The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-26

After the November Battle He VIII
Proceed to Hurt Somebody's
Feeiings--The Claims of Editor
Sinclair to the PIace-F. e.
Gnrtsidc the Other Richmond in
the Field-His Claims.
WINONA, Mimi, Oct. 25.-(Special)
In this First congressional district,
like other portions of the state, polit-
zeal matters are not nearly as excit-
ing as during the last presidential cam
paign. The most anxious and active
ones engaged in the struggle for vic
tory are the candidates themselves.
Among the people there is, apparently,
an apathy unusual even in a state CAM
paisn.
Hon. James a Tawney, of this city,
is making a canvass Cf the district, ad-
dressing his constituents from county
to county, and endeavoring to mend
his broken political fences, which he
finds IL dilapidated condition in many
places, arising, principally, from brok-
en- promises given TO too many aspir-
ants for federal positions, postmaster
ships largely predominat!ng. In sew
eral towns in this district anti-TaW-
Eey clubs have been formed whose
members pledge themselves TO vote
against the Republican nominee for
congress. a club of this character is
organized at Spring Valley, where sew
enty-threa Republicans have subscrib-
ed their names to a club 10 club Mr..
TaWney on election day, all OF which
grows cut Of a ppStoffice appointment
at that place.
In the distribution of federal patron
age in this district, Mr. Tawney has
found himself IN the same dilemma Of
other great men who have held office,
that the applicants for place are in
finitely greater than are the positions.
In his own city he finds a perplexing
problem, relating to a postofice ap
Pertinent which Is kept in abeyance
until after election. 1t is one which
he is artfully eyading until the voice
of the people has declared their YER
dict, on the Sth Of November. Doubt
less soon thereafter a successor to
Postmaster Buck will be announced,
as his commission under the fOur-year
term expired Sept. /. For the post
mastership at Win0na there are
TWO PRONOUNCED CANDIDATES,
either Of whom would accept the ap-
pcintment with becoming grace. One
is MIR. D. Sinclair, editor Of the Winona
Daily Republican, and the other is MI
F. E. Gartside, proprietor of the Gate
City laundry. Both of these gentlemen
have filed their applications in the post
office department and both have Sc
cured TO some extent a local indorse-
ment. These candidates represent two
distinct elements in the community.
Their relative merits and dement's are
summed up by their respective friends
as follows:
For nearly forty years Mr.. Sinclair
has been at the head of the editorial
management of the only daily Repub-
lican newspaper in this part of the
state, and during his long career as a
public journalist he has been the able
and uncompTomising exponent of the
principles of the Republican party.
During this long period Of journalism,
a times, he has published his paper at
a pecunlary loss, and during nearly his
entire manhood in this city he
has devoted his earnings and his labor
not only to sustain daily newspaper,
in the advocacy of the principles which
he has so Loyalty espoused, but a news
paper that has ever been a fearless and
enthusiastic representative of the city
in which he lives. And while ne has in
the past. occupied the position of post
master in this city, the emoluments
therefrOm have not been boarded for
his personal use or selfish purposes;
that a large portion Of the salary which
he received from the federal govern
ment has been expended in the main
teEance of a stalWart Republican news
paper, and one which has been an
honor to the city, without regard to it's
political status; that ne Is a gentleman
whom the community holds in high es-
TEEN for his honesty, his worth, his
ability and his responsibility; that
there is no applicant for the appoint
ment who is superior to Mr.. Sinclair
in all of these requisites, neither is
there an applicant who, from a politi-
cal standpoint, has devoted the better
part of his lifetime in the advocacy and
in the defense of the principles of the
Republican party through the medium
of an able and influential journal As
Mr.. Sinclair has passed the medium Of
life, and undoubtedly this will be the
last time that he will be an applicant
for this position. in justice to himself
and a large circle of his influential
friends in this city, who have known
him during long period of years, they
are strenuously maintaining that his