St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-15
A Plain Yankee Farmer Whom
the Animals Made Fa-
n1AuS.
Tariff for Monopolists Now
Forms the Burden of His
Discourse.
It Will Not Be a Walk-Over
in Mr.. Elmquist's Dis
triet.
Campaign Chatter on Various
Topics Interesting to Am
bilious Politicians.

Hon. Scion Chase, the welI-known
farmer-politicia of Maine, whose name
is so often coupled with ''them steers, j"
was a conspicuous figure in the lobby
of the Ryan yesterday; not, perhaps,
from the fact that he was generally
known as the keen, witty Yankee
''Greenback" orator of whom so much
was heard several years ago, as from
the peculiarities of his dresS-plaln
''Store" clothes, cOw-hide boots, an
old and battered broad-brimmed
white felt hat, and the utter
absence of cuffs, crayat, or
any articles of personal adoFnment
marked him as just what he claims to
be, plain Yankee farmer.
He is now in the service of the
national Republican central committee,
and is in Minnesota in accordance with
their orders after having filled weeks
engagement in each of the states of
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wis
conSin. His dates i'll Minnesota are as
follows: MontevideO, Oct. 10; Bird
Island, Oct. 16; Glencoe, Oct. II;
ShakOpee, Oct. Is; st. Peter, Oct. 10;
WaSeca, Oct. 20.
This year he is a Republican, and,
being in the employ of the party man
ayers, is sanguine of Republican sue
cess in all the doubtful states, and con-
sequently on the general result. Speak
ing of political matters, he said: "D0wn
in my section of the country" he said
to a representative of the GLOBE, there
is only one issue. that of the tariff.
While some half dozen third parties
may cut some figure in changing the
general result, they might as well give
up their Job, for they're barking up a
tree that there amt any coon in. This
country can't settle but Ole question at
a time: son we'll take the tariff question
this time and settle 1t
FOR THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS.
Then We'll do something else. Down
in my state there's the fisheries QueS-
ton, which we want to settle pretty
soon. We're going to fish and go over
to Canada to dig worms and buy bait, if
we have to annex the whole country
but, as l said, we'll settle the tariff first
and then tackle the fisheries, the cur
rency and those other questions one at a
time.
How about the origin of them
SteerS?'
In the fall of 10 l was running for
congress, dlu Ill Illdhl!lS SpcCCH ~
Lewiston wanted to use pointed OBJ
ject lesson illustrating the effect of the
contraction of our greenback currency.
| told the people that had just bought
pair of three-year-Old steers and paid
SlOO for them, and that after keeping
them steers a year and feeding them
right along, no matter how much they
grew, they would still be worth only
500, owing to the contraction of the
Currency. Ex-Gov. DINGHY, who is
now in congress, was then running the
Lewiston journal, and because he
cOuld't attack my argument he lit on to
my grammar, and said l used the term
them steers fifty or sixty times. And
the Republicans went for me about
them steers When the election came
around the next year / just yOked
up those steers and went around
through the district with them,
and everywhere L went showed them
that had been right about the con-
traction of the currency and the value
of the steers. Then the question came
up, Where was the hay I'd been feed
ing them? Well. | showed them that
the bondholders had got it, and the
effect was that them steers increased
our vote from 5000 in 1873 to 10000 in
1876"