St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-30
MINISTER'S CONUNDRUM.
A Text For Discussing Minneapolis
Politics.
The Scalpel Applied With the Skill Of an
Expert.
To the Editor of the Globe:

To the Editor of the Globe:
MINNEAPOLIS, March 25.-How is it that
the ministers of the gospel in the pulpit aftel
they have repeated the words of prayer ''Thy
will be done on earth as it is in heaven" thai
they will then piously proceed to advise theil
hearers to vote for candidate for mayor
who has not said that he is temperance
man, and dare not sag that he is, but which
candidate, on the contrary, has been held VI
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 Organized hypocrisy As sample
/ 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,
show much for this stand; decent man can
make 81, 900 here during the fair by selling
aciisky and beer" Again, and few even
ings previous to the election of 1882 we hear
him delivering a very able speech in Market
hall, talking about the noble red-shirted
working man, and describing in SanctimoniouS
language the bloody contract the city had
made with the unholy saloon keepers.
Sad to relate he backslides and we find him
joining hands with the wicked party that took
a $12, 900 job of stone cutting away from the
noble red-shirted workingman 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
Democrats 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 evidenced by their
talk about respectable saloon keepers, ETC.,
and the declaration that the administration
of Mr.. Pillsbury will be liberal 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 trap
for the innocent Prohibitiouists and baited it
with the respectable James T. Wyman, a
The Prohibitionists considered this man Wy
man and found there was not a stain upon
his character, that he was the very embodi-
ment of responsibility, ability, honor and
decency. The Prohibitionists accepted him
upon platform that called for nothing but a
strict administration of existing law.
Consequently a call was circulated for
Wyman and signed by 1850 names, many
of them the most influential men in the city,
| but did not belong to the Republican machine.
The whole number of votes cast by all parties
in the fall election of 1858 was 9.0S5 votes,
so you see the Wyman signers amount to a
little more than one-tifth 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 a good candidate instead of
seducing the Prohibitionists to vote for the
pet of the machine, commenced system OF
urheard of trickcry to get rid Of Wyman and
the machine was so well organized that they
succeeded and largely through or owing to
the duplicity of Nettleton.
word in regard to Republican machines,
they are made up of men who are q complete
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
selishness of the chiefs they have no princi-
pie as 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,
untrue to their calling, stayed at home and,
Esau like, eat the mess of pottagc for which
| hoI cd fhoir irt riO tba
priest, James McGolrick, 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
someanly defeated his good intentions.
l. AS descendant of the followers of the il
Iustrious John Enox, blush to think Of the
course many of the protestant ministers of
this city are pursuing, in advocating the
cause of whisky party like the Republican
party. The good priest rose superior to par
ty in the cause of right. They have loved
the ''fesh 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 it was backed by the major
ity. VIII some ministers advocate anythin g
that is backed by the majority.
Their excuse for all this is that they are OPP
posing Ames. Why did they not support
the Wyman cause that would have annihilated
Ames? And this Ames that they so jealous
" oppose has always been kind to the poor,
and has done more for them without pay
than any of them have done so it seems to
me that their excuse is a lame one.
How many of these ministers will have the
Christian manhood to stand up in their pull
pits next Sunday morning and tell these
folks to VOTE AS THEY PRAY, and tell them
to follow leader whose trumpet gives no
uncertainNsound so that they will not be led
into the camp of the enemy.
He who "spake as never man spoke" said
''woe unto you scribes, Parisees, and hypro-
cites, for you devour widows houses and fol
pretence make long prayers" ''even the
publicans and harlots go into the kingdom OF
heaven before you;'' will not these remarks
apply pretty we'll here in Minneapolis.
Can any one tell how Nettleton got the title
of general, and what about that Montana
story the Sunday morning Call told about
him last fall, and how in Montana town he
missed the train that carried the Willard party
with which he was travelling.
Was it not a little unkind of the Hon. "
D. Washburn to say that ''Wyman was no
body and nothing but idiotic prohibtionists
would vote for him. when that same no
body'' had 1850 signers, many Of them men
by whose vote W. D. Washburn was placed
where he is!
Shaws story about the Prohibitionists
working for Ames at the last election ani
going to vote for him straight this time,'' is
as vile falsehood as ever issued out of thC
throat OF tiend The man YVES fool as wei