Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-17
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There should be no mistake made con-
corning the campaign in this Congressional
district. There should be no idea that it is
to be a burlesque, a jocose tilt, mild, hap
hazard, hopeless affair. On the contrary it is
to be campaign in earnest, conducted
with energy and determination to win.
There is too much want and suffering per-
meating this district and the entire land to
afford a field for comic campaign, if such
was desired. The gaunt spectre of despair
stalks through the household and on the
streets, and the struggle for life is too desper-
ate to admit of anything but the most Sc
rious consideration.
The times are ripe for political revolution
The dominant party has brought nothing but
ruin and disgrace upon the land and The peo-
pie desire change. The issue is made up
and is presented very simply. On the one
hand we have Washburn, purse proud, aris-
trocratic, despising thecommon people (save
at election time) and neither the will or abili-
ty to aid them. A man who is allied with
all the corruption of the last twelve or four
teen years and who if in public life would
seek to perpetuate the public plundering
which has done SO much to impoverish the
land. man who represents all that is
evil and nothing which is
good in public or political life.
On the other hand we have Donnelly,
who all his life has been actively laboring
for the people, and who possesses both the
will and ability to aid them. A man who
was in public life during the period when
some of the greatest robberies were perpe-
trated by Mr.. Washburn's party, but upon
whose record no faint of corruption rests
A man with brains and breadth enough to
labor for the interests of the whole district
and State, and whom no local baillwick can
claim as its exclusive representative and
champion.
There is every reason, political, personal
and businesswise why Mr.. Donnelly is pref
cradle to MIR. Washburn. The latter is not
only the representative of rings, but the
very head center of the most formidable ring
which is robbing this State. The former
has given the best years of his life in battling
against these gigantic, plundering combina-
tons, and in the pending battle appeals to
the people for support, as against the rings
which combine to defeat him, because his
election will disturb their plundering.
Mr.. Donnelly has both the ability and the
experience to serve the State. He will be in
political accord and sympathy with the po-
litical party controlling both branches of the
next Congress-, and consequently able to &C
complish more for his constituency than his
competitor. Our material interests demand
his election even more than the political. It
is time that some one with modicun of
brains went to one branch of Congress from
Minnesota.
This campaign can be made success, and
of bombast. We know that we have to con-
tend with the cash-box of the Washburn
family, and while that may be potent, it will
not be sufficiently far-reaching to save the
titman from defeat. There are men enough
! who, from various reasons, are opposed to
Mr.. Washburn to defeat him. Some
of them may not love Mr.. Don
nelly. but they dislike Washburn more,
and we say to Democrats, Green
hackers, anti Washburn Republicans, and all
that there is every reason to anticipate a
glorious victory. This victory, however, can
not be secured by an idle campaign. The
people must be appealed to, to avert the in
Fiction of the Washburn family upon the
State, a calamity more to be dreaded than an
Indian massacre or a grasshopper plague.
We can assure our friends that not one mo-
ment will be lost by the Democratic
organization, and we urge all ele-
ments of opposition to Washburn to
unite in making campaign SO active and
earnest that every vote in behalf of financial
relief for the country, and in opposition to
| ring rule shall be in the ballot box.
Mr.. Donnelly can be triumphantly elected.
He must be.