The Saint Paul globe., 1898-06-14
GIFT TO THE REPUBLICANS
WOULD THE NOMINATION OF
JOHN LIND MEAN


Out of the State, Rather Than on
the Ground to Make the Fight,
Would Mean an Easy Victory for
the Other Party.
IF John Lind is nominated by the
convention that meets tomorrow and
we are obliged to go and make the
fight without candidate in the state,
why 1t will mean a virtual abandon
ment of the fight" said a st. Paul
had been suggested to him by the
seeming unaninity Of the feeling for
the nomination of Lind.
There is no use lodging the fact"
he continued. His nomination means
we will have no candidate for the gov
ernorship. 1t is absurd to suppose
that we can make a fight against
powerful machine equipped with all
the strength Of prosperity and office,
in behalf of a man who is not in the
state. l tell you that there is no use
of depending on the patriotism of the
people in a matter of this kind. If
John Lind was the only man in the
state who had gone. to the front, why
it would be easy enough to elect him
on the very strength of that fact. But
it is SO common a thing-this going to
! war-that every family has some sort
Of connection with the troops. This
fall, as never before, there is pressing
need that the Democrats have q can
didate who can go out and make per-
| sonal fight against the rottenness that
now exists in state affairs. Don't you
think that there is any chance of beat
| ing the machine, unless we can expose
| its rottenneSs. We cannot do that with
no candidate in the field, and, if Mr.
| Lind is with the troops, then We are
| just as badly off as though We had
| thrown up the fight"
There is a good deal of this sort of
| feeling even among those Democrats
who most favor Lind. They feel that,
| if he is nominated and then does not
run-a very likely contingency-the
will have abandoned their opportuni-
ties A ticket without a head will be
farcical, and it is likely that some in
quiry will be made before anything
| precipitate is done by the Democratic
convention at Minneapolis.
Speaking in relation TO Mr.. Lind's
attitude, DR.. H B. Fay, a leading mid
road Populist of Minneapolis, is quoted
as saying:
| II have been told upon what 1 con-
slider to be the best authority that Mr..
Lind will allow the temporary use of
his name. He will allow the conven-
| ton to nominate him and will remain
| in the field, not coming home to make
| campaign. 1t has been arranged that
| In about two months Mr. Lind will send
| in a letter in which he will withdraw
| his name and decline to longer continue
| upoa the ticket. Then the committees
will substitute a Democrat, whom they
have already selected, and the path Of
| the fusion party will thus be made
| clear. My informant also tells me that
| it is true that Mr.. Lind entered the
army for the purpose Of ridding himself
| Of the nomination which threatened
| him. Positive promises were made
Gov. Clougln, when Lind's appointment
as quartermaster was agreed upon, that
| Mr.. Lind would withdraw from politics
for the time being, and Gov. Clough
| will not deny that this is so. The
pressure, however, has been too much
fer Mr.. Lind, and he accordingly agreed
upon the compromise course which I
have outlined"
| OF the other offices there is compara-
lively little talk. The one thing that
| seems to have been decided on Is the
| denomination of the judges, of the su-
/ preme court. 1t is yet possible that
some sort of opposition may crop out,
but there are no announced candidates,
| and it looks as though Judges Canty,
| Buck and Mitchell would be noninat-
| ed by acclama ton. The country press
is apparently united in this one matter,
and there is no disposition in the cities
| to take anything from the country
that the ruralites may think they want.
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