The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-22
BILL KING.

again"
Last week Bill King organized his ar
tillery in batteries and trained them
upon us; and at the word, the Press,
the Pioneer, the Tribune and the Mail
simultaneously opened their Threats and
belched, amid hoarse thunder, concen-
trio fire of hot-shot upon the devoted
front Of the ANrI-MoNoPoLIsT.
We replied with but one shot; it was
bomb shell; and when it exploded it
covered the whole horizon; and as the
smoke cleared up and the dust settled,
the artillerymen we've seen gathering
up the broken fragments of cannon and
carriages, and making off to place OF
safety. Since then, we are sorry to say,
they have left us severely alone; and
have turned a weak fusilade Of small
arms upon their other enemies.
Bill asked us for proof of the charge
that he had bought up the eau
cuses and conventions of his
district, and we replied to him by quot
ing the statement of the Press, his
leading organ, that he had been very
''strumpet of corruption, striding in ma
ked horror over the district, and buying
up men for the herd like cattle and
sheep"
The Press, trembling for the post
Office, now says, that Bill was not the
strumpet of corruption to whom it al
luded; that it was not Bill that bought
up the politicians like cattle and sheep,
but some of Bills understrappers.
If so, who were they? Give their
names impale them upon the scorn and
Indignation of an aroused public opin-
ion. And where did they get the money
to do all this, fer it is conceded that it
took great deal of money! What
postmaster was ready and able to pour
out thousands of dollars to pay eff
81, 300 mortgages on newspapers
What mail agent furnished the $1,000
that captured Brainerd! What pound
master paid for the special trains and
the steamboats,!
All, no; that is too thin, William.
Such disinterested millionaires are not
lying around loose in Minnesota.
The Press admits that the caucuseS
were packed, the saloons subsidized.
the picayune newspapers turned into
hirelingS: the convention itself simply
the representative of the dollars paid
for it, and not of the love and respect
Of the people for their candidate; and
that all this was done in the interest
and for the benefit of Bill King; but it
would now have us believe that it was
done, not by Bill himself, who had in
his pocket the proceeds of a sale of
S125,0 worth of bulls bat by the
impecunious federal office-holders and
that, for love of Bill. out of their empty
pockets. they poured thousands of dol
lars, while Bill, from a high moral
sense of the improperly of corrupting
the people, refused to spend cent!
The man whose mental constitution is
capable of accepting that kind of stuff,
ought to be tenderly transferred at once
to Abraham bosom. He is too good
for this sinful world.
The trouble with Bill is that he is en-.
countered everywhere by the terrible
wrath of his own reputation. That rep
utation he has made for himself, not in
a day, week, or year, but during his
whole residence in Minnesota. We did
not make it for him. 1t is in him,
around him, part of himself; his in
cubus, his demon. He cannot escape
it; he cannot fly from it. When the
name "Bill King" is mentioned it brings
up instartaneouslya positive group of
mental associations. Hence when the
St. Paul Press published, day after day,
during the canvass. editorials and cor
to show that he, Bill King.
was degrading even his own corrupt
party, by shameless briberies of men,
newspapers and caucuses, we believed
it the whole State believed it.
II be has any battle it is with the St. |
Paul Press. There is the fountain
head Of authority. If he will sue for |
manages to his impaired reputation, let |
him sue Wheelock. If he would have |
let him turn Wheelock and |
Driscoll out of the post Office, and put
Dr.. Stewart and Capt. Castle in their
places.
If his cannonade Of last week had
lismounted the ANrI-MoNoPoL1sr, never
heless in every township, village and
ity of the State, would still exist the
that he, Bill King, had Sc
ured his nomination by protligate
se of money. Go where you will, in
ne Third District, and the people will
ay to you, ''that man got so much :"