The Saint Paul globe., 1898-09-29
OUT TO BEAT EUSTIS
ONLY AIM OF THE OLD SOLDIERS
CLUB OF MINNIE
APOIIS
REPLY TO SOME CRITICISMS

hEFEI ~ SOWE Onl IIOiOWIO
which the Republican Press Has
Hurled at the Veterans Organ
ixatton - Facts About the APP
pointment of StanIey-Parad-
ing His Generosity to Butler
Post, of Minneapolis.
TO The St. Paul Globe:
In the press of Minneapolis there
appear at frequent intervals scurr1lods
attacks upon the "Old Soldiers Anti
Eustis club" because they refuse 10
support a man for governor Whom
they believe to be wholly untitled for
that high office, both by character ana
disposition and his well-knoWn un-
flitndlineSs to the old soldier, Whle
serving a term as mayor of this city.
As the daily papers here positively re-
fuse to publish our side Of the story,
we are compelled to treSpass upon
your valuable space, and Well
known generosity, to refute such SIAN
der and calumny as is being almost
daily hurled against us.
The Tribune, in it's issue of Sept 2S,
devotes nearly a whole column in show
ing what an angel of light Mr.. Eus-
It's was to the Old soldier in 1891, at
which time he was laying his wires for
the mayoIaltY; and trying to prove
that the Democratic central committee
and an old soldier (WhOm they de-
scribe but dare not name) was at the
bottom of all this mischief. In 1891,
and even before that time, the old SOL
Giers Of this city did believe that
w II. Eustis was their friend. Many
times did he stand before us, and, with
tears rolling down his cheeks, in words
of glowing elOquence tell us how he
loved the dear old soldier" and what
he would do for US if it ever became
his privilege and In his power, and we,
poor dupes that we were, thoroughly
believed in him; and, when he became
an aSpirant for the office of mayor, we
were ready and willing to give him
a hearty and cordial support, and did
SO we'll for him that his election was
easily secured.
WARMED A SERPENT.
But his seat was hardly warmed un-
der him before we found that, instead
Of friend at court, as We had fondly
hoped, we had warmed a serpent Al
most his first act was to issue man
ifestO that we were too old to expect
any appointments under him; and,
when an old soldier himself, a leading
lawyer of this city, asked for a place
as bridge Watchman for another old
soldier, a place usually filed by old
men, he majestically waved him out of
his office and called for the next appli
cant. No wonder this 'angel of light
fell from his high estate In our opinion.
The Democratic central committee is
in no way responsible for the OrganiZa-
tion of the Old Soldiers Anti -Eustis
club, nor had they even knowledge of
its contemplated existence until after
it had organized and become a fact,
and then only learned of it in a gen
eral way, as others did. Nor do they
or will they, have any connection with
the club during the entire campaign.
This man, whom the Tribune deems
ii unnecessary to name" has ISSUED no
pamphlet or other printed matter, to
the knowledge Of the club, but simply
gave his statement of circumstance,
and sWOre to it, without even a knoWl-
edge that it was to be printed and
given to the public in that form, and
certainly his sworn statement is worth
more to aw cid soldier than w. H.
EEstis' bare word.
Mr.. Eustis' denial that he ever
heard the term coffee cooler" used
until ne saw it in this mans affidavit
Is certainly as absurd as he says Kirk
hams story is; for all old soldiers know
that it is and has been a common
phrase for years, and this utterance
Of Eustis is much like a great many
other things he has said from time
to time; that the less reliance you
placed in them, the less you were fool
ed.
The Butler post of this city was
certainly thankful for the gift Of that
memorial album and showed a proper
spirit Of appreciation in their resolu-
ton Of thanks.
PARADING HIS GENEROSITY.
Many of the leading citizens have
made such donations to the different
posts of the city, but Eustis is the first
one to parade his generosity before the
public as a claim that he should have
the political support of the old soldiers
on that account. It leaves the i'm
preston that he bought the Butler post
for the book, given as it was Just be-
fore his campaign for mayor, and now
proposed to buy their SuffrageS for
governor by offering them the same
bribe over again. Does he consider us
children too young to see this, or are
we so old as to be In our dOtage and
can be wound around his finger at
VIII? The vote al the polls will show
that we resent any imputations of this
nature. An; how wonderfully low has
our angel of light fallen
Other papers beside the Tribune have
probably at the instigation of Eustis
or his friends, taken up the gauntlet,
and are dropping hot shot upon US oc-
casionally by way of interlude The
St Paul Dispatch of the 18th inst
made an attack, in that the Old Sol
d!ers' Anti-Eustis club was composed
Of the riffraff Of the community and
unworthy of being called old soldiers
Can body of 500 or 1000 old soldiers
be gathered together in any city pro
mlscuously, and they all be towards
and rear-guards? Is it not a fact that
the Union army was pitted against the
braYest of the brave, and that in or
der to nave won in that long contest
some one must have done some fight
Ing? And now, because the members
of this club have the courage to stand
up for good government and protest
against the election of a man who. if he
carries out the same programme that
he did while mayor of this city. the
whole people will be most heartily
ashamed Of, we are anything but be-
ings who should be permitted to en-
cumber this earthly footstool. But it
would be dignifying the Dispatch arti-