St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-13
RUN BY The MACHINE
Ex-Officeholders Are Making
the Battle For Dunnell's
Lost Cause,
While the Independent Re-
publicans Are Not Saying
a Word.
The Kind Of Warfare That Is
Conducted Against the
Democrats.
Small Attacks Upon the Post
masters Made by Dunnell
Men.
Snecial to the Globe.

HptCldl 10 luG OtObS-
HOUsTON, Oct. 12.-The merchants of
a country market like Houston appre-
ciate, through their financial profits,
the benefit of having a farming COM
munity that does not raise spring
wheat. They can laugh to scOrn the
lmpudent chinch bug, while corn
thriveS, hogs fatten and produce sup
plies keep abreast of the demand.
Their prosperity is not commensurate
with their labor, but they succeed
better and live with less care than do
the sections where wheat is the sole
staple and bankruptcy faithful COM
panion. Houston, lying twenty-fOur
miles from La Crosse, is a feeding
point for that metropolis, and holds
an intimate trade relation with
it. The interchange of commodities
between the two points is large, and
while Houston does not grow very
rapidly, she is by 10 means stagnant.
Field Il Briggs control the bulk of the
dry goods and grocery trade; ID. {.
Dyer is banker and druggist; NJ. Me-
Cam. Democratic grocer; Thomas
Parish, solid Democratic hOtelkeeper,
and DR.. Rhines attends to all the phySi
cal ailments. Capt. Mcintyre is post
master, and he attends to his Republi-
can patrons just as promptly as to the
Democrats. OF course. four years ago,
when Grover Cleveland made the cap
tain postmaster, and gave Mr.. Good
rich a much-needed rest, Tom Field did
not like it. He would go into the post
Office and wall over the advent of
Democratic administration, and tell of
how The country was
GOING TO TIE BOW-wOWs
but time has sOftened his wrath, and now
he is quite willing to admit that the
country is still safe. This entire belt
of country was so long welded to the
type of Dunnell Republicanism made
famous between 1870 and 1882, that it
requires something almost Superhuman
to cause the older generations to shake
it off. Men may become so Inundated
nnder abuse that will power gives way
TO pitiful submission. Still the indie
pendent class is growing. l thought of
this last night when Attorney EnoS, of
RushfOrd. and Republican, said:
1.-The success of Dunnell means that
every young man in this district and
every ambitious man will have to put
on his collar and submit to his dictatiOn
before he can seek any office for him
self. 1t means a return to the old
regime of cOrrupting bosSiSm."
can understand that this is true, for
the most active workers for Dunnell to-
day are the men who formerly held
Office under him. and many of whom the
people would never have advanced to
Office but for the fact that Dunnell
checkmated their opposition.
Take Houston county, which eight
years ago was hotbOd of DunnelliSm.
4 o.. ic1a
lican citizen of the town of Houston:
I'm those days everything politically
was in bad shape. The Dunnell men
ran things Just as they pleased. The
mail routes and postal clerks were little
BETTER THAN THIEVES
and robbers, and as [ recOllect two of
them were sent to the penitentiary."
This testimony to the merits of the
Republican candidate and his past rec
ord encourages the Democracy in the
hope that the clean and respectable
element of the party will rise above
the crack of the party whip and vote
according to their convictions. There
is no fear as TO what the Democratic
vote will do. All the testimony brought
in from the different counties to Judge
Wilson shows that it is united and
working hard, and that there is no de-
lection among them. They claim a
steady increase of votes during the past
two years. So much so as to take from
The Republicans the assertion that on
a strictly partisan vote the district
would be with them.
That there is truth in this is rapidly
grasped when a glance at the Republi-
can county organizations and the man
ayers of Dunnell shows that they are
made up of the
PERPETUAL OFFICEHOLDERS,
and that the young and vigorous ele-
ment in the party has been almost
wholly ignored and is taking no part in
the campaign. In Houston county the
dominant factor is George F. Potter,
who has held office since the sun rose
Oh Mount Ararat, and who has had
commercial relations with Dunnell
these many years. Potter repre-
sentS Dunnell and Merriam here,
and between the two is to
run for the house again this
fall. Potter has made of politics
science that claSsifies the voters with
other marketable things and maintains
quotation list of prices suited to the
campaign and candidate. In Fillmore
county A. ID. Gray, who has been in
Office since the moon set on the ruins of
Babylon. is another of the Dunnell lead
erS; and so it runs through all of the
other counties. The Officeholding classes
are making fierce and savage battle
for Dunnell; but the common, every
day people have not word to say in his
favor. ii. |. Z.