The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-30
HL0Be'S MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE.
~ 60 WASHINGTON Az. SOUTH.

The cid Union league at one time the
strongest Republican organization in the
state. is dead; its officers say, beyond
resUscitatio .At one time it numbered
"A mong' its active workers every promi-
nent Republican in Minneapolis. At its
meetings candidates were selected, states
We made. aud vhat the league man
ayers said went with the rank and file
OF the party Today the club is heavily
in debt for the rent of Its rooms; has
other outstanding liabilities left over
from tee last campaign; and by far the
grester part of IT'S members are delin-
quent in their dues.
For many months William Henry Eus-
lis. always prominent factor in the
league. housed the association rent free.
Finally however. he became somewhat
weary of the proposition, and notified the
club that it would have to seek quarters
elsewhere. Then the Elks rented the old
. Union league rooms, and today altera-
tions are being made preparatory to the
buildings being occupied by the new ten
ants.
There are members of the club who
assert that Mr. EuStis was not actuated
entirely by pecuniary motives in his re-
fuSal to longer provide a home for the
league. They say that certain members
OF chat body did not give Mr.. Eustis the
enthusiasts support he thought he was
entitled to receive at heir hands during
the last campaign and that ne finally
decided 10 repay their ingratitude in kind.
Ee that as it may the league is now
without even a place of meeting. 1t is
badly In debt; and It's officials have found
It impossible to get the members together
> for meetings.
Shortly after the last election an at
tempt was made to hold a meeting and
postals We're sent to all active members
Of the league notifying them of the date
selected. In all the secretary sent out
more than 400 poStalS. When the even
ing came around President Wadsworth
and Secretary Meyer were on hand, but
they were left severely alone. No one
else attended. and the two officers waited
around for a while, and then shut up
shop and went home disguSted.
Secretary Meyer said last evening that
he considered the league dead for all
time to come. Some of the members, he
said, thought that 1t would be possible
to again awaken interest in the organi-
zation: but his experience had not been
such as to warrant him in agreeing with
them.
The league is in a very bad way, said
he Just at present the treasurer is try
ing to collect enough on the delinquent
dues to pay up all outside debts except
of course, our rent. That we can not
pay l do not think Mr.. Eustis expects
it. Our trouble has been that men only
took an interest in the league SO long as
they expected to get something out of
1.-THE district judges, for instance;
there is scarcely one of thenl-the Repub-
lican Judges. mean, of course-who
was not an active worker in the league be-
fore his election TO the bench After
that they dropped out We used to notify
them of meetings, but they never attend
ed. 1t was the same way with the others.
Many of them have been elected to office;
some of them have been defeated. At any
rate they have dropped out and left the
organization that helped most to make
their success politically, to shift for
ITSELF