The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-11
70 LET Van SAINT SLIDE
REPUBLICANS Will, STAR TIE MA
TIONAL ISSUES IN MINNESOTA
THIS FALL
ELECTORAL VOTE THE THING
That Is What the National Commit
tee Is Most Interested In
and What 1t Is Paying
For.

Tams Bixby gave but little advice to
the Republican state central committee
yesterday and the gathering devoted 1t
self chiefly to reports made by judicial
districts At the evening meeting of the
executive committee, he initiated the
committee into a number of compaign
secrets that he learned from Mark Hanna
and President Mckinley He informed
the committee of the modus operandi of
the national committee, and submitted
list of probable speakers that the national
committee will assign to Minnesota AS
the matter of meetings and speakers was
all left to the executive committee a list
of local speakers was revised and addi-
tons made. = .te4
Mr. Bixby, while in Washington, as
sured President Mckinley that Minnesota
would be redeemed from the doubtful
column For this assurance Tams was
given a little note from the president to
Mark Hanna, so he informed the commit
tee, which he presented to the Republican
Caesar, and as a result Minnesota can
have anything she asks for" This, Of
course was taken to mean an entirely
sufficient campaign fund. Tams was con-
graduated by his colleagues, and conf
dentially related several incidents that
happened while at Washington to indi-
cate the regard which the president had
for his Republican constituency in Min
rnesota, and himself-Tams. While in the
capitol city Bixby chummed with the
president and was on an entirely familiar
basis at the White House. Tams did not
have quite so pleasant journey home,
as he was oVer-burdened with funds, and
while the amount of tine national COM
mittee's second installment could not be
learned, it is sad that it requires six
figures to place the amount on paper.
Mr.. Bixby suggested that the national
feature of the campaign be emphasized,
and that national and state issues be eX-
pounded with equal energy and force. He
told the committee that Republicans Of
the East regarded the situation as most
promising and believed that Mckinley
would carry New York by 100000
At the general committee meeting
nearly all the candidates were present
and Senators Jones and Shell were the
only absentees of the committees mem
bership. Reports were made by each judi
icial district, and after the meeting it
was given out by Capt. Whitney that the
situation looked rosy, and especially in
the southern counties, where the Van
SAINT vote would be very large. 1t is uri-
derstood that Van SAINT assured the COM
mittee that he would carry the first dis
trict by $4,000. He appeared in a rough
rider hat and bleak patch of dingy wall
was hidden by huge caricature picture
of Roosevelt in his campaign suit
Other candidates also made reports of
local conditions and their confidence for
an overwhelming victory. The committee
will probably spend a couple of hundred
thousand dollars in Minnesota and already
thousands of campaign buttons have been
circulated. Tons of literature from the
national committee has been received, the
executive committee was authorized to
publish several campaign documents for
distribution. Senator Nelson was present
and assured the committee that he would
give his best efforts to the cause this fall
on the stump and stated that the condi-
lions were in every way improved in the
seventh and sixth districts, and that the
people generally had renewed confidence
in the good intentions of the Republican
party.