The Saint Paul globe., 1896-10-16
FUsI0Nls DOOMED TO DEFEAT.
PREDICTS 10000 SOUND MONEY
MAJORITY.
WARM CONGRESSIONAL FIGHTS.
Defeat of TOxnet and HeatwoIe
Predicted-McCIeary Certain to
RE Re-cIected.

newspaper correspondent, has spent a
cal situation. He sends the following
letter to the Chicago Times-Herald,
claiming the state for Mckinley:
ST. Paul, Oct 14-Minnesota will
vote for Mckinley and sound money,
despite Populism and fusion. The ma
jority will not be less than 10000. It
may easily be much mofe-40 000 so 600,
or even 10000. Whatever it is, it will
be enough to demonstrate that the
state of the union which has with the
single exception of North Dakota) the
largest percentage of foreign popula-
ton within it's borders is not in favor
or debased currency and of repudia-
t1on by popular will. Perhaps there is
no other state which SO strikingly ex-
empllfies what the campaign orator
would call the genius of American in
stftutions. Traverse over the beauti-.
fully wooded prairies of Minnesota.
with their rolling surface and innum-
cradle streams and lakes and every
thing the eye beholds seems typically
American. The farm houses. the barns.
the outbuildings, the vehicles, the man
ner of tilling the soil eS1d of shock
ing and stacking the grain, the fences
and gates, the faces and garb of the
people; all seem American and nothing
else. There are no more characteristic
American towns in outward appear
ance in architecture, inlbustle and life,
in show window displays or the visible
manners and customs of the people
than Minneapolis, ST. Paul and Duluth.
1OTa1T +I,.o-
find yourself in Europe Only one man
woman or child in five you meet the
state through is of what we call Aneri-
can blood The other four are natives
OF Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ger
many, Russia, or the United Kingdom
or the children of parents who were
not born under the stars and stripes.
Yet no better Americans in spirit are
there anywhere, as I feel confident
these people of Minnesota will show on
election day.l
The chief trouble, both ia country
and city, is with the native Americans
and the h-Americans While tha
Scand1naVianS, the Germans the Bo
nemlans, the Russians, the Poles. the
English, Welsh and Scotch are stand
ing almost solid1y for sound money.
the native American farmer or labor
ing man or small shopkeeper is Inclined
to run after false gods The popo-
cratic platform makers and orators
knew what they were about 1yT4eE thew
raised their cry against the perpetual
ton or an English financial system,
IL this country. They have made votes
py 1t among the thoEg htlass people
VINO VIII not stop to consider that we
no. mere borrowed our financ,aI svs
tenn from England than we did otir he
llef IN honesty as good policy. In the
country the fusionistS have gained
votes IN those counties where tne Pom
ulIsts two years ago obtained posses
SION or the county Offices rhis gave
them leverage in perhaps dozen conn
ties in the northwestern and western
parts Of the state. In the country thew
nave made the gold standard respon-
sIble for low prices In the cities thev
have made it responsible for lack of
work, for the development of great de-
aftment stores which crowd out the
small tradeSmen, for the faflure Of
real estate speculations, for the mumps.
the Whooping cough and the itch. And
thfougn all these methods of reaching
the under half of the social fabric they
lave managed to fray off from the
ragged edge of the Republican party
between $4,000 and 10000 votes. Esti-
mates vary, but if one wishes to be
on the safe side het will accent the
larger rather than the smaller num-
her.
Twenty thousand votes lost from, the
republican party in Minnesota-20 600
republicans for Bryan, 1t seems at
f1rst- glance, to be fatal. phe onnosition
leaders assume that it Surely is Thev
turn to figures. I'M 1892 Cleveland and
Weaver together had eover Harrison
GoVo votes. In 1894 Knute Nelson, Re
publican candidate for governor had
only 5000 over the Democratic and
Populist candidates. Take 10000 Re-
publican votes away and add them to
the fusion side and it easy to see that
the latter is much the larger column nf
the two 1t is upon this showing that
the Bryan managers, down in CHICAGO
pase thef confidence in a success in
Minnesota. 1t must be upon this state
Of affairs-if upon anything-that thev
maze their claim Of the state as among
The sure" things in their recent onti-
m1stic proclamation of Bryan's election
They have heard all about this great
detection in the Republican ranks
They have had it dinned in their ears
magnlfled doubtless into much greater
proportions, ever since the can1naign
began. But there are other things
which the Chicago managers Of Mr.
Bryan's capaign hear little or nothing
Of, but which the impartial observer
must take into account if he would NOT
deceive himself or others
First and foremost, those Americans
with German blood in their veins
What a bulwark of strength for the
sound money cause the Germans are
everywherei There are 20 900 German
voters in Minnesota. Two-thirds of
them, or about $4,000. have been Demo-
Gratis. Fully one-quarter of these Dem
ocratic Germans, or IL ,000 will vote for
Mckinley or Palmer. Many observers
who have travelled through the state
place the proportion much higher. Few
place It lower
It Is exceedingly interesting In
state like Minnesota to sound the va
rfcus foreign elements on this currency
question, to learn, If possible. how the
Americans Of recent European origin
view this peculiarly American problem.
Of course this can be sdone only a,D-s
proxinately. In the nature Of things
no one can know either how many
voters Of q certain nationality have
been Republicans or Democrats. or
how many win vote for sound money
next month. But even1 an intelligent
approximation Is Interesting, and the
following figures were given me by a
gentleman who is in a position to know
great deal of the various divisions Of
public opinion, as hefhas been all over
the state and has kept In touch with
local leaders Of both parties in every
county:
De,ns