St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-16
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING.
Some OF Judge Nethaway's Expert.

Some OF Judge Nethaway's Expert
ences When on the Stump.
Judge j. c. Nethaway, of Saltwater,
took in the sights and soft weather of
st. Paul yesterday, and while standing
on one of the prominent street corners
soon found ABOUT him quite number of
his friends, and during the conversation
drifted into some campaign reminis-
cences. The judge. although com
paratively young man, is one of the old
Est Democratic campaigners in the state
Of Minnesota, having been on the stump
for over fifteen years. and has entered
many a battle that was sure to be
lOst before it had been fought,
Enough he entered each recurring fight
With renewed zeal and hope to win one
1t least. 1t is doubtful if Minnesota
IAN show campaigner who has roughed
l more in politics than has Judge John
:. Nethaway, of the prison city. He
las bumped along the country roads
With only rough board for a seat,
crackers and cheese for lunch, a barn
or bed, and numerous similar COM
Orts, in order to make two towns in the
Iame evening and be ready to deliver a
morning speech at some country fair.
dis tales of tolls and troubles are nu-
nervous, and many of them very inter-
sting.
He tells rich story of one of his ex-
)eriences when he was compelled to
urn printer in order to advertise a
political meeting at which he had been
assigned to speak by the state central
committee. He had been sent up to the
northern part of the old Fourth
congressional district, and, after
eaYing the train, was compelled
10 ride ten miles on one of
hose old-fashioned, homemade coun-
Try wagons which you had better mount
with an empty stomach, or you may be
obliged to leave your meal behind you,
and, upon reaching his destination late
N the afternoon, found that no posters
had been sent announcing his coming,
md, in fact, no preparations OF any
kind, except the wagon mentioned
above. But the judge had come to
speak, and speak he would. So he
hustled off 10 the printing Office,
and, with the aid of the devil.
who was the only one left in the Office,
the proprietor being busy gathering his
potato crop, he got out a most artistic
piece of job work, printed it on corner
grocery store brown wrapping paper
(the same being still used as a sample).
and induced the aforesaid devil to cast
it broadcast on the highways and by
ways, and that night he had the pleas
ure Of addressing the largest audience
ever brought together in that county.
The judge also related some remark
able experiences Of the time he went
through the state with an Uncle Toms
Cabin tent show. making speeches
morning, afternoon and night as the
farmers would wander into the village
TO take i'll The show. AS young old
'ampaigner, the judge has few equals
the state, and no matter
low dark the outlook for the
cause in which he was fighting he would
buckle on his armor and do battle with
the strongest adversary the Republican
party could pit against him. Judge
Nethaway is an unassuming young
politician, but it is understood has at
The present time strong Endorsements
for the position of United States district
attorney for this district.