St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-27
Wheelep's Grain Gambling
Will Not Go Down With
the Farmer,
And the Hawkeye State Is
Solidly in the Democratic
PhalanX.
From Every Hamlet Comes
the Prophecy of a Sweep
ing Triumph.

ing Triumph.
EOES MONIES, To-, Oct. 26.-The cam
paign in Iowa, which ends in week,
will result in the reelection of Gov.
Horace Boies, the probable election of
The entire Democratic state ticket, and
the control of the legislature The only
candidate on the state ticket who is at
all in doubt is that of railroad commits
sioner. But if the selection of this Off
cial is to be determined by fitness of the
candidates Peter A. Dey, the Demo
cratic nominee, will have a majority
equal to that of his colleagues upon the
ticket. A special appeal, however, has
been made to the farmers to keep in
Office the present incumbent for the
reason that he was upon the board when
the present commissioners schedule of
freight rates was adopted, and he
ought, therefore. to be continued.
But Mr.. Dey was also a member of
the board. is just as heartily in favor of
the maintenance of just and reasonable
rates, and is possessed of much wider
knowledge of the intricate question of
railway control than any of the present
members of the board, and is withal
gentleman Of the highest personal in
tegrity. How much the farmers may
have been Influenced by this cry of the
Republican politicians who are striving
TO save this comparatively unimportant
office from the general disaster that will
Overwhelm them one week from Tues
day is matter of conjecture only. But
1T does not seem probable that the cry
will be effective.
Just now the farmers are interested
in another matter of such tranScendent
Importance that everything else is lost
sight of. 1t has been discovered that
Farmer Wheeler. the Republican
candidate for governor, is said 10 be an
extensive Spectator on the Chicago
board of trade. This is practice that
has been condemned for years by the
Alliance and other organizations.
Scarcely a farmers convention has been
held n,lOWa since the great Jack Stur-
gis deal in the early '70's-which re-
suited in the failure of the Cook County
National bank. carrying with it b. +.
Aliens bank in this city, which affected
many of the smaller banking institu-
tionS in different parts Of the state and
swept away the priyaA, accommodations
of many men in modeT,te meanS-that
has not denounced in picturesque but
forceful language the evils that grow
out OF grain gambling.
Republicans Regret His Nominal
ton.
If 1t had been thought at the time of
the Republican state convention that
Mr.. Wheeler was in the habit of specu-
lating in options, he could not have
bought the nomination with the wealth
of Carnegie. The Republican managers
know that it is impossible to elect a
man to any important office who is a
patron of the bucket shops, and, if they
could at the eleventh hour of this cam
paign get any reasonably prudent and
prominent man to accept the place, they
would probably take Mr.. Wheeler off
the tickht and put some other fellow up.
This, however, is out of the question,
hence Mr.. Wheeler has been directed to
make such denial of the charge as his
conscience and the fear of proof TO the
contrary would permit. The denial is
not one calculated to make the Repub-
lican heart beat with pride. 1t is a de-
NAL that does not deny. Mr.. Wheeler
says over his OWN name that he ''is not
dealer i'll options Oh the Chicago
board
But it will be seen that this is direct
evasion of the charge. The committee
of farmers who had this investigation in
hand knew too we'll that Mr.. Wheeler
was too busy adjusting his campaign to
the ''DOcks-Of-five plaH," adopted by
him soon after his nomination, to con-
tinue TO watch the movements of the
ticker They did not expect to catch
him in the midst of a deal while the
campaign was at its height. They thought
that grain speculation, like his famous
5000 diamond pin. would be laid aside
until after election, and i'll that they
were doubtless correct. But let Mr..
Wheeler be more explicit anu declare
that he has never made grain gambling
a practice and see how soon he will be
over med with evidence.
II essence in Chicago at this time
is II t for the purpose of discover
s1g I.!uch information was obtained
5 committee, and whether it would
be safe for him to make sweeping de
NAL of the charge. If he cannot obtain
all the information he needs from his
brokers in the board of trade building
let him go to the firm OH KinZit street.
and then he will no doubt ponder over
the matter Il good while before lie will
put forth denial that Will be shown at
once to not coincide with the facts.
How About Public Education?
One other thing that will do Mr..
Wheeler incalculabie injury from now
until election is his positive opposition
to the system of public education. He
is opposed to free schools OH principle,
and has never been backward III eX-
pressing his opposition. He will not
patrOniZe them himself and for years
he protested against paving the school
tax levied against his property in Sac
county. He insists that the question of
education should be solved by the
parent, and not by the state. and that
taxes levied for the support of schools
are an unjust burden upon all who do
not want TO use them.
In Iowa our splendid school system,
maintained at cost of many millions
yearly, is close TO the hearts of the PEG
pie, and he is in dangerous business,
indeed, who openly denounces it, The
revelation of these things has thrown
the Republican managers into a state
of panic from which they will not re-
cover. The situation now resembles
that OF two years ago, after the corpora
ton record of Candidate Hutchinson had
been given to the people and he had
declared in a public speech that he had
no apology to make for his course in the
legislature.
They Admit Their Defeat.
1t was after this deliverance that Sen
ator Allison and "Tama jim" Wilson
held a conference and reached the con-
clusion that Hutchison's jig was up.
Smewd politicians like Allison have
known for some time that Mr.. Wheeler
has no chance of election, and they have
not hesitated to say so. If there was