The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-02

| ly representative apparently; We're well
| dressed and comfortable looking and
| generally Of the middle age-heads OF
| families presumably. The preferences
indicated would point to larger Re-
| publican majority than Is to be looked
| for, basing expectation on experience.
But they also demonstrate an almost
complete lack of interest IN the fight
that is going on. But if the farmers
! are Indifferent the men who stand be-
tween the people and the affairs of
/ state are not. / left the farmers and
went after the politicians. From their
point of view the country is in a tur-
| moil and unless the outcome of the
| election Is according to their various
views the country is going TO the bow
vows. After listening to both sides
one can but look forward to
AN ERA OF BANKRUPTCY
and Generalization whatever the out
| come OF the election. But some wise
man has said that there are three
kinds of lies: Lies. ID lies and sta
| tlSt1cS. Political figures belong in one
| category or the other and the devil
was not the father of lies. 1t was
| politician.
Logan Breckenridge is a good OBJ
server, a shrewd politician, and he has
a wide reputation as a man of honor
He is, or was. easily the leader of the
ton of the First congressional district
When the Chicago platform was adopt
ed Mr.. Breckenridge proceeded to save
his party by beating, if possible, the
Chicago candidate. He is still a good
Democrat, but bad Populist He
talked about the state Of politics here
aboutS. Il am not doing much this
fall" said Mr.. Breckenridge There
really is not much to be done. There
is little organization of gold Demo-
Gratis here and I believe most of them
will vote for Palmer and Buckner
But there Is not one of them that 1
know that would not vote for Mckinley
if he thought there was any danger OF
Bryan carrying the state. We do not
contemplate that possibility, however,
for the Republicans have been wonder
fully strengthened in this part Of the
state by the Democrats taking up the
silver fad. There are about fifty sound
money Democrats here In Rochester
and perhaps 200 in the county. To
stand this vote off there is nothing at
all. have not heard Of three Repub-
l1cans who will vote for the silver can
didates. Lind? No, I don't believe he
will run any stronger than Bryant
mean not materially stronger. He may
get some Republican votes for personal
reasons, but the sound money Demo-
Gratis will have none of him. Person
Lind, but we will have nothing to do
with Populism. Tawney will beat Fitz-
patrick by more votes than he beat
Moonan and the Populist candidate two
years ago. Tawney Is popular here
personally, and that will help him to
votes that Fitzpatrick's Populist sup
port cannot make up. The county Is
Republican under the best conditions
and this year it will be worse than
ever, and the work of rehabillitating
the Democracy will be hard enough
after this
BRACKENRIDGE's FIGURES.
Mr. Breckenridge thought that Nc
Kinley and Tawney would get about
the same vote in the district that Taw-
ney did in '94. He figures that the Re
publican counties in the district will be
more strongly Republican than before
and that Tawney's majority will run
perhaps as high as 1000. He could not
figure that Lind would run ahead OF
his ticket to any great extent. THE
Scandinavians in the district are gen.
orally Norwegians," said Mr.. Brack-
enridge," and the Norwegians are not
only Republican all the way through,
but they don't love John Lind-nor do
they know him for the matter of that"
Andrew Nelson is stout, genial
man. He is a merchant He is like
wise a free silver man. strictly. He
said that there was no manner of
doubt about the outcome of the elec-
ton. He was absolutely certain that
the silver people would turn down the
300 or so Republican majority and
carry Olmstead. Mr.. Nelson was for
merly chairman of the Democratic
county committee. and he will probably
occupy the same office this fall. He
certainly may have it IL he wants 1t.
He said that the few votes the Demo-
Gratis would lose to Mckinley or Palm
er would be made up for many times
over by accessions Of silver Republi-
cans. "The Germans and Scandina-
vians will vote with us almost to
man." said Mr.. Nelson. IT have not
made anything like a close canvass
yet, but have heard many reports and
am quite sure they will be with US and
that will give us the county. Yes. I
know it means practically revolution,
and that is what 1T will be-"
Mr. Nelson wanted to. make an ar
gument showing why the Scandina-
vians would vote for Bryan, but argu-
nent is not fact-always, and the
declaration he made about the Scandi-
navians was worth looking up. as 1t
was corrohorated by Henry Ungemach.
congressional district committeeman
for Mr.. Fitzpatrick. and P. H. Hackett,
attorney and free silver stump speaker.
doc" Leonard. of the Rochester Post.
said Mr. Nelson was in error; that the
Norwegians would be for the Republi-
can ticket to man. And the doctor
editor, who had just been nominated
for judge of probate, intimated that
the entire Republican ticket would be
elected by increased majorities-a
statement that might be forgiven him
as a Republican editor and a candidate
! for office
DOWN AT ROCK DELL.
The question as to the attitude of the
Scandinavians in this district is an i'm
portant ore. There are very few
Swedes in the district and If the Nor
wegians were stampeded for Bryan
and Lind the political complexion of
the district might be changed. A single
Norwegian community would serve for
a sample of the whole and Rock Dell
| town, in the southwestern portion of
/ Olmstead county, was pointed out as
| typical Norwegian colony. There are
! PIG votes In the town and O. S. San
derson. county auditor of Olmstead.
/ lives there. 1t is only a few miles
4 from Rochester. and visit to it would
settle the question as to where the
Norwegian vote stood. 1t was worth
while making the visit. The farmers
| in Rock Dell occupy a MAGNIFICENT
| country and the road to 1t traverses
the finest farming country in the state.
! The Norwegians are all well-off. They
have the town to themselves. for there
are but three American farmers In the
/ town One of them has been distribut-
| ing free silver literature. A Norwegian
named Ole Moe has also been in the
same business OF the 216 in the town
two years ago, 1856 were cast for the
! Republican ticket. That makes
fairly representative Norwegian Re-
publican town. Thirtytwo Norweg-
ian voters in Rock Dell We're SEEN and
/ in reply to a direct question % of them