Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 11, 1900, Page 6

RIPPED OPEN WIDE, 13 THE STATE REPUBLICAN ; CAMPAIGN, And the “Rip” Extends From Some Place Up North, Down to the Eleventh Min- Bede neapolis Ward—J. Adam and Steamboater Van Sant as Chief “Rip- pers”—The “Opening” Much Like Roose- velt's—A Hint of the Big Job Manager Bixby Has on His Hands—Other State and National Political Comment of the Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, Aug. 6, 1900, The event of the week has been the “opening” of the Republican state campaign by the joint efforts of Candi- date Van Sant and J. Adam Bede. The “rip” commenced at a place called Frazee City, in the northern part of the state, and extended in a more or less “gaping wound’? down to the Eleventh ward in Minneapolis. The lynx-eyed press has failed to record only tho briefest outline of the speeches made by Mr. Van Sant, and nota word, as yet, of the Bede accompaniment. Captain Van Sant’s “‘opening’’ com- menced with a false quotation of senti- ments imputed to Mr. Bryan in the ’96 campaign, assuming which to be true the captain said was reason for oppos- ing him. ence must be that the captain may ain faisely quoting Mr. ug that we would have t sell ‘no goods | be tor him. Bryan “no S$ Say abroad” if 1 was elected, the | captain g ares of our con- stantly increasing trade—increasing | y year in the natural growth of diting McKinley with | the tot uch trade, some $2,224,- | 000,000. By the same token Cleveland year | the cou deemable in anything, and is not even alegal tender. This is the nub of the D mocratic money plank, and one of tue reasons for more than reaffirmation of the Chicago platform. “And never pull down the flag,” skonts Van Sant. Well, whac would you doin China? Carry it to the heart of the Celestial empire, and create ar- mies to keep it there, or simply let it flay, here and there, as over such roosi- ers as Johu G-odnow? ana denies that he jumped on lt aboat his speeches. Alleo : Rosey is laid off until Septem- sam ber, until presumably he can revise and prune. And speaking of Consul General Goodnow, someone asked the other day if there was really any danger of *‘Gen- eral’? Goodnow being killed, and a former Republican associate of John’s erueliy replied, ‘Oh, no danger. You know the Chinese don’t kill anybody but Christians.” Now, wasn’t that tough? Speaking of the Roosevelt speech, we judge that the high jink of the Repub- lican press bureau made a bad mess in | sending it out to the state press. Least- | wise we have reports from several of the Democratic papers that they re- ceived the supplements, which con- tained both the Roosevelt speech and the manuscript that Senator Nelson | read to the listless leaguers. Our boys had no use for them unless for wrap- ping paper. Washington Reader: No, when your They being false, the infer- | papers speak of the Powers, they do not mean the Minnesotan in the Merriam census bureau, the dirty work man. They refer to the governments, includ- ing McKinley’s, whom the heathen Chinee has been making asses of for several long and painful weeks. The Minnesota man is himself a sort of Chinaman, known for his ‘‘political ways that are dark, and tricks that are cs ” should be credited with our total for- eign trade of his administration. Every‘ one knows that the country’s com-| merce increases year by year with in- | crease of population and needs. | At this point the veteran steamboat | man is said to have thrown down _ his | written speech and gone into some- thing of personal interest to himself, the chances of his defeat being the up permost topic. His conclusion was j that he would be elected if he got votes | enough—if Republicans enough voted | for him. The more he dwelt on this | phase the more fixed seemed the im- | pression that he would lose, whereupon | he observed that if he was to be knifed, | the rest of the ticket should be sup-| ported, for, he said, in his mind calling | the administration of Governor Lind as proof, ‘We can ‘keep house without a | Republican governor.” Still farther | contemplating this probability he urged | that he should be elected, lest the ap- pointment of a United States senator fall tothe lotof the new governor. “Stranger things than this have hap- pened,’ said the candidate. Then | retrospectively, or as if reimpressed with the gloomy outlook, he repeated: | “If Ican have the united support of | my party I shall win. | If I am defeated j it will be by Republican vo.es.’’ And} then he said in closing: ‘‘Let me say | to my Republican friends, who for any | reason might vote against me as the| head of the ticket, that they should | ponder well before doing so.” From all appearances the opening of the Republican state campaign has been as inauspicious as the national opening by Roosevelt has proven frosty and in- effectual. Captain Van Sant says that when *‘they’’ proposed to dismember the Union he threw off his Lincoln cam- paign cap and put on the uniform ofa soldier. ‘And there are others.” And plenty of them voted with the G. O. P. as longas they could possibly do so without stultifying themselves. They belong to the Liberty party now. And this is as good a place as any to remark that the quotations of Bryan ) in 1896, used by Republican speakers, among them Van Sant, that if McKin- | ley was elected we would “export no | goods, but would import from foreign | lands all the goods we would use,’’ are | not only false but absolutely silly. In general the predictions made by Mr. Bryan of the results of continuation of | the ruinous financial policy were ful- filled to the letter, as witness the great- | est failures, and more business disasters for the first two years following Mc- Kinley’s inauguration than marked the Cleveland panic times. And buat for the adoption of the money policy Bryan advocates, of an adequate money sup- ply, at leastin part, by the providen- | tial increase of gold, and later by an immense inflation of bank paper, the wildest predictions of misery and woe, whether made by Mr. Bryan or others, would have been realized. And let us call a witness, as Candidate Van Sant says, and it will be, Van Sant, whero he says: ‘Our money, including paper currency, gold and silger. has become greatly increased since McKinley took the chair.”” And Van Sant quotes from ‘McKinley’s acceptance speech, where he refers to the fact that we flow have ‘more money,’’ than we have had be- ‘fore. ‘‘More money and fewer mort- wages,’’ McKinley said. And this is a good place to emphasize shat by the Kansas City platform the | Democrats are not oaly pledged to the quantitative theory of free coinage, but to take fromthe banks the power of ‘issuing their notes, which are not re- deemable in anything, and which notes are printed for the banks by the gov- ernment (thus the people furnishing rthe money that the banks turn around sand loan them for interest) and to issue iin place of such notes the money of the government redeemable in gold and; silver. That’s the point, Mr. Republi- can. We will give you actually ‘sound money,” instead of this national bank corporation paper, thatis not now re- ‘“D——n the Dutch,” shouted an Illi- nois Republican in the state convention, when Boer resolutions were introduced. “Down with Catholic anti-imper‘alists, and Protestant lovers of the Filipinos,’” says Paul Van Derveort, one of the re- cent Hanna ‘‘converts.”” After all our own William Henry Eustis set the ex- | ample for them all, when he spoke of Swedes and Norwegians as mere ‘‘vot- ing cattle.” The latter remembered our Minnesota G. O. P. ‘‘leader.” What will the other do? Speaking of Van Dervoort, who ap- pears asarival to Roosevelt for the place ot ‘‘Burchard”’ in this campaign, he is the same Van Dervoort who once, when commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., was kicked out of the government service for cause. He then became a mid-Populist, and thoroughly discred- ited there, has at last joined Hanna. Good enough. Speaking of Consul General Good- now, that functionary is ‘‘pictured”’ by the Philadelpia Record, as a round, sleek, heavy-set man, with heavy, drooping moustache, who is s.own to be writing away for dear life, under gas light, doing that important ‘‘diplo- matic intercourse” that the adminis- tration is giving him so much praise for. Accallbellis at hand for sum- moning the menials, and there is a big ink stand, presumably loaded to the brim with black, very black ink. selah! Speaking of Roosevelt, the shiver he has caused may upset the plan of using rough rider emblems in the campaign. Still the speckled bandanna handker- chief is doing duty as hatband for the goppites, as an offset to which the Democrats will probably don the red, white and blue. Minnesota introduced such hatbands at Kansas City, and they were approved. Put on the colors. Roosevelt on Democrats—all Demo- crats—‘‘Dishonest at homeand cowards abroad.”’ The race for the Burchardship in this campaign is a close one between Roose- velt and one Paul Van Dervoort of Ne- braska. To date both“are neck and neck in violent abuse of Democrats, Van Der- voort having recently professed to have been a Democrat, but Roosevelt is the more respectable virago. Van Dervoort is thoroughly despised by those who know him best, and especially by veter- ans of the Civil war who knew him as commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. _BIXBY’S “OLD MAN OF THE SEA,” As Manager Bixby Designated Van Sant in 1898, Has Opened His Campaign For the Governorship. Editor Bixby in ’988, Versus Manager Bixby in 1900. There is no end of speculation as to the cause of the lugubrious expression from the head of the Republican state ticket, and the general conclusion seems to be that it is due to the fact that Tams Bixby, who has been so bitter an enemy of Van Sant, has man- aged to get control of the state ma- chine, supplanting the supposed head, Billy Masterman. These have for their justification the constant war- fare made on Van Sant by Bixby dur-! ing a considerable portion of these numerous years that the “Winona Raftsman,” as Bixby dubbed his can- didate, has been logging for the guber- natorial nomination. This was par- ticularly the case during the canvass between Eustis and Van Sant, in 1898, when Bixby violently assailed Van Sant and the Clough administration. This was done in his paper, the Red Wing Republican, whose files furnish column after column of these vicious attacks. This is a good place to re- publish one of the many, which is en- titled “Old Man of the Sea,” from which it is seen that Chairman Bixby himself is the author of that expres- sive designation of the Winona man. The article appeared in the issue of May 21, 1898, as follows, the capitals being our own: From Daily Republican (Mr. Bixby’s paper), Red Wing, May 21, 1898. “THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA.” “Of all the absurdities and bold as-. saults upon good judgment and com- mon sense involved in the campaign of the Van Sant machine in Minnesota, mone seems to us as striking in its originality or as daring in its demands upon common sense as the assertion which we understand is being circu- lated diligently in many quarters that Governor Clough is not really person- ally interested in the success or failure of the campaign made by the Winona candidate. It would appear as one of ‘he mere humors of the campaign, un- worthy to be dignified by serious no- tice, were it not being so generally made use of as to rise to the import- dance of a real factor in the campaign. St is, however, of the highest value in one respect. It shows that the Van] ie Has “Set’? Himself Down to the Opening Feast of His Guber- natorial Campaign. bear. WAS IT NOT FROM THE OF- FICE OF THE CHIEF OIL INSPEC- TOR, WHOM CLOUGH CHERISHES AS HIS FRIEND AND AT WHOSE HOUSE HE LIVES, that there went out a circular requiring all deputies to declare themselves for Van Sant? Was it not the governor who carried his interest and his spleen so far as to make military appointments depend upon the? attitude of officers toward his personal pet? And has he not for the last few months administered his office practically with the sole idea of cementing and continuing his power through another term? THESE ARE FACTS SO PATENT THAT EVEN THE MOST IGNORANT VOTER MUST BE AWARE OF THEM. “The Clough-Van Sant combination is, nevertheless, learning something. IT IS BEGINNING TO WINCE BE- FORE THE POPULAR INDIGNATION AT THIS PRE-DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLE’S WILL. IT SEEMS NOW THAT POPULAR OPINION IS HOSTILE TO THE MACHINE. And at the last it is endeavoring, as far as may be, to cut loose from an alliance that savors of coming disaster. NOW IT WOULD CONVINCE THE PEO- PLE, IF IT COULD, THAT THERE IS NO COMBINATION. NO MACHINE. NO CLOUGH FINGER IN THE PIE IT IS TOO LATE TO CONCEAL OR PREVENT THE TRUTH, AND THE CONSEQUENCES MUST BE BORNE. BUT THE CONFESSION OF WEAK- NESS AND FEAR IS AN INTEREST- ING CONTRIBUTION TO A RE- MARKABLE CAMPAIGN.” The above and other articles of the same sort, besides being most edifying, will serve to mark the campaign, as it progresses, and emphasize the com- parison of Editor ‘Bixby in 1898, in opposing Van Sant and emphasizing his unfitness as candidate and as gov- ernor, and the Bixby of 1900, doing what he can for his poor candidate. while really desiring his defeat, and paving the way for better things for Bixby, when this, as another obstacle to his personal success is out of the way. Of the general effect of the Van Sant “opener” the Minneapolis Times says: “Some Revublicans can be found who are far from satisfied with the meeting of Republicans in Berglund’s hall Tuesday night, the meeting at which Captain Van Sant fired the opening gun of the Republican cam- paign in Minneapolis. “These Republicans are willing to admit that there was a large crowd out to listen to Captain Van Sant and cheer him with words of encourage- ment, but they insist that altogether the speeches failed to create any marked enthusiasm.” Speaking of the Van Sant Minne- A noticeable feature of the “changes” | Sant managers realize already howj2Polis meeting, the chairman intro- that the Republicans have professed to | seriously they are handicapped by the duced the captain in a glowing speech find in the McKinley favor, have been | support of Clough. AND ARE DETER-!0n the Eleventh ward, said that from of the same unsavo: Van Dervoort case, fitting companions for the Neelys, the Rathbones and Carters, and the canned beefers and the horde of department robbers that in- fest the administration. Already there isa demand that Van Sant say less of national and more of state issues. And there is no lack. There is Inspector Clausen, and there is Commissioner Mills, and there is railroad taxation. Up andat ’em, Van. Sept. 6 isthe date set for making the winning reform ticket for 1900 by the fusion forces. Remember both the date and prediction. Let’s see. Governor Lind was first elected in 1896, and counted out by the Bixby machine. He was again elected in 1898, and is closing his térm as the best governor the stat> has ever had. In November he wi!! receive his third eléction and round out a record of state service of which all may well be proud. The Democratic state organization was perfected at the stated meeting called for Aug. 2, aud under ausp ces most promising for success. The new plan of county representation proved all that has been expected. It wis the largest state committee ever organized in the state by any party, and in ability and especially in enthusiasm, will caal- lenge any like gathering. G. S.C. character as the | MINED TO GET RID OF THEIR OLD; that spot on the banks of the Mississ- mies of Bixby. Such, especially, a these who held the astute Tams re- sponsible for the former defeat of the Van Sant ambition to be the candidate for governor. Tams did his opposi- tion fighting through his paper, the Redwing Republican, than which no paper in the state had more bitter things to say against Van Sant up to the time of his defeat in the conven- tion by Eustis, which was largely charged to the Bixby tactics. It was the Bixby paper which sent broadcast the charges that the Ciough machin- ery especiaily the Oil Inspector’s ma- chinery, was being used to force Van Sant and defeat upon the party. From the same source came the re- flections which have been cast upon the Van Sant military record, it hav- ing been. Bixby’s paper, which charged that Van was never a captain in the army, but got his title from running steamboats. Bixby’s paper called him the “Winona Raftsman” and made other contemptible references. CAPT. VAN SANT AND HIS MAN. AGER. St. Paul Globe: The Republican campaign in Minnesota is now in full swing. The task of oiling up the old machine has made rapid progress un- der the skilled direction of the fa- miliar Tams Bixby, and, except for a few preliminary groans, it will move as silently and greasily as ever. The peo- ple of Minnesota will then be able to gaze upon the spectacle of the Hon. Tams Bixby managing a camvaign for the Hon. Samuel R. Van Sant, the man whom two years ago he declared it would be absurd for the Republican party to nominate, and whom he bit- terly opposed for the main reason that even in counties where Van Sant had secured the delegations to the state convention he would poll thousands of votes less than would William Henry Eustis. Mr. Eustis was the nominee, defeat- ing Van Sant, thanks to the able management of Tams Bixby. and everybody—except perhaps Mr. Eustis —knows now. what happened to Eus- tis. He was defeated at the polls bv more than twenty thousand votes. Yet less than two years ago, Mr. Bixby, now the manager of Van Sant’s cam- vaign, declared that even in counties where Van Sant was popular he could not poll as many votes as would Eustis. IN REGARD TO DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPERS. Hearst’s Chicago American is rapid- ly acquiring large circulation. in the Twin Cities and the other parts of the state. It is one of the best and great- est newspapers, to our mind, that has ever heen produced in this or any eountry. While closely following the Journal, it has features also not given the New York production, differing from that as the West differs from *he slower East. We are informed by the manager that the demands are so great for ravers that he has not had time as vet to perfect systematic circulation arrangements as far from Chicago as this, especially as to the country papers, concerning which, and some system for clubbing and for exchange we had written the management. This he said would be considered in time. Meanwhile all should take the paper ‘rom the nearest newsdealers, or or- der subscriptions direct. Let us all push for circulation for the good it will do the cause, as well as for the individual satisfaction at obtaining so great a paver devoted to our political cause. With such papers as the American, the Chronicle, and all the other large ones that are with us this year thet were opposed in 96, and especiallv with the numerous Ger- maa papers that are also with us this vear, and onvnosed Inst campaingn, it 's: vastly different than it was four years ago. And speaking of German. papers, our German friends throughout the state will rejoice at the hard knocks veing viven the Republicans by the St. Paul Vo'kszeitung. by Col. F. W. Beremeier, since he purchased the con- trolling interest in the vaner. It is one of the best German dailies in the country, and both daily and weekly editions should have largely increased eirculation by the orders of our friends. We have received many inquiries ; concerning the proposed new Demo- svatie daily at Minneapolis, and would say this in answer to all interested, to our papers and committeemen. . Good men, including practical news- vaper men and men financially able to oublish a paper, stand ready to launch cne, the moment they are assured that there is support for it—as soon as con- vinced that Democrats and reformers generally will take it. They want 20,000 readers assured, and have taken MAN OF THE SEA IF THE THING | ippi, one could go to any part of the|steps by appeal to the party support- DOAN BE DONE. “When the Van Sant campaigners tealously repeat, as they are now do- jng in various quarters of the state, hat Clough is not part of the com- hine, the¥ mnilist Crédit their hearers ‘vith MEMORIES LESS THAN AN \NCH LONG. AND WITH A VACUUM ‘N THE BRAIN-PAN. HE IS THE! DPEN, ‘CONSPICUOUS. CONFESSED | 'i8AD AND SOUL AND LEADER OF iT. The first that was ever known pe heard of the “STATE HOUSE SYNDICATE” was after that confer- ‘nce where the governor (Clough) laid his plans before those whom he sought | to interest, to cajole, or to browheat. ‘The story was soon public property; rnd so elated were the participants in tuis arrangement with what they re- garded as their shrewdness and their hertain success, that they did not deny, ad fairly blushed with pride and fubbled over the hope, when their| Pate in it was mentioned. The goy- rnow, himself (Clough), who does notj yoast delicacy. or finesse among his pannv qualities, TOOK NO PAINS TO PONCEAL THE- ARRANGEMENT ie TO OBSCURE THE PARTNER- SHIP. “That was many months ago, and ince then THE CAMPAIGN OF VAN ‘ANT HAS BEEN CARRIED ON MOST CONTINUOUSLY AND AU- XACIOUSLY FROM THE STATE JAPITOL. It is there that confer- ‘ces are held, plans matured, inform- tion brought and pressure brought to ‘men on the present committee world. Upon which: Captain Van, as if thinking of Salt river, remarked that St. Paul was the only place he wanted to go to just now. Apparently Tams Bixby has removed to St. Paul for the season, in order to run Billy Masterman’s campaign for him. Tams has been East and back, and reports are still out of agreement, as to what he accomplished. Tams’ intimates give it out that Hanna shelled out satisfactorily, but Chair- man Masterman’s friends are sour and glum, and say that they don’t know what Tams accomplished. There are many signs of disagreement in the goppite committee. In fact, on the side, the Masterman men drop hints that they don’t propose to be side- tracked by the Bixbyites, but intend to have their share of the say so. Mean- while carloads of supplies have gone into the fifteen or twenty rooms that have been secured for “headquarters, hindquarters or what ever it will be, making the showing of a large amount of businéss to be done in the Endicott pbuilding. ate ' It is not unlikely that the feeling of dissatisfaction said to exist at state Republican headquarters can be traced to the fact that Manager Bixby jn the past has ‘‘stuck it into” so many with whom he is now ted in the work for Van Sant. Plenty of have’ within two years past been bitter ene- ers, to see if these can be vledged, and the result is so far very flattering for success. The way to give en- rouragement is to send to the sentle- nen, addregsing H. L. C} or pledge for 4 certain number of euh- scriptions. Clubs are being pledged in the towns of the state all the way from 25 to 100. Money can be sent instead, and should be sent to the Germania Bank, Minneapolis, which bank receives the same in trust, to re- turn the same to remitter if the paper is not started. If the Democrats of Minnesota get a move on them they can have a good, strong party paper. at the drop of the hat. Financially backing the enter- prise is Mr. George R. Porter, principal owner of the bank referred to, and abundantly able to assure the financial |suecess of the paper if he undertakes it. Mr. W. H. Williams, at one time business manager of the Penny Press, and principal owner of the Commercial Company, heads the practical end of the enterprise. .All arrangements for dispatches, machinery, etc., etc., are ready to be perfected. Insurance company statements, es» pecially the big ones, and .especially the big “‘lifers,’”’ are said almost in- variably to show immense comparative losses in earnings. 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