The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-09-13

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before returning to Washington.
Gen. Chaffee has been ordered to hold
his troops in readiness to leave Pekin
at any time.
Hon. G.. E. Roberts, Director OF the
Mint, who has just returned from a
trip to the middle west said: West
of the Mississippi river, the drift is
decidedly to the Republicans. Demo
cratic ia k of carrying Minnesota is
entitled to no weight. They will not
come within fifty thousand votes of it.
The Dakotas are both Republican and
Kansas is considered safe. / have
confidence thatthis driftour way, which
is SO apparent'in all the west, will be
found to be prevalent in Nebraska
also, although that is state in which
populism is well seated. 1t is hardly
to be expected that Illinois will give
as large Republican majority as it
did four years ago. There is !ikeli-
hood that it will settle back toward
the ordinary Republican majority,
but there is no reason to doubt that it
will be ample for practical purposes.
Senator Daniel, of Va, is one of
the few men who doesn let his parti-
san wishes destroy his judgment
Publicly ne talks as confidently of
Mr.. Bryan,s election as any OF the
rainbow chasers, but he is quoted as
having said privately in Washington:
~ cannot see that Bryan has more
than a fighting chance. but, OF course
we are bound to make the most of
that. The probabilities seem to me.
largely favorable to McKinley's
election.
The democrats are making many RI
diculous claims. none more SO than
their alleged expectations of carrying
Capt. Henry A. Castle,
Auditor for the Post Office Depart
ment, who has been active in every
in that state for the last
years, and who was con-
nected with the Republican state cen
trail committee, as chairman or Secre-
tary for more than ten years, has re-
Gently returned from visit to the
state. He said of political conditions
there: s'Minnesota is as likely to 60
for Bryan this year as Vermont is,
and not particle more SO. 1t would
be just as reasonable for the Republi-
cans to claim Texas, as for the Demo
Gratis to claim Minnesota There is
not the slightest indication of any land
slide or political upheaval this year
In Minnesota. The Republicans have
precinct organization, and
are advised every day at the state CEN
trail headquarters lof all local move
The reports up to last week,
when l left there, We're constantly
more encouraging. The seven Repub-
lican Congressman from Minnesota
have all been renominated, and each
of them will be elected without any
question. There can be no trouble
about the state ticket or the legisla-
lure, which will re-elect Senator
Knute Nelson, next winter. Minneso-
ia has had but one Democratic govern
or in forty years, and that is sufficient.
It has never cast a single Democratic
electoral vote since the state was ad-
mitted into the Union, and it is not
likely to commence that career of folly
now"
A fraud order has been issued by the
Postoffice Department against L. D.
Bates, and two alleged concerns con-
Quoted by him IN Washington-The
American Teachers Agency and the
Civil Service College, one
used to collect fees for securing school
teachers places, and the other for Sc,
curing government positions.
Gen. Chaffee has made new admirers
by his unselfishness in recon lending
that Col. A. S. Daggett, be appointed
to the vacant Brigadier Generalship
in the regular armv, caused by the re-
tirement today of Gen. Joe Wheeler,
for good Judgment and gallantry in
the Chinese campaign. 1t had been
that this vacancy would be
given to Gen. Chaffee, but his own
recommending may get it for Daggett,,
who may tt en- be retired, which would
give the President an opportunity to
n.on,Dto Ohio foo a1Sp !,