The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-25
Dunn SCOUT FINDS
JOHNSON POPULAR
Reporter of Republican Organ
Unable to Deny Stories of
Rousing Meetings

The Republican state central COM
mittee has failed to find in John A.
Johnson's speeches a vulnerable point.
There is everything to commend and
nothing that can be criticised, II the
experience of a young man sent from
St. Paul last week to follow Mr. john
son and f. G. Winston in their cam
paign through the Seventh congress
sional district is to be believed.
The Martin Hamlin- Mitchell COM
mittee early last week conceived the
brilliant idea of sending newspaper
man into the Seventh district to FOL
low johnson and Winston for few
DAYS in an effort to find in their
speeches something which might be
turned against them by misinterpreta-
ton or misconstruction. The Repub-
lican committee evidently desired to
learn too. whether or not reports of
the tremendous meetings in the First,
Second and Seventh congressional dls-
tricts had been exaggerated.
A st. Paul reporter employed on the
lnnn nrgan- was commissioned ana
sent out into the country be1TIs-eoS-
cred by the Democratic candidates Tor
governor and lieutenant governor. he
made his first appearance at Monte
video and followed the speakers for
several days. The reporter, until 1t was
evident that his mission was to end
in blank failure, kept himself in the
background, but as the campaign pro-
crossed and he caught the enthusiasm
of the great meetings being addressed
nightly by Johnson and Winston, the
secret of his official connection became
known.
Time Was Wasted
He returned to st. Paul after three
DAYS spent with the Democratic can
didates, wholly unable to point to a
single point in the speeches of either
Mr.. Johnson or Mr.. Winston on which
the most critical Republican partisan
could hang an objection.
1t was found by the special news
paper emissary sent out by the Repub-
lican state central committee that IN
stead of reports of Johnson and Win
ton meetings being exaggerated in the
Twin City papers supporting them, the
full truth of the great attendance and
still greater enthusiasm had not been
more than half told in the necessarily
meager reports sent out from the
smaller interior points.
Reporter Is Converted
incidentally, it is told that the spe-
cial representative sent to find points
to criticise in Mr.. Johnson's speeches
yielded to the power and magnetism of
the brilliant young candidate and re-
turned to st. Paul a convert to his
cause.
Mr.. johnson left yesterday for Buff
falo, Wright county, where, with Cleve
w, Van Dyke, candidate for congress
in the Sixth district he spoke last
night to a large and representative au-
dience, of whom great many were
Republicans.
He speaks at ST. Cloud tonight, with
a special meeting at Foley during the
afternoon. Foley, the county seat OF
Benton county, was not in Mr.. john
sons itinerary, but when a delegation
of the prominent citizens of that town
came to st. Paul Saturday and plead
ed with Chairman F. A. Day that Mr.
Johnson be sent there for an after
noon speech, they could not be denied
Mr.. Johnson will reach st. Cloud al
noon and will Immediately be driven
to Foley, returning in the evening in
time to address a monster meeting al
the Davidson opera house, st. Cloud
The arrangements for the st. Cloud
meeting are in charge of the local Par
,ker, Johnson and Van Dyke club 500
strong. 1t is freely predicted at st
Cloud that Johnson and Winston viii
carry the city almost unanimously.