St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-05
AN OLD REPROBA1E.
Southern Gentleman's Views
on the Gay Col. Breckin-
ridge.
ANYTHING BUT A SAINT.
C. B. Maben InditeS Strong
Letter to the Peoples
Party.
I'M TUE TJIDpTII EMIT TuTDn
ANYTHING BUT A SAINT.
IN THE TURBULENT THIRD.
scandinavian Voters in Re-
beilion--Chamber OF Com
merce Election.

Among the arrivals III the city yester-
day was James s. Van Malta, of Shelby
vile, KY. He lives in the Ashland
district, where Col w. c. p. Breckin-
ridge made such a desperate fight, but
met defeat. Mr.. Van n alta is conversanl
with the political situation in the
South, and is we'll posted on Col. Brock
inridge and his record. He does not
admire the defeated Lothario and has nc
hesitaEcy in declaring his sentiments.
In an interview with reporter for the
GLOBE he said:
~ am almost inclined to believe that
Denny, the Republican candidate for
congress. will be elected this fail. I'm
less one is right in the district it is al
most impossible TO understand the situa-
ton. The Democrats have always car
rled the Ashland district In the election
of their congressman. Last time they
had only majority of 5000
votes, and there are elements in the
contest which are working to throw
these to the Republicans this year.
breckenridge Will not bolt the ticket,
that Is certain. 1t is as much as 4 per-
sons political life is worth to bolt the
Democratic nominations in the South,
and ii he should do anything of that
sort after going into the primaries and
the convention. he would never secure
another Democratic nomination IN
the state of Kentucky. Democratic
politicians never bolt the nominees,
and he won't: but he can knife Owen,
and so can Settle, the other candidate
for the Democratic nomination.. And
that is just what they will do. They
"a Ga1n hn or h.,
them in the primaries and the conven-
ton to vote for Denny, the Republican
candidate, and as these altogether num-
Der somewhere i'll the vicinity of 10000
persons, 1t Is evident what the result
will be.
Breckenridge u Reprobate.
He was asked: us Brecklnridge's
character as black as it has been
paInted?"
"Breckinridge is a reprobate, and he
ply. He has been mixed up with all
sorts of women scrapes In his district,
and every one recognizes that he is one
of the worst men in the country. When
he is in Lexington he stops at the most
prominent hotels in the city,
and it is not an uncommon sight
to see him go across block and,
half to colored house of ill-fam g
and shamelessly enter the place in the
middle of the day. He will stay for a
day or day and half. and come out
again in the middle Of the day, in the
same shameless manner 1t was just a
little while ago that he was on the note
OF the keeper of the place for $1,000, and
the note went to protest during his alb
sence, the fact becoming common prop
erty In Lexington.
"Owen. l tnink,is a fairly clean man.
Oh. OF course. he would play game OF
poker if YOU wanted him to, and he
wouldn't object TO hiring a room and
playing poker all night if the rest OF
the crowd wanted to; but his record SO
far as women and the other things that
have been brought up against Breckin.
ridge are concerned is all right. He is
a pretty shrewd politician. too. but the
only thing that saved him at the pri
mary campaign was the fact that the
women were i'll the fight, and they
swung things his way"