St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-24
CATCH NO DEMOCRATS
Republican Games to Stam-
pede Votes From Becker
Fail.
AROUSED PRHTT'S FRIENDS.
Nelson's Defeat by a Large
Plurality Shown by a
Poll.
AROUSED PRKTT'S FRIENDS.
PROMISES IN THE THIRD.
Although New Clothes Cut
Some Figure, the Old
Dodge is Worked.

The election OF Gen. George L. Beck
Ell, the gallant standard. bearer of the
Minnesota Democracy. is assured if the
loyal Democrats of the state do their
duty on election day.
There is no doubt Of Democratic sue
cess and the election of every man Oh
the state ticket if Democrats refuse to
be fooled by the piaintive walls of the
Republicans and the confident boastings
of the Populists.
The Republicans are hard at work on
their last "briIliant" scheme to stam-
pede Democrats to Nelson, but it will
not work. The Democracy of Minnesota
will never vote for Knute Nelson; the
great battle of two years ago.when Hon.
Dan w. LaWler carried the standard Of
the party. fixed the line between Demoe-
racy and Republicanism as represented
by Knute Nelson.
Tie Democrats of Minnesota believe
IN the principles OF their party, one of
the cardinal ones being that one man is
just as good as another, and that each
man shall have the same rights and
privileges, regardless of birth or condi-
tion. The Republican party, as repre-
aented by Knute Nelson, stands for the
classes and the corporations as against
| the masses.
The manner in which the real Demo-
| Gratis of Minnesota are spurning the
| paid Republican agents who are seeking
| Democratic votes for Nelson shows that
| the Democrats of this state are members
of the party from principle. and that
| they are grounded in the principles of
| the party.
CioUgh and Brown at Work.
Yesterday, under the guidance of
| Lieut.. Gov. Dave Clough and Henry
| T. Brown, several Democratic business
men started out to work the Nelson
| racket in Minneapolis, but they did not
| get very far before they made up their
| minds that it was no go. Clough and
| Brown were ready TO trade off the Re-
| publican city ticket in Minneapolis and
about everything else in sight for Nell
son votes. The news of their attempted
deals soon became public property. and
/ before night there was trouble and lots
| of it on all sides. The friends of Pratt,
the Republican candidate for mayor,
started out for blood and refused to
take denial. They threatened to work
openly against Nelson and the RepuD-
lican stats ticket if any deal were made.
| They were finally subdued. it is said, by
| large contribution 10 the Pratt cau-
! paign.
Among the Democrats this attempt
of two or three would be Democratic
! leaders to deliver the Mill City Demo-
ocrats to knute Nelson excited the
| greatest indignation, and made votes
for Gen. Becker everywhere. The old
| and young members of the party started
out to demonstrate that these two or
three men could not hand them bound
and gagged over to Knute Nelson or any
other Republican, They know that
owens vote in Minneapolis will be
largely
Made Up of Republicans
who are not in favor Of Nelson and this
methods, and they propose to give him
the same kind Of dose as was given
Merriam in old Hennepln in 1890,
when, by Republican defections to
| Owen, Judge Wilson was given no less
than 5000 plurality over Merriam. This
can be done again, and the Democrats
of Minneapolis know ii.
Looking for Nelson votes in Mime
| apolis among large element of the Re-
publican party is a very hard job. They
| are few and far between, and even the
most liberal disbursements by Brown
and Clough will not change the situa-
ton.
The people are against Knute Nelson.
They are tired of corporation influences
| controlling in the state house.
''Down with the state house ring" is
popular rallying cry in all parts of the
| state.
One of the remarkable arguments ad.
vanced by the men who are seeking
Democratic votes for Nelson is that
poll of the state by the Republican state
committee shows that Owen has 10000
more votes at this time than Nelson.
They go OH to repeat the same old
yarn that the state must defeat Owen
10 avert calamity. This deeeiveS no
one. The people of Minnesota are a
great deal more afraid of Nelson as
governor than they are Of Owen.
Bixby Enters n Denial.
Chairman laDS DlXOv, OF tne NeDuO>
lean state committee, last evening de-
MED that poll of the state showing the
situation 10 be as sta ed above had been
made. although he admitted that several
polls have been made, one very recent-
ly. 1t may be that the men who we're
working in Minneapolis were properly
informed regarding the situation, and
that they have been little indiscreet
in giving the true facts away. They
were zealously working for King Kuute,
however, and i'll their enthusiasm failed
to be as careful as they otherwise would
have been.
The Democratic voters in all sections
of the state, except in the large cities,
are standing solidly by Gen. Becker.
and in the cities the deSertion in the
Republican ranks are two to one against
those in the ranks of the Democracy.
The Mankato Review few days ago, in
review OF the situation, calls the at
tention of the Democrats to the fact
that four years ago the same claims
were made by the Populists-that the
only way to defeat the Republicans was
to vote for Owen; but, adds the Re-
view:
Twice the Populist Remedy Has
Failed.
Twice the experiment of reaching re-
| dress through this means has signalIy