Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-22

he ignores the fact that over six and one
half million acres of the best land which
fertile Minnesota possesses has been donated
to these railroads, and that it was this land
credit which induced capitalists to build the
railroads. !,
He claims great credit for executing the
plan for creating school fund which was
devised by the Democratic party, but he
makes no allusion to the suits brought
against Republican State auditor alleging
that he had retained nearly one hundred
thousand dollars which rightfully belonged
to that fund. -s-a@.s.
He pirates of the Republican State admin
lstratlon of affairs as "wise, able, safe, hu-
name and honest" (no lack of modesty
here) but apparently forgets the defalcation
of two Republican State treasurers, aggre-
eating loss of over one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars.
He even boasts that the Republican party
has expended nearly four million dollars
erecting and maintaining our public in
situations, but he Jumps the figures and
does not state that only $685. s331 has
gone into the buildings and that some two
and one half million has gone into the
pockets of an army of Republican Office
holders under the guise of ''maintaining
and paying the expenses of our public in
stitutions." He does not state that over
one hundred thousand dollars is required an
nually to keep the gorgeous Bart
lett on deck at the st. Peter insane asylum.
He overlooks the Encouragement, the ex-
travagance, the absolute population which q
Senate committee developed last year in in
vestigating the insane asylum, and does not
state that be (Gov. Pillsbury) retained and
promoted this convicted management.
He does not state that the three normal
schools Established for political capital when
one was all that was needed) have cost in
buildings 1921, 431 so and in support $751;
67O.71 more.
He does not state that the State university
has cost only $127, $50 in buildings while
$267 ,943.2O has been expended. in making
fat places for Republican faculty, and that
all this expenditure has produced little more
than high school for Minneapolis. And
so we might continue with every item he
deduces.
The ne plus ultra of modesty is presented
in his claim that he was enabled, by his per-
sonal credit, to carry the State along when a
State prison appropriation failed. This is
egotism run mad. Mr.. Pillsbury's personal
credit is excellent, it is true, but the bank or
banks which advanced that money did not
do so because it was John s. Pillsbury, but
because it was Governor Pillsbury, and he
had the credit of the State behind him. All
that there was personal in the matter
was his pledge that as Governor of the State
he would see that the lenders were protected,
and we are happy to say that Minnesota
never had Governor who could not have
made a similar loan.
Instead of the Republicans having claim
upon the people of Minnesota to keep them
in power on local grounds, there are the
strongest reasons why they should be repu-
dated owing to their reckless extravaganza,
gross mismanagement,a and absolute plum
dering. They boast of reducing the rate of
taxation during twenty years, and it ought
to have been reduced. Tho population
during the same time has grown
from less than 100000 to nearly
one million. The railroad development (se-
cured by land donations) has advanced the
State, built up cities and towns and opened
the country to agriculture, thereby multiply
ing the value of taxable property far more
than the increase of population. Instead of
prudence, honesty and economy, the Repub-
licans in these twenty years have increased
the annual expenses of the State govern
ment from one hundred and thirty-eight
thousand dollars to one million, foe hundred
and ssrty-taoo thousand, four hundred and
NINE dollars and ni7aety-seuen cents,
that being the cost of the State
government for 1873. In the same time,
and in addition to these enormous expenses,
| they have made State debt of three-quar-
tors of million dollars. The taxes which we
pay, instead of being light, are enormous in
proportion to the value of the property
which is to be taxed and the returns the
people are receiving therefor. They are at
least double what they should be, and still
Gov. Pillsbury pleads for third tern, on
the ground that they are low and that his
administration is "wise, able and honest -