The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-31
owen A WINNER
The Republican State
Committee Polls
the State.
It Finds That Owen is
10000 Votes Ahead
of Nelson.
Great CONSERVATION in
the Camp Of the
G.. O. P.
Frantic Efforts to Trade
Other Candidates
for Nelson.

The following is from the Mime
apolis Times, an independent Demo
cratic paper, of Oct. "A:
"There was considerable political ex-
citement in St. Paul yesterday over
the report that gained currency on
the streets that the Republican state
central committee had completed a
canvass of the state and that it
showed Knute Nelson 10000 votes be-
hind Owen.
Tams Bixby, the astute and bearded
caucasian who presides over the Re-
publican committee, was asked how
about the canvass, and of course said
it is favorable. But favorable to
whom? Tams would lead the public
to infer that it was favorable to
Knute, but the general public would
be unable to reconcile an easy road for
Nelson with the heroic efforts that
are now being made throughout the
state to convince Democrats that it is
their duty to desert Becker and stand
by Nelson in order to save the credit
OF the state and beat Owen.
There is no doubt considerable
anxiety in the Republican camp, not
withstanding show of confidence.
The funny part of it is that the
Democrats, who put up Becker with
the idea that he could not be elected
now see, when it is, perhaps, too late,
that if they had put up live candi-
date he would have carried the elec-
tion in the three-cornered fight. But
they chose Becker, and it is an under
stood fact that nearly every man who
was prominently iden ntifed with the
Becker movement is now Nelson
man.
The news of the dismay in the camp
reached Minneapolis yesterday and
considerable scouting was done. The
idea seemed to be to trade off some
body who was not of much account to
save the state ticket, and it was gen.
orally conceded that if any such work
was done, Henry f. Brown and Dave
Clough were the men to arrange the
deal.
1t was also rumored that Robert
Pratt was the gentleman selected to
be sacrificed. Mayor Eustis, who has
been out on the stump and who has
not, perhaps, imbibed the full solem-
nifty of the mighty Knute's situation,
secuted the idea. Nelson" he said,
"is too honest man to go into any
scheme to trade off Pratt. The whole
ticket is going to be elected" Gov
ernor Pillsbury also denied that there
was anything in the story. -
Another part Of the story is that
several gentlemen who have not had
much to say thus far, have been i'm
portuned to make ''just one speech"
for Nelson. One Of these is Judge
Rea, who was approached by several
leaders, ran ging from ex-gOvernors
down. The judge declined the invita-
tion. He said he was not stumping
any this year. Very likely if he did
any it would not be for Nelson.
There was report in St. Paul also
that the Democrats had made poll
of the state. which showed Owen 5000
ahead.
A Shameful Disclosure.
The Minneapolis Journal is iubilant
over an alleged attempt Of the lid
ming to sell it's support to the Republi-
can county ticket of Hennepin county
for.$1 900. A trap was laid for the editor,
SO they say, land he walked into it. Here
is the Journals account of how they
worked him:
"Promptly at the manager of the
Tidning was on hand. outside the door
leading to the inner rooms of the Re-
pulican headquarters, in Lumber Ex-
change. When called before the COM
mittee, without much urging he re-
peated his proposition, which was dis
cpssed around the table for several
minutes. Finally, Fl. w: Foote, in ac-
cOrdance with a previous arrange
ment, announced that he wanted
something more than verbal agree
ment.
"We have made deals with newspa-
pers campaign after campaign in this
dis strict, he said, land almost invari-
ably some disagreement has resulted.
Either the character of the support
was not what we wanted, or the stipu-
lated candidates were not all includ-
ed. l am perfectly willing to make
this arrangement with the Svenska
Folkets Tidning, if the committee
thinks it is for the best, but for one,
I must insist that Mr.. Soderstrom sub
nit his proposition in writing. Then
we will know exactly what we are do
ing and the Tidning will know what it
is doing. This is business and the on
ly way to make an arrangement of the
sort satisfactory all around"
Mr.. Soderstrom, it is alleged, made