The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-27
MIDSUMMER MADNESS,

He is pretty good Fisher, 1--WE know him,
and like him first rate, and would as s00n vote
Tor him as any editor we know of, but we are
afraid that wien he gets on his high-top boots
for tie fishing campaign in the fall he will find
the political mud deep and sticky, and suckers
enough gone over into the Republican pond to
spoil his haul But he can try his luck
Austin Register, [Ind.1
gAnd why have they gone over? Not
from any recantation of principles which
Democrats and Anti-Monopolists hold in
common; not from any renewed love for
Republicanism, but simply because Of an
intolerant spirit upon the part Of few
leaders of the Democracy, who are blessed
with plentiful incapacity to realize the
situation. For instance, in 1873 we car.
ried Mower county, the county in which
the Austin Register is printed. In 1872
that county gave Grant 875 majority. In
1873 it gave Hon. Ara Barton, the nomi-
nee of the Owatonna Convention, 043
votes, and Gov. Davis $50 votes; making
a change of $50 votes in one year, wiping
out Grants entire majority Of 875 and
placing a majority Of la on the other
side. What caused this startling revolu-
ton? Was it because of conversions to
Democracy Not bit Of it. For Hon.
E. Il. Wells of Lansing. the Senator
elected in 1873, refused to class himself
as Democrat, and only voted for Mr.
Lochren for U. S. Senator after obtain
ing from that gentleman written dec
laration of his views on the great ques
tons of the day and even then, while
voting, declared that he, Wells, was moi
. Democrat.
The next year, instead of an Owatonn'
Convention, we held . Democratic, Lib
eral, Autobiography Convention. ant
, nom mated q ticket composed entirely o
. Democrats. What was the result
Mower county returned to its wallow
and Mcmillan had 267 majority in tn
county. And now the Register, whicl
( supported our cause in 1873, tells as tina
!, |'suckers enough have gone over into tn
|. Republican pond to spoil his Fisher
z haul"
y And at the Same time some Democrat
d newspapers are proposing to hoist tn
banner of the crescent and swear a
$ corners on the Koran that ''Allah IL A
e lah and Mahomet is his prophet"
!. You come here to St. Paul, and eve
il Intelligent men fail to realize the xxi
;e ltence Of these vast bodies Of men, IN II
r. rural districts, who are dissatisfied wit
S. the Republican party, and Who yet q
h. very far from being Democrats. Yo'
t. local politician jumps to the conclusie
d that, perforce, if farmers oppose the K
Il publicans they must be Democrat
h. And cunning Republican editors take
n the cry and tell their readers that the
Ii. are only two parties, the Democrats u
a. Republicans; that there can be no NOR
o. that there is no half.way-house betwe
of then where the timorous convert c
rest, for while, his weary limbs; =
ye that he must either vote the Republic
At ticket or plunge, headloag, and At ont
de into the gulf Of Democracy. In this v
"a they hold tens of thousands within tn
I'm ranks who are utterly disguised with
at party and its leaders. And then some
at the Democrats take up and reinforce
be- cry,-.you can't oppose the Republic
Of party without becoming at once and
Sc. ever an out and out Democrat
red Could madness be greateri Is t
ned the way to overcome 10000 majority