Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-15
You CAN WIN IF you WILL.


you CAN WIN IF you WILL.
If all the elements of opposition to the
Republican party will unite, Bill Washburn
can be defeated. If crock rooted jack
ass buttressed campaign is made, he will
be elected. It is all very well to bloviate
about ''time-honored principles but. as e
matter of practical utility it is a good deal
better to make campaign on something a
little more modern. The questions at issue
are whether the country will endorse the
stealing of the Presidency, the legislation
which makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer, the frauds and corruptions which
permeate every branch of the govern
ment, the financial policy which stag.
mates business in every part of the
country, or whether there shall be elected
Congress which will afford relief, dethrone
the thieves and place the seal of condemna-
ton upon the party of robbery and usurpa-
ton.
Not that any one proposes to remove
Hayes from his stolen Office, but, because as
law-abding citizens we submit to the infa-
nous wrong, it does not follow that we
should endure it and encourage its repeti-
ton. The people should arise with such a
whjrlwind of indignation that no men or no
party will ever again dare to repeat the out
rage.
Washburn is afraid of live campaign.
He wants the Democrats to stand
on the crock rooted'' basis of
dead issues, repelling all alliances, and
making campaign on the dead and buried
past. If this can be done he knows he has
an easy victory. He is, accordingly, resort
ing to the same corrupt practices by which
he secured his own nomination to control
the Democratic convention.
We charge Mr.. Wasd5urn directly md
positiuely aolth endeaooring, 6y the use Of
money, to control the coming Democratic
convention, and zoe warn our friends
throughout the district to see that this DAM
nable plot as defeated.
We do not ask or seek to have conven-
ton committed to any man, but we do ask
for convention aoithout q single traitor, for
delegations, every man of which will earnest-
ly and honestly desire to see Mr.. WasAburn
dgfe0ted, and who will take such action both
upon candidate and platform as to secure
that result. We want platform upon which
every element of opposition to the corrupt
gang which Mr.. Washburn represents can
stand. He represents everything which is
evil, and little or nothing which is good. A
man of decidedly mediocre attachments, he
seeks to buy has acay into Congress aoith
has money. Having debauched his own party
he hopes to continue the process in the ranks
of the opposition. A born aristocrat, an
enemy of labor and the laboring man, he
hopes to compass their support by purchase.
Under the hypocritical disguise of virtue, he
is resorting to the most corrupt and detas-
ing practices known to American politics.
The people of the Third District should
rise in their might and stamp this corrupt
and corrupting man out of political life.
With the large influx of Democratic voters,
with the hundreds of Republicans who re-
pudiate the financial policy of their party,
with hundreds more who do not want to see
the State disgraced by the infict1on
of the Washburn incubus, he
can be defeated. But to ac-
complish this there must be liberal
policy adopted.
There must be no secret Wash6urn ennis
saries IN the convention on the sirth of Sep
tem6er
If that convention is composed of men
who "mean business broad and liberal
policy will be adopted. A platform will be
framed upon which every element of oppo-
sition can stand by whatever name or ma
ture it exists. candidate will be present
ed who will command the confidence, re-
spect and support of the people and the at
tempt to infict the Washburn dynasty upon
Minnesota will be failure.