The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-06-25


just to Show the Country How
the 100 Can Punish a Man
for Being Governor.
Special Correspondence to the UNION.
MINNEAPOLIS, June %, 1896. Next
NJ onday evening is the time, and the
100 or so primaries of the county are
the place where the Committee Of One
Hundred is to punish the State for de-
feating Washburn and electing Nelson
senator and making Clough governor.
Watch our smoke. The Republicans
OF the so counties need not think that
they are going to do such things with
out the approvalsof Hennepin and .es-
cape deserved chastisement. Let the
state prepare for the whipping block
next Monday evening. General Lovejoy,
Van SAINTS surveyor general Of logs,
will swing a horseWhip on that occa-
sion, and Col. lillian Henry Eustis
will sWipe the 80 counties with CATO
|nine-tails, and he does not mind if Lee
and Van SAINT get cut or. two in the
bargain
Il Our William Henry was to have car
lried lie Sueur county the other day,
and also Lyon county; those were our
lstrongholds, you know. That unspeak-
able Clough stole 'em. He is mean
l5enough to do thing of that kind.
Nelson was that way too. But you
never see our honorable Minneapolis
candidates, like Washburn and Eustis,
|doing a thing OF that kind.
IN i. IS.
III The morning Eustis organ is already
Hooking forward to the defeat of Eustis
and has prepared the following as the
reason: ".There is a concerted and de-
ltermined effort on the part of certain
ambitious Republicans in Minneapolis
TO prevent Mr.. Eustis from carrying
Ibis own county. The sslocal pride''
sentiment is to have no sway here.
THEY will give the endorsement of this
l5county to an outside candidate, or, fail
ling that, to Clough, rather than to a
man who has been one of its most loyal
and devoted citizens, for Is years, who
has for more than a dozen years paid
into the treasures of the city and
county more than SIS, 900 a yearin taxes
and who has served the people Of this
city with signal efficiency and honor
Ofcourse, the real reason is that Eus-
It's lacks political strength. He has
other things, but no strength in the
primaries. =
a,r !. i. !.
AS soon as the Winona convention
was over, Captain Van SAINT came to
Minneapolis aud secured quarters at
the West, where he is now entertain
ing his following. This makes the
local member of the Hennepin Al
lance, Mr.. Eustis very hot under the
collar, and his organ splits out in the
following complimentary manner:
'sMr. Van SAINT, as the Times has re-
peatedly pointed out, is simply the in
strument of a clique of local bosses who
have sought from the beginning to
pooh pooh, discredit, be-little and wet
blanket Mr.. Eustis' campaign"
I. !. +
It appears that the Eustis contin-
gent wants Van SAINT to come and help
beat Clough, but get no delegates.
The alliance and aid are to be all on
one side. The work is to be Van
SAINTS and the benefits all for Eustis.
But Van SAINT acts as though he in
tended to get a few delegates himself.
It is true, however, that what he gets
will come from Eustis, rather than
from Clough, for the Clough voters are
not electing Van SAINT delegates this
year. Lee does not seem to be dis
posed to get delegates He is the
silent partner of the three-cornered
combine, and apparently. a dead letter.
:. !. !.
If Eustis gets beaten in Hennepin,
as in all the other counties, and the
case. is now pretty sure. that wayne
is going to lay the blame on the ''l00o,,
where much Of it undou btedly. belongs:
His organ says: Mr.. Eustis is given
to understand that he must stand aside
because he is not the favorite Of a few
of the Committee Of 100, who have de-
creed that it will suit their purposes
better to have, Clough governor for
two years more than to have Eustis.
governor for a possible four years. If
there ever was a combination that de-