The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-14
A CLUB In EACH COUNTY
DEMOCRATS HAVE AN ORGANTzA-
TION RIVALING THE RE-
PUBLICANS'
COUNTING OUT TO BE BARRED

esu t"Fiy Established Commit
tees in Every County to Watch
Those From Which tho Returns
Are SIOw-Eusfis and His Fabian
Tactics Cause Impatience.
Reports to Chairman Rosing. Of the
democratic state central committee.
are to the effect that the county or
CARNATIONS are in the best of trim.
Whlch means that the Republicans are
this year for the first time to meet a
thoroughly organized Democratic par
ty.
Hitherto the Republicans have had
an a., the pest of it in the matter Of con-
tlnulng their organizations through
from one campaign to the. next.
ana there is not a doubt but that one,
tWo' ana possibly three, governors have
Deen counted In by the Republicans in
the last twenty years by the mere fact
or their superior organization.
mis- year, however, the Democrats
nave In nearly every county a commit
tee and club organization which, while
not as old, is every DIT as active as
the Republican machine, and the bat
tie will be good one.
AT Democratic headquarters little is
| being done until Lieut.. LIND returns
from the South, which, according to
present plans, will be by the middle Of
next week at the outside. It is not
known here as yet whether the New
Ulm man wants to assume the agrees
sive in the campaign, but his past
record Is taken as a criterion from
which to judge that the fur will begin
to fly within a few minutes after his
| arrival here.
1t 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 stav-
ed off the better 1t will suit the Min
neapolis man. He addressed, so they
say, fifty men at Owatonna when he
spoke at the county fair Of Steele coun-
ty. 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 enthus-
iasm enough in the Republican party
when 1t comes to the gubernatorial
ticket to warm a niCkel-plated sad iron
for two handkerchiefs and a celluloid
collar. William Henry Is distinctly a
depressing influence.
He has alienated many elements; he
has failed to excite the enthusiasm Of
in his public life.
He gave the brewers and distillers
half a loaf in his saloon policy, but
he advertised them so literally that ev-
erything he gained for them in Mime
apols he lost elsewhere. They figure
that they owe him nothing. The Eus-
tbs policy suits them all right, without
its brass band. If William Henry could
play his music with muff1ed drum, he
would be almost an ideal candidate for
the liquor interests. They are salts
fed Of his practical sympathy with the
sale Of liquor as far as any moral OBJ
jections to it may be concerned. and
they welcome him as a Moses among
a long list Of fanatics. But his meth
DDS excite the fanatics who have not
risen to public office and half the effect
Of his beneficient interest is destroyed.
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 skepticism If he did make such pro-
fessionS.
He has antagonized the old soldier.
He has not only fallen in with that
school of younger Republicanism
which bases its calculations on the as
sumption that the old soldier, POLITICAL
ly, has had enough Of the good things,
but William Henry went to work and
stigmatized the old soldier as an object
Of public charity.
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 a good physique
and equal ability, is entitled to as good,
or perhaps even better, consideration
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the political puppet whose mettle has
never been tried under fire, and whose
political warfare has sometimes par
taken Of that of the guerrilla.
The cry Of political independence that
EIustis fOstered before the convention
has been dropped. You could almost
hear it drop. Why? All the political
independence Eustis. as mayor, showed
was In the qualification of an antagon-
ism against John Goodnow, then the
leader whether self-assumed the honor
or not, of Minneapolis Republicans. Be
yond throwing it into GoodnoW and
Goodnows machinists, Eustis was al
ways q Republican, as was George A.
Bracket, his friend.
The fact remains that Eustis Is
driven into a corner. He dare not as
sumo the aggressive. His managers
know, and they have practically con-
WINGED William Henry, that the fewer
speeches he makes this campaign the
less damage he will do himself Breaks
are in direct ratio to speeches with the
Minneapolis man. He is not g. good
campaigner. He Is a delightful lee
turer, an excellent entertainer, but he
Is not a virile orator, and when he
does leave the set and sounding platt-
tudes Of the lecture stage for the forum
Of the political campaigner, he is with
out q compass, and lost on a strange
sea.
To have Eustis go on the stump
would be the happiest outcome con-
ceivable by the Democratic committee
men. If Eustis would get out two
weeks before Lind's return, Lieut.. John
would not have to take to the stump
at all.
But William High is back in the
brush.
He knows his weakness and he won't
come out till he is smoked out.
e. H Austin, the Democrat and Pop
ulist nominee for clerk of the supreme
court, was a caller at state central
committee headquarters yesterday. Mr.
Austin Is chairman of the Sixth dis
trict cor gressional committee, and says
that sentiment on the iron range is
very friendly to Congressman ToWne.
He saws the Populists in that section
are maintaining organizations distinct
from those of the older party, but
nevertheless friendly and working in
harmony with them.
Speaker J. D. Jones, of Long Prairie,
was at the Windsor yesterday, but in
sists that his visit at this time has no
political significance. His son, Lieut.
Jones, Of Company M, leaves with the
Fifteenth for Camp Meade tomorrow