Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-28
MORNING, AUGUST %, 1880.
MINNESOTA KU KLUX.
The Attempt OF the Dunnell Republicans
to Assassinate Judge Page.
TAustir Mercury.1

The Attempt OF the Dunnell Republican,
to Assassinate Judge Page.
[Austin Mercury.l
The attempted assassination is the topic oi
conversation on every corner and in the bust
ness houses throughout the city, Public opinion
is aroused to pitch unprecedented in the his.
tory of Austin. The attempted cold-blooded
murder must be laid where it belongs. 1t ID
no individual assassin, attempting to revenge
9 wrong, but it is the elimination of the con.
spiracy that has been at work for years, of men
who have harrassed the Judge with q hell
born maliRnity never before witnessed, except
in some Of the haunts of the savage, or more
recently, among that class kown as the ku-
klux, of the Southern States.
There are those in the city that scarcely rejoice
in the deed, and regret that the assassin missed
his mark. These men are known aud their
actions watched. There are many of the con.
spirators that have been heard to threaten his
life, and these men have been urged on in
their malignity by some Of the best of our
citizens, who gave them aid and comfort by
joining With them in the crusade against
Page-members of the church-men of whom
the community expected something better.
But they are referred to by the assassins as
upholding their damnable operations
[Auatin Republican.
Foryears the assassination spirit has lurked
in this city. 1t has showed itself in various
forms. It has been riotous and fomented dis
turbance. 1t entered the Republican printing
Office and carried away and destroyed material
of the value of 81 200 because the paper per
sisted in publishing the truth. The same devil.
ish assassination spirit entered the church fol
the purpose of prosecuting the editor of the
Republican for Publishing the truth about off.
oial robberies, about damnable usury, about
the old bogus bond steal, about criminal hy-
pocrisy, the publication of all of which evi-
dence against the aforesaid spirit of assassina-
tion, the last specification Of the devilish per
sscution said, might be wholly or in part
true, nevertheless it is unchrlstian and un-
kind"
lshakopee Courier.
The GLOBE claims that it was done by Re.
publican ku. klux. and we presume the South
srn papers will herald it as ''another of those
horrid Northern outrages resultin from the
frequent resort to the shot gun po licy by the
barbarians north of Mason and Di xon's line,''
and will be used as campaign document by
the "brigadlers."
st. Charles Times.
The Northern Ku-Klux resort to the shot
gun policy at Austin, Mimi. 1t is we'll known
that split occurred in the Republican Con-
gressional convention in this district resulting
in two opposing Republican candidates, Ward
and Dunnell. Page is Ward man. We do
not assert that this fact had anything to do
with the attempted assassination of the distin-
guished judge, yet if it had occurred in one of
the Southern States the Radical press would
have taken it up as another proof of the i'm
possibility of free and fair election.
Faribault Democrat.
If;that shot had been fred at Judge Page in
Mississippi instead of Minnesota, what theme
it would have been for the average Republican
newspaper and orator. The judge has numerous
personal and political enemies, but it was not
supposed their emnity had reached murder.
ous point.
st. Cloud Times.
Here is Minnesota outrage which exceeds
anything practiced in Mississippi. Is it not
time to invoke the strong arm of the govern.
ment-the military?