The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-15
1t was a Square Fight Against
the Railroad.
What it Means.
The Duplicity Of the Purchas-
ed Press

The Duplicity Of the Purchas-
ed Press.
The ineffable nonsense of the daily
press of both parties concerning the
Iowa election is thrilling in the ex-
IRENE. Unwilling to let the people
know what is the matter with the
"Old machine" they tell us that
"Prohibition has done tits a
downer on prohibition!
If there is any possible method of
taking another vote on prohibition
in Iowa we wish they would do SO.
Because majority for that measure
of from 60, 900 to 10000 would settle
the matter and make the ridiculous
ness of the monopolistic press visible
to a blind man.
No reader of the GREAT WEST need
remain in doubt as to why this land
slide. 1t has been a square fight
against the railroads. Iowa had
spoken on the subject through the
Farmers Alliance. They demanded
redress. They already knew the
party in power in every state where
they dared, had bowed down to
Louis Schade, Sec'y of the Brewers
Congress, and was evidently under
the pay of the railway kings. SO
they demanded a clean-cut, uneQuiv-
oil To
ton in Iowa.
Did they get it? Yes they did!
clean cut-clear as crystal-convinc-
ing-damning Hutchinson, a man
whose life and motives had been that
of a paid tool of the railways, was
nominated governor, and the sub
serviency of the republican party
to the giant ring clearly stated.
The Farmers Alliance at once enter
ed the field-non-partisan-andfoo floor
ed the entire republican gang. Mr..
Clarkson, a man who with two 9th
ers, stole the subscription list OF
New York prohibition paper-orpaid
$3.50 for the stealing thereof, goes
down with the gang; and it is doubt
ed if Sen. Allison is not also wrecked.
To say that prohibition did this is
a toy which these daily-press idiots
toss from one to another! What's
the matter with Ohio, where the re-
publican party was officially endors-
ed by the Saloon Associations? And
yet, Ohio was swept by a whirlwind,
and carried into the democratic
ranks!
Never in our political history, have
we rejoiced more over a defeat and
humiliation. On the basis of politi-
cal purity and justice, the democra-
tic and republican parties both were
built in those yore-days Both be-
came worm-eaten and rotten-both
need the chastisement of defeat.
This lesson, violent as it is, teaches
the old moths, who live on what
others have produced, that a day of
reckoning comes.
Now, farmers of Minnesota!
They tell you to be non-partisan
This is the lesson given you by the
plutocrat and political hireling.
Better the instruction farmers-go it
two better! Be non-partisan-be so
confoundedly non-partisan as to turn
your back on both parties Forget
that they exist. When a democrat
asks you for fealty to the old time
honored traditions THAT word must
come from "trades") look him in the
mouth and ask him-Democrat, dem
ocrat? What is that? Is it manure
from my land, or-Oh yes, it's thenew
kind of winter overshoe-yes, bring
us some!
When a republican comes, with
his neutrality-suspicious. smile
crawling around from the back of
his neck, and says, "Neouw, Brother
Grimes, for the sake of the glorious
past, the high-jig-a-maree, you know
-the-of course you will stand by
usv'-just put your thumb on your
nose, and cry, "Non-partisan, Mr.
Two-for-a-cent, non-partisan, you
knOw!"
Now for Minnesota!
Down the miserable hounds who
are SO anxious to be patted on the
back by the gang.
The PlutOcPatS are NOn-Pap-