St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-26
MINISTER'S CONUNDRUM.
A Text For Discussing Minneapolis
Politics,
The scalpel Applied With the Skill of an
Expert.

candidate, on the contrary, has been held up
before the electors as man who will give a
liberal government, and also that he is hand
and glove with Jake Barge, and that said
candidate is catering as well as he can to get
the saloon vote.
The Republican party in this city is an in
stitution of o,yanized hypocrisy. AS sam
pie know one of them and if you scrape
him YOU will find fellow called William
King. At one time we see him down at the
fair and hear him calling out in stentorian
tones, chow much for this stand, a decent
man can make 81, 900 here during the fair
by selling aatiShy and beer" Again, and a
few evenings previous to the election of 1892
we hear him deliveringa very able speech in
Market hall talking about the noble red
shirted working man, and describing in sane
tnlonioatS language the bloody contract the
city had made with the unholy saloon keep
ers.
Sad to relate he backslides and we find him
joining hands with the wicked party that
took S12, 900 job of stone cutting away from
the noble red-shirted working man and gave
it to some convicts.
A little further on and we find him talking
about honest saloon keepers.
The honest fact is, that the Republican
and Democratic parties here are just the
same. 1t is six of the one and half a dozen
of the other. Both are eagerly catering for
the saloon vote, or any vote to elect, as evil
denced by their talk about respectable saloon
keepers, etc, and the declaration that the
administration of MIR. Pillsbury will be lib
eral one. Of course it will be just the same
as the administration of Rand. You could
not tell the difference between the rule of
Rand and Ames, only that we have bigger
city now than then, with one exception, that
the Ames rule is devoid of hypocrisy. Ames
is one of those plain fellows that would
rather be at the head of the comonality
than the tail Of the gentry.
About two months ago these Republicans
began to sing moral song and laid a trap
for the innocent Prohibitionists and baited it
with the respectable James T. Wyman, man
of whom any people might be proud. The
Prohibitionists considered this man Wyman
and found there was not stain upon his
character, that he was the very embodiment
of responsibility, ability, honor and decency.
The Prohibitionists accepted him upon plat
form that called for nothing but a strict adj
ministraton of existing law.
Consequently a call was circulated for
Wyman and signed by 1850 names, many
OIL blcIn GuC l1OSG luuuCull6l lucu Ill Ulc GU y,
but did not belong to the Republican machine.
The whole number of votes cast by all parties
in the fall election of 1883 was 9,0S5 votes,
so you see the Wyman signers amount to a
little more than one-fifth of the entire vote
cast in 1888.
But it soon appeared the whole thing was
only Republican trick to catch the Prohibi-
tionists. Wyman did not belong to the Re
publican machine, Immediately that they
found they had good candidate instead of
seducing the Prohibitionists to vote for the
pet of the machine, commenced system of
unheard of tricllery to get rid of Wyman and
the machine was so we'll organized that they
succeeded and largely through or owing to
the duplicity of Nettleton.
A word in regard to Republican machines,
they are made up of men who are COM
plete counterfeit of the heroes who stood by
the country during the dark days of the war.
These machines have been demolished in
other places and must be here; beyond the
selfishness of the chiefs they have no princi-
pie as a body are morally rotten, the parasite
has crept in, the cormorant has settled upon
it and the buzzard is lowering over it.
While many of the ministers of this city, IN
true to their calling, stayed at home and,
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they had traded their birthright, the good
priest, James McGolrich, worked with untir-
ing energy and angelic intention in bringing
out the peoples candidate and advancing
that cause until he was met by the crushing
insult of the Republican machine, backed by
the chicanery which followed. The voters
will not forget on Tuesday next the men who
so meanly defeated his good intentions.
e II. III
ritous John Knox, / blush to think of the course
many of the Protestant ministers of this city
are pursuing, in advocating the cause of a
whisky party like the Republican party. The
good priest rose superior to party in the cause
of right. They have loved the " fiesh-pots of
Egypt so much that they have neglected
their duty. Shame upon them that they
should wait until help came from Rome.
Previous to the time of the war there were
ministers who advocated slavery because ii
was backed by the majority. Will some
ministers advocate anything that is backed
by the majority.
Their excuse for all this is that they are
the Wyman cause that would have annihi-
lated Ames? And this Ames that they so zeal
ously oppose has always been kind to the
pOOl3 dho heio NtOhC lIlOlC 1Ol IuCl WlbuOu
pay than any of them has, or any man
within the limits of the city has done, so il
seems to me that their excuse is a lame one.
How many of these ministers will have the
Christian manhood to stand uI
in their pulpits next Sunday morning and
tell these folks to VOTE AS THEY PRAY, anC
tell them to follow leader whose trumpet
gives no uncertain sound so that they will
~ no lad inf 10 of ho
He who ''spake as never man spoken said
''woe unto you scribes, Pharisees, and hypro
cites, for you devour widows
houses and for a pretenct
make long prayers, - s'even the publicans ant
harlots go into the kingdom of heaven be-
fore you;' will not these remarks apply pref
ty well here in Minneapolis.
Can any one tell how Nettleton got the
title of general, and what about that Mon
tana story the Sunday morning Cal told
about him last fall, and how in a Montan;
town he missed the train that carried thu
Willard party with which he was travelling.
Was it not little unkind of the Hon. W
D. Washburn to say that ''Wyman was
nobody and nothing but idiotic prohibition
lists would vote for him. when that sam,
''nobody' had $50 signers, many of then
men by whose vote said W. D. Washburr
was placed where he is.
Shaw's story about the Prohibitionist
''working for Ames at the last election ant
going to vote for him straight this time,'' il
as vile a falsehood as ever issued out of tn
throat of fend, the man was fool as wei
as liar. The meanncss of NettletoI
showed by that Madam Dunn story, on tn
eve of the Washburn election, was disgrace
to human nature.
He has made the reputation of Minneapo