New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-21
POLiT|'' IcS s.
The Situation AS Viewed by the Globe. Rustis
Tactics Cause Impatience.

Reports to Chairman Rosing, OF the
Democratic state central COMMITTEES, are
to the effect that the county organizati ions
are in the best of trim, which means that
the Republicans are this year for the fist
time to meet thoroughly organized
Democratic party. Ell
Hitherto the Republicans have had all |
the best of it in the matter of contlnu-
ing their organizations through from one
campaign to the next, and there is not a
doubt but that one, two, and possibly
three, governors have been counted IN
by the Republicans in the last twenty
years by the mere fact of their superior
organization.
This year, however, the Democrats
have in nearly every county commit
tee and club organization which, while
not as old, is every bit as active as the
Republican machine, and the battle will
be good one.
At Democratic headquarters little is
being done until Lieut.. Lind returns from
the South. 1t is not known as yet wheth-
er the New Ulm man wants to assume
the aggressive in the campaign, but his
past record is taken as a criterion from
which to Judge that the fur will begin
to fly within few minutes after his ar
rival here.
It is growing more and more appar-
ent that Eustis is going to pursue the
tactics of Fabius rather than those of
Leonidas.
The longer the fatal day can be STAYED
off the better it will suit the Minneapo-
lis man. He addressed, SO they say, fif-
ty men at Owatonna when he spoke at
the county fair of Steele county. Of
course he had larger audience, but they
were all women and children.
His county fairs have been "frost,"
as the saying is. There is not enthusiasm
enough in the Republican party when it
comes to the gubernatorial ticket to
warm nickel-plated sad iron for two
handkerchiefs and celluloid collar.
William Henry is distinctly depressing
influence.
He has alienated many elements; he
has failed to excite the enthusiasm of
those for whose plaudits he has played
in his public life.
He gave the brewers and distillers
half loaf in his saloon policy, but he
advertised them so literally that every
thing he gained for them in Minneapo-
lis he lost elsewhere. They figure that
they owe him nothing. The Eustis pol
icy suits them all right, without its brass
band. If William Henry could play his
music with muftled drum, he would be
almost an ideal candidate for the liquor
interests. They are satisfied of his prac'
tical sympathy with the sale of liquor
as far as any moral objections to it may
be concerned, and they welcome him as
Moses among a long list of fanatics. But
his methods excite the fanatics who have
not risen to public Office and half the
effect of his benefclent interest is de-
stroyed.
William Henry pleaded for economy
in municipal affairs, but the mask was
torn off in the hospital deal. He has
not declared for economy in state finance
since his nomination and the people
of the state might be pardoned for skep.
ticism if he did make such professions.
he has antagonized the old soldier.
He has not only fallen in with that
school of younger Republicanism which
bases it's calculations on the assumption
that the old soldier, politically, has had
enough of the good things, but William
Henry went to work and stigmatized the
old soldier as an object of public CHAIR
ty. .--..'5ts.~- q" r..
The old soldier admits that some
of his comrades, crippled and MANNED
or Frustrated by camp diseases, are. But
they submit that the old soldier, per Sc
granting that he has good physique
and equal ability, is entitled to as good
or perhaps even better, consideration a
the hands of his fellow citizens than tn.
political puppet whose mettle has never
been tried under fire, and whose politi
cal warfare has sometimes partaken O
that Of the guerrilla. &. 81
The cry of political independence tina
Eustis fostered before the convention
has been dropped. You could almos
hear it drop. Why? All the politica
Independence Eustis, as mayor, showe
was in the qualification Of an Antagonist
against John GoodnoW, then the leader