The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-09
FIGHT IS ON STATE ISSUES
FARMERS OF MINNESOTA NOT
BLINDED BY WAR GLORIES


Sentiment In the Rural Districts
-MinnesOta YeOmen VIII Not
Buy Gold Bricks, Even If They
Are Stamped "W. H. E.'
There are going to be some sur
prises in the coming campaign said
a prominent Minneapolis Democrat,
who has been through the state a great
deal.
IF the Republicans think they are
going to win on the strength of this
war spirit, they are going to be fool
ed. They claim that they will carry
the state by $4,000. I think they had
better look again. If they are able to
small plurality.
THE farming element Of this state.
while 1t is as patriotic, probably, as
any element of the American citizen
ship, has taken its war talk in infre-
Quent doses, and it has had time be-
tween the weeklies to digest and assim-
ilate the information furnished. If the
Republicans think that the rural dis
trictS of this state are going to vote
unanimously for the Republican ticket
just because a Republican named Nc
Kinley happened to be president when
the Maine was blown up, they will be
badly disappointed. The farmers Of
this state have kept in touch with the
inner history of the recent months,
closer, | think, than the average city
man, and they will not be gulled into
the idea that the Republican party
had fought and won the war, as seems
to be the idea of some of the politicians
OF that party who have been hearing
themselves talk on this occasion, and
that thus early in the campaign
The war issue cannot bury In this
state the fact that the people need re-
forms. The platform Of the Democratic
party declared for these, and John
Lind, in his letter of acceptance, stood
on them. Aside from his attitude on
the silver question, which will no doubt
be subordinated in this campaign to the
issues of more distinctly local interest,
l predict that he will develop elements
OF strength that will worry the Re-
publican managers seriously before the
campaign is ended.
If Mr.. Eustis thinks that he is go
ing to slip into the governors chair on
the strength of the popular approval
or President McKinley's war policy, he
is Understanding the discriminating
Judgment of the Minnesota voter Mr..
Eustis must stand on his own platform
and on his own achievements, and, if
ne cannot win on them, he will not be
saved by external enthusiasm
THE people Of this state know him
by reputation, and, thanks to his own
efforts, they are rapidly getting to
know him personally. He has visited
nearly all of them in the last year or
two. Linds record is an open book.
He has made the race before. He
knows where his party Is weak, and
he is thus prepared for the effort to
strengthen it. He will, I think, run
ahead Of the Republican nominee by a
good majority.
He stands for the interest of the
men outside the cities as no recent
nominee of either party has stood. He
Is not city man; he has not been con-
spfcuously allied with city interests. He
IS liked by those who know him. and
ne makes good impression on those to
whom he appears for the first time
HIS congressional record was fearless,
MS last state campaign a stubborn
nght that must arouse admiration
Eustls, on the other hand, has antag-
on1zed a number Of varying elements
His 1nsistence on usurping the powers
of the legislative body, by determinina
which OF the city ordinances he Woul,i
and which he would not enforce, was
unfortunate for his party. The people
or this state have too much at stake
10 FISK the contravention of existing
laws by an original genius who has
shown his contempt for the FORMS
The G o b referred few days agt
TO the feeling in Grand Army circle,
throughout the state against tn,
would-be governor, William Henry. Hi:
openly confessed Indifference to thu
CLAIMS OF the men who fought fo1
their country in 1875 found q new
measure OF expression when, in 1894
when the veterans Of MinneanoIi,
wanted to forbid the desecration. a.
they considered it, of Memorial day b,
the holding Of races at Lake Harriet
and secured the passage of an ordi
nance forbidding it, the mavor stennei
in and vetoed the measure. That h,
was actuated by malice In these prem
lses the veterans do not charge: tha.
he was not solicitous of the patrioti,
celebration, for which the day was se
apart, the members Of the G. A. r. ar
convinced.
Minneapolis is going to give the Re
puplcan nominee surprise. The Sew
gntn ward has always been Repubr can
1t could not be anything else Its bolln
dar1es We're drawn by Republican
legislature after the people had SETTLED
there These Republicans took tn,
Seventh and Twelfth wards. which
were either doubtful or Democratic
and by turning the cross dividing lin,
at right angles made one sure Repub
llcan and one obviously Democrat
ward out Of the pair. Cedar avenu
was made the dividing line, instead O
one OF the east and west streets. Ceda
avenue feeds South MINNEAPOLIS. Witt
handsome steel bridge over the Min
nesota 1t was in position to take +.
the central market in that city. a lare
part of the produce of Scott count,
and OF the western half Of Dakot,
county. But 1T was necessary in or
der to give the farmers Of these sec
| tions an outlet to grade Cedar avenu
to the city limits, beyond which th
county commissioners had complete
the Improvement. The council So
apart $500 for this purpose. Mavo
Eust1S vetoed the measure There ar
many vacant stores on Cedar avenue
ana these are owned by men who ar
not going to vote for Eustis.
William Henry's fight with the minis
| ters was but one of the MANY mai!
tnat he drove into his political coffi1
Whlie ne was mayor: he antagonize
the citizens of Swedish ancestry: h
antagon1zed the veterans of the lat
war; he antagoniZed the large BODY n
| taxpayers by his completely in the dea
by which the city was burdened wifi
the purchase of the old Brackett pron
erty, and finally, he has antagonize,
! the party workers by his determine
ton to cut off the supply of loaves an;
fishes. Some of the disappointed part,
leaders predict that he will not carr
| his own precinct; others aver that hi
ward can not be esteemed as certai,
and none of the Republican worker
can be persuad ded to back the county q