The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-04
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since GOV. Linz mas QennlCely lDSISleu
that there shall be no contest, Van SAINT
reposes his soul in peace, the Republican
piehunters are jubilant and the Repub
lican papers are trying to convince the
people that everything was straight,
honest and above board that there were
no tricks or fraud and that Lucas. the
Social-Democrat candidate for governor,
really had nothing to do with the cleo
ion of Van SAINT.
They point out that the official fig
ures give Lucas only some 5000 votes
and they say that such an Insignificant
number certainly wasn't worth raising
such howl about, but they do not say
anything about the ballots marked for
both Lind and Lucas, which were not
counted at all and therefore do not APP
pear in the official report. Careful inves-
tigation has shown that there were from
5000 to 10000 ballots in the state mark
ed for both Lind and Lucas and were
for that reason thrown out without being
counted at all These 10000 votes there
fore do not appear in the official figures,
either for Lind or for Lucas.
The mistake of voting for both of these
men was a natural one. A man wishing
to vote the straight Democratic ticket,
might just glance down the list and make
his mark wherever he saw the word
Democrat, and when he saw the word
''Social-Democrat" he would be quite apt
to mark it without noticing the first
part Social" as distinguished from
People Democrat .
However, while some of the RepLb-
Ecan papers are trying to cover UP the
trick and make people think that the
campaign was carried on with all tns
customary honesty(?) of Republican poll
tics, others feel so elated that they simply
can't contain themselves, but must tell
about it like the bad little boy that put
the crooked pin on his teachers chair.
Thus the dispatch in recent issue
in commenting on the Lucas episode, let's
off this exutant screech:
I'VE reckon that fellows so simple as
to be taken in by so shallow and palpa-
bic trick are too utterly gullible to be
entrusted with management OF state af-
fairs
This is certainly as complete a confess
sion as anybody could wish for. How
ever, confession is supposed to be god
for the soul. or words to that effect, and
it is to be hoped that the Dispatch,
feels better now.
The following from the Sank Rapids
Sentinel (Rep) is also significant:
THE tendency favorable to the cleo
ton of Gov Lind was nowhere stronger
than in Stearns and Benton counties and
and had no other than the ordinary
methods and resorts been adopted, the
Lind majority in Stearns county would
probably have reached $500 or more, in
stead of 200 and in Benton county 500.
instead of 81; and with results in the
same direction in many other of the
northerly portions of the state. The tide
of votes toward Lind was counteracted
by skillful efforts"
What these "other than ordinary meth
cos and resorts" and "skilIful efforts"
were, is easily understood and the peo-
PIE are not likely to forget it, In justice
to Van SAINT, however, be it said that
he is a gentleman whom everybody be-
lieves to be thoroughly honest and hon.
orable. 1t is not to be supposed for a
minute that he had any knowledge what,
ever of the disreputable tricks which
Republican bilge. water politicians were
concocting in his behalf.