The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-02
AU IT CHANGE 5000 VOTES
THIS IS THE TASK THE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE is NOW SETTING
OUT TO Do
BY FAIR MEANS OR BY FOUL
"Must" Is the Only Word That Ex-
plains the Desperate Situation
of the PIotters of the
Sister City.

Disappointed in its endeavor to prove
John Lind either personally or officially
untalthful to his duties as a citizen OF
the United States; estopped in its ef-
fort to align organized labor in a pha-
lanx which should wrest from him his
laurels as governor the leaders of the
Republican party are now determined 20
win for Mr.. Van SAINT, or Capt. Van SAINT,
as the river man would prefer to have
You call him, Hennepin county.
How to do this was the proposition that
confronted the Republican leaders Lind
carried it by 5000 and better in 1886,
by 5000 in 1898, but with Ames running
for mayor on the Republican ticket the
leaders of the 8. o. D. figured that they
might get enough strength from the
old-time personal following of the three
times mayor to pull cut the county, not
only for Mckinley, but for Lind
PLOT BEGINS TO FORM.
Hennepin county, outside the city lin
its, is naturally for the Republican ticket
and strongly. Minneapolis, with its large
urban population, has in recent years
shown marked Democratic proclivities,
the same being enhanced to some extent
by the personal popularity Of John Lind,
the Democratic nominee
In 1886, when it voted Mckinley a plur-
ality of over 5000, the district, which
consists of Hennepin, without other in
DlufdilGY
ter than 5000, and in 1898 he got over
5000 plurality, although Loren Fletcher,
running at the same time, carried the
district by over 5000.
Even eonceding that the increase in
the vote this year is largely Republican,
as it is claimed by the Republicans, they,
in order to carry the county by 2,200, as
claimed by BiXby, must make gains Of
nearly 1000 over Fletcher and Eustis.
This will require change of between
| 5000 and 1000 votes and this it is un
derstood is what the Republican state
| central committee hopes to achieve.
WILL. GET THE VOTES.
That Minneapolis is to be the battle
| ground seems beyond a peradventure.
| Two years ago it went for Lind. -Four
! years ago it went for Lind Much as
the Republicans would like to punish the
Mill City for it's unfaithfulness to the
Republican ticket, they still realize that
| it contains within reasonably small
I compass the largest available body Of
voters within similar area in the state.
1t is assumed further by the Republic
| ans that the political complexion of the
voting mass of Hennepin county is not
certain. Knowing, as they do, that John
| Lind S personal popularity has been twice
tested within the confines of Minneapolis,
for the county outside is almost hopeless
ly Republican, the Republican leaders
have planned the taking of Hennepin by
fair means if possible; by foul means,
if necessary.
WHICH SHALL IT BE?
The best speakers that the Republican
central committee has at its disposal are
available at the command of Hennepn
for the next few days. 1t is proposed to-
morrow and Monday nights TO literally
make Rome howl.
MONEY IS READY.
The committee has no dearth of funds
Corporations have been assessed where
ever they would stand it; candidate have
been bled to the limit of reasonable en-
durance and all avenues of revenue have
been fully utilized, including the national
committee, which has stood several taps
Out of the fund thus accreted, the COM
mittee has apportioned $4,000 for the cap
ture of Hennepin county, and it Is pro-
posed to get a switch of 5000 votes there
between now and next Tuesday night.
How they shall be gotten is the problem.
LABOR BOMB IS ABANDONED.
1t had been hoped to ALLEVIATE from Gov.
Lind the support of the labor vote, espe-
cially strong in Minneapolis. The
G l o revealed the animus of The pro-
posed publica tions, and it was discredited.
There will be other roorbachs, no doubt
but the best information available indi-
Gates that the plans to secure a transfer
of 5000 votes in Hennepin county by any
available means, without regard to politi-
cal honesty or personal morality.
Counting, as they do, the personal popu-
larity of Ames, assisted by the fact that
! Loren Fletcher has time and again run
ahead of the nominees of his party for
other offices which command the vote Of
the entire people Of the county, the com
mittee have looked for walkaway for
the Winona man. But that he will be
able to change a Democratic plurality of
about 5000 to a Republican plurality Of
almost as much, few Republicans in Hen
nepin consent to believe. The gain of
5000 votes necessary to the expedients OF
the Republican state central committee
is to be gotten by the free use of money,
of which $4,000 has been set aside by the
state central committee.
The labor roorbach intended for 81
multaneous publication in a Minneapolis
labor paper and the Dispatch, was discon-
tinued, and it took three columns Of the
Dispatch last night. to show how badly
it felt over 1t. A man who waded
through the article said there was no ex-
planation in the three columns as to why
Senator Nelson's printed speeches do not
bear the union label. VI