St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-27
DEFEND FRAUD.
Republican Organs Still En-.
gagged in Attempting to
Parry the Blow,
But the Farmers Refuse to Be.
lieve Their Claim That No
Ring Exists.
Peculiar Resolutions Passed
at a Republican Legisla-
tive Convention.
What the Defense of the Milo
ers' Ring Cost the Party
Six Years Ago.
How Allen Marvel Brought
the Ring to Time Back
in 1885.
Capt. Whitcomb's War on the
Combine and Hulhurt's
Capt. Whiteomb's War on the
Combine and Hulburt's
Retirement.

Liz hepuuIlcaH organs or the Twin
Cities, with tine single exception of the
st. Paul Dispatch, grow more frantic
over the wheat ring exposure every day,
All unite in the declaration that the Re-
publican party Of Minnesota cannot be
held responsible for the robberies and
rascalitieS of the wheat combine; but,
strange to relate, in the very same COL
umn they are found denying the truth
OF the charges tnat have been made.
Ii the Republican party is not clea rly
responsible for the non-enforcement Of
the state grain laws that has permitted
all these evils, is there any man in the
state SO blindly partisan as to believe
that the Pioneer Press would, day after
day, devote from seven to nine columns
of space TO denying and explaining the
charges that have been made?
Is there sane man within the borders
of the state who believes that the Min
neapolis Journal and its contemporary. =
the Tribune. would shout themselves
hoarse crying such choice phrases as.
"Ihey are liars, 'FOrgers and bI ack-
mailers," political corruptionists. land
so on. Af-s-
We're there no other proof, the posi-
ton taken blythe Republican organs
and committees on this question would
be conclusive evidence that the party is
not only to blame for the wrongs done
in the past, but has now become bold
defender OF the wheat ring robbers.
But epithets and bad language are not.
arguments and never yet helped fall
ing and corrupt cause. OF course the
Republican organs do not appreciate
this fact now, but they will six weeks
later. after the people have passed iudg-
ment upon this question. But these or
ganS are foollng no one by their foolish
course. S1~
Every farmer in this state knows that
he has been robbed. and great many
of them are not going to vote to indorse J
the party that has been permitting the
robbery. Many of the Republicans of i
the state are objecting to the role in
which the party is placed and do not
hesitate to say so. One of these, IN
speaking OF the matter yesterday, said:
Will Defeat the Party.
"Wheat ring! OF course there is a
wheat ring, and there always has been,
and every wheat-grower knows it. [
look for defeat because of it. too. You
will remember the campaign of six
y
came so near defeat? Well, in
that campaign we were the defenders
of the millerS' ring, and tried to crv
down and deny what all knew to be
true. l am Republican, but l know Of
no obligation that compels me to vote
for party the leaders of which insist
upon making my vote an endorsements
of great public crime. Were the party
leaders honest enough to insist that the
organization be purged of the wrong
doors would not take this view of the
situation, but shall not vote to exOn-
crate men who are proven to be worse
than bandits. l consider that can be
good Republican and vote against my
party on such all ISSUE"
But the Republican farmers of the
state do not believe that the Repu blican
leaders are telling the truth when they
defend the wheat ring. They know
from experience what is wrong, and
three days ago the Republicans of the
Forty-third legislative district said so,
as the following special which appeared
in the Pioneer Press shows:
MoNTEvIDIo, Minn., Special, Sept.
Republican legislative conven-
ton for the Forty-third district NOM
mated E. l.. Young. j. f. jacobson and
f. E. Bentley for representatives.
Resolutions were adopted favoring the
reelection Of c. X. Davis as United
States senator. also recommending such
legislation as will enable any individual
to buy and ship grain at any station
without interference from any indiyid-
ual or corporation.
These Independent Republicans Of
Swift Lac Qui Parie and Chippewa are
OH the wrong tack. They should have
denied that the farmer has not free
market. According to the Republican
organs of these cities they are ''lars."
'blackmailers," and whole lot of
other bad words such as are to be found
in the Pioneer, Journal and Tribune.
The organs of the combine" are de-
voting themselves to the character Of
g. G. Wolcott these days. The charac-
ter Of Wolcott has nothing to do with
convicted. The evidence against him
is all in his own handwriting, and when.
any one starts out to defend him they
must have something better than
A Personal Attack
on some other man. Mr.. Wolcott is only
one of many men who have put in evi-
dence on this subject. The Chicago
Herald found one, resident of Mime
apolis, to whom the Minneapolis papers =
can not take exception. The story Of
this man is interesting, and attention
was called to him by letter which ap-
peared in the Minneapolis Tribune of
April 8, 1855, addressed to Charles A.
Pillsbury, and asking him number OF
questions that limited at wheat frauds.
The writer, who handles very eaustic
pen, begins by denodnCing the passage
of the grain warehouse bill, the accom-
plishment of which he credits to the
efforts of G. A. PilSbury.
then member OF the state senate, and
which bill he assures the editor of the
Tribune was passed i'll the interests of
the elevator men of ST. Paul. Minneap-
oils and Duluth. HIS first question on
the list of inquiries directed toward z.
a. Pillsbury has reference to that bin.
After deploring the apathetic condition
of the farmers of the state OF Minnesota