The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-16
JOEL HEATWOLE HAVING THE
CONTEST OF HIS LIFE DOWN
THERE.
PECK PRESSING HIM HARD.
IF HE WINS AT ALL, HEATWOLE
MUST WIN IN GOOD
HUE.
Whichever Wins VIII Get the Dis
trict by Less Than 1000
Votes.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
RED WING, Mimi, Oct. 15-Lool-
ing across the Third district through
the cloud of Republican votes that en-
counter the vision near at hand and
trying to figure H. ]. Peck a possible
winner in his fight with Joel Heat
wole is like looking a-down the vista
of mules ear and expecting to see
diamonds-but in spite of that. the
lovely Joel will be very lucky young
man if he is in a position to be de-
scribed by women correspondents as
the handsomest man in the Fifty-fifth
congress. He has the fight of his life
on his hands, and he knows it very
well. When his friends make figures,
even. they do not make the extrava-
CANT claims that politicians are max
ing generally. submitted an estimate
to one of his managers in which had
made some very close guesses. based
on a canvass in four counties, and in
which the other counties were only
approximated, and according to which
Joel might win by 800 majority in the
district. The manager in question told
| me that the estimate was too high,
and that I would find it so when I got
into the counties approximated. He
was right, and no one has any title
to predict the result. Heatwole and
Peck have both many personal antag-
oniSms and few strong friends. Heat
wole probably has more enemies than
Peck because he has had q term in
congress, and if congressman uses
his time properly he can make as many
foes as he needs. Joel has gone the.
limit in this matter, and the conse-
Quence is that about one man in five
of his personal acquaintances will tell
you that Heatwole is stuck up
which same he is not, but he does not
know how to be genial. Even here in
Goodhue. where the fate Of the con-
gresham will be decided, if he gets
the full Republican strength. there
are men, and party men. too. who
will declare deliberately that they will
vote for Heatwole. but that
THEY DON'T LIKE HIM,
which is certainly bad for a man run
ming in district so close that per-
sonal following may determine the re-
suit Of the election. People here do
not know Peck at ALL and they may
forget their dislike Of Joel and vote
for him. If they do. then he. will car
ry Goodhue by 5000 majority and the
district. Two years ago Heatwole had
$500 in this county and ran behind
his ticket-that was because O.. NJ.
Hall, who lives here, was against him.
This considered together with the gains
that will certainly be made by the
Republicans among sound money
Democrats, and the least Heatwole
can get is 5000 majority 1t may go
above that, and it is better bet that
it will be above that figure than be-
low 1T. But they are not very warm
in matters political in this town of
Tams Bixby. and it is to be doubted
If there is a Republican here who
claims it for Heatwole by so large a
figure as an investigation warrants
me in conceding it. That's their mod
esty. the quality that Mr.. Bixby pos
sesses and uses so much in political
life. And, in spite of this modesty, it is
also safe to assure the Red Wing peo-
pie in particular, and those of Goodhue
in general, thatlthey are overmodest
about McKinIey's probable majority,
for he will run 200 to 300 ahead of
Heatwole, and possibly more, for he
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Democrats who will not go any fur,
ther in their reputation of silver than
voting the head of the ticket And
most of those Germans with whom
l talked said positively they could see
no sense in voting the sound money
very strong party men anyhow. and
they will just move over into the Re-
publican camp and stay there this
year. Palmer is not at all likely to
get more than fifty votes in the coun-
ty, and of those perhaps ten of the
1,500 votes in Red Wing will be cast
for him.
The most casual canvass here in Red
Wing demonstrated that there will be
no great breaking away from party
lines. few very prominent Democrats
are out fiat for gold, and there is one
preference is for gold, but who, from a
SENSE OF GRATITUDE
to H. ]. Peck, will not declare himself.
refer to o. M. Hall. He will not say
he is against the Chicago platform, and
he may feel constrained to go .on the
stump for Peck, but 1t Is quite certain
that he is not in sympathy with the
principles of Democracy as represented
| by the silver people. If he should de-
clare for sound money, then good bye
| to the chances of Peck, for as Hall
goes so goes the Democracy of Goodhue
county, and the county would be prac-
tically unanimous for Heatwole-with
the exception Of the Populist vote
which Is not large enough to cut any
figure at all. But Hall will not go
over. Two years ago Peck worked like
Trojan for Hall and talked himself
and half the people in the district to
distraction-and the same fact makes
Hall safe.
Another prominent Democrat who is
out for sound money and who will do
what he can to strengthen the Palmer
movement, or the sound money move
ment, for anybody, is J. C. Pierce, ex-
chairman of the Democratic county
committee. He has been a strong man
in the county, and still has a considera-
bic personal following. To stand off
these, I could find but one silver Re
publican of prominence-though there
may be others. DIR. H. E. Conley,. of
Cannon Falls, was a delegate to the
silver convention at ST. Louis and he
is pushing the silver propaganda about
Cannon Falls with such vigor that it is
quite certain that proportionately the
| largest silver vote in the county will
be cast therabouts. Dr. Conley was
formerly man Of some consequence in
the Republican party, and is one OF the
very few free silver Republicans of any