St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23

trust knows the value of the agents in
fluence. They know they set in motion
q powerful political machine in North
Dakota when they touch the button in
Minneapolis and set their agents at
work up there.
The poStmaSters scattered out all over
the broad land-one able man in every
city, town and hamlet-are a powerful
political force in the aggregate, though
the influence of any given one may be
small. The national party managers
recognize this fully, and the great fight
of every new administration is to place
its best workers in the poSto ffices. Up
here in North Dakota the postmaster is
not sin it, as a political factor. The
elevator agent is the man who gets in
the deadly work. The postmaster is
sometimes independent and kicks out of
harness. The elevator agent never
does. If he shows the slightest dispo-
sition TO DO so, off comes his head, and
he is replaced by smoother man from
below. There is no waiting for COM
missions and combinations. The ma
chinery of the elevator trust is new aud
well oiled. and there is never so much
as hitch. phis machine grinds
out politics and funds during
campaign years and squeezes the
fat out OF the producers during
the loft years to reimburse its
prOprietorS. 1t is an undlSputed fact.
published at large. that the Minneapo-
lis elevator trust has placed 100000
into North Dakota to carry the state for
the Republican tickle. this fall. The
merchants and all substantial business
men of the Red river valley are awak-
ened at this last piece of etfrontery.
The farmers are no longer alone iii their
fight against the elevator trust. All
classes resent this attempt to corrupt
the voters of the state. Even the better
class of Republican politicians is dis
guSted with this open attempt to. buy
the seat OF power. The honor of the
young commonwealth is at stake, and
the better element, who usually take no
part i'll active politics, are aroused as
they have not been since the Louisiana
State lottery attempted to purchase the
legislature.
A prominent Republican business
man, of Grand Forks CITY, SAID today:
This is going too far. If it is true that
the elevator and railroad people of Min
neapoilS have subscribed these large
sums 10 the Republican campaign fund,
L hope the ependent-Democratic
ticket will win. And | shall work for
its election. The substantial business
interests of the Red river valley are
primarily dependent on the farmer. The
farmer raises the wheat and upon the
marketing of that wheat the business of
this state depends for its circulating
medium for whole year. The clrculat-
ing medium is the life blood of trade.
When the crop is mored, each
county in the state depends
upon the actual amount of
money paid out from the elevators in
the various towns for its life blood for
whole year. If, therefore, the Pillsbury
elevator trust III Minneapolis gets 40 or
80 per cent of the crop when they are
entitled to only or 10 per cent for
handling it, then that country is irnpov-
erished by just the amount of the diff
ference. len per cent would give the
elevators and railroads big pay for
handling the wheat crop of the Red
river valley, and when they squeeze out
40 or 30 per cent they rob not only the
farmer, out every substantial business
interest in the valley of so much OF its
life blood. As practical business man
p shall use my influence against such
robbery in the future