The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-19

only man with a Democratic past-in
the next congress from Minnesota
H. j. Peck is big man ply sically.
He weighs more than 200 pounds, wears
q short clipped gray beard and is per-
haps dfty-five. He has wide repu-
tat1on as being most pugnacious law
Yer and wins many of his cases by
his very strength Of will. He talks with
feeling always and is reputed to take
adverse decisions as personal affrontS.
He has slight nervous affection of
the hands and his cigar trembles as
he snokes-and he smokes all the
time. He has been in practice in the
Third district for thirty years and
knows everybody in it and would know
the politics of all of them-if they
didn't change too fast. He has made a
speech or two speeches a day in the
district ever since he accepted the NOM
ination and is as firmly convinced that
he is going to be elected as Bryan
says he Island with probably better
reason, in fact, with ever so much
better reason. When I met him here
he had just returned from trip in
the country and he evinced his pug
nacity the moment I approached him,
by declaring that he didn't want any
thing to do with the Gil o b e. And
after he had made speech to me,
he consented to be agreeable and
"a H..
II am out for myself said Mr.. Peck
"A man who is nominated for Office
and won't try to help himself to it
don't deserve any office. I am manag-
ing my own campaign and em emf
nently well satisfied with it. / can
make figures, but I won't; but my
election is practically beyond question.
7 have spoken all over the district,
and, as cannot afford to spend much
money in printing, I have to take
chances on advertising. So know
that my audiences are with me-
Therefore am so sure OF election
Eeatwole is doing a let Of ha11dshak
2 ing and 1t seems to me that a candi
cate should discuss the issue upon
which he stands can't afford to go
driving about the country, and even
the expense of making personal cam
pa1gn, with no money to spend for
committees and that sort of thing, is
heavy enough. Unless the opposition
puts in good deal Of money in the
next couple Of weeks am as good as
elected Then he did
MAKE. SOME FIGURES
and said that he would carry his own
county by 1,4OO and every county
tc the west and north. I asked
him if it were true, as had heard,
that he was being opposed by a num-
Der of lawyers within and without his
party, and he said that he had been
promised personally the support of
every Democratic lawyer in the dis
trict There was talk here and there
that Democratic lawyers, who had
been made the recipients of attentions
at the tongue Of Mr.. Peck, would get
even with him, but If such were the
case, the lawyers could not be found
VINO would repeat it. Peck has never
held office, but has been long in poll
tics and was the natural successor of
O. M. Hall, who, he thinks, VIII support
rim cordially and earnestly
1t IS conceded by every one that
Peck is making a remarkable single
handed campaign. He has no neuten-
ants and does not even require an in
PRODUCTION to his audience 1t is a very
bad thing, indeed, for Joel Heatwole
that he has Peck for an opponent.
+. II. Golden, editor Of the Tribune.
the fusion organ-though the other To-
cal paper, the Argus, is also for sill
ver-believes that Peck will carry
Scott county by at least ], 400. and that
he will be elected. Golden has been a
candidate for Office himself, and is a
lifelong resident Of Scott He said he
knew positively that Peck would lose
none Of the German sound money vote
and that is bound to be considerable.
ihere are large number Of Germans
IN the county, and the majority of
them have been Democrats. A good
part of that majority will this year go
over to the sound money people. but
nearly all of them will vote for Nc
Kinley rather than Palmer. And they
will nearly all vote for Peck, for they
consider him a. safe enough man in
spite of his platform. A number Of
them said so positively, and Peck will
get all of the two or three hundred
of them who are for a gold president.
w. A. Ferguson. a miller, and one
OF HeatWole's committeeman, was in
hopes that the fusion majority might
be cut down some. He said that there
We're men in the mill who had been
Democrats always, but who would vote
for Mckinley, and he supposed they
would vote for HeatwoIe And it is a
fact that the mill men and the en-
ployes in the newly established stove
works will be out for the Republican
nominees
Postmaster Johnson. a lifelong
Republican. is the most fervent silver
man in town. and the only silver Re-
publican whom I met.
Ex-senator McHale IS wildly enthu-
siastic for silver. and was ready to
"spiel" Bryan's Minneapolis. speech in,
support Of his principles. He had no
doubt of the result, and is devoting
a good deal Of his time to Peck
Resorting to the rura1ists who were
In town marketing, the same general
some small Republican gains on the
head of the ticket. with Clough run
ming quite I'D to Mckinley, and a
disposition to sacrifice HeatwoIe for
Peck.
At Jordan there is one Of the most
f1ourishing silver clubs in the state.
and there are some gains for the sil-
yer people from the Republicans-and
these among business men. too. Here
and at New Prague the Peck senti-
ment was again strong and 1t Is quite
certain that Heatwole will not run
with his ticket.
In LIE Sueur, where two years ago
Heatwole ran 200 ahead of Nelson.
and Hall 400 ahead of Becker, Heat
Wole had eight more votes In the
county than the Democrat and Popu-
list combined there Is a practical GER
tainty that Peck will win out by
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