
Col. A. r. Kiefer in the Fourth district
IS glad to address meeting where
score of the faithful attend Judge
Searle i'll the Sixth has the backing of a
great railroad corporation, and his man.
ayers are spending great deal of
money, but it does not seem to be hay
ing any effect, and the Republicans in
no part of the district are enthusiastic,
not even that close corporation, the Re-
formatory ring IN st. Cloud. with all its
power and patronage is able to work up
any feeling for him.
The nomination of Representative
Henry Feig, in the Seventh district,
was not made with either the hope or
expectation or the intention of electing
him, and the people are very generally
aware of this. The fight there is really
between Hon. W. f. Kelso. the Demo-
cratic nominee, and Hon. II. E. Boon,
the PEOPLES party candidate.
This is not Republican year in either
Minnesota or the nation.