The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-25
DUNN BAND WAGON
SHY PASSENGERS
Independent Republicans Re-
fuse to Notice Martins Hur-
rah Campaign

Claim everything has given way
to the earlier campaign cry of the
Republican, state central committee.
Once it was the policy of Manager
James A. Martin to tell his party
workers that the situation was some
what doubtful, and that the co-opera
ton of every Republican worker would
be necessary if the head of the Re-
publican state ticket was to be saved.
Within the last week the instruc-
tons to the workers in every county in
the state has been to claim everything
for Mr.. Dunn. Having, by the use of
the series of hard luck stories, aroused
the strictly partisan Republicans to
the gravity of the situation in the
state, the plan now is to attempt 10
create the impression that there has
been great revulsion of feeling and
that Mr.. Dunn is gaining ground in
every county in the state.
The first line of policy resulted, it
is said, in the lumber barons and
other allied interests cutting their
closely knotted purse strings and CIV
ing Mr.. Martin and his associates at
the Republican headquarters suffi-
cheney of means with which to prose-
cute the style of campaign now being
employed.
Brass Band Campaign
It is now brass band campaign
and every energy is being employed
by the state managers to create
band wagon campaign, but with no
evident show of success. The state is
being flooded with speakers. All the
congressman are on the stump except
Tawney, who is detained at Chicago in
charge of the Western speakers bu-
reau of the national Republican cam
paign. Both United States senator's
are sounding the tocsin and appealing
to their personal and political friends
to stand by Dunn" Every federal
officer in the state is violating civil
service rules by stumping the state,
and the school houses are occupied
nightly by men sent from other states
and by local orators to convey the
same message to the people.
Following every meeting exag-
gerated reports are sent to the city
these reports are supplemented by
claims from the Republican state CEN
trail committee that it is now land
slide for Dunn and Jones.
The truth is that the people are not
responding to the crack of the parti-
san whip. The intelligent farmers of
the state and the business men in the
with the political situation in Mime
sota and no eleventh hour plea in
which simply partisan cry is raised
will change these men from their hon.
est convictions of right and wrong.
Evidence is accommodating that the
hand wagon tactics of Mr.. Martin and
his coworkers is not succeeding, and
that on the other hand the great wave
of enthusiasm for John A. Johnson and
F. G. Winston grows stronger every
day.
Reports received by the Democratic
state central committee indicate that
no less personages than the two United
States senators have failed to break
into Mr. Johnsons strength among the
masses OF the state. Report after re-
port, sent by men in whose judgment
and honesty the state committee has
every confidence, have said that while
the senators have talked on national
issues their Republican audiences have
been duly enthusiastic, but when they
depressed to defend Mr.. Dunn their au-
diences have sat in stony silence, or
have not hesitated to manifest express
sions of .disapproval.
Reports Tell the Story
1--WE continue to receive the usual
number of encoura ging reports, said
Secretary M F. Kahn, of the Demo-
cratic state central committee, yester-
day. There has been no abatement of
the letters from our committeeman
showing gratifying conditions in the
| country. Not a single urfavorable re-
! port has been received during the past
week. and our letters Indicate what
| must be the disappointmen of the Re-
publican spellbinders at their failure In