St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-27
NERnIAM'S Menace.
The Fifth District Making
Preparations to Slaughter
the Banker.
Farmers Coming Out fer VIII
son and Canning by the
Hundred.
Otter Tail County, a RepublI-
can Stronghold, Looks
Quite Democratic.
All the Farmers Alliance
Leaders Bolt Comstock
and Merriam.
special TO the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
FERGUS FALLS, Sept. 26.-The Re-
publicans politicians would be simply
amazed if they knew the losses which
their state. and particularly its head,
will meet with in November, in this
section Of the state, and especially III
Otter Tail county. The Republicans
among the farmers are not only dis
affected that word of ill-Omen to so
many machine politicians in these lat
ter davs. but thoroughly disgusted with
the methods used in the nomination OF
Merriam. A large proportion OF this
class Republican farmers) hereabouts
favored Scheffer; the remainder be-
neved McGiu was entitled to second
term, if for no other reason, because he
rendered such prompt aid to this county
when the graSshOpptr pest threatened
it with terrible disaster. Mr.. MeTrlam'S
name was nowhere heard. The news
of his nomination was received first
with surprise, then. as the man
ner in which it was obtained be-
came generally known, with indig-
nation. The feeling has now settled
down to straightforward hostility, and
so far ali the arguments, all the coax
ing, all the WhitewaShing explanations
of Republican politicians and news
DaDerS have been without avail III
changing this feeling. The delegates
who attended the state convention from
this county, are not ardent Merriam
men, and their truthful descriptions of
''hOw things went there have not
helped him much. One of the delegates
has sworn that he was offered 500 for
his vote, and cannot be made to take 1t
back. lie is a trustworthy and honor
able Finlander. Another, A. u. A n
derSOn. of the county treaSurer'S 5 office,
has told so many damaging secrets that
he Is in danger of losing his position in
consequence. Before the state con-
YentiOn. the Republican leaders here
encouraged the feeling of
DISAPPROVAL AND DISTRUST
of Mr.. Merriam which is now so ram
pant. to their own discontinue to-day,
Said one of the leading Republican OF
gans in this section, editOrially, in
eulOgy of McGill few weeks before the
convention:
The people Of this county are especially
3. familiar with the method used here to work
up sentiment for the other candidates.
They know the men who are engaged to
travel about They have not confined them
selves TO this county alone, but they have
gone over large portion OF the state. The
cost Of sending these men around. OF main
tanning these elaborate bureaus with their
clerical forces and furnishing the vast num-
Der Of campaign documents, is not paid by
the farmers, but by the ambitious men who
are utilizing the farmers TO accomplish their
ends. They most certainly have right to do
it, but the people should understand fully
their motives and their objects.
A little later the same paper-the
Fergus Falls JOurnal-remaTked edi
tOrially:
As long as Republicans worship the golden
calf they will have TO submit TO Just such
disgraceful things as the Ramsey county eau
cu>es. While beer and Doodle are allowed
to run the party, we shall have to face the
disgrace. We cannot have fair caucuses or
pure politics under such circumstances.
Wealth has never been a passport to the gov
ernOr'S Office in this state yet, and il is 10 be
hoped that it never Will. Every one of Min
nesOta'S governors up TO date have been poor
financially, and ii is a good precedent TO ad-
here to- Beer and Doodle should be relegated
to the rear.
THIS ADVICE IS SOUND,
even if 1t did come from a Republican
source, and will be followed by large
number of the farmers who read it.
Two more editorial comments from this
excellent paper will suffice:
The Republican party can't afford to be
run by beer or Doodle. A little self-reSpect
should be retained.
MeIiam's defeat in Ramsey county. aud
the idea of Doodle which has become so
thoroughly associated with his canvass, rem
ders his nomInauOn not only unWiSe. but
impossible.
In printing such plain-spOken edi-
tOrialS as the above the Journal was
simply vOicing the honest sentiments
OF its constituency, and is entitled to
credit Tor its manlineSS. OF course the
same paper is securing the universe
with fine tooth comb to-day to find
|. IL
but the farmers are not. They were
convinced some time ago that Mr..
Merriam was not safe man TO trust in
the governors chair. The Republican
leaders of opinion here were as out
spoken as the newspapers, before the
convention, in bringing diScredit upon
Merriam; some of them are still at ii,
though a great many are now eating
their words as meekly as possible. The
point is that the farmers have imbibed
a thorough belief that Merriam is not
the man they want. If he gets $500 out
OF the 5000 votes of Otter Tail county.
he will do amazingly well. Wilson will
poll from $500 to 5000. The Prohibition
candidate may get 800. DonGelly is
nowhere. The county gave McGill
about 1,000 majority in 1856, but this
performance cannot be repeated this
year with the present Republican can
uludlt. AOI lo the UlSdHGCllOn COu-
fined to Merriam. The farmers
DO NOT WANT CONISTOCK
to represent them IN congress, and they
do want Canning. The bolt outright
of all the Farmers alliance leaders from
the Republican congressional nominee
has not fallen fat" as has been stated.
Quite the contrary. True, there is no
speechifying or hullabalOO about it, but,
as one of the alliance men expressed it
in the hearing of your correspondent
the other day: Were keeping up
devil of a thinking, for when an old
war Republican like Gen. I. II. Bar
rett, who. do believe, would sell his
last acre of land in the world to benefit
his brother farmers. announces that he
will not support the Republican nOmi-
nee tor congress, there must be strong
reasons for it, Gen. Barrett'S reasons
are like those of hundreds of other
farmers in the Fifth district. He is
afraid to support for congress man
whose interests are known to be bound
up with those of the railroads, and
whose record as a legislator Is in favor
of corporate interests. The farmers
know that it is in the next congress
that the greatest battle ever had in
this country for lower taxation
and cheaper neceSsarIes of life will be
fought. and they look to Charles
Canning, of Hendrum, Norman
county, to properly represent them {;
and he will. To sum up the situation