St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-01
WOUNDED INTO DEATH.

Il
Ii any one doubted that the shot fired
by GILMAN at st. Cloud Monday even
ing hit the mark. all doubt WAS removed
by the editorial in yesterdays Pioneer
Press, headed IAN Infamous Con-
spiracy." 1t was not one of the ordinary
bilious attacks which MI. MERRIAM's
daylight organ is subject to. 1t was
genuine case OF hydrophoDia. For yiru-
lent abuse, and that, too, of the three
most conspicuous leaders of its own
party, and for general righteousness,
the article in question has never been
equaled in the literature of politics.
Impotent to say or do anything i'll de-
Tense of Mr.. MERRIAM, or to vindicate
him from the grave accusations made
in Gov. GILMAN'S speech. his organ
seeks satisfaction by emptyng its Walls
of wrath upon the devoted heads of
MeSSrS. GILMAN, MCGILL and SCHEF-
FER, the three gentlemen who contested
the nomination with Mr.. MERRIAM,
and one of whom, according to high
Republican authority. would have
been the nominee of his party to-day,
but for the lavish and corrupt use of
money against them. In its wild frenzy.
the Pioneer Press dates the origin
of the sO-called conspiracy back
to the time when s its favorite
WINDOW was defeated in senatorial
contest. Gov. GILMAN is branded as a
chronic wrecker and disorganizer, whose
chief business is to faint and tincture
''the honorable struggles of the Re-
publican party But. black as GILMAN
is painted, still, in the eyes of the Pho
neer Press, he is an angel Of light in
comparison with MCGILL and SCHEF-
FER. as will be seen from the following
choice quotation from the Z. P'S article
of yesterday:
Base as is the course which he has chosen
to pursue, it is better than that of his allies,
who have lacked the courage to declare
themselves openly, and have gone reeping
and mutterng about the state, whispering
to their trusted confidantes the infamy to
which they feared to attach their names
The wretch who casts his. dynamite bomb
i'll midday into crowd, acknowledging
and glorying in his intention to create all
the slaughter that he can, is q little above
the coward who sneaks into basement
at night and tries to plant there the agent of
destruction. Mr.. GILMAN has come into the
daylight. an d we know, at least. where we
may find him and how we may deal with
him. 1t will not be a tedious or difficult
work.
Here is the way that Mr.. SCHEFFER is
dealt with by the p. p:
He was SO infatuated with the belief that
he was popular idol that he apparently be-
lieved that his mere presence i'll The conven-
ton would suffice to create such storm Of
enthusiasm that the convention would rise
spontaneously to its feet and nominate him
by reclamation. He could not account for
the meager support he received except upon
the supposition of some diabolical perver-
sion of the natural instincts OF man. GIL
MAN says: Hon. ALBERT ScHEFFER makes
Just the same statement as to both cases; that
his knowledge OF what transpired satisfies
him beyond a shadow of doubt that very
large number of delegates were bought and
paid for
Then the batteries are turned on Gov.
MCGILL in this style:
Yet another candidate sought honor there.
He was a man in whose good intention the
people confided, but in whom they were not
that entitled him, as of inherent right, 10
second term. But he was mad all through
that he was not awarded the second
term. We have hitherto acquitted him
of partnership in the meanness of the de-
feated. Again it is Mr.. GILMAN who becomes
his aecuser: GOV MCGILL says boldly. and
to every one who speaks to him, that he has
no doubt it was bought nomination: that
it was procured by the corrupt use of
money! Messrs. SCHEFFEE and MCGILL may
settle with GILMAN for this avowal of their
methods and their desire. If this is true of
McGILL, then he is even weaker man than
his friends have taken him for.
If the Pioneer Press had devoted the
space it gave to an abuse of its party
leaders to making specific denials of the
charges preferred by these gentlemen
against the Republican candidate for
governor, it would have done both the
party and its candidate better service.
Merely saying that GILMAN. MCGIIL
and ScHEFFER .'have Joined the Demo-
cratic liars'' does not relieve Mr.. MER-
RAM of the serious accusations that are
made against him.