St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
THE REAS ON
For Defeating Scheffer Next
Week.

Why Scheffer is going to be defeated
is not hard to explain by any one who
has watched the influences surrounding
the campaign of Merriam.
Scheffer started his campaign on the
basis of giving the farmer and labor
element that basis of representation in
the government and laws Of the state OF
which they are now deprived.
He pledged himself to a reform of
railroad and grain legislation, and ac-
cepted the issue made for him by labor
and agriculture.
On these lines, and these alone, his
campaign has been conducted.
For nearly two decades the govern
ment of the state has been under the
direct control of the railroads and the
grain dealers.
They have controlled the legislature,
dictated the laws, defeated legislation
that did not suit them, and when it did
at times pass against their protest,
nullified its action by having state
officials appointed or elected who would
ignore it.
Scheffer's candidacy alarmed them.
They very quickly ascertained that he
would not appoint (if elected) the Kind
of railroad commissioner desired by
them, and they at once gave the word
for his defeat.
Focusing their energies upon Mer-
riam, and keeping McGill and Gilman
in, too, for an emergency, they COM
menced making combinations hostile to
Scheffer.
In consequence, with their organ, the
Pioneer Press, they inaugurated war
fare against him that, for magnitude,
has never been exceeded in this state.
The lines were drawn sharply. 1t
was Scheffer against the railroads and
corporations first, last and all the time.
The result is easy to anticipate. The
combine OF corporate power and Mer-
riam is too much for him, and he will
have to Snccumb.
In connection with this has been
bold reading of the German vote of the
state out of the Republican party.
This has been carried to such lengths
urday night the Merriam managers had
but one cry to utter, and that, damn
the Dutch!"
The following communication re-
ceived by the GLOBE yesterday throws
strong light on the situation:
To the Editor of the Globe.
The Pioneer Press is making valiant
efforts to read the Germans out of the
Republican party, and why?
Because German has been made
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tiOn for governor, on platform that is
to fight the railroads and other mOnOpO-
lies.
The Pioneer Press says:
ut has felt obliged, however, by an
imperiouS sense of duty, to oppose Mr.
Scheffer's nomination for governor for
the sufficient reason that he was notO-
riOuSly not in sympathy with the Repub-
lican party in the most vital questions
of public policy involved in the admin
iStration of the state government"
What are these vital questions of pub
lie policy that Mr.. Scheffer is not in
harmony with?
can tell you. He will not put his
neck unie' ID e feet of the Pillsburys,
Fletchers and Merriams of the Repub
llcan party?
That is why the Pioneer Press op-
poses him: 1t is not public. duty, but
private gain that is making the Pioneer
Press fight Scheffer.
He an not be bought nor sold by any
railroad or wheat ring in this state, and
ii he is ever governor he will run things
for the people and not at the beck and
nod of the Pioneer Press.
There is where the Pioneer Press
finds its opposition against him, and
because he is a German and the Ger
mans of the state would support him,
he and they must be fired out of the
party.
1t is the dollars and cents of the mo-
nopolists against the honesty of that
German patriot, Albert Schetfer, and
don't you make any mistake about it.
l have been good Republican for
years, but when the party is mortgaged
to the railroads and millionaire, and
men of Mr.. Schetfer's courage are in
suited and thrown out of it, am ready
to stop.
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN.
st. Paul, August 80.