The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-16
FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER
with being sulky. In spite Of the very
large predominance Of


the one man Of prominence to declare
Tor silver is a wholesale man who has
always been a Democrat and who Is
willing to take his chance ON the plat
form adopted by his party. In asking
twenty men Of good standing, with big
stores and other indices Of prosperity,
I could only get direct replies from
four as to their standing on the money
question. The three were for sound
money and among politicians it was
conceded and claimed that they were
all practically gold men, but did not
want to get into any sort Of quarrel
with their customers-though the sill
yer strength among these latter was
virtually nil
c. e. Frederick, member for the coun-
ty OF PecKs congressional committee
and business man of prominence,
could not find, and he seemed to be
about the only Democrat Of promi-
nence considered There is no regular
fusion county ticket in the field, hence
no county fusion organization. The
party leaders have put G. +. Hibbard,
Roscoe Democrat, in nomination for
the legislature, and is conceded by
even the Republicans to be strong
man. He will get q good many Re
publican votes, but his case is hope
less in such a strong Republican dis
trict. And that is all the fusion rep
reSentation there Is ON the county tick
et So that the silver strength is
hardly worth speculating on when
they have no stronger hopes for county
nominees.
Republican Chairman Rasmussen is
ne turally very hopeful Of the outcome,
both i'm the county and district. 1--WE
ought to carry the county by at least
as much as two years ago. he said,
''and indeed much stronger claims are
made. Heatwole ram behind his ticket
f7xrr<N IL,
cause Hall lives here; and perhaps also
because Nelson developed such great
strength. This year there will be a
great gain in the total vote. If the
weather is fine there ought to be about
1000 votes cast on the head of the
ticket. For congressman it Is not
likely hiatt there will be quite so many,
but there will be enough to give Heat
wcle $500 and possibly 5000. Our
party gains will be among
THE GERMAN FARMERS
and laboring people. I know these
gains will be considerable, and l also
know our losses will be inconsiderable,
but 1 must confess that 1 would have
to speculate if I attempted figures
We have only polled one town, and
that has always been strongly Repub-
hcan. We found that out Of 200 votes
there was one lone silver man. Yes,
there have always been a few Demo-
Gratis there; 1T was to be expected there
would be some, even on the proposition
that some fellows hold that it is better
to be against the government No,
don't think 1 ought to give you the
name of the town." I found out from
another source that Mr. Rasmussen
stated an actual fact about the poll,
and that he referred to the town of
Holden. In 1894 there were 152 Repub-
l1cans, 1 Democrat and 10 Populists
thereof the vote cast This month
the poll showed a considerable gain in
voting strength and the wipIng out of
the opposition to sound money I could
not find out whether it was one of the
Populists or the Democrat of the vast
vintage Of '94 that was out for silver
which would really be worth knowing.
In the village Of Cannon Falls there
have been very notable silver gains
The village is one of the few places in
the state where anything like a strong
campaign has been made, and DR.. Con-
ley is to be thanked for that. In fact.
wherever there has been a development
of silver sentiment it has been brought
about by local men or conditions, for the
campaign made by the fusion commit
tees is absurd. The managers actually
know nothing Of the stand of some
strong in the councils of the party
hitherto, but now outside of it. On
more than one occasion [ have found
these gold men in the possession of lit
erature which had been sent out by the
fusion committees with a request that
it be distributed When the party
managers know SO little of the standing
Of prominent men in the county, it is
absurd to suppose that they know any
thing Of the conditions in the state or
are capable of making any estimate on
results. And the platform campaign is
practically being conducted, outside of
the larger cities, by men whose inter-
ests lie in the county In which they
speak. These speakers have nothing to
do with the state central committees of
the fusionists.
IN CANNON FALLS,
where there has been a Republican ma
Jorlty of 1O7 on the state ticket two
years ago. there will be a, fusion ma
jority this year in all, probability, or at
least the Republican majority will be
wiped out. They have a hot silver club
and read every piece of silver litera-
ture they get hold Of In fact, there
are few small communities in the state
where things are kept quite as warm as
at Cannon Falls. The silver people
hold a meeting every night or two and
they are soliciting every possible source
for silver SpeakerS-and not getting
many at that. But that is very nearly
the limit of the silver campaign In the
county. Elsewhere 1t is covered with a
golden sheen. The farmers are pros
porous and they are going on the prop
osition that it is better to let well
enough alone. II tell you," said an old
and wealthy German farmer to me. eve
let Sch1eeping tOgS lie. Vot YOU dink ?''
Dakota county is going to make good
the condition have found generally in
districts of considerable size: That
where either party had a strong organ
iZation and large vote two years ago
it will be nearly as strong this year.
1t has been found SO generally in the
southern part of the state and is so
there. don't refer to small communi-
ties but to counties. Dakota will give
Peck majority of 700 to 900 over Heat
wole. 1t gave a combined Democratic
and Populist majority of about 900 il,
1894 in vote of 4,200 The county NAV
give Bryan considerably more votes
than it will Peck; in fact, that is quite
certain but, in any event, Peck will
have 500 majority over Heatwole. and
his strength may run to the 800 or 900
that Bryan will have. The Repub-
lcans are making no particular effort
in Dakota, but, in spite of that-or per
haps because of 1t, Clough will run
ahead of his ticket. There are plenty
of Democrats who will vote for BRYAN
on the proposition that he was snornf-
mated by the party in national conyen-
ton and was formerly a Democrat. if
he is not now. But they will scratch
Lind because he was too recently
Republican, and his conversion was
too readily brought about.
A number of Republican politicians
who have some acquaintance in the
district made this guess at what /
would find in the district They were
so obviously fair in making their fig
ures, and the figures make it SO OBJ
he ic ,1.,ks