Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-01
THE INDEPENDENTS

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The Independent Voters, the Nucleus of
Reform and tho Hope of the Country
Who will Represent st. Paul in Congress.
Horace Greeley, the best man in the Re-
publican party, used to say ':This is good
year to bolt.'
We quoted the Pioneer Press the other
cay relterating thr sentiment and saying.
1.-The Republican party needs a good drub-
blng-the bosses have it by the throat
This is undoubtedly true of any party long
In power. 1t necessarily grows corrupt
and is run by machine politicians and
rings whose only care is to enrich them
selves at the expense of the people.
And now comes Jim Blaine and enrolls
himself among the independent voters.'
as witness the following approving notice
OF the fact cut from the editorial
columns of the Pioneer Press yesterday:
James G.. Blaine's brother has BETRAYED fam
lily secret, which is that the plumed knight, con-
trary to previous report, doesn't care a CONT
mental what becomes of the Pennsylvania bosses
or Beaver, their candidate, in the coming cleo
uon. or at any future time, as he owes them
nothing.
The independent voter has just done his
work in Ohio He will do the same in
Pennsylvania and also in New York. This.
then, seems to be Greeley's good year to
bolt" according to the aspect of things in
these three great states, and according to
such good Republican authority as Jas. G.
Blaine and Joseph A. Wheelock.
Certain it is, if there is to be any reform.
any s'civil service" any release from the
clutches of the bosses, who shave the party
by the throat it is not to be had by con-
tinuing to vote year after year for a per-
petuation of the present ring rule-eEen
though sweetly denominated by the Hon.
w. u. Washburn as ''the grand old Repub-
iican party" There is no longer any
good old Republican party" 1t has
iapsed and passed away. The party has
been taken possession of by the Dorseys,
the star route thieves, the Guiteau murder
ers of Garfield, and the stalwart scoundrels
who disgraced the Grant administration.
There is large untrammeled class of peo-
pie IN the country who love country more
than party-the Independent voters-and
there are hundreds of them in st. Paul. To
these address the question, who will
you send to Washington to do
your business. Any business man
would answer this question if there was no
politics in it, by saying: 'We will send
man who is in sympathy with our business
and willing to do it, If he does not fill
this bill not sensible man in st. Paul
would send such man to transact the
most insignificant business. Has Mr..
Washburn shown himself in sym patty with
the business we have REQ uested him to at
tend to? Has he shown himself willing to
do it? Let his answer to Capt. Castle,
when our Business Union, through Castle,
asked him to attend to st. Paurs special
request, suffice on this subject: ''The bill
you want passed is right and proper, but
the pecuniary interests of many of my
constituents are opposed to it, and can
NOT be expected to go for it;'' and he did
not go for it. Let his insulting and con-
temptuous refusal to answer all the COM
munlcations of the chamber of commerce
on our special business suffice also to
prove that W. D. Washburn had no SYM
pathy with our business, is not willing to
attend to 1t, and never has attended to it,
but on the contrary has used all his influ-
ence to sacrifice our business and defeat
all the legislation we asked.
This is proved by his own friend and
supporter, Capt. Castle, who was honest
enough as business man to report the
facts, and who is honest enough to seek
the defeat of Window on this account
among many others. The spokesman of
Mr.. Washburn is Col. W. S. King, whose
violent and abusive article of all the bust
ness men of st. Paul, as Glars, black
guards" ETC., the other dav in the PiOnpo,.
Press while speaking of the saw-dust and
Mississippi river question, betrays the
enemies of Washburn and shuts out all
hope that King will ever loosen the grip
OF his ring in Washburn's
nose enough to allow him
to carry out the policy of St. Paul on this
or any other subject. Can Mr.. Washburn
then, possibly, do the business of st. Paul
III congress. Can he represent US. He is
saw mill man of the saw mill men. A
stalwart obstructionist, who says his saw
mill interests are paramount to our in
terests, and our interests must yield. The
st. Paul boom with $4,000 expended
on it and the sluiceway stands choked up
and strangled by VIM. D. Washburn. The
Mississippi river below St. Paul will be a
mere step-child of the government while
Washburn is in congress, and the lions
share of the government appropriations
will go to Minneapolis and Lake Winneba-
goshish, while the mill refuse will be St.
Paurs share. Will any st. Paul man stul-
tify himself, and sacrifice his 'pecuniary
interests" by voting for the mill owners
candidate and tool. 1t is not business,
gentlemen. INDEPENDENT VOTER.