St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-30
They Actually Figure Out
Their Own Defeat and
Rout. az 81
Some Of the Glaring Blunders
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Their Leading Organs d
Make Daily. ~
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Evidently the Republican
Managers Are Sadly Out ID
&C.. Of Heart.

dence was wanting that they are rat
tied, one has only to look over their po-
litical columns and see with what aban-
don they throw figures together, trust
ing that their readers are too loyal to
the e. Q. p. on this presidential year to
stop to discover their inconsistencies.
SO confident were the Pioneer Press and
Knute Nelson that Minnesota could not
fail to go Republican OH a presidential
year that they stopped not TO consider
that the people might ask how it was
that three years ago they were both
declaring that the interests of the North
west demanded tariff reform, and in
Weighing against the Mckinley bill in
the strongest terms, while now one is
preaching high protective tariff with all
the vigOr of its distinguished editor,
and the other Is a candidate for COVER
nor Oh high protective platform; nor
to consider that the people might ask
how it was that the Republican party
not long ago elected its governor on a
tariff reform platform, while it now
seeks to elect one on :igh tariff plat
form. But the people have stopped TO
ask just these awkward q ueStiOns; and
today the Pioneer Press, Knute Nelson
and every Republican paper in the state
find themselves in hole. Everything
goes now; no matter how glazing the
statement, it is printed and said. They
are spreading it on with a whitewash
brush, but they will wake up after cleo
ton TO find that it didn't 90 with the
people.
AS Samples
of the siip-shod stuff which these papers
in their desperation are printing, the
political publications in yesterday
mornings Pioneer Press are good. The
Pioneer Press. dreary with brains and
abhorring brightness, prideS itself on
accuracy. In its editorial headed Mel
son Is Brick"lt commits the mex
cusable blunder of locating Mr.. Nelson's
fistic encounter in Otter Tail county,
whereas it took place in Grant county,
at Elbow Lake, fully fifty miles away.
On the first page of the paper is po-
litical article, headed 'Victory in the
Air." purporting to show that the suo-
cess of the Republican ticket is certain.
At the foot Of the column, after making
the statement that Hennepin county3is
expected to cast 1000 votes. which Re
Ciotiu VIII III
of 5000 for Knute Nelson, it is set forth
that the Hehnepin county democratic
committee would give no figures, except
that they expected to carry it about as
they did in 1885," 1t happens that i'm
1883 the Democrats did not carry Hen
nepin county. The county went Re
publican by 6, 400. 1t happens, further
more, that during the first two days of
registration this year Henneplh county,
registered about SO. 900 voters, and it is
very likely that yesterdays registration
has increased that number materially.
So that the statement that it is expected
32. 900 votes will be cast there indicates
the careleSSneSS of the writer. Fur
Their up in the article it says:
The result is that leading Republic
ans, among them Loren Fletcher, Capt.
j. \. Castle. Robert Jamison and Mar
Gus johnson. are confident of a Repub-
lican plurality" etc. J. n. Castle hap
pens to be the Democratic candidate for
congress in this district. And SO one
might go on and point out blunders of
this sort without number. Such mis-
takes standing alone might pass for
nothing more than an indication that
the article was the work of very care
less writer. But it happens that it was
written by member of the local force
who stands close to the head, and these
were the result Of a
Loss of Heart In Fgis Work.
The desperate situation in which the
writer finds himself is indicated unmis-
takably by some of the raw statements
he makes. He says that Chairman
Jamlson. of the state Republican COM
mittee, estimates the state will cast
O-D nd 1raf b, Do N,,lict fo
will fall short 20,000 to $4,000 of the AL
lance vote of TWO years ago; also that
the lowest estimate of knute Nelson's
plurality is $1,000. Most likely it was
the intention of the writer TO make it
q, 900. for the Minneapolis Journal of
Friday makes JamiSOn say that Mel
sons plurality will he not less than
5000. The vote for president in
1883 was 262, 2S2, and it is not
unfair to presume that the vote has
increased nearly 10000 in four years.
But the assertion that the Populist vote
will fall short of the Alliance vote is too
rank to be swallowed by anybody.
Merriam received plurality Of 24.1e4
over Eugene NJ. Wilson in 1888, when
there~w was no Alliance ticket in the
field. In 1920 he was elected over
Thomas Wilson. notwithstanding the
great roorback circular charging that
Mr.. Wilson was an Orangeman, by
was in the field that year, and the fig
ures by counties show beyond question
that that party took from the old parties
at the rate of two from the Republican
to one from the Democratic.
whence the Alliance Vote Came.
If Mr.. Jamison is reported correctly,
he practically admits that the Alliance
vote came principally out of the RepubIs
lcan party: for he estimates the vote of
the state at 27O.000, which is little more
than 1000 votes more than were cast in
1888, while he claims for Nelson nearly
a thousand more votes than Merriam re-
ceiyed that year when there was no AL
lance party in the field. In 1883 Mer-
RAM received 134 $50 votes; Eugene M.
Wilson, 110,251; and the Prohibition
candidate, 1871. In 1890 Merriam re-
ceived SSH; Thomas Wilson, 1854;
Owen, the Alliance candidate, IS, 512:.
and the Prohibition candidate. S,424,s
The presidential vote cast iUs
1883 was 262. 2s2. Fhe gubernatoriaf!
vote of 1890 was 240, 1872, which was q, 800
less than the presidential vote of two
years before. This falling off was due
in part to the difference in interest
ldkCu UetWcoll prcSiutnlidl anu
mere state year; but it is principally
due to the roorback circular charging
that Thomas Wilson was an Orange
man, which was sent out by the Repub-
licans on the eve of election, so that the
Democrats could have no opportunity
to counterfeit its terrible effects among
Catholics. Then, too, the Prohibition
vote fell off about 1000, but no party
profited by it. These $1,000 who
failed to vote were not Republic
ans. for Merriam was even more
popular than he was in his first
campaign. 1t was the war CRY
of the Republicans that Merriam had
made the best governor the state ever
had. And this cry was responded to by
the masses of the loyal Republicans
with the utmost enthusiasm. 1t was in
the mouth of every Republican stay-by
from one end Of the state to the other.
The DOnnelly Vote.
Mr.. JaInison estimates that Mr.. Dom
nelly will receive about $1,000 votes,