St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-11
Some Abuse 1t, While Others
Warn the Party Leaders
to Beware.
The Changers Are Doing a
Little Editing Themselves
These Days.
Few County Papers Swallow
Both Republican Platform
and Ticket.

that very soon, the regulation majority
in many of their heretofore banner
counties will be wanting on election
day. This state of affairs is RESPONSE
bic for the many plans sprung by the
Merriam organs at the dictation Of their
master during the past two weeks, all
of which have for their aim the
crushing of the Alliance movement.
The organs, from the Pioneer Press
down to the meanest of the subsidized
press, have made the most of the Pc
eullar antics of Ignis Fatuus Donnelly
and his Great West. In addition to this,
it has been given out cold that all the
abuse and vituperation possible are to
be rained on the devoted heads of those
men who refuse to bow low before the
men now in control of the Republican
organization of the state. Many of the
dyed-in-thewool party papers have
followed the lead of the chief
Merriam organ in this and have
published their full quota of
misrepresentation and falsehoods. But
for the first time IN the history of the
state less than halt of the newspapers
in Minnesota decline to take their
orders from the Republican managers,
if not it's share, yet goodly number
of papers that do not hesitate to openly
support the Alliance cause. Again,
there are number of local papers in
which the Alliance has column of its
own, edited by some Well-infOrmed and
competent member.
Indeed, the weekly papers of the state
are assuming an air OF independence
this year which BODIES i'll to the bosses
and their banker candidate. The editor
of the Waseca Radical, who is one of
the brightest newspaper men i'll the
state, has written the following clever
answer to the charge that he had topped
to the Democrats or the Alliance:
As for Hopping that depends upon what
you understand by the word. If you mean
honest and right then we have for some
years 'hopped," but if you mean supporting
the Democratic party, or the Alliance party,
blindly and eternally, right or wrong, as you
and many editors do the Republican party,
then there is no Hopping and no preparing
to flop. See! We propose to say in our paper
Just what we deem right aud fair even if it
doesn't tally exactly with the latest
Republican or any mans doctrine.
On the great principles upon which the
Republican party was founded we think we
are just as sound as we ever were, and we
never expect to flop from them; but when
it comes TO prostitutng that great party and
principles 10 a Shiny, low-down scramble for
office, as is done in this state and this county.
we hope to be allowed the Liberty to ''SloSh
around" like others of the boys some of
whom, so-called leaders in this county, have
been known heretofore to support even
Democratic candidates Tor governor, and
oftentimes Democratic candidates for county
office. See, John!'
Editor Ellis, of the Faribault County
Register. hits the nail on the head when
he inquiries how the Merriam organs
can expect to help their man by the
abuse they are heaping upon the ALI
ance movement and its candidates.
1.-The Merriam organs are everlast-
ingly jumping on the Farmers Alli-
ance since that organization did not
see fit to nominate Merriam's tool,
Donnelly, for governor" says the Regis
ter Not that they can say aught
against S. NJ. Owen or the other Ali
ance nominees, for they are above re-
proach, but by endeavoring to belittle
the organization in different ways. But
how can they hope to elect Merriam by
singing mud in the faces of farmers
who dare cut loose from the old parties
and put up a ticket that will repre-
sent their own interest? Such work on
the part of these organs ought only
to set the farmers to thinking and look
ing into the matter. Merriam has moth
ing to recommend him to the farmers of
the state, and his organs know this and
think they can create dissatisfaction in
the Farmers Alliance by their dirty
and unealled-tor filings. But the ALI.
ance ticket is in the field to stay, not as
an auxiliary to the Republican or Demo-
cratic parties, but they have taken a
decided stand of their own and will
fight it out OH this line"
Whenever the Merriam organs grow
weary of abusing the Alliance they
turn their kind attention to the Democ-
| racy and endeavor to stir up factional
| fight in that organization. A Mime
apOliS morning supporter of the pres
ent governor, for instance, has ''diScov-
cred" the remarkable fact that there
are two factions IN the Democratic
party of Minnesota. Their names are
even more remarkable than anything
else. One is dubbed the AmeS-Durant-
| Smith faction and the other the Kelly
| an-Wilson faction. The absurd
combinations named above are quite
sufficient to give the ''fake"-
| for that is all the story is
matter is there are no factions to lis
turb the Democracy of the North Star
| state in the coming contest of princi-
| Piles. Every Democrat realizes that this
| is no time for selfish quarrelS, and there
| will be none. The Sank Rapids Free
| Press sizes the situation up about right
when it says:
| just on the eve of battle, when it becomes
| apparent that the Democratic party of Min
nesota has a fighting chance to win. political
bosses begin to show their hands ana stir up
| dissension. The party has had enough OF
| bossism, and, if continued it will be easy tO
| guess upon which rock the party will split
| 1t is but fair to warn these would-be leaders
| that the body of the Democratic party
| throughout the state nave had enough boss
| die tation and boss rule or ruin. Let such
men keep their hands off, curb their ambi
| ton for time and join with the rank ano
| file in common unity to down the leaders OF
| party whose corrupt methods and reliance
| on Doodle is a direct blow at political free
| dom and an honest vote. Let no Democrat
| place straw in the way of Democratic vic
| tory this fall.
Senator Henry Keller, of Sank Center
has announced himself candidate fol
the Democratic nomination for the state
senate in StearnS county, and has com
menced a characteristic campaign. Hon
d. L. Calhoun, an able young lawyer OF
st. Cloud, is said to be also candidate
| Whichever is successful, the Democracy
of Stearns can rest assured of gooC
| representative.
What is the matter with Senator
| Hoard
His paper, the Montevideo Leader, il
| just now exhibiting strangely independ
ent symptoms in speaking of the Repub
lican state ticket. In its last issue Gen
Gordon E. Cole and the late convention
were turned over in the following
cauStic manner:
The late Republican state convention wai
a comparatively tame atfair-a sort of cut
and-dried affair that did just about what Il
was told to do and ask no questions for con
sciences sake. AS to the platform, it was
what might be expected with Gordon E. Cole
for wet nurse The tariff plank. for instance
| points with PRIDE i'll all conceivable direc
tons. and declares for-well, for anything oil
| nothing, as you please. Cole is a great law
1 yer. n great Republican, a great tariff re