The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-11-05

made by the opposition that Mr.. Lind
viii carry Hennepin and Ramsey
counties at the approaching election in
November. AS chalmers of the earth
and the 1ullness thereof, the Demo.
cratic party is noted in the history and
traditions Of the states. Away back
almost forty years ago the Democrats
commenced putting forward their
claims OF victory as each successive
election period approached. Old set.
tiers will recall that regularly every
two years they are promised Demo.
cratic feast of fat things. And yet,
steadily, year after year the Repub.
means have continued to roll up ma.
Jorltles sometimes waning to 1000 or
5000 during campaigns which were not
marked by any vital issues, and again
waxing up to 80, 900 or 60, 900 when the
people OF y Etoil du Nord took the bit
in their teeth and buckled down to
business.
Captain Sam r. Van SAINT was the
most prominent candidate-asidef from
w. ID. Eustis-for the Republican nom.
1natlon for governor at the state con.
vention last June. Captain Van SAINT
was particularly the candidate of the
veteran soldiers of the state, they hav.
ing championed his cause almost unan.
imously. While the small gang of
dlsafected veterans in Minneapolis are
using Van SAINTS name to bolster their
selfish and unreasoning opposition
to the election of Mr. Eus.
tbs, the captain is personally on
the stump, striking stalwart blows
in favor of Eustis and the whole Re.
publican ticket. During last week he
was making the tour of the southern
section of the state. During the cur.
rent week he will work gradually up
toward the Twin Cities, and thence
gradually into the Sixth and Seventh
congressional DISTRICTS It is expected
that Captain Van SAINT will spend at
least one full week in Minneapolis and
st. Paul, and it is very noticeable that
whenever he makes his appearance the
veteran opponents of Mr.. Eustis pro.
coed to "get good" once more, and re.
turn to their faithful allegiance to the
Republican party.
Reports reaching the state central
committee from every section of the
state point to the fact that not.
wlthstandlng it is an off year
In politics the Republican state ticket
will be elected by largely increased
majority, and that Minnesota will be
served and honored in Washington
City during the. next two years by
seven Republican members of congress.
But the Republicans in the northern
section of the state-in the Sixth and
Seventh congressional districts par.
tlcularly-will do we'll to keep their
eyes wide open. The announcement
OF Mr.. Lind's itinerary seems to indi.
cate that especial effort is to be made
IN that section to defeat Mr.. Eddy and
Judge Morris. 1t is also toward that
section of the state that all the Demo.
cratic big oratorical guns are being
pointed. By long and much verie.
gated experience with political condi.
tions in Southern Minnesota the Dam.
ocrats and Populists have learned that
there is mighty slim picking to be an.
tlcipated in the great corn growing
section of the state. Is it not little
singular that our Minnesota trade
mark of "No. l, hard." up north,
should not also apply to political com.
mon sense?
Attorney General Childs has decided
that the Democratic-Populist combine
throughout the state has the legal right
to claim the second place on the ticket.
The decision was rendered in response
to an application made by Secretary of
State Berg, who demanded a strict
legal construction of the law, because
the Prohibition state committee were
claiming the right to and demanding
the second place on the ticket. Al.
though the strict letter of the law ap.
pears to be in favor of the Prohibition
contention, General Childs assumes
the spirit Of equity gives the second
position to the Demo-PopsJ and he so
decides.
Oh, mol This is not q good year in
which to predict Democratic or Popu.
listic success. In the first place, the
Republican state convention last sum.
mer removed all cause of complaint
among the people Of the, state by plac.
ing in nomination one of Che strongest
and best tickets ever placed before the
people of Minnesota for their suffra ges.
Secondly the states Of the great west
are just now at turning point. After
the most disastrous and trying period
of commercial and financial de preston
ever known in the history of the coun.
try, the scales have at length turned.
People begin to realize that to return
now to the reactionary policy repre-
sentei by the Demo.Pop combination
would bring a renewal Of the tough
times Of four or five years ago. Who
has forgotten that the Democratic
victory Of 1892 precipitaiei the repub.
lie into the direst Of commercial and
financial caves of gloom2 The lesson
has not teen lost upon the people of
Minnesota, and now that the sober sec.
ond thought has come, then the great
common sense majority of this state
is not prepared to monkey any further
with the crude financial theories of the
men who two years ago proclaimed the
evangel of the ''free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
l." John Lind may be most excel.
lent citizen, but it Is not the person.
ality of John Lind, or John anybody.
which constitutes the point at issue.
Political parties stand for principles,
and persons count for little or nothing