Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-24

TTeSS, not having conSOlldated) opened
their concentrated fire and the lesser ours
Joined in. Mr.. Dunnell was all that was
base and corrupt, where before anthems
had been sung in his praise. Two years
ago, when there was split in the First
District, the old gang found Mr.. Dunnell
TO be very proper person, and the
secret was explained, when the following
winter Dunnell appeared On the stage
favoring Ramsey for the senate in place
of Mcmillan. That was what made
him SO good man after he had been so
irretrievably bad.
A few months ago private letter of
Dunnelps was stolen which showed that
he aspired to WINDOWS seat. Here was
the objectionable sin again, and since
then the organ and all the little ours
have been in full blast upon his track,
and he is suddenly transformed into a
political fiend incarnate.
A year or two ago Lieut.. Gov. Gilman
was not in accord with the dominant
gang, and his public career was
painted in hideous style. He had
been endorsed and championed for
Lieutenant Governor, but he wanted
to be Governor instead of giving it to
Pillsbury for the third term, and that was
counter to ring programme, and he, too,
became political monster endowed with
naught but corruption. A year ago last
winter he was in the Ramsey camp, and
presto change, he was saint
again. All of the corruption he had
been accused of in connection with the
land office at st. Cloud and in other
matters vanished, and he became in
politics veritable Y. M. G.. A.
The programme now is to put Mr.. Bill
Washburn at the head of the old
Ramsey dynasty aud form an alliance
with the Widdom gang, Window
to succeed himself and Washburn to
succeed Mcmillan. Nelson is to 90 to
congress and Gilman to be governor on
this programme. This accounts for the
vigorous endorsement of Nelson and his
pals and the corresponding denunciation
OF Kindred. Kindred Is depicted as all
that is vile and corrupt in politics, be-
cause he is not in accord with these dynas-
ties. If he would surrender to them the
organ and all the tail piece ours would
sing hosannas to his name. He is de-
nonnced not because he deserves it, but
because he is in somebody's way.
So, too, with Dunnell. He could stop
the war by agreeing to support Window
for the Senate If elected to Congress, and
he would again become the paragon of
virtue he used to be when in the ring.
The reader will naturally ask who are
these self-assumed guardians of public
morals, sitting in censorship upon every
one who will not bow down and worship
such golden calves as the ring may
chance to erect? Are they the superiors
of all others. or do they assume virtue
though they have it not?
TO ask the question is, substantially, to
answer it. There is Mr.. Window, who
was sent to Con gress as an act of charity
because he could not support his family
by the practice of law, now reputed to be
worth his millions. All made while in
the public service, and how? 1t is mat
ter both of record and public notoriety
that he was given $4,000 of Northern
Pacific stock because he was member
OF Congress and they needed legislation.
He not only held the stock, but served as
a director of the company while secur-
ing legislation for it,
Senator Ramsey has never been elected
save by the aid of cash in purchasing
votes. Upon one occasion, when hard
pressed, a Senator was paid $4,000 and a
representative 500 to vote for him at
the caucus. The legal penalty for bri-
berry was avoided ON the ground that the
votes purchased were cast in a political
caucus instead of the open legis-
lature. In addition Mr.. Ramsey
gave a written agreement
to Speaker Dawson of Minneapolis, to
turn out his old friend, Gen. Nutting,
from the position of Surveyor General
and appoint him (Davison) in his stead.
Dawson voted for Ramsey in the legisla-
ture, went to Washington, drew his writ
ten document and secured the prize The
GLOBE library is not especially extensive
but it contains rare old volume of
several hundred pages, which is report
of Congressional committee appointed
to investigate Governor Ramsey while
&C. obfci0 commissioner of Indian affairs
in Minnesota. 1t furnishes mine of
interesting information which has never
been printed by his admiring henchmen,
who are SO free in denouncing corrup-
ton in others. Now that the GLOBE
has called attention to the document.
we shall look lin valn) for savory extracts
IN the ring organs.
There, too, is Bill Washburn, who es-
says to assume the leadership of the
Ramsey dynasty. His purchase of the
nomination when il rightfully belonged to
DR.. Stewart is a matter of acknowledged
history. He stands proven to have Sc
cured his election by bride giving and
direct purchase of votes, but all this is
endorsed and approved by the men who
are shouting themselves hoarse over the
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