The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-11-21
HE RE WOOD GAZETTE.
~ AIKEN Z scHnAhL.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. q, 1900.

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TALK ABOUT LIND.
Very Little Probability that There
Will be Contest.
The boys are paying their bets on
election in ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
They are paying them reluctantly.
Many Of them were for big amounts,
and the losers don t feel like letting
go in view Of the fact that the hang
ers-on of the Lind administration
are talking of contesting. The gen
eral opinion is that all this talk will
cease. It is natural, particularly
so. because there is to be an awful
horde of office-seekers to be de-
capitated as soon as Capt VanSant
takes the oath of office, and this
horde has been putting up its con-
tributions to the Lind campaign
fund ever since it was appointed.
The contribution was a large one.
It was taken out of the salaries
of the officials, and it don t
leave much for them to quit
Office on In the meantime, how
ever, some Of the betting men who
have the Lind end of the bet, are
taking advantage of the talk by hay
ing their bets shaved slightly, on
condition that they pay them before
the official count is made.
The Republican committee invites
the contest. They say there is
nothing wrong and that VanSant
will have in the neighborhood Of
4, 900 plurality without doubt, and
that recount of all the ballots of
the State might give him more,
rather than less. A contest, in
volving recount, would mean
an awful expense, and it is not like
ly that Gov. Lind's horde of pie
biters would be willing to make up
the amount.
The fact that Gov. Lind came
within about i, 600 votes of VanSant
is accounted for largely by two
facts. One was the first term
racket. Voters all ever the State
appear to be largely in sympathy
with the theory that a man should
have two terms, just to see what he
can do, and it is estimated that Mr..
Lind was given at least Is, 900 votes
on this score Another reason was
that Mr.. Lind had the machine.
This machine is estimated good
for $4,000 or 10000 votes. It
has large number of appoint
ments, who are working the
year around for the appointive
power, and are thus able to give
their chiefs good idea of where to
do the most effective work. Again,
these appointive positions have
been contributing so much monthly
towards campaign fund, and when
Lind was renominated he started
out with one of the finest campaign
jack-pots ever raised in this State.
In the matter of influencing voters
this Jackpot came in handy, and
politicians are frank in stating that
if Mr.. Lind had been obliged to re-
sort to his own resources and con-
tributions from persons outside of
the appointive power, and had not
the advantage of the first term
racket, be would have been de-
feated bv from 30. 600 to 40. 600 votes.
There is considerable of a ques-
ton as to what Mr.. Lind future
will be. There are but very few
people who are of the opinion that
he will return to New Ulm aud
again take up his residence in the
spacious home built by him at that
point a number of years ago. It is
believed that he will find resi-
dence in Minneapolis, and there re.
new the practice of law. Some be-
lieve that he will retire from poll |
tics. Others say that out Of politics.
is like fish out of water, and that
he is likely to make another race
for governor two years hence.
Thin oc arn not a1tooothor cn,oo4h