The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-09
TOO THRIFTY TO VOTE SILVER
THUS CUTTING DOWN THE AcCu-
MUTATIONS OF YEARS OF IN
DUSTRY.
LIND IS HERE A FAvoRIrE.
VIII Run Ahead of the Ticket All
Through the Second Dis
trfct.

youthful Prussians an idea OF the loca-
non OF cities in the United States, could
Dy no means get them to understand
where Chicago was until he had An
| inspiration. and told them Il was 352
miles east Of New Ulm. There are
more Germans, proportionally, In New
Ulm than there are in Berlin, and they
speak all kinds Of Dutch. high and
low. and they make and save all kinds
or money-and they have rather
fixed and stolidly German idea that
they do not want the money standard
trlf1ed with. So I was informed by
some scores of burghers, and they un-
doubtedly meant just what they said.
The German vote Of Brown comfy
will be for Mckinley to such an extent
tnat 1t may be considered unanimous.
What that would mean right here in
New Ulm 1t would not be easy to saw.
for there Is a considerable native born
vote which boasts Teutonic ancestry
| and which has that same desire to get
money and get the best as besets their
fathers. OF the population of New
Ulm. which makes total of 2,8S2. .5Q5
were born In Germany and a good
many OF them came to this country
enough years ago to have staIwart
sons in the native-born class. So that
New Ulm will. this fall, contribute TO
the gaiety Of nations the spectacle Of
very goodly number Of sons of the
Fatherland, voting the Republican
ticket for the first time in their lives.
MASSED ON PRINCIPLE.
There is nothing odious In this mass
Ing of distinct nationality on the eve
of election. The Germans are by no
means, clannish, in fact the average
German American takes q peculiar de-
light In going into the highway. and
by ways and fighting candidates for
office Of his own nationality This year
and in this district they are massed
on a matter OF principle and they will
vote for Mckinley because of their
stubborn integrity. The man cuts no
figure with them at all; they do not
care anything at all about him. They
are simply voting for the platform. and
when I asked a few of these Brown
county farmers why they could not as
well maintain their principles and pre-
serve their Democracy they said that
the thing they desired most was TO
beat Bryan-nOt to elect Mckinley; as
they saw 1t the way to beat Bryan
was to vote for his strongest opponent,
and may as well say here and now
that the same conditions obtain IN the
Ilrv fo,. h.
German vote is concerned. 1t will be
for the head of the ticket and for the
Republican nominee for congress On
the state ticket they will divide, but
the Clough ticket will gain largely by
the detection OF German Democrats.
1t is beyond any question assured that
many dissatisfied German Democrats,
who will vote for the head OF the other
ticket, will vote the whole ticket. and
Clough will get good many votes
that way that he could not possibly get
in Brown county il the parties were
divided on the old party lines. At the
same time 1t ls equally as certain that
Lind will gain from the Republicans
more than enough votes to affect the
loss of Democrats.
STATE ISSUES LEAD.
In New Tim, and In Brown county
generally, everything is secondary to
the state campaign. Here Lind lives
and here he has his dearest friends
and foes. He is being supported more
vigorously and fought more bitterly In
this county Of Brown. than anywhere
else in the state No one is paying tho
+t,4 cd "a
campaign-in fact nobody hereabouts
knows Frank Day, and he has only
been here once this fall and that be-
tween trains, and among the politicians
the national campaign Is being allowed
to take care of itself The Democrats
and Pops talk OF no one but Lind ana
the Republicans talk only Of Clough.
A Populist leader who was willing 10
admit that Mckinley would carry
Brown county by 300 majority, was at
the same time convinced that LIND
would carry 1t by thousand. But ne
was an enthusiast. Lind will undoubt-
edly run ahead Of his. ticket and he
will no doubt carry the county, but
there will be no such disparity in the
vote as this Pop thought. The vote
will be close on the head of the ticket.
Two years ago Nelson had 1903 votes.
a plurality Of only 83 over Owen, the
Populist candidate. A fusion of the
Democratic and Populistic vote of two
years ago, would give the fusion candi-
date for governor this year upwards Of
1000 votes. But he will hardly hold the
fusion vote, for Of the 704 votes that
Becker got in 1894, at least 800 were
Germans These same Germans are
for gold this year, and In voting for
Mckinley, some Of them will vote the
entire Republican ticket. Aside from
the German vote, the change will not
be material and as nearly as / could
gather, there are, aside from the Ger
mans, about as many gold Democrats
as silver Republicans, and no more.
so that Mckinley and Bryan will about
split the vote; 100 either way will be
the best either Of them will get, and
the chances are that it will be in Nc
Kinley's favor, for there were some
German Pops two years ago, and some
OF them will get away as far as possible
from the silver proposition. That Will
help Mckinley and probably give him
the county. II John Lind has q ma
jority over Clougf of 200 to S00 IL will
be ali that he will have, and that In
spite Of the fact tllat here In New Ulm
the Lind partisans are making ell sorts
OF claims. In the city Lind will run