The Princeton union., 1900-11-22
ELECTION
Al E|RMATH.
Nar SAINTS plurality Small, But Big
0 Enough to Make Him Governor
for Two Years From
Next January.
Lag ''as GREAT Race and Would
Hays Been Elected Had 1t Not
l## Been for Several rlistakes
- on His Part. ~-.s
Talk Of Contest on Governorship-Re-
publicans Should Join in Demand
for Recount and Stop DEM
ocrats' Howl of Fraud.
Senator Davis Very Sick Man-Little
Hope of His, Recovery Enter
a3 tanned d-Pigmies Scheming D..
s* for His Place in Senate.

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1900. Official returns are still lacking
from half a dozen counties, but it is
safe. to assert that Captain Van SAINTS
plurality will be between $500 and
5000. McKinley's plurality in the
State will exceed $4,000. Van SAINT
wasSa popular candidate and he had a
united party behind him: besides he
had a working and well-organized
committee under the superb leadership
Of Tams. Bixby to manage his cam
paign. and yet he barely pulled
through. There is no use OF talking
John Lind is a phenomenal vote-getter.
ln the campaign of 1896 Lind made a
great race against Clough-the latter
plurality was 5,252. But Clough had
considerable opposition from within
the ranks OF his own party Clough,
however polled a great many Demo.
cratic votes. People who are preju.
diced against Clough assert that he
was weak candidate, but he was not
q weak candidate: he had many bitter
enemies and he also had many ardent
fighting friends. Had Van SAINT OF
Eustis been pitted against Lind in 1896
ittsSS xtrenaelsS sdou htful ifseithen@oi oi
them could have been elected. ..
Two years ago Lind defeated Eustis
by aplurality of 20, lS4. The campaign
was not as we'll managed by the Re
publicans in. 1898 as in 1896 or this
year, but do not believe any Repub'
lican could have defeated Lind two
years ago, nor could any Republican
have defeated him this year had it not
been for the presidential election and
the landslide to Mckinley.
It is the consensus OF Republicans
| who took an active part in the cam.
paign this year that had it not been
for two or three bad breaks on the part
OF Lind he would have been reelected.
! The first mistake Lind made was at
the Belshazzar feast in the West Hotel.
Minneapolis, last January, when he
declared he was anti-Republican in
everything. Until then he had posed
as an independent, a political orphan
as. it were. That speech cost him
thousands of Scandinavian Republican
votes at the recent election. His sec
ond mistake was in SO loudly proclaim
ing his pro-Boer sentiments. There
are several thousand voters in this
State of English and Canadian birth
the great majority of whom are Demo
Gratis, and many of them refused to
vote for Mr.. Lind. His third mistake
was in not combining himself solely to
State issues. His bitter denunciation
of Mckinley and the foreign policy OF
the government cost he several thou
sand votes. Had he avoided either ol
the three mistakes mentioned. espe'
cially the last one, he would have won
Undoubtedly Lind is strong with
voters of his own nationality, but he is
also popular with the voters of other
nationalities = Americans, Germans
and Irish. Had the Swedish voters
stood by him this year as they did in
1896 and 1898. he would have won out
by a handsome plurality. I wish tC
call particular attention to the vote ol
such counties as Hennepin, Kandiyohi,
Chisago, Isanti and Kanabec. The
Swedish element is all powerful in
these counties, and yet Van SAINT car.
ried@ all of them. No, Mr.. Lind's po.
litical strength is not altogether on
account Of his nationality.
| John Lind is strong with the people
because they believe in him. That is
the truth Of the matter. The people
belieye that John Lind is an homes,
man and an able man, and that he has
Earnestly endeavored to bring about
reforms in the administration Of the
1 State government asnecin1lv with