The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-04
Letters From the People.
EUsTIs AND EUROPE.
Neither His Anxiety About Foreign
Capitals Nor Money Can Elect Him.


Neither His Anxiety About Foreign
Capitals Nor Money Can Elect Him.
To The ST. Paul Globe:
William H. Eustis, in his spell-binding tour
of the state, in the most beautiful and stud
led cadenza he is master Of has sawed
the air. talked much of the war and in vain
tried to make his hearers believe the Re-
pubi1cans, and Republicans alone prosecuted
the Soanish-American war. 1t was only Re-
publcans who sacrificed life and filled hon
ored graves in defense of human rights and
human liberties. Such has been the char
acter of Candidate Eustis' talk and, II posi-
BILE, he would make his hearers believe that
John Lind, the one-armed patriot who sacri-
need the emoluments of a lucrative business
the comforts of a home. offering his per-
sonal services to defend Gin any capacity as
slgned) the cause of liberty, the equality Of
men, the protection of the starry banner of
liberty, the freest national emblem floating
under the sun. Is traitor because he does
not esDouse the present Republican creed.
He would make it appear that every Demo-
cratic, Silver Republican or Populist voiun-
teer was mercenary.
Eustis forgets McKinley's attitude when the
oeDate was on; forgets the cause as set W
in the resolution; forgets Brother Abner's S
contracts; forgets the Algerian management,
all of which his party must sooner or later
assume the responsibility of and for The
union forces are perfectly willing the adj
minlstration and Republican party shall have
and assume full credit for all that, but pro-
test on their stealing the honor and chiva!ry
that attaches to themselves (unionists) from
the valiant action of their political associates
and confreres. Eustis, as we'll as any man
Runu thor
as loyal support coming from the union
FORCES as from any source, quarter or people.
questions of issue are likely to come up
in the final settlement and adjudication, with
pro and con opinions, but no class will be
found more loyal to the country or flag than
the same unionists who now oppose Eustis'
election. and are ever protesting against the
robbery of the government and people, the
shameless abuse of our soldiery through the
conduct of incompetent appointees made at
Washington.
William Hen-lery also dotes much upon
the moral effect las he puts IT'D upon Eu-
ropean capitals. That is his great stock in
trade, his exhaustive argument. Who for a
moment believes or thinks Eustis election as
governor would have any greater effect
moral or otherWise) upon European capitals
IMAM the election as governor of any Min
nesota citizen? Has Eustis gotten his name
blue blood? Are We republican government
approaching an effete monarchy? Are our
people becoming aIistocrats, and must our
chlef rulers. state and national come from
blue blood nobility? Can we no longer
choose from the honest American citizenrv
irrespective of nationality, our governors of
state? Must We bend the knee and bow the
| mead before European capitals and take their
selections. or those who bear their indorse-
| puohcanlsm If We must select governors Of
european choosing? The Eustis dogma lin
oorsement of European capitals) is an insult
to every American citizen of whatever ma
tionaity.
Who among all our citizens raising the
mask cannot see hidden Hereunder the i'm
perlalist with all his imperial toga and God
save royalty?
Eustis may take unto himself all the i'm
periallsm he likes, but the American peopIe
are content with plain, honest Americanism-
people. =" -
Who is there among us anxious to return to
the monarchical form by building up a gov
erhinSntai system whose rulers of states
are the seiectlons OF royalty and bear the
earmarks of the blue-blood registry?
II Eustis had not made a political history
ana record for himself; if no Guaranty Loan
business business mo no street railway legislation. no
tached to him: if no saloon or police scandals
chung to his administration as mayor. if no
| slurrlng OF the army veterans had left its
mark, the direct thrust at our foreign born
Americans in his European Morality screed
should kill him politically
Eustis' prosperity talk-'prosperity' en-
tailed upon the country by the Mckinley ad-
mlnlStration-doeS not contrast well with the
low price of wheat sold at an average of 20
per cent less than year ago; the advanced
cost of living, lower wages no increase
markets for labor, striking miners and work
N. m
trusts and combines, large dividends earned
upon watered railroad stocks and corporate
! properties He started out to talk $1.6O wheat
and attributed it to McKinley's administra-
ton. knowing full well that it was Joe
Letters administration; farther, that the big
mil IS and elevator syndicates combined to
and did aid in the destruction of Joes ad-
ministration.
What has Eustis to say about declining re-
tail trade. slow collections and business stag
nation today? Surely he cannot lay it to
SILVER discussion, for that, being national
question, is laid aside, and state issues are
being discussed by the unionists while he
talks Of the war and dreams of European
moral effect Eustis is troubled-his barrel
has become leaky-to the rescued To the
rescue! And the cold bullion to the tune of
twenty thousand comes rolling in-for what ?
To corrupt the vote and save Hennepin
county. Five thousand dollars is said to
| have come alone from the board of trade.
Other thousands came from the elevator syn
dictate. Does any farmer, artisan mechanic
or laborer think for one moment that that
vast sum is wanted for legitimate election
purposes? What, then, is its use? ANY sane
man knows. Argument they have not con-
fdence is failure. prosperity cometh not,
and we must purchase that which serves our
ends. "Seelah." They have appealed to Eu-
rope, to the administration and to Joseph
Benson Foraker. The latter Is coming with
pomp, ceremony Doodle and brass bands, but
will they succeed in corrupting and coercing
the voter? H. O. IrdIa
Minneapolis, Oct. Is, 1898