Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-04
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The result of to-morrow's vote will deter.
mine whether the Third Minnesota district
shall be well or poorly represented in the
Forty sixth Congress. Our interests are large
and diverse. Within this district are the
largest commercial and manufacturing cities
! in the Northwest which have right to ask
OF Congress assistance in some shape or an
other. No man should be sent to Congress
who is likely to favor one more than another
locality. Washburn is announced by his or
gans to be Minneapolis man first, last and
all the time. They have placed him on rec
ord as being hostile to st. Paul, and are ask
ing votes for nim in Minneapolis on that
ground. Such a canvass, to our mind, is ex-
ceedingly foolish, for man who sets him
self up as champion for one locality is
sure to provoke the hostility of other
sections.
But other than local issues are involved in
to.morrow's contest. The questions will
arise in the mind of every voter: Can we
afford to send man TO Congress who is
liable to be excluded from his seat because
of bis completely in the Northern Pacific
credit mobilier robbery?
Can we afford to send to Congress man
who is totally unacquainted with the needs of
tue district, and has no interest in it's pros
perity aside from his interests in one partic-
ular city?
Can we afford to send to Congress man
who prostituted the office of surveyor gen
eral that he might enrich himself?
Can we afford to send q man to Congress
who, by his unjust dealings, has alienated
the farming community and reduced many
families to want?
Can we afford to send a man to Congress
who is politically opposed to the majority in
that body, and who would be, in conse-
quence, powerless to aid us even if he had
the disposition?
Can we afford to send man to Congress
WAC has alienated the best portion of his
own party by his shameless purchase of a
nomination, and by his subsequent en-
deavors to corrupt the voters of his district?
Can we afford to send man to Congress
who has been the chief of all the plunderipg
rings that have infested the State of Min
nesota from the date of its admission to the
Union up to the present time-a man with
out character except for greed, without pur-
pose except selfish gain, without political
principle except when it will further his own
personal ambition?
A vote for Washburn will be a blow struck
at the material interests of the district. Il
will be a blow struck at the commercial and
manufacturing interests of every city in the
State outside of Minneapolis. It will be a
blow struck at the farming interests, upon
which the prosperity of the
State SO much depends, for
it will be an Endorsement of the
robberies he has committed upon them. 1t
will be regarded as an approval of the man
ner in which he gobbled up the pine lands
of the State and diverted them to his own
personal profit. It will be regarded as an
approval of the means he has employed to
win nomination and an election. It will
be regarded as an approval of all that is dis
honest and corrupt in public and private
life -imputations under which the people of
Minnesota, we ere sure, have no desire to
rest. Washburn must be defeated, not by a
small majority, but by such a majority as
shall forever preclude the possibility that be
or any of his ilk shall undertake to ask the
sutfrages of an intelligent and honest con-
sfituencv