The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-14
IN THE COUNTY OF MOBILES.
WORTHINGTON is STRONGLY FOR
GOLD WHILE ADRIAN FAVORS
uLVER.
IN THE COUNTIES ROUNDABOUT.
RCcL-siartin and jackson Both
Republican.

the bailiwick of the Hon. Daniel Shell
| go in for the man or party of their
choice with an abandon that is almost
| inspiring. Within an hour of my ar
rival in town it was demonstrated to
me that there were two local clubs, one
for silver and the other for gold. They
don't mince matters down here, and
they speak of gold" and Silver" par
ties; not sound money" and Demo
cratic" The gold club, was informed
consisted of BAT good and true men OF
Worthington-not a farmer being in
cluded. The next piece of information
vouchsafed me was that there was a
silver club with 800 members, all voters
in Worthington. Here was surely some
disparity, for the total vote of Worth
ington two years ago was but AL. AL
, lowing for natural increase, there may
be 500 votes this fall. Now in the two
clubs there were 667 members. Here
was obviously job. To separate the
wheat from the chaff was the ques-
tion. / did it readily enough. The gold
club has a printed list of the member
ship. I took a copy of it and got a
copy of the poll list of 1894. In a very
little while I found that 294 of the club
members voted two years ago. I gave
up the silver list as being nothing
more nor less than a campaign docu-
ment wherewith to frighten the weak
ling, but was wrong, for I afterwards
found that the club had the member
ship given, but that it had been re-
cruited in the, country.
SLIGHTLY FOR M'KINLEY.
Mobiles county only gave McCleary a
clear majority over the Democratic and
Populist candidates of 40 This year
it will give him more than that, and
there is every indication that McKin-
ley will carry the county by say 200,
for the Republican ticket will assured
ly run ahead of the Nelson vote of two
years ago and that gave the latter a
majority of 113. Perhaps the Nelson
vote is not quite fair criterion. but
whether it is or not Mckinley will have
more votes than he did-more by a
substantial number. l found one very
ardent Democrat, who is, by the way.
a candidate for Office, who agreed with
Republican Congressional Committee
man Cra1dall that McKinley's major
ity would be $50, and both men are
really we'll informed. 1t would be OBJ
viously unfair to give the name of the
Democrat in the case, but he had the
best reasons for his estimate. He has
! canvassed the county.
The German vote will give the coun-
ty to Mckinley and the fact that
Bryan. will lose it is due in a very
considerable degree to c. w. Schultz,
who was q. state delegate to the Chi
cago convention and who bolted the
nomination, who later went to Indian
apolis and helped nominate Palmer
and Buckner. who is now a member of
the state organization of the sound
money Democrats and who has actual
ly organized and got into good work
ing condition a German sound money
club of 263 members. Mr.. Schultz says
that by far the largest portion of his
club membership will vote for McKin-
4 ley, but he is satisfied at that And !
may add here that this is the one
found in the district, and tt.at the
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larger percentage of the vote of this
county than in any county in the First
or Second districts.
Here in Worthington there are just
three business men who are out for the
Bryan ticket. One of these gentlemen
recently failed in business, another is
a photographer who has hitherto de-
voted his attention to prohibition. The
balance of the town is for sound
money. Indeed. the fusionists do not
claim more than 100 Of the probable
500 votes, and they will certainly not
get any more. There are other parts
of the county though where the silver
people are proportionally strong, but
numerically fewer. in Adrian, for in
stance. but of that later.
DAN SHELL
is the high muck-a- muck of Republi-
canism in these parts. He is member
/ of the Republican state executive
committee, candidate for the legis-
lature and heir presumptive to Sam Van
/ SAINTS scepter-or7 gavel He will cer-
! tain1y be In the race for speaker as
nothing but his sudden demise can in
! terfere with his election. He is withal
a good fellow and bad orator. but he
but that of 'the gentleman from Kan
diyohi,' who made so much noise last
session. Mr.. Shell told me that McKin-
! ley would carry Mobiles county by 500
| For himself he had some hopes of elec-
! tion, for he ran 1000 ahead of his
! nearest opponent in the district two
years ago. The particular opponent
was Jack Ryder, who was at that
time an editor at Luverne, and who is
! now on the stump for sound money.
Il don't see how things could look
better for US than they do here .
/ growled Mr.. She'll He is a tremendous
! big man and has a voice that would
! be deafening if he let 1t out in small
room. For the first time in the history
of the county the Germans are with us
and that will help swell the majority
! for Mckinley. Then there is no fac
! tional row on; we are all together; no.
/ body knows, or at least nobody pays
any attention to Frank Day, and Nc
Cleary has practically a clear field ]
/ should think that Mckinley would get
/ 800 majority in the county; McCleary
something more than that, and Clough
! will easily run up with Mckinley.
figure that there will be 500 more votes
| than there were two years ago, or 2,S0C
| In all. The new vote will consist large
| ly in immigrants from Illinois and
Iowa, and they are naturally Republi-
can The census of 1895 gave Mobiles
! an increase of 1000 in five years, and
most OF those people will vote for the
doubt of the result here"
CLOUGH AND LIND.
Committeeman Cranda1f thought ths