The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-03
A WORD OF wAKNING.

A WORD OF WARMING.
We would ask our friends to remem-
Der that the objective point in this cam
paign is the United States Senatorship.
Upon this all the combinations and COM
plications hinge. For this alone many
thousands of dollars will be spent, and
all the petty local Offices will be traded
away.
Why do the Monopolists regard this
Office of such overwhelming Importance!
Because the United States Senate is, to-
day, the entrenched camp Of Monopoly
in the United States. The House of
Representatives feels and rapidly
responds to every ebb and flow
of the great tides of public opinion, but
their waves dash in vain against the
Senate. It takes six years to revolu-
tionize the Senate. During the next
six years the battle of reform will be
fought and won. Shall Minnesota
be represented during all that time, by
cold blooded imbeciles or railroad at
torneyse The vote Of the Senator
elected next winter may retard or adj
vance the cause of reform several years;
and the people may be served or injur-
ed for corresponding length of time.
Now we know that the Monopoly pa
pers will seize upon the foregoing utter
ances, and declare that we have some
personal reasons for making them. We
would only say that we are not can
didate for the U. S. Senate or for any
l other position; but we shall labor to
p ut some man in that great place who
tt, uly and honestly represents the cause
ST eform, and can do something to ac-
csxn plish that reform.
Blu t we utter this word Of warning
besauL Sc we have indubitable evidence
that On r cunning enemies are already at
work. They are aware that in many
counties, heretofore Repnblican, their
cause. is h opeless, but they are laboring
to make u, . these losses by dividing and
the opposition vote in coun-
ties heuctok re Democratic, or nearly
so; and.they hope to thus sneak in,- in
the confusion. men who willy to per-
prtuate the p 'esent dynasty Of corrup-
ton. =
The cause n rust not be sold out In
that way
For instance, i Dakots county, the
Vaccinations Of the enemy last year
kept the Anti Monopoly clements
apart, and led to t wo conventions, and
a subsequent unia Of the Liberals
with the Monopoly party; which ter
minated disastrousl, at the polls. Now
Stebbins, Todd, Ken, ,edy, Fhake, ct: al.
are at their old tricks. The.last num-
Der of the Hastings Gazette speaking
of call which has b zen issued for a
Peoples county CONVEX ltion, says:
We see nothing in the a,all which would
bar any good Republican from uniting with
the movement. There is not a. word but
what we can endorse for we are uc44alifedly
tor an economical and faith full a3ministra-
ton of the government even down toschool
districts, and as.far as we la low every Re-
publican entersains the same sentiment, we
would therefore recommend to tha RBppbli-
can county committee that it .makss no call
for county nominating convs.ntiCHs 'leav ing
the Republicans free to cooperate with this
reform movement.
Every man Of common sense unt ler-
stands that if these federal offSe-hsold-
ers throw the Republican vote Of the
county for the.candidates Of that con-
vention that they do it for ccnsid era
ton; and thBt consideration Will be
that they shall select men who VII sup
port Ramsey far United States Sem ator,
and to this they will be secretly and
most solemnly pledged. For insh ance.
the Peoples Convention is calla<2.t 70 ef-
feet reform.of certain alleged !al,uses
connected with the county govas,r nent;
but they alsopropose to nomznate five
candidates for the next Legisls' ture.
" hat have members Of the LAgH iaturs
to do with eoanty governmental They
do not fix the rate of county tax: they
do not audit county bills; tksy do not
pay for wssd-bo0es or furnaces They
have no more to do with county reform
than the man in the moon. But they
do have a,greaA deal to do uiH State
and national reform and tho. evils to
be reformed, there arc Re- oubtscon
evils; and how can those Republican
corruptions be reformed BY men who
owe their noMination to TcAd Stebbins,
Kennedy and Fluke; and t4si elections,
if cheated, to. Republican vs'tcs! It is
all y trick,-~springes to, catch wood
cook '-soft bait for gudaet-ns.
We, do not mean to intimate
that, the men who have issued
the. call are past5es to the
;~%oudod %~;cL W. a. - ~ h>l;nr<, %ho.,