St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-24
OPPOSED TO RING RULE.

OfIOSED HI RING hU LIE.
In 1890, but two years ago, $4,000 vot-
erS cast their ballots for S. M. OWEN
for governor. Mr.. OWEN represented
protest against the Republican legisla-
ton and the policy that had been pur-
sued by the Republican party in Mime
sofa. He represented further the tariff
reform idea. He represented a lower
rate of taxation by the federal govern
ment, and not one so burdensome upon
the masses of people. he represented
the principle that the government has
no right to levy tax upon one class of
people and put it into abe pockets of
another class. In state affairs he repre-
scented free and open market for all of
the products of the farm. He repre-
scented the wish of these $4,000 people
that change should be had in the oc-
cupants of the state house and in the
policies that prevailed therein.
OF this $4,000 voters, more than $4,000
had Heretofore voted with the Repub-
lican party, but they saw that the Re
publican party in the nation had ceased
to be the party of LINCOLN, and GRANT.
and GARFIELD, but had become the
party of QUAY, and PLATT, and DUB
LEY, and CARNEGIE; that the party had
ceased to be the party of humanity,
and had become the party of a ring of
robbers. They had seen that the party
with whom they had been acting for
many years in this state had become
the prey of plunderers, and that in the
name of that party the people Of this
state had failed to receive justice at the
hands of their public officials. They
had further learned that even Repub-
lican had no rights that the cabaI of
politicians headed by the MERRIAMs,
PILLsBURYS, WASHBURNs and the like,
were bound to respect. They had
learned that the offices, which properly
belonged to the people of the state,
were Systematically farmed out to favor
ties of this cabal, or sold, as in the case
of the governorship for the last two
terms, to the highest bidder in cash.
1t was against this condition of affairs
in the nation and state that these $4,000
men, largely Republican, cast their
votes as a solemn protest.
These men made but one mistake.
They were right III their impulses, they
were correct in their principles, but
they threw away their votes upon CAN
didate whose election was impossible,
Its power in Minnesota. Judge WILL
SON. the Democratic candidate and the
champion Of the people upon all the
questions involved in that campaign.
came within few hundred votes of an
election. He could easily have been
elected. and the $4,000 people who were
that reform ere this.
A like condition confronts the people
of this state today. The wheat ring,
which embraces more than the handling
of wheat for it Is ring which has its
clamps upon the lumber and the iron
mines of the state, with headquarters in
the state house, and with state officials
as members and obedient toolS), has
its candidates in the field, under
whose reign, if elected, the robbery of
the people will continue. A majority
of more than $4,000 people of this sta tie
agree upon their opposition to the QUAY
and CARNEGIE rule in the nation, and
the MERRIAM and PILLsBURY rule in
the state, but they are in danger of re-
peating the folly committed two years
ago. of dividing their forces.
Either Mr.. HARRISON, whose admin
istration is in the hands of QUAY and
WANAMAKER and CARNEGIE, with his
MCKINLEY tariff and still higher
tariff to come. will continue and pre-
vail, or Mr.. CLEVELAND, the foremost
American citizen, with lower taxation
and better government, will succeed.
One or the other of these must occur.
The third party has mo show what
ever, either in the state or the nation.
The man who casts his vote for Mr..
WEAVER for president simply throws
it away, and helps to continue the pres
ent condition of things in the nation.
The same is true of this state. Either
Mr.. NELSON will be made governor, and
the ring, whose tool he is, will be con-
tinued in power so far as the state gov
eminent is concerned, or Mr.. LAWYER
and the reformation demanded will sue
coed.
Mr.. DoNNELLY has no more show of
being elected governor than has Tom
JONES, who is not candidate. Every
vote cast for Mr.. DoNNELLY is half a
vote cast for KNUTE NELSON, ''the little
Norwegian" puppet of the ring. If the
members of the Farmers Alliance and
of the Peoples party of this state de-
| sire change of government. there Is
one way, and but one way,:they can get
| it, and that is to vote for Mr.. LAWYER.
| If these same gentlemen desire change
in the policy of the general government,
there is but one way they can get that,
and that is to cast their vote solidly for
! GROVER CLEVELAND.
| SINCE it became known that the cholera
microbe revels in filth, the Hon. JOSEPH
CANNON hasn't been heard from Presum-
| olN1 1D,> ;ec
| ing his mouth corked and taking no chances.
| BECAUSE quarantine was originally an Ital-
| ian word is no reason why its Americanized
| meaning should not be vigorously impressed
on immigrants from that country.
| FROM Moman-God bless hert-Mr NIL