The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-04
ARE AFRAID OF Lind
EUSTIS MANAGERS SCHEMING TO
GET HIM OUT OF THE
STATE
NOT WILLING TO FIGHT FAIR


Report That the Republican Conn
mittee Has Urged Senator Nelson
to- Pull the Wires That VIII Take
the Union Candidate to Washing
tOn-Sixth and Seventh Districts
Safe for Lind.
The presence Of John Lind in Min
nesota is causing Chairman Steele and
August Filter sleepless rights. It is
also worrying other members of the
Republican state central committee
While Mr. Lind Is still tied up with
the affairs Of the Twelfth Minnesota
regiment and has not had time to make
q move In the interest of his candidacy
and the balance of the union ticket, his
presence in the state Is giving some
OF the Republicans the nightmare.
Inc managers Of Eustis are afraid of
1alr hight. They prefer to direct their
energies against an opponent as far
away as possible, and, If they cannot
send John Lind to Cuba, they would
like to do the next hest thing and send
him to Washington. 1t leaked out of
Republican headquarters yesterday
that an effort was being made to get
much time at his disposal, anyway.
The Twelfth will meet again at New
Ulm this month to be mustered out,
and he will have to be on hand to
attend to his duties there. That gives
MI. Eustis' managers some pleasure.
But there are some spare days be
tween now and that time, and Mr..
Lind can stir up whole lot Of political
tre In a week. if he has q chance
30, according to the story, it was de-
clded to try and have him summoned
before the commission now Investigate
Ing the complaints about the treat
ment or lack of treatment Of the SOL
dlers. 1t is said that Senator Knute
Nelson has been urged to pull the
strings in Washington to have John
Lind summoned before the commits
sion. If they can get rid Of him for q
week Or ten days, they think it will
help, and they feel it Is worth striving
for. The fact that there were fifty or sity
other Quartermasters at Chickamauga
at the same time that Mr.. Lind was
there doesn't make any difference.
They are not standing in the way Of
William Henry Eustis' ambitions, so
that the Minnesota committee doesn't
care whether they are called on to tell
what they know or not. But Mr.. Lind
is very much in the way of William
Hy, and the longer he Is allowed to
stay in Minnesota, the more hopeless
become Mr.. Eustis' chances of cleo
ton. A day or two will probably de-
velop just how strong the nerve Of the
Republican managers Is and how sue
successfully they can use it.
That John Lind will be elected gov
ernor; that p. M. Ringdal will be elect
ed to congress from the Seventh dis
trict, and that Charles A Towne will
be elected to congress from the Sixth
district Is practically conceded by the
Republicans. The Sixth and Seventh
districts are to be the fighting grounds
OF the campaign. 1t had been hoped
by the Republicans that Eddy and his
friends would be able to control that
district, the Seventh 1t was thought
that Page Morris could swing the Sixth
into line, but, where the eloQuence Of
the Duluth man, ToWne, was supple
mented by the personal popularity Of
Lieut.. John Lind, who is to make three
speeches there next week, the Republic
ans lost heart there, too. And with
these two districts gone. they could
not hope for the old First district to
pull through after snubbing Van SAINT
for governor. Langum for secretary Of
state, Littleton for attorney general,
and Gibbs for lieutenant governor, even
though they did throw the southeast
erly district a sop in the nomination
of Lovely for justice of the supreme
court.
Reports from the Seventh district
point to the election of Ringdal, not by
g. small but by a decisive majority
The farmers are impressed by
the personality of Mr.. Ringdal, who
has been making an aggressive, con-
sentative and consistent canvass, which
he proposes to keep up until the close
of the campaign. Mr.. Ringdal has a
record in the state senate which is not
d.. 80
people, but which Is a. recommends
ton to them to enlarge his field by
placing him in congress. His superior
ity over Eddy would strike the casual
observer, who did not know either, and
from every part Of the district come
the reports Of conversions to the Ring
dial standard of people who were preju
diced against him because of his be-
lief in the principles Of the Peoples
party His most skeptical listener can
not, however but be impressed by the
mans sincerity, and, while he urges
reforms without compromise, he is
known by his legislative colleagues and
by his constituents as liberal, broad
gauge representative, recognizing the
rights of every man to his personal
opinion, but rigid in his fidelity to the
rights of all classes, and to such queS
tions as involve public morality. That
Eddy has been popular personally
among his in W do not deny;
that he has made winning campaigns
against severe odds, they have to adj
nit; but in these. campaigns the very
factor that has helped him to success
before is handicapping him now.
The farmers of the district are arous-
ed Another meeting is to be held at
Moorhead Saturday Of this week to
receive the report of the committee ap-
pointed at the meeting recently, and,
when that report is given out, 1t prom
Uses to drive Eddy out Of the field, as
he is now out of the race.
The political organizers in the Sixth
district on both sides are compelled
this year to reckon with some elements
which are very difficult Of calculation.
The constitutional amendment Of 1897,
limiting the franchise to those who
have secured their second papers or
were born in the United States, is go
ing to cut deeply into the vote of that
district, and 1t is going to be felt es-
peciaIly, the Democratic managers be-
lieve, in those precincts on the iron
range where the political bosses Of
Duluth have been accustomed to vote
the unsophisticated mine workmen In
blocks for the Republican ticket. This
year the Democrats have a better or
ganization than ever before In that por-
ton of the state. The Republicans VIII
be forced to comply with the law, and
the various articles by which they
managed to pull Clough through two
years ago will no longer be permitted.
Success for Lind and Towne seems as
sured from the surface indications in
the range as well as In the lower coun-
ties Of the district.
The Republicans are worried, too,