Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-25
THE CONFESSION OF THIErEs.

THE COEFESSION OF THIEJ-ES.
The remarkably virtuous Pioneer Press
Is shocked because an application has been
made to Gov Hubbard to establish cleo
ton precincts in some of the counties in
the Fifth District, and it declares that this
is scheme Of fraud to secure votes for
Kindred. When Mr.. Washburn secured
election precincts in this section Of the
state four years ago, and held his election
on moving railroad train (which was run
from point to point receiving the ballots
in an open cigar box, there was no howl of
indignation on the part of this virtuous
organ. The struggling wood choppers,
railroad employees, and men IN buck
ram who had no existence whatever.
crammed their Washburn ballots, at so
much a head, into the open cigar boxes
ana they csunted in the kid glove candi-
date. This was done under color of es-
tablishing election precincts and the train
was moved up and down the road for a
distance of fifty miles, but no tornado of
indignation was observable in the quarters
now so soIicitous for the purity of the bal
lot box.
The application for election precincts
which has been made to Gov. Hubbard, is
simply a procedure according to law. The
law provides for establishing such pre-
cincts by the governor under certain cir
cumstances. There is nothing private re-
lative to the matter, and if contesting
candidates have any apprehensions in the
matter, they can be on hand upon election
day to see whether the ballots cast are fair
or foul. There is no reason why man
should be disfranchised because his labor
has taken him ten miles away from an estab-
lished election precinct. In the rapid de-
velopment of the State hundreds of men
find themselves located beyond election
precincts, and it is the fear that these men
will not vote for Nelson which causes the
howl of virtue to go up from the most
vilely corrupt newspaper which ever afflict-
ed any community.
The object of the GLOBE. however, in
calling attention to this matter, is not to
discuss the formation of election pre-
cincts, as that Is a mere matter of legal
routine. but to call attention
to the graphic description given
by the Pioneer Press, of Cass
county, and to show the system of gigantic
robbery which that concern has been for
years inhicting upon new counties. Here
is what it said of Cass county, yesterday:
There is no portion of Cass county having anv
permanent settlement. Here and there on the
lumbermen's tote-rOads are located ranches or
stopping places where the lumbermen and their
employees put up their way in or out of the
northern pinerieS, but In these cases there is us
ualiy but a single man or family located at the
log tavern. The lumbermen and their employees
not residents of the region, but go up there
temporarily through the fall and winter to cut
logs returning to their homes in the spring. The
character of the country is such to forbid
settlement for many years to come.
The GLOBE requests the reader to peruse,
for second time, the paragraph just
quoted and then consider how much hon
esty there is in a concern which sent its
agents up to Cass county sie or eight
gears ago, and by bribery secured
an order for fire thousand dollars
acorth Of blanks and blank books. If it is
such a desert waste now, what must it
have been six or eight years ago when that
viilainous fraud was perpetrated by the
Pioneer Press. The frand was
so infamous that the owners
of property applied to the legislature
to abolish the county government of Cass
County, to relieve them from the robbery
perpetrated by the thieves who are con-
Quoting this villainous newspaper.
That county is to-day bonded
for seven thousand dollars.
FIVE THOUSAND of which
went to enrich the Golfers of the st. Paul
Pioneer Press, whose agents bribed the
officials to perpetrate the infamous steal
Just think of it! Flee thousand dollars
acorth Of blank books supplied county six
or eight years ago, which it now declares
has mo permanent settlement" and that.
1.-The character of the country is such as to
forbid settlement for many yearsto come"
Have infamous thieves ever before given
themselves away so completely?
If Cass county was the only county
which had been robbed by these profess
ional thieves and public scoundrels, the
matter would not even then be so bad, but
that infamous concern has grown rich by
its systematic robbery of frontier coun-
ties. Its uniform plan has been to send
its agents to these different counties and
bride the officials to order blanks and
blank books sufficient to last a