The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-19
is CONGRESSMAN HEATWOLE AP-
PARENTLY IN THE THIRD
DISTRICT.
OPPOSITION SUCH THAT HE WILL
PROBABLY RUN BEHIND THE
TICKET.
1t Is Strong and May Aid Him
ClOugh Sure OF the Dis
trict.

Special Staff Correspondence.
SHAKOPEE, Oct, 1S.-It's far cry
from Goodhue to Scott county, polit-
ically. And, after going over the ground
pretty well from Chaska, in Carver
county, to Bird Island, in Renville
county, then back to Glencoe, in Nc
Leod, and over here, ! want to amend
the figures made on possible results by
Red Wing Republicans. If there be
anything in signs, then will Peck be
elected congressman from the Third
district. vice Heatwole. did not get
into Meeker county at all, and only
know of the conditions there by re-
port, but the Republican figures on the
other counties will not do. Meeker
may be granted the Republican ma
jority Of 800 Of two years ago, and
estimated in my last letter. But Nc
Leod will do at least as well by Peck
as forecast, about 500. Renville will
give him nearer 500 than 400, and Scott
will give him 1,400, instead of 1,O0O Car
yer is exceedingly close, and the 200
allowed Heatwole there will probably
be shaved. Now, unless Heatwole de-
velops unexpected strength in his own
county and Sibley. then is he
INDEED DONE FOR.
And this in spite sof the fact that
there have been considerable Repub-
lican gains among the Germans all
along the line Of the Milwaukee road
west of Chaska. Those gains are not
for Heatwole. They will go to the head
of the ticket, and many of them will
not be cast for congressman, for Peck
is a hard-headed man, good lawyer
not too strongly devoted to silver, ap-
parently safe in his views, and, above
all, a good campaigner, with more per-
sonal acquaintance in the western part
Of the district than Heatwole could get
in about 10000 years. Peck has tried
cases in every county in his section of
the district, and has cajoled or abused
former witnesses and jurors until ev-
cry one of them nearly Is his staunch
friend or his bitter enemy. Besides
this, he has campaigned nearly every
school house in the west and north
of his district, and he is voluble and
forceful tall1er, a big man with
strong will and a bitter partisan. And
in all these elements, except the latter,
he has the best of his opponent, who
cannot talk, and is unknown except
by report
Heatwole only carried Carver county
by about SO majority over Hall and
Bowler two years ago and he would not
have carried it at all if Peck had been
against him, and the silver question
left out. There are good many Ger
mans in Carver just one-third Of the
vote is German and that vote helped
Nelson two years ago, because the Ger
mans were afraid Of Populism That
fear of Populism Is breaking out this
year In
PROTEST AGAINST SILVER,
but in driving into Chaska, questions
put to a goodly number of German far
mers showed that they were not at all
inclined to put Peck in the same class
with Bryan and he may get a number
of votes that Nelson got and Clough
will get. 1t is clearly obvious that the
German Catholic is generally a Demo
craft is so everywhere, and there Is
nothing invidious INF stating it. Well
In Carver the German Catholic vote
will be for Mckinley to a very con-
siderable extent, and it will split on
Peck. If the restSof the Germans do
not vote as they declare they will-for
the whole Republican ucket-then Peck
is safe enough. The county though Is
safe enough for Mckinley and the whole
Republican ticket except congressman.
Even at Chaska-whe there are plen-