The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-24
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to the Atlantic sea-board, and will
solve the transportation problem. The
party is committed to such measures as
will give the great West the relief it
seeks, and practical measures have al
ready been inaugurated which will Sc
cure it. The Democracy are opposed
to such improvements, as their record
in the last Congress shows. The hope
of the great West is in the Republican
party. Gov. Austin, in his speech at
Winona, said: .
Your Senator from this State, who
resides in this city, was chairman of
the Committee on Transportation. 1t
was not mere travelling committee,
either, but a working committee, and
made the most thorough, exhaustive
compilation of statistics and infOrma-
ton on the subject that was ever done.
They recommend the improvement of
water routes involving an outlay of
$3.50, 1000, 900 or $20O, 900, 700, and / be-
lieve that if the Republican party re-
main in power the work will, to a great
extent be accomplished. And since the
Democrats have shown their refusal to
legislate for Interstate commerce un-
der the McCrary bill, and opposed these
great improvements, do you not see
that to place the Democrats in power
would be to weaken the chances of
these things being accomplished?
SALARY GRAB AND LAND GRAB.
The friends of Dunnell have a valid
offset to all that Waite's friends can
say about the salary matter. Dunnell
took So, 400 which was voted him by
Congress, and he had] just as much
right to take it as any member of a
Legislature would have to take any in
crease Of per diem voted him by a ma
jority of the body to which lie belonged.
Waite, if his recommendation as to
the land grab had succeeded, would
have taken, with his friends, the sum
of $2,500, 600 from the State of Mime
sofa. So when the Democrats say
''Salary Grab" the Republicans now
reply ''Land Grab" But let Dunnell
speak for himself. In a recent speech
at Owatonna, he said:
He then met the charges made
against himself, first Oh the salary mat
ter, showing the whole progress of the
salary increase amendment, from. its
first introduction to its final passage,
and his vote upon it in every stage of
it's progress, from the record. He
proved that the only ground OH which
the charge that he was a salary grabber,
could lie for q moment sustained was
the fact that he accepted the pay. Ill
relation to this he.said that if the &C.
ceptance of the increased pay made
him criminal, then Daniel Webster,
John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, John
G. Calhoun, seven-eights of the last
Congress, and the greatest and most
honored statesmen of the nation Lad
also been criminals, for they had done
precisely the same thing.
He referred to Vaite's record on the
land grabbing steal which he had, in Il
circular that was being distributed by
himself, acting in his chosen capacity
of colporteur attempted to evade. lie
called attention to the fact that no.
where had he dared to say that he did
not actively favor the steal and use his
influence to make it successful. lie
asked the audience to compare his rec
ord on the salary increase with Waite's
on the land grabbing steal. by taking
his share Of the increased salary, he
(Dunnell,) had taken So, 400 from the
national treasury. If the land steal
that Waite attempted, had not been
defeated by the veto of Republican
Governor, the State would have lost
1000 acres of land, which would have
taken 50, SOC, 600 from the small treas
ury Of our own new, undeveloped State.
ALDRIcH AS AN OFFICE SEEKER:
The Window Reporter thus gives the
history of Captain Aldrich's efforts to
obtain office. He seems to have search
ed through every party, and to have
been before every Convention, seeking
nomination for something, ana at
last lie has succeeded in getting a NOM
ination from the Miscellaneous-De Demo-
cratic party of this District. The best
point made by the Reporter is that the
Convention passed resolutions denoun-
cling the very man they nominated:
The Legislature, it will be seen, is
the objective point of his ambition
by mo means a disllonorable bition-
when it is known that within about a
year he has been a candidate for a Re-
publican nomination in three Bepubli-
can conventions and one Democratic,
where at last he succeeded. We think
the Captain will not deny that at the
Representative Convention, last year,
at WOrthington, he secured the delega-
ton from Murray county in his inter-
est; that on the next day he came to the
Senatorial Convention and made hard
fight for the Republican nomination
over Mr.. Freeman; that this year he
carried a delegation from his own coun-
ty, OF Which his son was 4 member, in
to the Republican convention, and that
the next week he carried a delegation
into the Democratic Liberal Anti-M0-
nopoly Convention, and finally secured
a mixed nomination; that within the
past month he occupied Il seat in the
Republican State Convention, as dele
gate from Murray. We do not think
that the Captain will deny any of
these things. We give him credit for
too much candor to believe he will;
and with all this history in existence
the opposition passed resolutions de-
norncing the very man they nomina-
ted. ~
WHAT IT 1EANS..
The Chicago Times, the organ of the
Democracy Of the Northwest, is itself
alarmed at the recent triumph. Of it's
own party III Ohio and Indiana. The
Times Says and means "a grand break
down, reputation, and hopeless ruin"
And that is just what it means if tile