St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-09

methods by which financial ard could be
had to enable him to make fight this
fall. Among the others he met was
that eminently austere and truly good
man, George F. Hcar, who represents
Massachusetts, Puritanism and purity
in the senate. and so worked on the sus-,.
secured from him the writing of The,
following letter to the secretary of the
Home Market club. club whose name,
sufficiently indicates its purposes.
my Dear Mr.. Clarke: Since your,
telegram the other day l have spent two t,
evenings with Capt. Kolb. The first
was spent in company with several
members Of the senate and house, OF
own room, i'll company with Gen.b
Draper, MIR. Walker, Gen. Coggsweiio
and MIR. Mccall. uf the Massachusetts,
delegation. We al! believe that: this !;
movement is of the utmost importance;n
that it is the most promising factlhat
has taken place in the history of the i
South for many years. aud that if he,
succeeds in his movements. as we, ares
confident he will, the solid South is
broken. aud that the success of the
cause of protection is assured. While
"
the coinage of silver, and upon the less
Important, though important, question,
or all income lax, he Is thoroughly
sound upon the question OF all queS-
tons, an honest bal et.and is thoroughly
sound upon the question of protection.
In some way | have no doubt that the
forces that he leads will be found act
lug with us in all great essentials in the
future He is worthy of our support
and an ~ Ian
who has gone nome. will tell YOU the
particulars. Capt. Kolb himself will
visit you soon. Mr.. Lodge was at
Detroit when Capt. Kolb was here, but
shall explain the matter 20 hun on his
return, and feel quite sure of his
cordial sympathy. | AM faithfully
yours. geo. +. HoAR"
Then the Home Market club set itself
to work to raise the needfuI for this
POpuliSt advocate of the clubs idea,
and sent out circular asking for cou-
tributions for Capt. Koib, which appeal
concludes as follows:
Prudence requires that strict privacy
should be observed in raising the money.
There is So much prejudice in the South
that it might be fatal to the cause to
have IL become known that this kOlb
party receives any aid fr.,m New Eng
land. We pray you, therefore, to avoid
seeing any but discreet men, and to
impress upon them the Importance of
secrecy. Yours truly.
John SHEPARD,
(Of Shepard NorweIl IL Coz e.
JOHN SHAW,
(Of johnson d Shaw.
"ALBERT CLARK,
Secretary of the Home Market club.
"BOStOI, March s, 1891"
We wish our contemporaries, the Pho
neer Press and the Tribune. would give
US their candid opinion of this case Of
fusion. Especially we would like to
have them say whether fusion sub rosa
one in which prudence requires that
strict secrecy should be obserVed"-is
better or worse than open fusion. The
Democratic committee wanted to de-
priye the Republicans Of four electoral
votes; the Home Markets want to assure
the cause of protection. The forpler.
cO-operated openly with the Populists
to gain their emf. These Massachu-
sets purists try to accomplish theirs
under the cover of ''strict privacy"
Which of these two is the more repreri
hensibe? We trust that our contem-
poraries will not, as they have on one,
Or two other awkward occasions, putla
far-off look in their eyes and change.
the subject to some more congeniai
and less embarrassing one. but will give
us their candid opinion first as to this,
fusion with the Koibite Populists. and
next as to the comparative cussedness
of the TWO instances. l-G.ai