St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-30
Republican Managers. Badly
Scared, Are Trying to
Avoid a Rout.
LET THE RATTLERS RATTLE.
Loyal Democrats and Honest
Republicans Will Elect
Gen. Becker.
STATE HOUSE RING D0WNED,
And NelsoniSm Is Dead in
MinneSOta--Political
Gossip.

There was lively scurrving to and fro
in the camp of the Republican mana
gers yesterday. All OF the leaders
but they did not seem to be able to fig
ure out just where they are at.
If any evidence was needed to prove
the GLOBES assertion that Nelson's
election is now entirely out of the ques-
ton the managers, from Chairman Tams
Bixby down to Oil Inspector Foote.
Dairy Commissioner Berndt Anderson.
Grain Inspector Clausen and Messenger
Wade, furnished it yesterday.
Some of the workers tried to work
the old dodge on the Democrats. but
they did not get far on that tack before
they were told that it is an excellent
time for the Republicans to take to
themselves little of the patriotism
they are asking the Democrats to show.
If the Republicans do not want S. M.
Owen for governor they can prevent it
by Joining In with the loyal Democracy
of Minnesota and electing Gen. George
l.. Becker by handsome plurality.
Nelson's last chance of election went
glimmering yesterday when he acknowl-
edged that he was wrong in his contro-
versy with Auditor Biermann, aud that
he was really endeavoring all along to
give the Great Northern railway the
right to select the best lands belonging
to the state instead of the state making
the selections OF these lands.
By this act Auditor Biermann saved
the people of Minnesota a vast amount
of money, and he did this in spite of the
opposition of Knute Nelson.
The people, when they read of this
complete and abject backdown of Gov.
Nelson. will understand Just why there
are thousands of men in this state who
have no fears of any man being worse
for the real interests OF the people than
the present governor.
Gen. Becker is different stamp of a
man.
He is man who will faithfully
watch the interests of the people of the
state of Minnesota.
Gen. Becker will not hold up one pub
lie bill, like the state capitol bill, to use
as club, with which to force through
measures to which the law. makers and
the people are opposed.
Democrats Are on Their Guard.
Knute Nelson did this at che last ses-
sion of the legislature.
Heroic efforts will be made during
the next few days to turn the tide
which is now flowing so strongly against
Gov. Nelson, but the people will be Oh
their guard. The high character of the
Democratic candidate is so we'll known
that Democrats generally will refuse to
be led astray. And they will as firmly
resist the appeals of the Republican
managers to help avert Owens election
by voting for Nelson.
The Democratic vote of the state will
elect Gen. Becker.
He is entitled to every one of the
Democratic votes cast week from to-
day, entitled to them by his faithful and
long service to his party, as we'll as by
reason of his high character and his fine
ability.
Gen. Becker is good man, all honor-
able man. and he has the Jacksonian
qualifications. He is honest, he is capa-
bic, and he is Democrat. He will re.
ceive the votes of many Republicans
who have known him for years, and of
many others who are tired of the .'state
house ring" These, with the great
bulk of the Democratic vote, will be
quite sufficient to elect Gen. Becker.
Nelson will be third in the race. He
has gained no votes since his first race,
and he has lost heavily everywhere.
The oil inspectors. the surveyors of
logs and lumber, and the favored banks
of the state are now being "held up'' for
another big slice with which it save
Nelson and the old and moss covered
state house ring.
The people are to be fairly inundated
with workers.. literature and abuse of
Owen and Becker. Pretended Demo-
cratic and Peoples Party papers will
in various ways strive to throw cold
water on the candidates in opposition to
Nelson, but if every voter is on his
guard nothing can be accomplished.
Exposed by the Globe
The most amusing feature of the Re-
publican decentralization is found in the
senseless ravlngs of the party organs.
The Minneapolis Journal is particularly
furious because the GLOBE, by promptly
exposing the little game of "Dave'
Clough and Henry Brown to trade off
everything to get votes for Nelson.
ended the plot then and there. and
made votes for both Gen. Becker and |
the next mayor of Minneapolis, Hon.
L. X. Than. Under the circumstances,
the following FROM last evenings Jour-
nal is easily understood:
Why doesn't the GLOBE come out for |
Owen fairly and squarely, instead of |
trying to conceal its real purpose in |
stabbing Becker every day it is pub
lished? 1t would look better and be |
fairer, for its party would then know
what to expect from 1t.
And then here is another equally |
absurd break:
"The GLOBE thinks Nelson impossl-
ble:;' but ons does not see ANYTHING
about Becker being possible in the
columns of the GLOBE. The Little
however,is rapidly making
it Impossible for either Becker OF Owen
to occupy the governors room at the
state capitol"
The above Quips are very funny.
when viewed in. the light OF
the leading editorial in the same issue
which berates the Democrats generally