The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From the Unions Special Correspondent.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
From the Unions Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Mar. IL, 1894. -
Echoes Of the senatorial contest which
is already on in Minnesota reach
Washington from day to day, and of
course cause more or less discussion.
here. Some comment was caused when
it was announced here that ex-senator
Sabin had SHE'D his castor into the
ring and intended to make the race
again. Sabin having been senator is
known here and the fact that he,wanted
to come back was not unknown to some
Minnesota men, although some Of those
who are on the inside are aware that
he intends to defeat Senator Washburn
whether he comes back himself or not.
OF course he has a perfect right to
be candidate, and he has a perfect
right to try and defeat Washburn, but
it cannot be possible that he really
hopes to make a winning fight with
the chances all against him. If Sabin
could not be elected when he was in
the senate and asking for a second
term, he can scarcely hope to win when
he comes up merely looking for an op-
portunity to defeat the man who is now
in. 3:@ -
>, It looks to me as if, the fight had
been, greatly simpli6ed by the an
nouncement that John Lind would not
be a candidate. That takes away a
large amount of trading capital which
the opponents of Washburn were maxi
ing use of. Had Lind entered the race
he would have been formidable can
didate. The combination has over
played itself by beginning so early, and
its,plans have all been made public.
The mastery fight which G. B. Buck
man made for Sabin was not we'll re-
Quilted by the ex-senator. Without
Buchanan he would not have been in
the race; yet when it was all over and
Buchanan would not bolt the caucus,
the man he did so much for never for
gave him, and more than that, accused
him OF treachery. I oW.-spmethinlg
about that fight, and if any man ever
earned the gratitude of a politician,
that man was Buchanan.
Il X
M. Doran, who has been here for a
few days checking up which the ad.
ministration, says that Democrat will
be elected. He could not very well say
anything else, but he. does not believe
it. "-
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Those who know what Washburr
does here in Washington are for him
for senator. There is nothing ever
said or limited connecting him with any
jobbery or scandal. He is man whose
whole career here is a credit to the
State. He is always on hand looking
out for the interests of Minnesota. He
never misses a single point and the
Minnesota men say that he always gets
what he goes after.
Doran says Washburn is the wors1
partisan in Minnesota politics. Well
for five years now I have never seer
him carry his partisanship so far as tt
lose any of his influence in the senate
and besides, the Republicans of Mime
sofa want man who has views and i!
not afraid to express them.
I did not start out with the idea O.
devoting all this letter to the senator
ial contest, but it has been the all alb
sorbing topic among the Minnesot;
men here and was naturally full of it
i I have just time to say that the wa,
the Democrats of the senate hav'
patched up the tariff bill bears out tn,
prediction that if it, becomes a Law
Wilson will not be able to claim it TO-
his own And it is not out of tn
woods yet.
ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Retrogressive Democracy.
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, says
eft is necessary to chalk a Democrat