The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14

At the close of fierce defense of
Mr.. Crossfield, of Traverse County,
Member of the late legislature, the
Browns Valley Tribune says:
"The GREAT WEST holds Mr.. Cross
field up and points to him as the
worst possible enemy of the farmers
and labor classes. In regard to
which We have this to say: The
Tribune has known Mr.. Crossfield
personally for number of years, and
whatever may be his faults-no man
is perfect-we know him to be one of
the truest and most staunch friends
the farmers have, and as proof of
this fact, we refer the GREAT WEST
editor to any of Mr.. Crossfield's
farmer acquaintance with whom he
has had dealings. He is the poor
mans friend-is generous to a fault
and will divide his last dollar with
deserving one in need.
If the GREAT WEST is honest in it's
claims, and as the party organ of
the Farmers Alliance of Minnesota,
hopes to create a great political re-
form, it has certainly pursued the
wrong course when it maliciOusly as
sails the characters of honorable
men. Ii, on the other hand, it is sim
| ply the mud-machine of a little gang
OF brainless soreheads, it is filling it's
mission we'll"
This philippe is one of the most
righteous accusations ever flung at
this paper. We consume the whole
OF it with avidity and cry for more.
This paper holds up Mr.. Crossfield as
at least a representative of the worst
class of American citizens-and one
of the worst of representatives.
The Browns Valley Tribune can give
us no pointers on this mans career
his calibre-his political unsoundness
or the effort made to boost him up
in order that the Alliance interests
might be downed. We care nothing
for that clap-trap about what his
friends say-or his dividing his last
dollar-every politician in America
has got down to dividing his last
nickel! A man who gets thousands
can afford to divide one The rot
has become offensive-let us have a
man who don't divvy so much!
If condemnation of corrupt men
men who go about the country cor
rupting the press and buying Sin
fluence'' by the acre, is malice, then
the GREAT WEST is intensely mali
cious-so awfully malicious that it
would land the Crossfields into the
penitentiary. And handcuffed to po-
litical villains OF this stripe, we would
put the editors who roll their eyeballs
with delight over the liability" with
which he turned the tide by a con-
summate villiany never before carried
on in this state, into the same institu-
ton.
We are only too glad to have a pa
per locate one of these viprous de-
bauchers of American politics-one
of these prisoners of public honor
and purchasers of sentiment-one
who comes into Pope County and de-
bauches it's public press with $25 to
put forward a railway robber in a
county where there were not as
many Washburn men as he paid dol
lars!
As to the fight being narrowed
down to Washburn or Sabin, the
vertebrated vermicule who gets off
such slush is both cunning and de-
PRAYED. "Narrowed?' Why mar
rowed? There were two hundred
thousand men in Minnesota eligible
for the senatorship. And two hun
dred thousand men who had not
betrayed their fellowmen. A man
represents his constituents to vote
for honest men-and not to make a
choice between the "choice" of other
people. The dirty rot of that mar
rowing philosophy is too old, and
dishonest, and debauched to do SER
vice even of an efigy. 1t was Mr.
Crossfeld's business to vote for an
honest MAINLAND let other men vote
for whomsoever they pleased. In
stead of that he went booming about
the state to put in the very man, of
all the men in Minnesota, who had
proved unfaithful. He was not CON-
PEELED to so vOte-he made it a bust
ness to get other people to vote.
Some people have called the occupa-
ton by very loathsome name of
four letters. We prefer to treat these
men fairly by simply putting the