The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-05
Scared Republicans.

Evidences have been abundant dur
ing the pnst week or ten days, and are
multiplying, that the Republican man
ayers have acquired a realizing sense
of the desperate position at which they
have arrived in the gubernator1al cam
paign. Irritation is stamped on the
editorial page of every newspaper sup
porting MIR. Eustis at the persdstency
with which the record Of the candi-
date is exploited by the opposition, be-
cause of their inability in the light of
the facts presented to logically reason
against the truths which they embody.
1t is amusing to note how deftly they
endeavor to impress upon the public
mind that Mr.. Eustis was not a stock
holder in the Guaranty Loan compa-
nv, of Minneapolis, and how skillfully
they seek to make 1t appear that, as
a sequence, he could not be a legal
director Of that collapsed institution.
They do not attempt to explain why
for five years he permitted the use of
his name and influence to stand in the
directory list as published to the world.
Tint many people of Minnesota, and
especially Hennepin county, were
mu1cted of their savings and their prop
erty by the appearance Of that name
in the list Of directors is unquestion-
able; for be it remembers that
throughout this period of five years
Mr.. Eustis was a prominent citizen
of Minneapolis, and, for some time pre-
vious to the failure Of the association,
the mayor of that city. Menage was
the scoundrel who ripened into full
hI+ Nv ~
| view Of his service on the committee
which only a short time before the de-
parture of Menage reported upon the
stability and solvency of the Guaranty
Loan company, stood in relation to
Menage similar to that of q fertilizer
to a plant in it's successful develop
ment. Unless Mr. Eustis was q. self
interested party and believed that by
subscribing to the truthfulness Of that
report he might aid in deferring the
day of doom and enable the institution
| to wriggle out of it's perplexity and
embarra ssment he must be credited
with having been befogged to a de-
gree which would have been impossible
of accomplishment to any one except
an old woman or a. man in the first
! stages Of senility and dotage. It is
| impossible to conceive OF a man who is
fit intellectually to be governor of this
state confessing to having been Sc
completely hoodwinked, if he really per-
formed the service which he was ap-
pointed to perform and which, by the
signing of the report, he led others to
! believe he had conscientiously per-
formed. 1t Is surprising, in view of the
well known facts of that Infamous pro-
ceeding, that honest editors will con-
sent to an impairment of their own
regulations for common sense, at least
by even attempting explanation and
apology for his act
The Republican scare Is also made
apparent in the jerky manner In which
the editors are scrambling to the de-
Tense of the grain inspectors. They
have nothing to say in explanation ex-
cept that empty rejoinder ct ain't
So" and this they continue to saw in
chorus every morning and afternoon
! There has been no attempt anywhere
| by the warehouse commission, the chief
grain inspector or the Republican ed
itors to refute the evidences of inca
pacity or something else in connection
| with the grading and docking Of grain
as produced in the affidavits accom-
panying the report of the meeting OF
| the zoo and more farmers at Moorhead
early last month. Notwithstanding the
fact that the meeting referred to was
n0n-partisan in its origin and proceed
irgs, but rather a united and deter
mined protest by farmers against the
! robbery of the fruits of their labors by
the elevator and milling gang through
its representatives, the grain inspect
ors OF the state, the attempt is con-
| slant to show that the movement was
inspired for political effect. So COM