The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-27

to the Racial FeaIty-COmmittee
Is Not Blamed.
w. H. Eustis has written the follow
Ing letter;
Hon. John H. Steele, Chairman Republican
Central Committee:
My Dear Sir Permit me TO express to you
and through you to each member of the Re
publican state central committee and to the
various congressional and county committees
cooperating with you, and to all who as
sisted you, my deep appreciation of the faith
fuI and efficient management and work done
in the campaign just closed.
In my opinion, the Republican party was
never more ably served by its central COM
mtttee. While the opposition resorted to the
most questionable means ever used In Min
nesota by any party, you conducted 1t on a
high plane OF principle, refusing to make in
tuned to do so. For this I thank you. De-
feat with cleanliness and decency is more
honorable than victory by Ill means. Better
Tar burn down a poor mans house than at
tempt falsely to destroy his good name the
highest fruit Of q life time. The one he can
rebuild; the other is irreparabie. The lesser
laws; the greater one is tolerated, and goes
UNPUBLISHED by q too indulgent public opin-
ion.
The high character Of your work is seen
In the election of the whole ticket, including
all Republican nominees for judges save only
the nominee for governor. Having given
llttlOuB duIcTS1C0 70 R6puQilc4n principles
and support of Republican nominees, and
having endeavored to live a neigbborly and
honorable life and having received the nomi-
nation by SO unanimous and generous a spirit
as is rarely seen in state convention, for
which / am deeply sensible, / know no good
reason why the Republican nominee should
have run single vote behind his party
ticket, and see none now. The persistent at
tacks and charges made by the opposition
campaign committee tending to in1ure my
reputation and discredit me before my fell
1n1rn f4 ali /,
less and false. In my Judgment the commit
tee opposing you could Just as well have
won with clean hands as otherwise. May
the day be FASTENED when public opinion
will demand In politics clean campaigns and
protect their nominees from such defamatory
methods.
the difference between my vote and that Of
my associates on the ticket. When, however,
we look to the opposition and find It's can
didate running, two years ago, far ahead Of
his state and presidential ticket. and this
year, on a largely reduced vote, leading his
party by the same If not an increased ratio
and no one elected on that ticket except him.
self, we find positive force deeply seated in
human nature, as II must be to influence the
minds and political actions Of so many men.
That force Is a national sentiment which de-
lights to honor a countryman and which
only. with a percentage OF men OF any race,
is stronger than party ties. The causes, then
which led to my defeat were such as to be
beyond the power of your committee, by le-
ultimate means, to change or avert.
With these forces at work, necessarily pro-
ducing weakness and decentralization IN the
party ranks, to have saved the balance Of the
state ticket elected every congressman and
insured by an overwhelming majority In the
state senate and house of representatives a
continuance OF Republican representation in
the United States senate, thus protecting
every point where Endorsement of Mckinley s
administration ana Republican principles were
involved, entities your committee and asso-
ciate committees to great credit and praise.
xuork TUaq crowned with n
in this campaign it was possible to win
success. The votes were there in sufficient
numbers to have elected the whole ticket;
that they did not was due to independent in
dividual action. Your committee is not
chargeable with the responsibility for the ro-
htical action of those IN whom the desire to
honor their fellow countryman-by no means
an ignoble rnotive-was superior to party afhl-
iation, nor of those few-not many-who saw
fit to sacrifice the party which had In many
ways, and for many years, most generously
favored and honored them.
Approaching beyond the power Of words
fttingly to express that ardent and unSelfish
party devotion manifested by you, and by
so many friends throughout the state, I can
only thank you and them. To them, to you
and to me, the success Of right political prin-
ciples is of far greater Importance than mere
personal victory. Let us seek first to find
the true cause of this partial defeat, and then
in a kind, broad, and, II necessary, charita-
BILE spirit endeavor to avoid its future recur-
renee. To all of US is given in trust the VI
tai principles OF the republican party anu us
success in every battle, political as we'll as
militant, individuals may fall, but the organ
ICED army moves on. Close up the ranks and
advance should be our watchword. In Mime
sofa the enemy has but taken temporarily
one outpost along the whole line. II the Re-
publieans act In wisdom and concert it will
be retaken In 1900.
Defeat wears a Jewel more brilliant than
victory. The party that finds 1t possesses the
key to future success Your friend,
w. H. Eustis.
Minneapolis, Nov. 2e.
Jack Ryder from away up north
somewhere, where few people live and
less want to go, comes down to the
senate this. winter smiling as blandly
as though nothing had happened, with
a solid vote for Cush Davis in his vest
pocket Well, yes. am glad Of that,
too. Won't we newspaper fellows be in
the swim with those boys in the senate
scrapping with the governor, some of
them for, and others against, his pol
icy? Jack used to run the Luverne
News as q Democratic sheet, got
ashamed of his policies and went up
North to freeze the memory Of Democ-
racy out of him. and now comes back
to meet his brethren of the press with
clean hands and honest convictions for
good and the Righteousness" of poll