Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-10
The Pioneer on J. HI. Baker...Badly
Scared.

ors over the great Republican meeting at the
Theatre on Thursday night last, the LIST inst.
1t in most particular fits over Mr. JAMES ii.
BAKERS formidable speech at that meet
ing; and it evinces its trepidation by devoting
over two columns of its issue of Saturday, the
Sd, in an unavailing effort to try and break
the tremendous effect of that speech upon the
public mind in Mr.. BAKERS favor, and its ef.
feet generally upon the Democratic Party.
We admit that it was indeed almost too bad
in Mr.. BAKER to so sweep away at one fell
stroke the result of all the Pioneers hard Ia
bors. Here, it has been classifying him for
weeks. Lie upon lie, SANDER upon SANDER
upon him had been poured forth day after
day, in no stinted measure. 1t had got Mr..
BAKER, as it thought, badly on the hip, and IN
its ambrosial visions BUNG BAAsEN, tho oloo-
tion-return forger and bought legislator Of the
Transit Railroad Company, doomed up before
it on the horizon as sure of his election, even
if nobody else on the Democratic ticket sue
ceeded.
But, also, the bung is out of Mr.. BAAsEN's
beer barrel. A frost has come and nipped the
vegetables of the Pioneers hopes. Its rhetor-
ical cabbages have withered. Its rOseate to-
matoes of expectation are PROSTATE on the
frosty ground. Its crispy lettuce of triumph
is shrivelled. Its potato vines of promise are
blackened. Its corn of exhilaration is killed
in the ear. For, Notwithstanding the judicious
efforts of the country post offices in intercept
ing his letters, to keep him in Ignorance of his
appointments, Mr.. j. H.BAKER has broken out
from amidst the Blue Earth woods-he has
reached st. Paul-he has addressed an i'm
mense meeting of generousrhaarted people
who despise persecution of a whole-souled
man of talent, such as he emphatically is ;
and at one touch of his enchanted wand, the
whole fabric the Pioneer had been so earn
estly piling up, brick by brick, and lie by lie,
is tumbled about its ears, binding it with
dust, and confusing its faculties by the con-
cussion.
But, like the Virginia negro under the light,
ming struck tree, it perceived something
must be done, and berry quick, too" else
what would become of BUNG BAAsEN?-what
would become of the Democratic party, be-
fore the blows of this terrible BAKER?
| To annihilate him with two column edi
torial, became at once its fell determination
The execution of this resolve occurred on Sat
urday morning. Strange as it may seem
Mr.. BAKER still lives He spoke, we under
stand, as eloquently as ever, at Hastings OF
Saturday evening! Is it not most surprising
But, in looking over this two columns etfor
of the Pioneer upon Mr. Baker, we find in it LITTLE
that Mr.. Baker did say-much stated for hin
which he never uttered-and great deal de
MED which he positively and loudly proclaim
ed?
For instance, the Pioneer says the charg
distinctly made, that in Ohio Mr.. Baker was
Know Nothing ,oas not Denied"
Will the Pioneer be kind enough to inform
US, what it will deem denial? There wer
more than thousand people heard Mr.. Bake
distinctly deny that he is or was ever Know
Nothing! Over a thousand people heard hin
explain how he became in Ohio candidat
for Secretary Of State on the Republican Stat
ticket, along side of Gov. Chase; that upo1
that ticket, the effort of the Convention whicl
nominated it was, to secure representation
of all the various elements from which the new
party drew its recruits-that Chase for Gov
ernor, represented the Free Democratic ele
ment; Tom Ford for Lieutenant Governor
the Free Soil American element; and that
H. Baker was placed on the ticket to repre-
sent the old Henry Clay Wing element &
Southern Ohio, and nothing else
He loudly proclaimed he was not Kno,
Nothing, and had not been and he brande
as liars those who made the assertion, whett
!. er they were those who put the falsehood i
platform, or were those who endorsed
after it was in; and these statements in hi
speech we are authorized by him to reiterat
in our paper this morning in the broades
manner and form, as we have above presente
them
Now, most people would consider the fort