St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-05
WHY is WINDOW HERE
One of Williams Warm
Friends Discusses the Ex-
Senator's Position.
His Interests Are Those O
the Great Money Kings of
Wall Street,
With Whom the Farmers of
the Northwest Are Not in
Sympathy.
Does He Come to Knife Sabin
for the Lattep's Victory
in 1888?

10 the Editor of the Globe.
Ex-senator Window has come to town
at most inOpportune moment for him
self; for, view it as we may, the eX-sen-
ator has nothing to gain by his appear
ance in Minnesota during the contest
Tor the senatorship. He has ceased to
be resident of the state, resides in the
East, and is engaged in important bust
ness enterprises that have occupied
fully all his time and talents for some
years. He is president of one of the
largest land grant railroads in Mexico,
running from the Rio Grande to the
Gulf of California and down the coast
to MaZatlan; and president of the VII
mona 81 Southwestern, and also pres
ldent or active manager of the Eads
Ship railroad, crossing the peninsula
from the Gulf Of Mexico to the Pacific;
and has other interests with the great
money kings of Wall street, which need
and have secured his entire time and at
tentl0n since his retirement from poll
tics. Ii he returns to Minnesota at this
time expecting to be a candidate for
senator, he comes to people who have
been compelled since his departure
from the state to take issue with rail-
road kings and money sharks as mat
ter of self-prOtection. The farmers and
traders of this state away from the big
cities have
REALIZED THE FACT
that the great aggregations of people
and capital in business centers are
constant forces of attraction, toward
which all the profits of farming and
trading are impelled; and that chartered
corporations, having their headquar-
tiers in these cities, have exceeded all
limits OF fOrbearance in the greedy
plumber of the people; and the result has
been, and is now, diStruSt of any one
connected with railroad management,
if not open warfare all along the line of
money aggregation. Ii Mr.. Window
comes to the state he left six years ago
expecting to find it as he left it, lie will
soon perceive that decided change in
public opinion has occurred. and that as
railroad president he would not be an
acceptable representative of the people
with whom he was once popular. 1t is
not among the possibilities that Mr..
Window shall be chosen senator at this
time, and he probably does not need to
receive this information from others.
If his mission is to help Washburn, he
comes too late. WaShburn's outspoken
opposition to the interstate commission
law, and his illegitimate and ineXcusable
conduct i'll watering the 500 railroad Sc
curitleS under the name of income GER
tificateS to the amount of S15,000,000 or
more Ga matter so grave that it is re-
ported that the railroad commission
have turned the matter over
TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
for such action as may be properl, have
rendered his selection impossible. eX-
cept he can buy his way through, as
other railroad presidents have done in
less intelligent and less vigilant con-
stiuencies. And if he comes to help
WaShDurn, he comes as the agent of
New York capitalists and railroad men .
who are interested to have another vote
in the United States senate favorable to
the repeal OF the interstate commerce
law and opposed to any legislation look
ing to the control of the railroads by
congress in favor of the people. And
as a representative of Wall street and
president of several railroads, he will
not add to WaShburn's popularity or to
his own. If, however, he comes to
avenge the cause of his defeat at pre-
viouS election, he should commence
with William ID. Washburn, who hung
back and failed to exert any influence
in favor of Mr.. Window, hoping and eX-
pecting to profit by his defeat. Mr..
WINDOWS most earnest partisan in that
strife, Martin Chandler, and manager
OF his campaign, has repeatedly de-
clared ''if Washburn had eXerted HIM
self half as much in WINDOWS favor as
did Sabin he would have been easily
elected" That Sabin was his earnest
friend as long as there was any hope of
his election is not doubted by Mr.. Win
dom's most faithful supporters, and
they are the supporters of Senator
Sabin in the present contest. If Mr..
Window comes to Minnesota to avenge
an imaginary wrong. he will return TO
New York a wiser but sadder man.
REPUBLICAN.
From the convention that nominated
Abraham Lincoln and firm friend
of Hon. William Window.