The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-10-12
the Veterans Eustis club, now doing
business at Minneapolis.

Rich, rare and racy is the treat in
store for those towns and cities
throughout the state where the local
committee has succeeded in securing
AGam Bede for campaign
speech. Adam commenced life
as a Democrat, and obtained
his first real celebrity throughout the
country by resigning the office of
United States marshal, to which posi-.
ton Democratic member Of congress
bird secured his appointments. This
unprecedented neutrality-suspicious.
from the Democratic standpoint-was
first attributed to temporary insanity
by his Democratic friends. It has
since been learned that it was the first
step toward radical reformation, be-
cause Adam has never voted Demo-
cratic ticket since he resigned his office
back into the hands of President Cieve'
land. And, since he began TO teach
good, broad gauge Republican doctrine,
it is amazing what subtle wit and high
talent Adam Bede has developed.
"Buttonl Buttoni Who made the
button?'
The ST. Paul Globe rails ed furious
tempest In the political teapot week
or two ago by denounoing William II.
EusJis and his committee because they
had purchased supply Of campaign
buttons of a manufacturing concern
way down in New Jersey. Now that
it has been discovered that Mr.. Lind
and MIR. Rosing, of the Democratic
committee, have purchased tull sup
ply OF Lind campaign buttons from
the same firm, there does not appear
to be so much Democratic roaring on
the hind seats. BY the way, how long
is it since The St. Paul Globe became
an advocate tor protection for our
home industries.
By the way, did ever read ers OF the
public press of the state see just such
q campaign as the one now in progressP
| A stranger reading the opposition
newspapers of Minnesota this year
would be prone to imagine that Mr..
Eustis was an escaped criminal The
fact about him is that he is one of the
kindliest and most philanthrophic OF
men-with sympaJhies as easily
touched as those of the genslest of
women. Not one of his neighbors in
ST. Paul and Minneapolis but laughs at
those bug-a- boo stories about his con-
nection with the Guaranty Loan
swindle.
Honor bright, now-does any man or
woman who is full grown and possessed
of average common sense believe for
one moment that all the great and
small business men of this city would
have gone to the polls and worked as
they all did work for w. II. Eustis last
June, and thus made his nomination
certain at the approaching state con-
vention, if he had been the mmon,
vulgar rascal which the Democratic.
Popnlist outfit are today prcclaiming
him to be?
And now, word about the claim
made by the opposition that Mr.. Lind
will carry Hennepin and Ramsey
counties at the approaching election In
November. AS Chalmers Of the earth
and the tullness thereof, the Demo-
cratic party is noted in the history and
traditions of the states. Away back
almost forty years ago the Democrats
commenced putting forward their
claims of victory as each successive
election period approached. Old set.
tiers will recall that regularly every
two years they are promised Demo.
cratic feast of fat things And yet,
steadily, year after year the Repub-
licans have continued to roll up ma.
jorlties sometimes waning to 1000 or
5000 during campaigns which were not
marked by any vital issues, and again
waxing up to $4,000 or 81, 900 when the
people of l. Etoil du Nord took the bit
IN their teeth and buckled down to
business.
| Oh, mol This is not good year in
which to predict Democratic or Popu-
listic success. In the first place, the
Republican state convention last sum.
mer removed all cause of complaint
among the people of the state by plac.
| ing in nomination one of the strongest
and best tickets ever placed before the
people of Minnesota for their suffrages
Secondly the states of the great west
are just now at turning point. After
the most disastrous and trying period
OF Commercial and financial de preston
ever known In the history of the coun.
try. the scales have at length turned.
People begin to realize that to return
now 10 the reactionary policy repre-.
scented by the Demo-Pop com pination
! would bring a renewal of the tough
times of four or five years ago. Who
has forgotten that the Democratic
victory of 1892 precipita;ei the repub.
lie into the direst of commercial and
financial caves of gloom? The lesson
has not lean lost upon the people OF
Minnesota, and now that the sober sec
ond thought has come, then the great
| r., ,mmon sense ma jority of this state