New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-03-23
Sizing Him Up
About Right.
The 0Watonna Journal Pays Its Respects
to Eoltor Hays.

to Eultor Hays.
| Editor Dean Of the Owatonna Journal
has turned the Trays on Mr.. Hays Of the.
Dispatch and in the last issue Of hia pa
! per draws picture that comes pretty
near being correct. He says:
Editor Hays Of the sleepy Eye Dis.
patch is building up quite reputation
for the exploitation Of fakes Of one kind
and another. First it was Brambel and
his wonderful rotary which he used to
excite the interest of Sleepy Eye and its
enterprising newspaper publishers, and
very good service Mr.. Brambel did our
friend. Next he concluded to exercise
his imagination in a political way, and
it was gravely announced in the Dispatch
that EdWeaver ofMankato had decided to
boldly make the run for the republican
nomination for governor. In this fake,
too, Hays succeeded in having great
many people take HIM seriously, and for
week or so, or until Weaver got onto
his game, the Dispatch contained coll
umns Of interesting matter on the differ
ent phases of the Weaver boom which
Hays had copied from his ADLER exchang-
es. However, as we said, as soon as he
saw what Hays was up to-, the Mankato
man had card published broadcast
which showed that he was not in the
| race and never had been, and that when
Hays announced his name so authoritat-
lively he was only carrying out one of
those practical jokes which he had found
so profitable. 4. 49,.
Hays then subsidized for while, but
all the time he was thinking awful hard
what to do next to- carry out the policy
which the Nestor of Minnesota journal
ism had introduced "to raise hi and
sell papers," When his fellow fakirs
had invented the idea Of an offensive and
defensive compact between 4the machine"
and Van SAINT he at once saw his chance
and conceived the brilliant idea of con-
ference of malcontents. The scheme was
new, it was original. + 1t would, he
thought, attract attention, and possibly
make of the man who had conceived the
brilliant idea the head center of new
political movement and raise hin. to a.
pinnacle of fame. It might be reserved
for him to name the next governor of
the state, and in that case of course Mr..
Hays saw himself the power behind the
throne, shaping policies and debating
appointments.
And very pleasant prospect it was,
and the stenographer and typewriter
were set to work at once. Brown coun-
ty and the Second district were flooded
with circulars, and if Mr.. Hays has real
good luck he expects TO induce some
hundred and fifty or so of the politicians
who have no use for Van SAINT to attend
meeting which he has appointed at the
Saulpaugh Hotel in Mankato for March
%. For Mankato is now the Mecca of
any pilgrims who may wish to join this
widespread revolt which Hays has con-
jured up. Of course Ed Weaver and
Hunt, although they don't wish to be
identified with the Hays fake altogether,
aressort of egging it on, for one never
knows exactly where lightning will
strike. And if anything comes out Of
the movement it will be as we'll to he
within the storm center, they think.
w. J. Bryan addressed an audience of
ten thousand people IN Atlanta the other
day and threw them into frenzy of en-.
thusiasm when, in one OF his climaxes, ).
he referred to the readiness OF Ameri-
cans to meet foreign foe. He said:
"W,thin the last two weeks we have
had an illustration OF the unity of the
American people in front of a danger
which was possible and probable. This.
danger they have met as one man, de-
claring their readiness to die in the de-
fence of tlleir country. It so happened
that the representative Of the United
States at Havana wore the Confederate
uniform. And yet Fitzhugh Lee has dis