The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-20
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.GORlNG THE OTHER OK

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Capt. Mons Grinager, of the q. S.
land office at Worthington, who has
been in the city trying to help Mr..
Ramsey's senatorial prospects, depart
ed yesterday for his home for the pur-
pose of working up y popular senti-
ment for Ramsey in his land district
that can he brought to bear on certain
members Of the Legislature. We sup
pose Mr.. Grlnager is acting under the
dictation of his representative in Con-
gress, Mr.. Dunnell. While United
States office-holders have a right in
common with all citizens to advocate,
III Il becoming manner, their political
views to support whom they please for
Senator, it is, however, highly improp-
er for such an officer to actively exert
himself to influence people who do bus
mess or who are likely to do business
at his Office. That Mr.. Grinager or any
other Office holder should feel at liberty
to pursue the course he is taking illus
trates the hollowness of this admins
tration'S much lauded civil service re-
form. Such abuses in the civil service
ought to arouse all good men to the ne
cessity of putting Office holders in a po-
sition independent of Senators aud Rep
resentatives in Congress or those who
would become snch.-Dispatch.
That is all very fine, but last fall
when the Independent Republicans of
this Congressional district undertook
to defeat Dunnell, the man whose alb
ject seryitor Grinager is, and the man
who requires all persons holding federal
offices by his favor to do any dirty pol
ltical work he may desire, the Dispatch
came to his rescue and helped defeat
our efforts to reform the civil service
by removing from Office one of the most
corrupt machine politicians in the coun-
try. More than this. Marshall, one of
the proprietors of the Dispatch. spent
a number of days in this county speak
ing and working for Dunnell. Does not
this ''illustrate the llollo wness'' of the
pretenca of the Dispatch that it :favors
civil service reform?-Albert Lea
Standard.
1t makes all the difference in the
world whose OK is gored. If the feder-
al office holders, under the civil service
reform rules, had the right last fall to
put in day and weeks of hard work for
Dunnell, with the approval of the Dis
patch and the Pioneer Press and the
Minneapolis Tribune, we do not see
why Capt. Grinager should not have
the right to go in tooth and toe nail
now, Under Dunnell's order, and work
for Dunnell's choice for u. S. Sena-
tor.
Last fall the fight in the First Dis
trict was against the machine" with
al its officials, all it's money and i'll it's
political power, and the Dispatch, Pho
neer Press and Tribune, joined with the
''machine," and scored everybody who
dared toioppose the big political thons-
and-wheeled jnggernaut. Now they
complain of federal officers and federal
patronage being used. If is could be
legitimately used to re-elect Dannell,
why not to elect Z. $. Senator?
The Pioneer Press says:
But us it was, the preference for
Ramsey wss SO strong and SO pronounce
ed that he would have been unques-
tioiably nominated except for this tre-
menduous power of public patronage
when was brought INTO play against
him. Mcmillan, Window and Strait
c;mllned Their forces Of federal officials
and federal patronage with all the far
reaching influence of the rings of gov
eminent contractors and pine land
rings, to prevent and constrain the hon
est sentiments Of the Republican repre-
sentatives.
Exactly us it WAS in this district last
fall. The federal officers, the State Of
ticers, the pine land rings, the lumber
rings, and all the others that end in
''rings," were united to re-elect Dun
nell, but the Pioneer Press did not see
it in that light then. Now it's own OK
is gored and 1t sees the ''macliine" as
we saw it last fall.