Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-06
A WASHBURN APPEAL.

HOtU He Is Going to be SMpported---If He
RHnsfor Congress eceLL as He Ran in
Debt He 10itJ Distance all Competitions
/ The "GIO6e" Urged to Let ssp on the Wheat
| Ring.
! To the Editor of the Globe.
The newspaper war that is raging at this
time between Minneapolis and st. Paul
editors must certainly become very unpleas-
ant to large proportion of their subscrib-
ers who are piously inclined. The recent
change which has been made on our end of
the p. p. has only added new strength to
the flames, which must, if continued. do
harm to our local trade. While we are
quarreling among ourselves over selfish
feeling, other places of business are quietly
taking our trade away from US, and soon
men of business will follow, as life is too
short to outgrow such a state of things. We
at this end expect to elect w. D. Washburn
to Congress, while you, on thu other hand,
are confident of electing Ignatius Donnelly.
ms Slight difference of opinion will be set
tied on election day, SO we might as we'll
keep our temper below fever heat in the
shade, until the excitement is over. We
here don't think anything more of Wash
burn than you of st. Paul, and only support
him on local grounds. 1t is true we have
the Governor, but that is no reason why we
shan't have member of Congress- Turn
about is always regarded as fair play. Our
Billy Washburn is the man we want. He
has soul as big as an OK, and will run like
greyhound when you get him frightened,
which you are doing all the time. And we
up here are becoming alarmed that you will
kill him off the same way that the Republi-
can party killed Greeley.
They have the impudence to say that our
Billy ran in debt over 100000, and the
day he made an assignment he borrowed
some $4,000, which shows that his paper
was first class, and that he had funds enough
on hand after the assignment to take him
and his family to Europe. You may say
what you please about our candidate, but if
ne runs as well for Congress as he did in
debt there is not a man in the State can
beat him nor touch him with a ten-foot POLE
Some of you St. Paul folks intimate that our
Billy got rich stealing pine lands That is
one reason why we want to send him to Con-
gress.
We elected Bill King for the very reason
mat ne had the name of being little slip
perry, and having been educated for the min
lstry we concluded he would steal Minneap-
oils rich in two years; but sitter his election
he experienced change of heart, and went
Dack on us Republicans, and in going to
washington lost the way, and took up his
boarding In Canada, where the victuals were
good and much cheaper than at Washington.
King made good record for we RepubIi-
cans IN Congress by not voting on anything.
Who can blame him, as the legislature re-
solved that he was playing the fool by
staying in Canada when he was
wanted at Washington. If our Wash
burn does half as well we are
all right, as we are not asking Congress
tor any more tunnel appropriations, and all
we want him to do is to keep St. Paul from
getting nip at Uncle Samuel.
You charge our Billy, when he was men,
Der OF the legislature, of attempting to squan-
der our State internal improvement lands bv
taking to himself Is, 900 acres This NAV be
true, but if our Billy had got it he would,
like Bill King, have spent it here to build up
our city. If he had given Gov. Austin a
good slice he would not have vetoed the bill.
Washburn has accomplished more in reliev-
ing Uncle Sam of his pine lands than any
other man in this State, and from this fact
alone, a seat in Congress is but a small COM
pensation; and, as Ignatius Donnelly is a
poor farmer, he won't know the difference.
We, up here, want you down there to keep
shady on our wheat ring. If you don't, we
can prove by Ole Fletcherson and Bill King
that the Washburn family never belonged to
any ring. That mill that was blown up did
not belong to them or it would be there yet,
as no explosives can hurt the family. We,
up here, don't think you intended to bring
the grade of wheat into our Congressional
fight, but some way or other it is raising the
very deuce with the farmers, and they are
going, to man, for Donnelly. This is bad
news to us, but Washburn is sending out
runners with plenty of greenbacks to buy
them up to vote for him.
We, Minneapolis folks, intend to stand up
to Washburn. He, like Bill King, came
here poor boy, and has made it pay big,
not by hard work like some others that have
remained poor to this day, but by faculty,
or rather an instinct, to get rich out of the
industry and honesty of the working-class
AS Bill King is running your p. p, we can
keep that paper right for Minneapolis and
Washburn, and all that now troubles is the
GLOBE. Set your price, and Billy will come
down with the silver. But this is private
between you and I. You may think that [
am politician, but such is not the case [
feel more like going into the ministry, and
preach to you sinners to forget the past, and
love your enemies, Chat means us,) and do
good to them that despitefully use you, (that
means Bill King,) and that says all manner
of evil things against you, (that means Dave
Blakely.) The best opening have ever seen
is in these two cities; and l would propose
that the ministers next Sabbath take for their
text, Glove thy neighbor as thyself, and do
unto others as you would wish others to do
to you," and should their teachings prove
effective hereafter, the editorials of this end
of the p. p would be easily dioesfed Now
it is kicking at Joseph as bad as one of Col.
Fremont's Belgium muskets.) But before 1
close this short epistle, don't say any thing
in your paper about our Billy belonging to
that nasty wheat ring. We will vote for him
just the same. REPUBLICAN.
Minneapolis, Oct. d. 1878.