St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-11
THE TUssLE IN THE FIRST.
Congressman Wilson Making Con-
Verts Eyerywhere-East High
Tariff Money Being Poured Into
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VeFtS eryWnere-EaStern HlSn
Tariff Money Being Poured Into
the District.
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PRESTON, Oct. 1O.-The city poll
tician, confined IN his narrow limits of
a ward, cannot understand what a
farmers campaign means, nor appreci-
ate the full meaning of a candidates
statement that he has been holding
schoOl-district meetings" The towns
of MantOryille, Preston, Gale
donia, Spring Grove and Harmony
are relatives to one another in that they
are in farming centerS and are trade
points. Their population ranges from
200 to 1900; they have schools and
churches; in Harmony and Spring Grove
saloon cannot be found, and the people
are of the sober, serious kind who have
borne much of the hard burden of life
and feel keenly any political question
that affects their visible supply of cur
rency. This is not country of testers,
nor place where the court fool can cut
his capers. and because his audiences
laugh, think that he has converted them.
Men and women who have plodded
slowly on for twenty-five or thirty years
to build up great commonwealth, and
MIlO lO-udy lCCl uCoNlCOJ lllC lOlCC VI
NATIONAL AND STATE TAXATION,
are not the ones to present demagogy
to OF to be Tidiculed into believing that
black is white. l think there was a
shade of sadness passed over the face of
Teeman GilbertsOn. of Spring Grove,
when he said this evening: 1.-The pure
farming lands of this section are not as
valuable to-day as they were twenty
years ago." And Farmer An
dersOn, who tillS $50 acres
on the DEBORAH road and close
TO the Iowa line, did not speak happily
when he said:
1.-THE farmer bears all the taxes and
none of the profits. l want food and
clothing to be cheaper. do not think
free trade would be good, but it would
be well to reduce the taxes" Reduce
the taxes! What a magical effect the
presidents message has had on this
country. Every school house, corner
grocery, postOffice, town hall and hotel
in these rural points has been turned
into a debating ground, over
which retreat and advance the advo-
cate and opponents of low taxes.
Business is laid by, play forgotten, and
all minds bent upon assimilat-
ing or rejecting the knowledge rendered
them. Nor is this agitation confined to
lllt ul6ll dlOIl6s Az NudllOINlll6
were at least 100 women at Judge Will
sons meeting. The feminine grace and
beauty of Austin thronged the opera
house when he spoke. At Preston
THE FARMERS WIVES
were so numerous as to nearly fill the
front row of seats. Caledonia and
Spring Grove each supplied a reSpecta-
bic contingent of the fair sex, and last
night in the torchlight procession at
Harmony, Preston ladies marched be-
hind the fife and drum carrying torches.
The common, everyday people are
aroused, and, best of all, are thinking.
For twenty-five years the office-seeking
and OfficehOlding classes have conducted,
carried and lost elections in Minnesota.
This year, thanks to Grover leVeland,
the working and laboring people are at
helm and the demagogue and trickSter
finds himself nOnpluSSed. The old
time wire-pullerS of Dunnell, who have
been accustomed to leading the voters
by the nose, find themselves at sea
when confronted by men who have sud-
denly discovered that they have minds
OF their own and can vote according to
their convictions. Look at the audi
ences Judge Wilson has spoken to:
Mantorville..... 200 Spring Grove. 400
Preston Preston 500 --"- H'O' $500 4OO
Caledonia 49,. $50 Total. 49,. 4,25O
The majority in these audiences lex
cept at Austin) were farmers, and the
bulk of these were either Republicans
or mad been. Dunnell has had large
audiences, but he has missed the enthu-
siasm. His reception has been as chill
ing as Wilson's has been warm. There
are many reasons for this. He has held
Office
FOR TWELVE YEARS.
During that time. whether he was re-
sponsible for it or not, there was built
up in the district an ariStocracy of fed
eral officeholders that from Potter, in
Houston, to Anderson, in Dodge, ran
things in their own sweet way. Those
were the days of political assess
ments and rank offensive par
tisanship. Through it the Re-
publican party in the district, con-
fronted with the Scylla of Window
and the Charybdis of Dunnell, struck
the rocks and was shattered beyond all
hope of future unity. For much of this
Dunnell is held responsible, and the
men who have not forgotten, and the