St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-17
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Seven st. Cloud Gentlemen Will
Run Judge Searle's Campaign.

Seven st. Cloud Gentlemen Will
Run Judge Searle's Campaign.
Judge Searle is thoroughly fright
ened, and is holding onto the judgeshir
tighter than ever" was remark made
by st. Cloud gentleman at the Mer-
chants yesterday. when he COM
| menced his campaign he and his lieu
tenants did it with flourish of trump
cts. heralding it far and wide that all he
had to do was to say Thumbs up and
the entire Stearns county Democracy
would rush pelI-mell to the polls and
vote for him. Well, he has learned
that the Stearns county Democrats are
not as easily worked as he imagined.
They are for the Democratic ticket
state, national and congressional. They
are for Grover Cleveland and man
who will vote in congress to sustain
Grover Cleveland's administration"
Inc fact that Judge Searle is feeling
weary and decidedly doubtful is at
sign the JudgeShip, although his course
in regard to it is damaging him greatly.
But few days ago move was made
that more clearly indicated the diScour-
agement of the Republican nominee.
Hon. Z. 5. Benson was named as chair
man of the congressional committee in
the beginning. Mr.. Benson is shrewd
worker, and at once went to work for
his chief. Whether he failed to give the
''cloSe corporation" that endeaVOrS to
run the state Of Minnesota through the
reformatory at st. Cloud satisfactory as
surances that the judge was going to
pull through or not, the fact remains
that a meeting was called few DAYS
tee was named to conduct the campaign:
f. E. Searle, chairman; William
Westerman, M. d. Taylor. ID. H. Free
man, w. B. Mitchell, John Cooper, N,
p. Clarke and j. E. West.
OF course, such committee was not
authorized by the Duluth convention,
but desperation knows no law and obeys
no presidents, and so the Sixth district
Republican campaign will be run by
this committee of seven. In connection
with this the Duluth Herald, which is
supporting the Republican ticket with
the exception of the nominee for con-
greSS, reviews the situation as follows:
The alarm displayed by the News con-
cerning the prospects of Judge Searle in
st. Louis county is we'll founded. Of
course the Searle organ affects to be
confident of the result, and makes many
wild predictions of the big plurality
which the Judge may have, but this attI-
tude is assumed merely to bolster up
some of the weakened Searle support
ers, who are preparing to desert MIN and
climb into the Baldwin band wagon.
This attempt to inspire little courage
in the small knot of Searle men in Du-
luth is visible in an article in this MORN
ing'S issue. The writer OF the article,
however, has oyerdone the business and
made The big claims ridiculous. For in
stance, when 1t is stated that st. Louis
county will give Judge Searle the full
Republican vote, the utter abSurdity of
the claim merely arouSeS laugh at the
expense Of the News.
The fact is that Mai. Baldwin will get
large proportion OF the votes of men
who usually vote the Republican ticket.
but who have concluded that the inter-
ests of the city in which they reside and
where all their interests are conferred are
of far more Importance than the inter
ests of political party. The result will
be that Maj. Baldwin will wipe out the
usual Republican plurality in this
county. fhe News is fully aware that
this will happen, and its absurd predic-
tions that Searle will have anywhere
from 1000 10 1000 majority" are ut
tered in the hope that it will bolster up
theSearle men in other parts Of the dis
trict who are not very much pleased
with the outlook in their own districts,
and. believing that st. Lonis county
will be found in the Baldwin column,
have we'll nigh lost all hope of the
judges success in November
There are numerous reports from re-
liable sources at st. Cloud that all is not
lovely at the Searle headquarters in that
city. The great vote that the Judge
counted on from StearnS county Demo
Gratis has diminished to such small pro-
portions that Chairman Benson has al
most ruined his health in vain attempt
to find it. and there is every indication
that Maj. Baldwin will receive in
StearnS county the largest plurality
ever given by that county to amy candi-
date. This fact. coupled with the GER
tainty that tue judge will not carry st.
Louis county. has caused such feeling
IN the Searle camp that, 1t is whispered,
Mir. Benson has been induced to hand