The Saint Paul globe., 1898-03-07
drowned yesterday trying to cross the
Missouri at Yankton on the ice.
Facts Pertinent to the State Cam
Daign.

We have presented the arguments
that seem to us conclusive of the policy
of the Democratic party in Its cam
been made, it is in accord with the
policy of centering the contest on pure
ly state issues, leaving the financial
question to be the issue in the con-
gressional districts, where 1t properly
belongs. The New York Evening Post,
in an editorial on Representative Nc
Cleary, as one of the three members
of the subcommittee on banking, to
which has been referred the prepara-
tion of a currency bill, speaks very
highly of him, and especially Of his
courage in making a fight for sound
money in his district, where the senti-
ment appeared to be very largely the
other way. The history of the cam
paigns in that district since 1888 pre-
sents features that should be instruct
i've to those who will give direction
to the party issues this fall.
In 1888 John Lind had a plurality of
9,219 over Morton S. Wilkinson, and
majority of 6,295. The issue was the
new one presented by President Cleve-
land in his message Of the prior year.
In 1890 Lind was opposed by Gen. ]. H.
Reynolds for the Prohibitionists Baker
made his whole campaign on the is
sue Of anti-protection by tariffs, and
Mr.. Lind as stoutly accepted the chal-
lenge and fought for the policy of his
party. Lind came out with a plurality
Of 4S2 and in a minority of 664. Had
1t not been for downright treachery of
Democratic committeeman in two
counties Baker would have been elect
ed. In 1892 conditions had changed.
The Republicans, alarmed at the con-
verging lines of the Alliance and Dem
ocrats, had imported the Peoples party
organization, with its financial and
lines to diverge. Lind retired, alarmed
at the conditions as revealed in 80,
and McCleary was named instead.
Hammond stood for the Democrats,
and the Republican auxiliary named
Long for the Populists. Long preached
free coinage and calamity; McCleary
sound currency, rather ignoring pro-
lection, with which, at heart, he has
little sympathy. McCleary had a plu-
rality Of 6,9OS, but was in a minority
of 1,193, the opposition casting 19,400
votes to 1S,207 for him.
In the campaign of 1894, the Demo-
crats scared by the panic there as they
were in Washington, abandoned the
tariff and nominated Gen. Baker again,
while the Populisis renamed Long, and
the tenacious Prohibitionists put Kel-
lam up. Baker abandoned the tariff
age the issue. He wrote a frantic ap-
peal to The G l O b to "let up on the
money question, because lit is all free
silver down here McCleary accepted
the joint challenge, and devoted his en-
tire speaking to a discussion of the
standards, avoiding defamation and
making what his opponents sneered at
as a "schoolmaster's campaign" Ev-
erything favored the opposition and
harassed McCleary. The times were
hard; farm proc is never brought
lower y,1o Gil fu
in the assertion of relation of cause
and effect between silver and low
prices. Higher prices were promised
if silver were freely coined. Forty
cast; Baker had 1872; Long, 1882; Kel-
lam, LAST; a total opposition Of 19,761.
McCleary had 23,269, a plurality over
Long Of 12,907, and a clear majority of
3.5OS. Gen. Baker was sadly off in his
diagnosis.
In 1896 the Democrats lay down, COM
pletely cowed, and melted into Popu-sil-
versm, accepting Frank Day, a silver
Republican protectionist, as their lead
er, to pit against McCleary again on
the single question of 16 to 1. Again
conditions seemed on the surface to be
adverse to the little schoolmaster"
Prices continued low, and the demone-
tiZation of silver was alleged to be the
sole cause. The district is wholly ag-
ricultural. If anywhere, ever the test
of judgment was a fair one, it was
then. Fifty-one thousand four hun
dred and forty-two ballots were cast;
Day had q, ,500 McCleary, 20, clear
majority of SAP. Lind's plurality Of
4S2 on the issue of protection became
McClearys majority of SAP on a clear
cut issue Of "bimetallism." There is
a cud of reflection worth chewing on
in this story of issues in the Second
district.
Discovers a Mares Nest.
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