Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-28
REpUB1IoAN1sM IN MINNESOTA.

The Republican party took possession of
Minnesota about the time the federal gov
eminent fell into the NAV of the same
hungry minority. 1t is now twenty years
ago. The cabal in Minnesota has kept even
pace with the Washington horde. The State
debt has been increased from $3.50, 900 to
about two millions. The State expenses
have been increased from little over one
hundred thousand to over amillion. Enor-
NOUS taxation has followed.
What has the State to show? A score or
more of fat offices feeding on the vitals of
the people. The capitol has been honey
combed with rat holes, into which to store
away favorites and defunct politicians.
The trappings and excrecences
and costly ornaments are sufficient to run
commonwealth. Let any one read over the
list of annual expenditures. There will be
no necessity for further search.
What has the State to show? An embryo
inebriate hospital built on an unconshtu-
tional tax of ten dollars head on liquor
dealers, and then converted into an insane
asylum, as an appendage to the stupenduous
fraud and cesspool at st. Peter. These
two caravansaries of scoundrelism and cruel
ty are sink holes for the taxes of the people.
Ostensibly for the care of the unfortunate
insane, these regal establishments are really
for the comfort, support and enjoyment of
brigade of Republican loafers who
feed on the earnings of the
laboring men and women of the State.
Then there are the prairie palaces and
financial elephants, the three Normal schools
to teach teachers for children yet unborn,
costing the State an immense amount of
money in the way OF ornamentation. There
is really nothing to show for the increased
State debt, nor for tho increased State ex-
penses. There is neither wise legislation
for the future nor prudent economy in the
present. The party is as rotten in Mime
sofa as at Washington in proportion to the
carcass it has to feed upon.
This mere summary does not exhaust
the subject of home expenditures, i'm
beciIities and steals. It cannot
be exhausted. It is without limit,
boundless as the ocean. The State govern
ment, in ali its departments, has been char
acterized by imbecility and thoroughly sat-
urated with partisanship. We have had
charges of embellishments and of malfeas-
ance in Office, and yet the people have SUBJ
mitted. The public funds have been tam
pered with, and general want of ability,
experience, honesty and energy exists every
where in the public service. This is in part
the political condition of Min nesota at
home.
What is its reputation abroad? A Repub-
iican repudiator. While denouncing repu-
diation at the South, and lifting it's
hands in sanity horror, and casting its
eyes to heaven in sanctimonious hypocrisy
at the objectionable crime of the South in
not paying the money radical tramps and
native thieves stole, Minnesota has been
held up to the world as repudiating State.
The Republican party has had control of the
State for twenty years, with majority of
from ten to twenty thousand, often with two
thirds majority in both branches of the legis-
lature. What practical step has it taken,
what legislation enacted, what method pro-
posed to rid the people and the credit of the
commonwealth from the horrible nightmare
of repudiation,? 1t is shocking, terrible
shame and disgrace, and yet this hypocritical
congiomeration of Office seeking and Office
holding leeches are allowed to per-
petuate the dishonor of the
State. We venture to assert, that
had the Democrats been in power in Mime
sofa, the railroad bond question would have
been settled and disposed of years ago.
This is not all. 1t is terrible arraign-
ment, but not all, not half. For twenty
years Minnesota has had solid Congress
sional delegation, with two exceptions, for
two years each. Fol many gears past, three
Republican Congressman and two Repub-
lican Senators from Minnesota have been
fed at the national expense. What have they
done for the State? What has shot gun
Dunnell, or Strait, or that strumpet of cor
ruption, Bill Washburn, done for the honor
and welfare of the State? Let the failing
navigability of the Mississippi river answer.
What has Window with his Munchhausen
schemes Of transportation, and his ridicu-
lous negro exodus, or the psalm singing
Mcmillan, with his hypocritical can't about
his beloved colored brethren, done to save
this great river to the commerce of the
world. An empire of land and millions of
money have been given away. Monopolies
of all kinds have been fattened into fearful,
and dangerous proportions, while the most
splendid highway of the earth, running
through continent of productive wealth, ia
neglected and ruined and destroyed. 1t is
an absolute miracle that the people do not
rise in one body and consign to everlasting
obscurity the imbecile nonenities who have
foisted themselves upon the pedestals of
power to mock at even natures most
splendid gifts to the nation.