St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-19
JOBS FOR TRAITORS.
Desperate Game Of Republi-
cans to Gain Control of
the State Senate.
Profitable Offices Offered Al
lance Senators Who Will
Take the Bait.
Senator Davis Little Scheme
to Secure the Desired Re-
Election.
Republican Workers Very
Sore at Sops Thrown to
Capture Soreheads.


senate who will join the Republicans in
the fight for Senator Davis seat can
secure a job. and a profitable one at
that. on the Red Lake Indian reServa-
ton.
This is exactly the situation of affairs
at present in slate politics, and it now
looks as though several of the granger
senators may be caught by the glitter
ing bait. At least two of them have
been approached, and several more are
on the hook. As has been appar-
ent for some time past. the
work of surveying and allotting
the Red Lake reservation lands is being
made political job from start to finish,
and no man has up to this time been
appointed to even the smallest position
unless the managers thought him a
useful man in politics.
But now it seems that there few
good places being held for use in the
next senatorial election: at least, that
Interpretation is placed DpOn this at
tempted conversion of Alliance men by
the Republican managers. and the work
eTs of the party are not slow in manifest
ing their diSapprOYal of the scheme. All
the venerable l.. G. Wood, of the
Fifty second district. which is composed
OF the counties of KittSon and Marshall.
Senator Wood was one OF the
Staunchest Alliance Men
in the senate at the recent session, and
if he is caught by the Republican
anglers others may follow his example
and be caught with fat bats also. The
fOTlOvtinU aliODinu from tbQ Marshall
County Leader. published at Stephen,
will partly explain the situation:
Senator Wood has been offered the position
of examiner Of surveys in the Red Lake In
dian reseryauOn.-WarrenR Register.
All, ha, Hon. L. G. Wood, the Farmers
Alliance senator, to have one of the latest OF
the luscious Offices under the control OF
Republican administration? Think of ii, ye
valiant Republican braves who led your
struggling ranks of political debility against
the cohorts of the Alliance army last No
Vember. Are some of your heroic
leaders selling your b;rthright-the little
plumS-that they may be insured their own ad-
Vancement by a combination with the AL
lance dictatOrs If Mr.. Wood has really been
rendered the position, through whose III
fluence was the tender made? Surely none
of those who are popularity supposed to con
troll the patronage of the state. such men as
Senators Davis and Washburn, Gov. Mer-
Tiam. Comstock ct al, would desert the
pIluGlp pies VI lAtiI parry W Nulig AafOl WIN
this ridiculous upstart CT party, as it has
been termed. for the mere sake OF featherlng
their own nests. And yet it does SAVIOR OF a
sensational trade, doesn't it?
All. There. Davis.
Is Senator Davis connected with this
attempted dicker with the Alliance SEN
atOrs?
If he is. the workers who have
been standing by the Republican
party through thick and thin want to
know it; the leaders who are fighting
for new lease of power in the state
want to know it also, because they are
anxious to punish a man who could be
guilty of such shOrt-sightedness in pol
itics; and, last of all. the common peo-
pie or the state who are not after the
offices want TO know if Senator Davis is
behind such a deal, because they want
to Tebuke such methods.
This is another example of lack of
gumptiOn or common sense on some
body's part" said a disguised Republi-
can senator at the Merchants yester-
day; land if Senator Davis is concerned
in it he ought to be defeated. Any man
who knew anything at all about politics
would know that the securing of Woods
vote in this way would be considered
the same as if so much money were paid
for it. 1t is an indirect bride. and that
Is all there is of it. 1t would have the
effect of renewing the hostility of the
farmers to the party and would. in the
end. be good thing for the Alliance"
And then there is another point to
be considered in this matter" contin-
ned the speaker, land it is simply this:
Is it fair for the Republicans to disre-
gard the CLAIMS of their own men, and
give the good offices to such men as Pat
Rahilly and this man Wood, who has
been in all parties that have ever been
in existence in his time? don't think
it is. | believe that
The Good Things
should be given to those who are with
us. | am disguised with such meth
DDS"
mo benefit to the Republican party
can be gained from trades like this
Wood DEAL" said ex-senator Buchanan
yesterday. land | am surprised to hear
this report. The best thing the Repub-
lican party can do is to leave the Alli-
ance senators alone and go to saving
wood. There is considerable to be done
If the state is to be carried next year"
Senator l.. q. Wood, the Alliance
senator mentioned above, was on both
the Democratic and Alliance tickets in
his district a year ago, and was elected
by vote of 1854 to LII cast for his
Republican opponent. Hon. II. o. Han
son. He is siXty-eight years of age and
native of New York. He was formerly
a GreenbackeT, and has been a Repub-
lican. Democrat and PrOhibitiOnst in
his time. A pronounced low tariff adj
vOcate, as well as a wOrShiper of the
silver barons, it is difficult to see how
he can accept this office at the hands of
the Republicans. If he does do so the
trade will be so apparent that the ALI
ance cause will become stronger on that
account.
There sre two more Alliance senators
who can also have lucrative positions if
they will accept, but one of them, at
least, will decline to bite, and will re-
main where he was last session. 1t is
evidently the intention of the Republic
an leaders to have control of the senate
before January, 1892. They need three
more votes, and they will come very
near having them.
What do the sturdy and honest Alli-
ance men think of this sehems?
bow do the Republican workers like
the idea of the Alliance men securing
tine plnms?
And, lastly, what do the people of the
state, aside from politics, think of such
a barter and sale?
All these queries will be answered in
1892.