St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-04
IT LOOKS LIKE KELS0.
The Democratic Candidate in
the Lead in the Farmer
Stronghold.
His Splendid Canvass Bring
ing Him Many Votes
Every Day.
MIR. LaWler will Come Out Of
the District With a Plu-
Pality,
And Mr.. Cleveland Will Lead
Both Mr.. LaWlep and Mr..
KelsO.
Special to the Globe.

GrlcC OIL MlnneSOCa is prOnaDly eQudleu
by few others in the United States dur
ing this campaign. 1t is given to few
districts to be able to point to three can
didates for congress and to say of each
one truthfully: THAT man honestly
believes that, he is to be elected" In
hopelessly behind, unless it be Mr..
Hampson. the Prohibitionist candidate.
The conditions are curious. In the first
place, the present Seventh district has
never been in existence until
this year. The counties compos-
ing 1t were at the last election
divided among other districts. The
wirepullers and political workers who
knew all about the inside workings of
the old districts know nothing about
their associates and antagonists III this
one. There is no predicating the result
this year by any former experience.
Secondly, all these agricultural counties
shared in the mighty upheaval OF 1890,
when anything that was dubbed al
lance" went, whether it was wheat or
char. and today nobody knows whether
the causes that brought about that up
heayal are still operative or not. The
old Republican majority in these coun-
Ties was completely wiped out two years
ago. 1t was all Alliance then. What
will 1t be in 1892? Mr. Feig, the Repub-
lican candidate for the national house.
says all the Alliance voters of two years
ago have
Realized Their Mistake,
and will return this year to the fold of
Republicanism. Mr.. BOen, the Peoples
party candidate, says these voters have
naturally gravitated from the Alliance
into the Peoples party. Lastly Mr..
Kelso, Democratic candidate. says first
that no voter who deserted Republican
ism two years ago and was blackguard-
ed for his course all through the cam
pagn and since that time can return to
that party, and, secondly, that one
terms experience of Alliance rule has
shown them that that party is not the
one to which they can look for assist
ance, and that their natural course this
year will be to try the Democracy
party which they should have tried at
the outset. The reasons which make it
apparent to astute figurers that the lat
ter is the most likely to be the resulta are
as follows: The active canvass which
is being made by all three of the candi-
dates has enabled the voters in
every county in the district to see them
all. This chance for comparison has
been very greatly to MI. KelSO's ad
vantage. Mr.. Feig has hurried through
the district, making lOng-Winded and
bombastic speeches here and there,
which have ruined his chances among
the thinking men of his party, who
%l,,F aaEf hnf l,,Ai i- i,,rl.r
entity. He has done a good deal Of
hobnobbing with the magnates of his
party, and has talked loud-mouthed
nothings to the common voters. He has
injured himself In most of the places
where he has appeared. Mr.. BOen is
similarly unfortunate i'll being unable
to make creditable speech, but has
had the shrewdness TO realize it, and
has therefore said nothing in public,
except in that unfortunate speech at
the nominating convention, when he
said he really knew nothing of the
campaign. But he has pursued very
Vigorous Still Hunt.
and in doing so has made votes. The
only trouble with his plan Of campaign
is that the time is not long enough to
see personally enough voters to elect
him. IL he could have few months
more he might hope to win; but the
fatal 9Th is too close at hand. He has
for the most part been content to gather
together In a room at some hotel the
leading men of the Peoples party in
each county and to urge them to greater
efforts in his behalf, leaving them to
do the real work in the interior, which,
with no incentive nor enthusiasm to
urge them on. they have perSistently
failed to do, Mr.. Kelso has adopted a
different plan from either of the others.
Or, rather, instead of saying that he has
''adopted" a different plan, let us say
that the broad-gauge, fearless, whole
souled character of the man has
compelled him to pursue a different
plan. He has visited every neighbor-
hood in the district; has delivered ad-
dresses in those places where there
seemed some reason for his doing so;
has seen the leaders and the rank and
file as we'll; and has everywhere in
spired the people with the belief that
he is capable, honest, gentlemanlY and
energetic. He has created more genuine
enthusiasm than has been stirred up
among the Democracy of this section
before, and in every city and township
there are men working like beavers for
his success, who seldom work in the
political feld-nOU mercenaries, like
Feig's strikers, nor inspired with the
hope of personal reward, like those
who are working for Mr.. Boen. but
actuated solely with the hope of
sending to congress man worthy of the
honor and worthy of the district. To
put the matter briefly, Mr.. Feig has
been shelling the woods with gun that
is ''of small caliber, but great bore;;"
Mr.. Boen has been employing rifle,
with which he has hit good many men,
but not enough to make much impress
sion on the great army of voters that he
won't have time to hit, and Mr.. Kelso
has brought into action the resources of
A Trained Army
of patriotic soldiers, who use small
arms and big guns with equal facility,
and are bringing the enemy into camp
by the hundreds every day. The Repub-
llcan ranks are no larger today than
they were two years ago; the Peoples
party ranks are thinning out daily, and
all the disaffected ones are coming into
Mr.. Kelso's camp. The low tariff idea
is Solidly entrenched here, and
the Democracy will get the y0t-
ers who want the district repre-
sented by a low tariff man. Mr.
Kelso's manly personality is winning
him votes wherever he goes. When the
nomination was rendered him at Crooks
ton two months ago it was regarded by
most of those in the convention as a
compliment to sterling Democrat and