New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-07-06
Wednesday, July s, 1898.
Official paper of the county of Brown.

thought it impossible for the Republic
cans of the state to brook and defeat the
will of King David, have found in the
events of the past week another illustra-
ton of the fact that time affairs all things.
Two months ago few there were in
deed who had the temerity to question
the nomination of Capt. Van SAINT.
Clough had selected him as his sue
cessor and the majority were for time
ready to accept the decree as foregone
conclusion. -s.~ ~ ~
But little personal work, a little
Newspaper leaven, careful and determ-
ined fight in places where it was needed,
and all was changed. 49,. ......
The name of Eustis suddenly became
prominent, and what, without newspa-
per padding, might have died abornin',
was converted by the exaggerating pow
er of the press into veritable landslide.
The mere fact that Hennepin county
was entitled to 112 votes in the state
convention and that these 112 were for
Eustis was used with tremendous effect.
kilograms were sent by the eloquent
orator himself to every county conven-
ton in time to do band-wagon service,
and the result was made clear in Thurs
days convention.
Eustis Won In a walk. On the first
ballot he had 529 votes, or within sixty
of enough to nominate. Van SAINT had
401 and Collins 24s. The next ballot
brought out the bandwagon. After the
vote had been taken and it was seen that
Eustis was gaining, county after county
fastened to climb into the popular veh-
icle and Eustis' nomination was made
unanimous.
The conventionswhich performed this
work was marked IN many ways. In
the first place it was young mems con-
vention, the absence of the old war hors-
es of the party being painfully apparent
and wonderfully significant. No one
who had ever sat in a Republican con-
vention before conld fail to note that
there had been political funeral for
someone. The evidences of it were on
every hand. Take Hennepin county for
instance-Evans, Lovejoy, Jamison, Wy
man, Smith and the others, all were alb
sent, and not from choice either. Aside
from Pillsbury, Rees and Walker, the
faces were new.
And so 1t was with practically every
delegation present in the convention.
Altogether there were twelve hundred
who were entitled to vote, and of these
large majority had marked the reign
ing dynasty for slaughter. Clough and
his friends must be offered up as sacri-
fee for the safety of the party.
The nomination OF 1t. John Lind by
the unanimous vote of three political
parties rendered it absolutely necessary
that good strong man be placed in
the race in order that the party might be
saved from humiliating defeat. Such
was the song of every man who burd-
ened the convention with nominating
speech.
Had the convention thought for a
minute that Collins was better vote.
getter than Eustis, Collins could have
secured the nomination. It was only a
question of who would stand the best
chance of beating John Lind.
That the machine itself is not hated is
evidenced by the fact that the so-called
reform did not extend any further than
to the head of the ticket. .
Oar. Reese, g machine politician Of
the rankest dye, was nominated for clelk
of the supreme court, and the platform
says never word about the corruption
that has resulted in this state from the
fact that machine has existed-prom-
ises nothing at all in the way of retrench-
ment-is absolutely silent. e-&..>....s.
Lind must be beaten in some way or
other-that is their only slogan and in
order to do it they trot out the personal
popularity Of VIM. Henry Eustis on a
platform, which, as the Minneapolis
Times SO aptly remarks, has no more
relevancy or pertinancy to state con-
test than the Ptolemaic theory has to
modern astronomy.
But the people will nos be fooled.
They will not forsake a good, clean can.
didate, who never sought nomination
and who is "patriot, gentleman, schol-
ar and man among men of character and
dignity" for the candidate of party
which offers nothing but a personality
and would not even have done that had
it not been forced to do SO bv the