Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-31
PERTINENT QUESTION.

Will Any st. Paul Man Cut His Own
Throat by Casting Vote For w. d.
| Washburn?
To the Editor of the Globe:
Bill King gave number of reasons in
the Pioneer Press the other day why ssthe
people of these two cities ought to vote for
w. ID. Washburn," and among others was
this: Having been in congress one term.
he has made acquaintance and can do more
than new man could.
Why did not Bill Washburn think of this
when he made haste to call convention
while DIR. Stewart was busy in congress
and could not attend, packed. that conven-
ton, had himself nominated for congress,
cut the doctors throat in this cowardly
manner? Will Doctor Stewards friends
be likely to give much weight to this argu-
ment now, when Washburn gave no weight
TO it then? OI the contrary, as the next
house is to be Democratic, will not a
Democrat like DR.. Ames be more likei; to
carry measures for s'these two cities" and
have more influence with them than Wash
burn?
/! Secondly, 1t is important for St. Paul to
have man in congress who has not shown
by his every act in congress that he is en-
phatically for his pine land and pine log
friends and for himself alone, and will sac
| ritice every interest of st. Paul to sub
| serve these personal and ring interests.
All his energies while in congress have
been expended in getting appropriations
for the Mississippi river at and abore Min
neapolis. To enable log men to float their
logs in low water, he has procured over $500,
600 for the reservoirs for the falls and the
river above. To prevent log men of ST..
Paul and below from getting their logs
into the st. Paul boom, and to cripple and
thwart all our efforts to establish saw mills
here and build up other manufacturing
interests by means of our boom, he has
positively refused while in congress to pay
the slightest attention to the requests of
our chamber of commerce and business
union, or to our ambassador, Capt. Castle,
| who was sent to Washington to induce him
to advocate law to prevent the obstruc-
| ton of the river with mill refuse which he
/ boom, as well as running the navigation of
| the river below St. Paul. He has insulted
| all our business men who were represented
| in the chamber of commerce by refusing
even to answer respectful communications
sent to him on the subject.
He has lot been content to stop with using
his own influence in this direction, but as
the willing tool of the pine land ring who
Capt. Castle reported were in Washington
in force lobbying to kill the sawdust bill,
he induced the senator from this city by
the promise of Minneapolis votes for
United States senator to join aUith hin, and
his pine and log ring to sacrifice our boom
and our river by playing into the hands of
the saw mill obstructionists and doing
their bidding.
Not only this, but he conspired with Will
liam Window whose interests are all in
Minneapolis, and whose keeper is Bill
King, to throttle our boom and all river
| improvements below st. Paul and induced
him to go in person and ask as favor of
the subcommittee to kill the sawdust bill
which all our people were working for, and
| all river men and government engineers
were working for. And now when his
| work is done and our efforts have all been
| thwarted, his henchman, Bill King
leads him out by the ring in his nose, as
he would one of his bulls, and says 'shers
is the man for these two cities.'' Is it
possible that Washburn has the cheek to
ask any st. Paul man to vote for him after
this. These charges are not campaign
lies. They are gathered from the official
report Of Capt. Henry A. Castle to the
Business Union and Chamber of Com
merce of st. Paul, which were published
in the regular proceedings of our chamber
only few weeks ago.
Washburn is making an effort now to
| convince st. Paul that he has done some
thing for US, He is making an eleventh
hour pretense of repentance. He says he
is helping Mr.. Driscol to get q sluiceway
He says last winter he helped to get $751;
600 for the West st. Paul levee. Major
Strait really got it, but he helped, he says
This is very small tub to the whale. It
comes too late. The great Mississippi
river from st. Paul to Rock Island is what
we asked, not the St. Paul levee. Tho
boom and an unObstructed river is what
We asked, and he did no. even answer our
letters on this subject, but conspired with
the pine land and pine log rings to defeat
these great Improvements.
He was content to represent the J. B.
Bassett's and Farnham's sawmilI men in
stead of the Republicans OF st. Paul, who
generously threw away their votes on him,
and "the people of these two cities
Does he not know that the mill refuse in
jures navigation? He told Capt. Castle
law to prevent it was all right, but he could
not advocate it. He told Thomas Coch-
ran, Jr., or sent word to him, that the saw
dust from his mill, on Rum river, ssinjured
navigation for his logs, and he wanted it
stopped" Knowing the facts, how dare
he now ask st. Paul man to support him,
after all he has done to crush out our
boom and manufacturing interests,
and our great river improvements
while he carefully fosters the navigation of
the Rum river for selfish ends. The only
reason he gave Capt. Castle was that ssthe