The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-21


known in the west end of Rice county,
said that in his part of the county
he was afraid that silver would carry
everything. The farmers are French
with any other than a Democratic
proposition. And they are not very
wealthy, and many of them have taken
TO this idea of silver. That this was
true or very considerable body of
farmers in the western part of the
county is undoubtedly true, and it is
quite certain that there are no hopes
OF Republican gains.
AMONG THE BOHEMIANS
while some few Of them who have
hitherto acted with the Republicans
will go over to silver. 1t was the first
time had found community Of Ger
man or. Bohemian farmers where there
was no likelihood Of anything like Re-
publican gains. The chairman Of the
Republican county committee was not
available and I talked with w A.
Doe, the Northfleld member. He was
hopeful, but not enthusiastic. II GER
tainly expect to see HeaJwole carry the
county and the district said Mr.. Doe,
but have not particular information.
We have made no poll anywhere and
can only go on what we hear here and
there There is plenty of work being
done however, and that Is all I can
mate on the county.
little inquiry demonstrated why he
was so conservative. The silver people
have been wise beyond their general
capacity-the county committee. They
have made a move that is likely to
cost Heatwole and the entire Repub-
lican ticket many a vote. In making
up the county ticket they put on two
straight silver Republicans One of
these men at least is very popular in
his old party and out of it. The name
of him Is F. L. White, and he is at
present the chief of police of Northfield 1
He has always been an active and
hustling Republican and he will GER
tainly carry some of his old associates
with him for the whole ticket as he has
influence among very large class of
people. He wants to be sheriff and
his chances are SO good against the
Republican nominee, who is the present
incumbent that 1t is by no means safe to
make any sort of prediction against
him. The second silver Republican is
a ministerial politician, the Rev. Mr..
Wallace. He wants to be judge of pro-
bate. He will not only take some Re-
publicans into the silver camp but will
possibly take a few ProhibitionistS with
him. All Of which goes to complicate
matters and makes the local conditions
hard to determine c. III. Pierce, the
editor of Heatwole's paper, the News,
and also the manager here Of his cam
paign, thought things looked all right
for Mr.. Heatwole. He had not received
figures from outside counties very
much and what figures he made were
close. They were his own however,
and he had rather not give them out
for publication. He is not inclined to
claim more than a thousand in the dis
trict
81 don't believe" he said, that there
Is anything like personal opposition to
Mr. Heatwole anywhere in the district
The people that say there is personal
feeling ere probably Democrats or
He has
A BETTER CHANCE
than he had two years ago in that he
will have united support here at home
where he had to pull against a candi-
date here at home. He will carry
Mortified easy enough and / don't
think there is anything like grave doubt
about the result in the county. He
is making personal campaign in that
he will see nearly every voter in the
district personally and his record is
excellent, could not be better. No, /
won't make any figures for I am not
warranted in it by the information I
have. Mr.. HeatWole has an excellent
organization and Is quite safe" Mr..
Heatwole himself was not in town and
was supposed to be driving through
the country in the direction of Water
vile. I could not reach him, and did
not in the district, though I crossed
his trail several times. Speaking of
that, there is another candidate sort
Of self-constituted candidate-down
here somewhere. 1t is DR.. A. A. Ames.
of Minneapolis, who is running for
governor It is little joke of the doc
fr&T'c 1Cv1S% r. rI10 Iaf -
for, but is obviously out for some one.
In one place he has the gold men dis
tributing his printing and in another
silver. And his audiences are not large
enough to alarm Gov. Clough or Mr..
Lind He spoke to a couple Of hundred
people here in Mortified.
H G.. Gress, a shoemaker is the local
manager of the Peck campaign and
he says he likes his job because it will
bring success. He is an ardent silver
man and does not believe there is the
least doubt of the success of Mr.. Peck,
although he comedies the city of North
field to Mr. Heatwole which Is more
than some of his neighbors will do
1--WE will not carry the city,, he said,
''but the county will be different. Heat
wole cannot carry It, Why the feeling
at Faribault. Dundas and a few other
places demonstrates that. AS to the
possibility of the German and Nor
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side Of the usual party lines, why they
will not be. They are both very numer-
GUS in the county and many Of the
Norwegians have been Pops in the past
and will vote with the fusionists be-
yond any question. Peck will have a
couple of hundred Of those that Nelson
had two years ago, and that will
change the political complexion Of the
county and make it safe for the fus-
ionists. There are undoubtedly some
Germans who
WILL VOTE FOR GOLD,
but they are not numerous not nearly
as great as the gains we will
make among the Norwegians"
the county by 300. And consider
ing it all, Mr.. Gress must be pretty
near right. 1t is sure enough that Peck
has better chance of carrying it by
300 than Heatwole has of carrying it
by the same figure. Peck will undoubt-
edly run ahead Of his ticket On the face
Of things now the silveriteS will very
nearly split the county on the national
and state tickets. C1ough will run with
his ticket here as elsewhere in the dis
trict where they are giving all their
attention to the congressional ticket
and paying no attention to the guber-
Material affair
Sibley county by a majority of Ill over
the Populist and Democrat, while
Nelson only had plurality; the COM
bined vote of Becker and Owen being
$50 to Nelson's 1909. The figures show
that 300 of the people that voted for
Owen went to Heatwole on the con-
gressional ticket This year 1t will be
different and Peck will get practically
the solid fusion vote ] could get no
other figures from the county than the