The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
INROADS IN CLOUGH'S
VOTE.
THE DETECTION is SERIOUS,
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WILL RUN
BEHIND HIS TICKET FULLY
SIXTEEN PERCENT.
GEN. CLAPP- HAS MANY FRIENDS.
His Defeat for the GubernatOrial
Nomination Largely the Cause
of CIOugh's Weakness.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
M0ORHEAD, Oct. 51.-A trip
through the congressional district,
such as 1 have just completed, will
convince any unprejudiced person of
at least one thing, and that is that If
d. NJ. Cloagh is elected governor this
fall it will not be because Of the help
that he received from the Seventh dis
trict. l have talked with men from
every county of the district of every
shade of political opinion, from all the
larger towns and many Of the small
ones, from the 'tpineries," the prairies,
the Red river valley and the Park Re
gion"-for the Seventh stretches over
four parallels of latitude, and includes
many varieties of soil and topography
and every man have yet found has
told me that Gov. Clough, in his coun-
t.. lis town or his precinct, would run
behind the remainder ,of the Repub-
lican ticket, national state or local.
On other points no two men agree. On
this point all men agree in the Seventh
district. Many assure me that Gov.
Clough will be elected, but they base
their prediction on the vote that he will
receive elsewhere in the state. The
percentage against him, as compared
with Mckinley, is put variously in the
different counties at from 10 to 25 per
cent. AS the chances in this district
seem altogether unfavorable to a ma
iority for Mckinley, it will be seen
that Gov. Clough is likely to be left
in an inglorious minority.
Otter Tail and Polk counties unitedly
cast about one-third of the entire vote
OF the district, and in both the Repub-
licans are well organized. The vote in
these two ought to he a fair index of
the entire vote of the district on gov
ernor. In Crookston 1 was assured that
If Gov. Clough got 1900 votes in Polk
county he would do we'll, and the same
prophets were firm in the belief that
Mckinley would get 1000 or over. In
Otter Tail the detection is put smaller,
but it will still run into the hundreds
c. c. Houpt, of Fergus Falls one of
the unsuccessful candidates for attor-
ney general before the Republican state
convention, thought McKinley's vote in
the county would be high water mark
of the Republican vote, and that
C1ough would be 300 or 400 behind on
o Mckinley vote of 1000 or so. c. L.
Baxter, Mr. Houpt's law partner, a
sound money Democrat, and the Sew
enth district delegate to the Chicago
convention, estimated McKinley's vote
IN the county at somewhat lower fig
u1es than this, but agreed as to the
amount of the Clough detection. In
both CrOokston and Fergus Falls Gov
Clough will run behind Mckinley by
much larger percentage than in the
country districts of the same counties.
DUE TO CLAPP'S FRIENDS.
Gen. Clapp, who was defeated
by Clough for the nomination, for
merly lived in Otter Tail county, but
the fact that the percentage of defec-
ton will be larger in Polk than in
Otter Tall shows that it is not based
alone on the failure of Gen. Clapp to
secure the nomination. Even down in
Douglas county, the home Of Senator
Nelson and of Deputy Oil Inspector c.
S. Mitchell, John Lind will run far
ahead of the rest of the fusion ticket,
and there are not wanting prophets
who assert that he will carry that
county, though it is conceded that Nc
Kinley will get few hundred majority.
Mr.. John Kron, the chairman Of the
Douglas, estimated that Lind would
get LIS votes to l. 665 for Clough. In
Kandiyohi county there seems to be
a similar likelihood of Lind carrying
the county in the face of small ma
jcrity for Mckinley Mr.. M. J. O'Brien
of Willmar, estimated Lind's vote at
1000 and that of Mckinley at 1900,
while he thought Clough could not run
very far above 1,500 Here in Moorhead,
the case for the governor does not seem
so bad. l am assured that there will
not be much difference between his
vote and that of the head of the ticket,
but that little will be against Clough,
as usual. A. H. Taisey, of Donnelly,
Stevens county, thought Mckinley and
Lind would both carry the county,
by small majorities. T. F. O'Hara, of
Traverse county gave his county to
Lind by 600 or 700 majority. c. H. Phin-
ney, OF Grant county, thought Lind
would beat Clough by 500 votes, which
seems a pretty stiff estimate when it
is agreed that Mckinley will carry the
county
The reasons for all this enthusiasm
for Lind are easy to find. The Republi-
can newspapers Of the district were
pretty generally opposed to Coughs
nomination, and they said great many
hard things Of him before the conven-
ton. They assisted in convincing the
voters that he was not the right man
for governor. Iney are now working
with zeal and heartineSS for McKin-
ley and Eddy, but for Clough they are
not The politicians of the party do
not think the governors favors are
likely to come their way in any event,
and are not staying up nights to push
forward his interests. On the other
hand, all the fusion committees are
working with enthusiasm and energy
for Lind. He made a speaking tour
through the district about month ago,
echoes of which are still to be heard
In every town in which he spoke. He
made good impression everywhere,
and the Republicans who do not like
Clough do not seem to have the same
bitterness of feeling toward Lind that
the Sixth district Republicans do to-
ward Charley Towne on the ground of
his being a renegade This is hard
to account for except on the theory
that Mr.. Lind's speeches were moderate
in tone and not calculated to stir up