St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-01

Of their own in voting. They cannot
read or write, or speak word of Eng
lish. 1t is simply at the command of
Pengilly that they are to vote. with
the entire voting machinery at his COM
mand Pengilly thinks he can vote them.
No attention has been paid to the law
i'll providing judges from different
political parties. In Ely, out of
the eighteen judges in the six
precincts there are only two
Democrats; all therest are Republicans.
In Soudan, understand, the election
judges are all Republicans. A gang
that will run i'll Illegal voters and pack
the election boards will not hesitate to
stuff the ballot boxes.
Complete intimidation.
But one might ask why don't the
Democrats put in challengers in every
precinct to watch the vote cast and the
counting of it? Why don't they, in
deed? Mr.. Baldwin informs me that in
Ely he cannot find men to act as chal-
lengerS. There are Democrats in Ely,
but they dare not take an active part in
behalf of the Democratic ticket. The
same is true of the Populists. Whether
a man is an employe OF the company or
engaged in business for himself, he is
in either case at the mercy of
the Selwoods and Pengillys. He can
either submit to their dictation or get
out of the place forthwith. The iron
company owns the town and exercises
despotism over everybody in the town.
Now that is a fine place and those are
fine conditions for the exercise OF the
free and honest suffrage for which Sen
atOr &. *. Davis SO pathetically pleads.
Suppose that the fraudulent slave vote
of Soudan and Ely should be the de-
termining factor in electng three Re-
publican representatives. from st. Louis
county to the state legislature. Suppose
again that those three votes should de-
termine the reelection of Davis to the
United States senate. | wonder if he
would still continue to lift up his voice
for fair and honest elections, and
whether he would be in favor of some
kind of force bill that would destroy
the political rdscality and despotism of
these Cornish bosses on the Fermilion?
Prosecutions VIII Follow
There has been disposition on the
part of the Democratic party at large in
Minnesota to let their friends in st.
Louis county look after these gigantic
frauds. But it is a matter which con-
Germs the entire state ticket 1t may
decide the state election, as it has al
ready done on two occasions. The
Democrats of Duluth will do all they
can to take care of the NermiliOn pre-
cincts, but it is an extraordinary task.
1t takes time and men and money even
to get at these evidences. Soudan is
ninety miles from Duluth, while Ely is
115 miles. Think of Democrats of Ram
sey or Henuepin counties having to
look after dozen precincts hundred
miles away, domineered by an all
powerful boss who holds the entire
community in absolute terror.
There isn't any question that the
frauds in registration are already com
mitted. Whether the attempt to secure
Democratic challengerS at the polls can
be made successful is a question. Ii
they cannot be secured the vote from
the Vermlion will be just what the
necessities of the Republicans require.
They Will return whatever majority is
necessary to elect the Republican ticket
i'll st. Louis county, and possibly in the
state. But they want to look out for
one thing; if any ndmber of Illegal
votes are cast, somebody is going to the
penitentiary. There are trusted men
now at work securing all the evidence
that is necessary to establish who are
legal voters and who are not. Possibly
the victims may be some poor Austrian
or Finn miners, but that is their look
out. Prosecution after election may
not help the Democrats, SO far as this
campaign is concerned, but l have an
idea that when the next election comes
around things will be different. The
illegal voter will recall to his mind GER
tain ''horrible examples" and he will
hesitate long before he concludes to in
vite the penalties of the Australian bal
lot law.