St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-16
Independent Candidates Are
Being Hired to Enter the ]
Field Against Regulars.
Disreputable Tactics to Which
No Honest Democrat Will
Lend Himself.
Independent Clubs That Sell
Endorsements for a Cash
Consideration.

No Democrat should allow himself to
become tool of the Republican ring
sters, who are now at tempting to do by
fraud what they cannot accomplish i'll
any fair way.
During the past few days the Repub-
llcan managers. state and county, have
been devoting great deal of time and
attention to this county. The result of
heir fine work has been given each
evening in one of the party organs in
the shape of an announcement that this
or that Democrat has decided to enter
the field as an independent candidate.
One or two of the men who nave
fallen into the trap of the Republican
workers may be honest; some of them
certainly are not.
The Democratic county and legisla
tive conventions were fair and the men
who are thinking of setting aside their
DEGREES must expect to hear few plain
facts stated. The Democratic party is
very much greater than any one man,
and its welfare should not be jeOpar-
died because the selfish ambitions or
schemes of some one have been ignored
and set aside. There are some men
who believe the silly yarns whispered
into their ears by ward heelers
Who Are After Stuff;
these men will know more after cleo
ton.
No honorable man whose name was
before either the legislative or county
convention eau refuse to submit to its
DEGREES.
The man who. after being beaten in
conventions as fair as both OF those
were, runs for Office and jeopardizes the
n aAnrt ian, ~, o,.A,
shows by his actions that the collective
judgment of the members of his party
was right in his case.
1nl> is no time for boilers. and the
man who attempts thus to play into the
hands of the Republicans this year
should and will be forever OstraciZed
by the Democracy of this county. No
| mercy should be shown him, for he will
deserve none. Take the situation on
| the legislative ticket. The Democratic
| nominees are all men of high character
and good ability. Such ticket has
| not been presented the voters of
this county in years by any party.
The Republican organs at once conceded
its strength. the people were all
agreed that the character of the Repub-
| lcan nominees made the election of
| nearly the entire Democratic legislative
| ticket certain.
Such a condition of affairs made the
| heart of every true Democrat rejoice.
| for to him came the gratifying thought
| that the ten representatives from Ram
| Sey county would help choose man of
| the people to sit in the senate of the
| United States in the place of G. K.
| Davis. No true Democrat thought for
| moment that any man calling himself
Democrat would play into the hands
nf bo for nt 10 bnl In
| elect Republican member. After
| more than a week the announcements
began to appear and now there are two
| or three independent legislative candi-
| dates who dub themselves Democrats.
The strange feature of this affair is
| that so far
Not One Independent Republican
has entered tho field. Why are things
thus?
No Democrat was treated as Repre-
sentative AmeS and A. j. Hoban were
| in the Republican primaries in the Sec
ond ward. and yet neither of these will
run as independent candidates.
And why?
Simply because they prefer to swal-
| low their wrongs, great as they are,
rather than TO seem to jeopardlZe the
election of man who says he will vote
for c. K. Davis for United States SEN
| ator.
No Democratic legislative candidate
| in any ward of this city was treated as
| shamefully as the veteran DIR. j. H.
Murphy was by the Republican ma
chine leaders in the Third ward.
And yet DR.. Murphy is not an indie
pendent candidate. Not bit of it. He
| is ready to swallow his wrongs and Ill
| juries and disappointments for the sake
| of his party.
In view of the fair show the Demo-
| cratic aspirantS for nominations were
| given, what must loyal Democrats think
| of men who, while calling themselves
| Democrats, will lend themselves to the
| Republican ringsterS in their dirty at
| temptS to elect unworthy men to the
| legislature? No amount of argument
| will reinstate such men in the good
| opinion OF their fellow Democrats. For
| more than week past the two law
partners of Senator &. X. Davis have
| been working at this scheme of saving
| member of the legislature or two
| in Ramsey county. They have sent
'hired men" out to work upon the men
| who were defeated for legislative nomi-
nations in the Democratic convention.
Visions of their wrongs were unfolded
| to them and no effort spared to get them
| and neatly prepared.
In one case none of the men defeated
| in the convention would consider the
| scheme for a moment, and an outsider is
| being worked upon to enter the field,
What grievance a man who was not a
candidate before his party convention
can have will have to be Imagined.
When this is figured out proper esti-
mate of his Democracy can be made.
County Ticket, Too.
The same disreputable scheme is be-
ing worked in regard to the county.
ticket. Knowing that the rottenness of
their ticket has Disguised the voters.
the Republican fine workers. with their
unlimited stock of Doodle. have started
out to hire Democrats to enter the field.
hoping by this means to secure the
election of some of their candidates.
Forewarned is forearmed. and all the
Democrats need to do is to vote for the
regular Democratic nominees for every
office. In this way the men who would
inJure their party for Doodle can
be rebuked and the opposition
taught lesson at the same time.
Voting for man placed in
in the field by tine cash of the opposi-
ton is a good deal like confessing that
the independent candidate carries ones
vote in his pocket. prepared to sell it to
the enemy III case they desire to pur-
chase.
Rebuke both sides to Doodle deals of
this kind. There is one way to do it.
and just one way. 1t is:
Vote the straight Democratic ticket.
Dan LAWYER is going to be the next
governor of this state.
Send ten steunch Democrats 10 the
lower house of the legislature to uphold
him i'll his efforts to give the people OF
this state the reforms they demand, ami
which they nave been promised
1t is good time 10 retire the men who
will betray their party for money.
independent Clubs.
In several wards of this city there ex-
iSt organizations which style themselves
'independent clubs" iney are for no
candidate aiTii for no party uGtii they or
their officers are paid a cash consider
alton, Sometimes thu, entire n, m her