The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-12
SOLID FOR SOUND MONEY.
VOTE WILL DE STILL HEAVIER
THAN THAT FOR M'CLEARY IN
1891.
WHAT LOCAL POLITICIANS SAY.
Few Can he Found Who Claim Even
Possible Silverite Gain In
the District.
Special staff Correspondence.

Special Staff Correspondence.
MANKATO, Oct. Ito be dragged
out of bed by foreign hotel clerk long
before dawn, hauled to the depot by a
foreign bus driver and thrown into a
train. the smoking car of which was
1illed by a crowd of voluble foreigners
who talked politics ad nauseam, and
all this when one has had a surfeit of
politics the previous night, is not cal
culated to make the itinerant CORE
spondent glad that he is alive, and
when | heard a man with a foreign ac-
cent declare that McCleary would be
showed under in Blue Earth county
felt better I knew the fellow was talk
ing for the sake of hearing himself
talk, but 1t was bracing to even think
that some OF these politicians, of whom
/ had heard so much, were to get the
the worst of it, And L became recon-
ciled to my fate by the thought that
at least half of those who are running
for office must be beaten. So l woke
up, and on the way to Mankato
CLEANED a bit of information. / got into
conversation with a little group OF
travelling men, and found that there is
an organization of knights of the road
who have a nice swamp elm club in
soak for Mr.. Lind. | knew there was
some feeling against Lind among the
travelling men; that it grew out of his
vote in congress on a law relating to
charges on excess baggage. The law
contemplated the practical abolition of
these charges and Mr.. Lind voted
against it. He afterward explained
that he thought it would be better for
Western travelling men to let the
charges remain fixed as they were. and
so keep New York drummers out of
this territory. The Minnesota travel
ing men urged him to vote for the bill,
but he knew what was good for them
better than they did. and ''he gave us
the wooden ear" said one of my fellow
travellers. Eugene Campbell, q trav-
eler, had addressed a memorial to Mr..
Lind, and the county papers through
out the state took the matter up, for in
every small town where railroads cross
IN this state there are a number of
resident drummers, and they bring
home fresh stories of the road, are the
wise men in their communities, and al
ways have the ear of the local editor
My fellow travellers informed me that
they had no fear Of the New York
drummer, for he only sold to jobbers,
but they did fear the excess baggage
bills. 1t is, of course, apparent that
the more goods a man can sell at the
least expense the more valuable he is
~ Ills uOuSG anu lffc higher MS salary.
In heavy lines the excess baggage of
q travelling man may run as high as
$40 day-or even more Whether
rlghAiy or not, the traveller argues that
If ~ did not have to make this outlay
forlFlis house he would get more salary
TlSse travelling men, for all they are
competitors ia business, are clannish,
and they say they will
WIPE OUT THE FLOUT
that Lind oraNa thnp1 ot tha ho1Io+
box. There are about 5000 travelling
men in the state, and, although | have
met and asked several about this Lind
matter since it was brought to my at
tention, L have yet to meet one who
was not OutSpoken in his opposition
70 the eX-congressman-an this with
out regard to personal politics.
The first man l met in this town
of Mankato was Landlord Snow, of the
Saulpaugh house. He said everything
hereahouts was Republican. The sec
ond man was Charles i. Shannon, a
machinery salesman who is ever going
up and down and about the southern
part of the Second district, and he said
that the sound money people outnum-
bered the silver men two to one. The
next on my visiting list was Editor
Joe Reynolds, of the lately deceased
Mankato News, and he said he didn't
know anything about the district, but
that Mankato was solidly Republican
from one end Of the ticket to the
other. Then 1 met Editor John Wise,
OF the Review, and he looked through
silver spectacles and blandly assured
me that Bryan would carry the county,
but II he was making a book on the
election, it is pretty safe to assume
that he would lay heavy odds against
his expressed opinion
Two years ago Blue Earth county
gave Nelson 3, 1876 votes, Becker 1888
ond Owen LAP. At the same time it
gave McCleary 3,418, Baker, Democrat,
1,712, and Long 743 McCleary and Ba-
ker both belong here and both ran
ahead Of their tickets.
This year Baker is out for McCIeary
and the whole Republican ticket,
and they do say that Long and his
friends believe he should have had
the nomination that Day got-which
will not help Day much. After look
ing the ground pretty well over, 1
should say that McCleary will get 1000
votes and that he will run 200 ahead
of his ticket. 1t is not likely that Lind
will run much If any ahead of his
ticket, for here, unlike New Ulm, the
interest is in the congressional and ma
tional ticket, and Clough has no or
gained opposition. There are
PLENTY OF GOLD DEMOCRATS.
but could only find one of prominence
who will vote the Palmer ticket: Dr.
Hilscher, fusion candidate for coroner
and the only Democrat in the county
excepting perhaps w. L. Comstock.
candidate for the legislature-who is
likely to be elected. Indeed, am in
clined to believe that 1000 Is rather a
low figure for the McCleary vote.
There is a startling and ominous prog
nostic for the silver people here in
Mankato In this: There is a McKin-
ley club here in Mankato with mem
bership Of 1,247; eighty members of the
club live in North Mankato and the
balance here in the CITY, Two years
ego the total Republican vote in Man
kato, for governor, was 1913 Now,
af there IS such a gain as this shown
in club merely organized for cam
paign purposes, what will be the re-
suit at the polls? There can be no
doubt of the club having the member
ship given and 1t Is even possible to
meet avowed gold men who for bust
ness reasons avoid clubs. So that my
estimate for the Republican majority
is rather under than over the mark
Gen. James H. Baker is certainly
not a fixture in politics. 1 met him