New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-05-21

4 Jlt1SSu lHGO cntCGd @0E passenger TaLe
from Chicago to st. Paul and Minnea
polls, first.class limited. This is getting
down to pretty low figures
= Since the recent election IN St. Paul
i the influence of the Pioneer Press, once
great and powerful, amounts to moth
ing, No matter what causeit espouses
the papers go for it on the groundtha
it is not actuated by a spirit of indie
pendence but rather by selfish love
for money.
Interviews with leading republican.
! here reveal the fact that McGill's little
dodge won't work in this vicinity worth
a straw. It is altogether too weak and
thin for man, seeking the position thai
he does, and we are not of the opinion
| that it will meet with any greater favor
| elsewhere than in Brown county, where
McGill once had many friends and
staunch supporters. On the other hand
Merriam is well thought OF, and his
denomination would strike a chord in
the minds Of the majority members Of
the party. His administration is
looked upon as clean and able, worthy
and sound. It has above all the tone,
OF independence and that is what the
people like. 1t is not run in the inter-
ests of a set of scheming politicians
and for that reason is meeting with
special favor.
The election in ST.. Paul under the
Australian plan was an expensive af-
fair. 81, 1886 for judges and clerks, and
$1,000 for booths. OF a4total of $17, 935.
The city went democratic as usual, al
though by somehow decreased MAORI.
ties. If extended throughout the en-
tire state the cost of holding an election
would be increased tenfold at a very
moderate estimate No wonder the
people are not hankering after it to anv
great extent. Hastings GAZETTE.
The above can hardly receive our en-
dorsement. IT'S true the system is ex-
pensive, but what of it? What is good
for our politics, is worth paying for,
and the idea, that the people do not
banker after it to any great extent,
seems to us to be a mistaken one.
About here it is looked upon as just
the thing, and nearly every body, who
is not afraid of losing strength thereby,
believes in extending it.
When an outspoken democratic pa
per attempts to give advice to the OPP
posite party, people generally let it go
for naught and take no stock in what
it SAYS. For the same reason, they
should not be deceived by such jour
nails as the St. Paul News, sailing un-
der the guise of independent republi-
canism, but at heart as democratic as
the most PARTISAN in the state. It's
editor, Hall, is Democrat from top to
bottom; he was brought up on demo-
cratic instruction and nourished and
fattened upon democratic principles
until there isn't a republican hair on
the top of his scalp. When such man
seeks to give republicans advice, and
makes an effort to direct the policy of
the party that he hates, it is time to
call halt. He does it all with the
view of helping his democratic breth.
rem, and that republican is dppe who
will listen to his democratic and parti-
san utterances even for moment.
The St. Paul Volkszeitung, like other
democratic journals, is trying hard to
stir up an i'll feeling among the farmers
towards the republican party by alledg-
! ing that the coming convention was set
for an early date with the express pur.
pose of excluding the farmers. That
the Volkszeitung's little scheme won't
work is evident, when one stops to con-
slider, that there is not grain of either
truth OF. common sense to back it. It's
all democratic bosh and gusto, and If
the democratic papers would fora mo
ment take the trouble to look into the
matter, or if they knew the least thing
regarding farmers leisure moments,
they would not write as they do. In
the first instance, a better time than
the latter part of July could
hardly be selected. That brings the
caucuses and county conventions, the
only meetings THE farmers really need
to attend, early in July or at a season
when there is nothing to do. # the
convention had been set month later,
the caucuses and county gatherings
would fall right in the middle of har-
vest and not half the farmers would be
able to attend that will naturally mani
fest an interest under the present cir
cumstances. And right in this connec-