St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-31
motor or walk? Aid. Swenson virtually
voted that they might walk.
q sLANpERING MINN EArOLIs.
How a Charge Made by Little Papers
Caraaas N 4. me tn q hem.

How a Charge M de by Little Papers
Comes a sme TO hem.
The little evening paper OF Minneapolis
and its little morning duplicate are tearing
their hair and tasting their stock OF adJec-
tives over the idea that Mayor Ames is
slandering Minneapolis in his canvass OF
the state. They have no wled in plea type
and mourned in nonpareil and raved In
loaded BREWER until their utteranceS nave
become entirely incOherent. Their united
howl has caused some little curiosity to
know what Mayor Ames said that was SO
terribly slanderous. These papers never said
what the SANDER was, but simply that 1t
was SANDER and then stopped What
Mayor Amos really said was that Mime
apolis was the headquarters OF the wheat
ring. which was grinding out the life of
the farmer, and that McGili was nominated
by this wheat ring, because he would be
plant to their purposes. lie mentioned
the names of prominent members OF tue
wheat ring and showed them to be the
same who had compassed the nomination
of McGill and were now spend ng their
thousands IN trying To elect him. This 10
the SANDER over which the Journal IL tear
its hair and the Tribune is going from one
spasm into another.
The statements of Mayor Ames, so far
from being ISLANDERS. are plain statements
of fact. and have twice been Endorsed by
the journal. In September no one sup
posed the wheat-ring candidate McGill,
would be nominated. but the general belief
was that either John l.. Gibbs or Charles
A. Gilman would be the Republican candi
date. With NO politics in view, the Jour
mai printed two editorials. one on Sept
and the other on Sept. 9. rating the Milers'
union and wheat pool In good Democratic
style for crushing the farmer through Its
infamous purchasing machinery. 1t WAS
these ed torials VIII ch have furnished the
Democratic party with the ammunition
that ON next Tuesday will blow the wheat
ring candidates into political oblivion. Ii
Mayor Ames is sIandering Republicans. he
is slanderng it On the authority OF the
Journal, VIII CHI is now raising such help
less. injured cry about it. The Journal
knew the association was robbing the farm
erS. and it said so, but it is now denouncing
Mayor Ames because he says the same
thing. The poor little paper is so blinded
by partisan prejudice that it has actually
turned upon and rended itself.
The Tribune, the little morning paper,
has also sent up this howl and accused DR..
AmeS OF Slandering the CITY. ms doeS
nor count. The Tribune has SO long and so
persistently abused and maligned Mayor
Ames that nobody regards its present
hings. They are blunted arrows, from
which the barbs were taken last spring by
a popular majority of $40. What the
Tribune Gays is matter of no moment
whatever. All through the summer it ma
ligned and slandered Minneapolis, calling it
the Eden of robbers. the paradise of thugs
and sluggers, the elysium of sand-baggers
and burglars, the Beulah land of confidence
and bunco men, and other names OF similar
character. Everybody knows that this was
the outpouring of the bitter disappoint-
ments the paper felt at the spring elections
and they only laughed at it. Minneapolis
people have long ago learned how to value
any Tribune utterance, while people out
side of Minneapolis never hear of the Frib-
une except through other papers.