St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-05

vanced by Eastern capitalists originally
came from the Western farmer through
| the operations of the tariff, and that the
! high taxes paid on the neceSSaries of
life by the farmer, passed on into the
| pockets of Eastern capitalists, is loaned
back to them and mortgages placed
| upon their farms by it."
This is very much the same argument,
| capitally sustained, that +. j. HodgSon
| uses with telling effect among his Red
| river valley friends. Mr.. Rand, turn
ing from the tariff to the relative
| strength of Wilson and Dunnell, said:
''lt is supposed that Mr.. DunE.oll will
| carry his 0 Nn county, Steele, by large
majority. Yet a prominent Catholic
| priest said to me Sunday: MI. Dun
nell Will not carry his own county. 1t
is not expected in Owatonna that he
! will have majority in Steele. There
is a strong undercurrent running
against him in his own home that can
not be cOunteracted.'
Judge Wilson is stronger than ever
before, and every day learn of some
new accession of strength for him."
George B. Arnold, who represents
stalwart Republicanism in Dodge
county, measures the situation by the
assertions that Dunnell is stronger In
Dodge than Lovely, who carried the
county by $50 majority, running behind
his ticket 300 votes. To Wilson he con-
cedes his full party vote, thus indicating
by the confession that no such Schlsms
exist on the Democratic side as are
troubling the Republicans: With
weak Democratic candidate the Repub-
lican majority of the county would be
and has been $50. With Wilson ana
Dunnell confronting the silent opposi-
of I MaSSrS
Leach, Walker, and Rand and other
posted Democrats. quite agree that the
Republican majority of 1886 will not
be Increased and may be nearly
wiped out. The population of the
county is miXed-300 Germans, mostly
Democrats; 200 Irish, of whom some
are Republicans; townships of Nor
wegians. no longer solidly Republican;
and the balance Americans and Scotch,
a majority of whom have been Republic
cans. The Democratic county organl-
cation is in tirSt-claSS condition. 1t is
handling large amount OF tariff re-
form material that is being well dis
tributed, and has an excellent list of
speakers for this months work. The
low tax work is the heaviest being
done, and here where chinch bugs and
rust have destroyed crop after crop of
wheat, the farmers seem open to the
advocacy of any doctrine that
promises a reduction of state
taxes, and a removal of the
tariff tax now resting upon their
clothing and food. Farmer George,
whom | have written of before, shook
his head obviously when | asked him
to name twenty farmers who had bank
accounts or were free from mortgages
or to name, but one who was million
are. The words Of President Cleveland
come back to me.
''lt is condition that cOnfrOntS us
not theory"
The land grows under the tax and
there are none happy but the tax
gatherer.
'Mr. Wilson is stronger than he was
two years ago." said Mr.. George. This
tariff question appeals to our pocket
books and farmer with lost crops, and
mortgages, can appreciate any PROPOSE
ton to reduce his taxes"
| gathered from his talk and that of
other farmers that they understood
what Judge Wilson meant when he
said at WinOna that tie protective tariff
manufacturers and associations of the
East had made out a list of taritf-reform
congressman whom they intended to
defeat for reelection this fall. On this
of Minnesota. They understood, for
they talk it openly on the square and
in the mart that this Eastern association
of mOnopOliStS is supporting Mr.. Dun
nell, and their capital prepared to de-
fend him and assist. A. La Due says
of this:
'W are in the heat Of the campaign.
Understand that Eastern money is ready
to back DunneH in the fight against tar
if reform. Despite this everyday news
comes to us of the disaffectiOn of some
prominent Republican. Day after day
Republicans who have stood by their
ticket for years denounce Dunnell. We
have much to expect from the pocket
vOte-silent though it be. | attended
Dunnell's mass meeting at Mantonville
on Tuesday night. The attendance was
large, but was astoniShed at the lack
of enthusiasm. The applause would
not come, and Dunnell, chilled by his
cold reception. faltered and lost ground.
He gained no votes by his speech"
Simon Miller, of Milton township,
and a prominent farmer, said:
"Mr. Wilson is gaining ground on this
issue of high taxes and low. expect
much from the silent vote Of Republi-
Dunnell. For the Democrats there is
nothing left to do but for every one to
become school teacher and educate
the farmers to the cause of tax reduc-
ton. Such campaign will carry us
through, despite all the money the Re-
-publicanS may use against us. We
need Eugene Wilson for governor, and,
although | am a warm friend of DR..
Ames, am working heart and soul for
Wilson. There is urgent need for econ
omy in the state finances, and Eugene
Wilson is pledged to bring it about if
elected"
Judge Wilson's reception at Kasson
and Mantorville was even more enthus-
iastic yesterday than was given him two
years ago. He arrived in KasSon at
noon and was met by Messrs. A. La
Due, A. }. Leach, Walker, c. G. Will
son. of Rochester, and others. Toward
evening he was driven to MantOrville.
where at candle-light 700 farmers, their
wives and their daughters gathered in
the court house to hear him speak on
the tariff, direct tax, retaliation and Mr..
DunnelFs record. You had for yester-
days paper the salient points of
his speech. OF what else he
said L note here, prefacing
that he was applauded at every point
and that at the close the farmers crowd
ed around him, and for nearly an hour
congratulated him on his manly exposi-
ton of Democratic principles. To the
charge of Banker Chadbourne, of Roch-
ester, that he had betrayed his people
in the support of the retaliation bill.
Judge Wilson replied: ''Mr. Chad
bourne confessed to me that he had not
read the law, and when l presented it
to him and he saw that it protected my
constituents, he seemed to feel ashamed
1t was the most gratifying thing that L
| noticed about him. Laughter.l This
is campaign of falsehood,
and the men who disseminate them are
sneaking along through the school dis
triets where l cannot find them, ped
ding malicious tales. This question of
lower taxes touches US all. A year ago