The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-15
TO UNITE ON LIND
THAT WILL BE THE AIM OF ALL
MINNESOTA FREE SILVER
MEN.
MOVEMENT OF DEMOCRATS
STARTED WITH A VIEW OF NOMI-
MATING HIM FOR COVER
NOR.
CAN THEY DEFEAT COL. KIEFERs
1t Looks Now rs If Fred Stevens
Would Get the Nomination
Away from Him.

When the Globe announced, two or
three weeks ago that John Lind will be
the free silver candidate for governor
of Minnesota, it knew the forecast was
warranted by the facts. Mr.. Lind's
personal preferences did not tend in
that direction at the present time; but
he alone could command the solid sup
port of the silver men in the Republi-
can party. From the Populists he could
expect Endorsement, because he had de-
clared himself out Of sympathy with
the Republican party, and had not even
q kind word to say for the Democrats.
1t is assured now, however, that Lind
will support Bryan on the platform
adopted at Chicago. So will the Pop
ulists and the boiling Republicans, the
latter all the more gladly because the
platform slaps in the face President
Cleveland, the arch enemy Of all their
paternalistic schemes and heresieS. A
new development in the case is the
starting of a movement by certain
Democrats to have Lind nominated in
the state convention to be held on
Aug. in Minneapolis. These men
are expressing themselves cock sure
that the Democratic state convention
will be ruled by the advocates Of free
silver coinage. 1--WE must get Popu-
list and Republican support for Bry-
an they say. What better or easier
way to secure that support than by
nominating John Lind? And besides,
we can thus effectually smash the
present Republican machine, and thus
70 a ~ n
Democratic state hereafter
Among the silver men from Mime
sofa who attended the Chicago con-
vention, Lind was freely talked of as
having decided to contest for Nc
Cleary's congressional seat, in the
Second district. Lind had twice been
elected from the Second, and felt that
no other man would stand so good a
show against the clever little school
master"
In the event this arrangement was
carried out Phil. Winston, of Mime
apolis, was to be groomed for the
gubernatorial job on Demo-Pop
ticket. Winston himself destroyed that
air castle when he refused to vote at
all on the adoption of the platform
and persisted in voting for Stevenson
on every ballot he cast Now If the
handsome Virginian is put anywhere
1T will be in second place on the Lind
ticket. The position Of presiding Off
Ger of the senate would just suit him.
"Why is Senator Knute Nelson
sticking so close to Alexandria," asked
q G. reporter of a Douglas cOun-
ty citizen last night
Because he's a level-headed and
thoughtful man. was the reply "And
there's another reason. Senator Nelson
realizes that the only way to defeat
and kill the free silver craze is to go
out among the farming people. He
believes in the school house campaign.
He knows the people of the rural dis
tricts, and he also knows that a face
TO face talk in words easily under
stood is worth more than whole pages
of print, be 1t ever so good. That's the
kind Of a campaign the senator is MAX
ing evSsn now for sound money and Nc
Kinley."
Ex-Congressman J. B. Wakefield, of
Blue Earth City, is at the Merchants.
To reporter for the G o b e he said
that there is very little PopuIism or
sentiment for free silver down his way.
We have never been trobled with
dangerous isms in Faribault county,"
he said, land / meet a good many
Democrats who assert that they are
not going to stand by the Chicago
platform or candidate. AS to Bryan's
speech, l imagine it was of the same
character as that made by Robert G.
1ngersoll when he nominated Blaine
at Cincinnati. Even his strongest OBJ
ponents were temporarily carried away
by the mans eloquence; but little
later on the sober second thought will
make itself felt. Were it not for the
danger to the country and all it's vital
interests, I would like to see the
scheme Of the silverites tested for
about six months. The result would, I
feel sure, cure even the most radical
-ranter on earth"
Each day makes more certain the
fulillment of the G l o e S statement
that Fred Stevens will defeat Col
kiefer for the congressional nomina-
ton. The colonel may get away easily
from the letters written by F. Anxious
Johnson; but he cannot get away from
the political trailers who have marked
MIN for defeat. Stevens and his friends
nave for two years been inoculating
the young and influential workers of
the party with the anti-third term
virus 1t has missed in but a very few
cases. Fred was the main pipe in the
state league of Republican clubs for
quite SPELL and he has had all sorts
OF time to go out and do business
among the party workers while Kiefer
has been consulting with his private
secretary at Warrington. And by the
way, the p. s. is rather at a disadvan-
fage now, so far as aiding Kiefer in the
columns Of the Dispatch is concerned.
The political man Of that paper is
strongly indicating the necessity that
the colonel should pull out before he is
thrown out. And Eli Warner. together
with one or two Others keep the politi-
cal man well posted on possibilities. Ell
Is chairman of the state committee now.
and while 1t might not be fair to saw
that he will use his influence against
klefer, 1T is a cinch that he will not use
1t to hurt Stevens chances. Like Col