St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-11
How the Republican Commit
tee Distributed Doodle
Two Years Ago.
For Every Cent Contributed
by Local Candidates They
Gave an Equal Sum.
Thirty-Eight Thousand Dol
lars Contributed by Rail-
roads at Chicago.
Are the Same Tactics to Win
the State Government
Next Month?

Is the state of Minnesota to be pur-
chased by the agents, protectors and de-
tenders of the great wheat ring this
year?
This is the question that now con-
fronts the people. As things stand to-
day the Republican party is defeated
and the managers of the party know it.
Heroic remedies are required, and they
are to be invoked.
If money will buy the state it is to be
bought.
A meeting of the heads of the various
county committees has been called by
the Republican state central committee,
and those who know of a similar meet
ing held two yeare ago know what this
a
In the campaign Of 1890 the Republi-
can leaders, a few weeks before the
election, became convinced that unless
something was done to turn the tide
the state was gone. At once they
started out men 10 raise money and Il
meeting of the county chairmen was
called. At this meeting the situation
was canvassed and the proposition
made that the state central committee
would duplicate every dollar raised by
local candidates throughout the state.
go back to your county and tell the
men on your county ticket thai for
every dollar they contribute the state
committee will contribute the same
amount" was the inspiring way the
state committee talked.
These men returned to their bones
and started out. In Polk county So, 900
was raised and the state committee APP
propriated 5000. Otter Tail county's
candidates contributed nearly 81, 900 and
the state committee handed over as
large an amount. And so it worked
more, Olmsted. Winona, Houston,
Mower and many others raised very
large sums. and the state central com
mittee promptly made good their prom
iSes.
But how was this money raised?
OF course, the amounts contributed
by friends of the candidates for state
offices, and particularly of the nominee
for governor, are difficult TO ascertain,
but there was a fund raised in Chicago
among the railroads whose offices are
there, but whose lines run into this
state, the magnitude OF which will sur
prise the people of this state and at the
same time demonstrate to their Satisfac-
tiOii ti0b III INCpuUiiCdli liilS vi 1iiiilS-
sofa is and has long been the protector
of these great corporate interests. AS
soon as it had been decided that a great
corruption fund must be raised a pyomi-
nent railroad officer of this city was
SEM to Chicago. He went to the vari-
ious railway offices and placed the Stu
alton before them. He declared that
unless the Republican committee was
supplied with funds their ticket was
doomed to defeat.
You had better do your fighting
now" he said. than during the coming
session of the legislature, for unless the
state IS carried the Republicans will
lose the governor"
This statement of the situation was
effective, and in two days the sum Off
S3S, 900 was raised. How this money
was spent is told in part by the history
of the Polk county campaign told in
another column. Although this sum is
but a small portion of the corruption
fund raised, this added to the contribu-
tiOnS made in the counties by caudi-
dates would make no less than &c. 900.
Are these tactics TO win this year
again?