The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-14
A VILE COMBINE.
Democrats and Chicago Wheat
Gamblers Fight the Anti
Option Bill.
BY Attacking Washburn They
Hope to Defeat the Re-
publicans.
q Lying Pamphlet Being Cir
culated by Democratic
Managers.
At Is Furnished by the Specu-
IatorS Who Live on the
Farmers.

Democracy and the Bucket-shop have en-
tered into ar alliance and are waging wal
upon the elevator companies, and more es
s2eciaily upon Senator Washburn and c. A.
PfiIsSUry, che authors of the anti-option
Dill.
The OBJECTS which the Democratic Bucket
shop combine has in view are the destruc-
rtfoa OF Senator Washburn's BILL by discred-
iatfng the authors Of it, by charging that
they are engaged in a conspiracy to rob the
farmers of the Northwest; and secondly.
by attempting to connect the Republican
party and administration with the afore-
said alleged conspiracy.
The Chicago men who make their millions
by Bearing the price of wheat and buying
and selling many Thousand bushels of wind
every day have declared that the miliers
aud elevator men of the Northwest are Il
band OF robbers, and they have induced the
Democratic party managers to take up the
fight against Senator Washburns bill
which would compel the Bucket-shop bri-
-gsydc ia deal in something more substantial
than wiRd. The bears furnish the funds
.sud the Democratic managers do the dirty
vFoSk q carrying on an alleged campaign
OF esizc1tSon" in the hope of producing the
impression in the minds of the people that
the Republican party, which has declared
IN Enmistakabe terms its opposition to the
option selling Of the Chicago wheat pit and
f8uckei-sloTs ard has strongly declared in
Favor Of Senator Washburn's anti-Option
bill, Is connected in some way with this
alleged elevator combine.
70 carry out the scheme of the Demo-
cratic-Bucket-shop alliance, the services of
& man named c. C. Wolcott, Il resident of
Chicago, but formerly of Larimore, n. D.,
have been secured and through his means
"A paQFs'slct has been prepared in Chicago
,e2zbody5ng an attack on Messrs. Washburn
and EEllshury, who are said to be members
Of combination Of elevator men and mill
erS formed for the purpose of defrauding
eEe wheat growers and killing off indie
pendent buyers OF wheat, and also alleging
that this combination practically controls
tehr0EglI tine Republican administration, the
Minnesota state grain and warehouse CON-
mission
THE CHICAGO GAMBLERS
RE1aye Furnished the money for preparing
printing and supplying this pamphlet to
the Democratic party managers who have
placed the services of their political organ
sIxatiGa at the disposal of the dealers in op-
1zeEs end have become the agent of the
gamblers in distributing this infamous lit
rerature among the farmers and voters gen
.aEaiIy OF Minnesota and other Northwest
<rR states The Chicago Herald and the St
P1GK GGI6Oe have been selected by the bears
Is TIE newspaper mediums by which the
scheme is to be helped through. These two
ggapers have published long extracts from
CHE pamphlet, and the st. Paul Globe has
supplemented the extracts by several la
bored articles which have been intended to
establish the connection between the Re
publican administration and the elevator
s1sesK's alleged combination.
That the Chicago Herald should place its
columns at the disposal of a local industry
like the wheat pit is not matter of sur
prise considering the tone of public senti-
u.ent regarding wheat gambling which
Ivrerails in Chicago, but that a Minnesota
pager should throw its columns open to
che gamblers and that the Democratic lead
ers In a wheat growing state like Minnesota
SHOULD place their services at the disposal
OF the men who are the prime instigators in
every move to bear the price of wheat
would seem incredible but for the fact that
the Globe and the Democratic state central
committee of Minnesota have done So
The objects which this Democratic bucket
&o0p COMBINE hoped 10 achieve may Dt
summed up as follows:
EfEsI-The Chicago gamblers in wheat
would prevent the passage of the Washbur1
aR9option bill, which, ii it became Il law
would destroy their business" by bringing
fzto disrepute the author of the bill
Seoondly-The Democrats secure a large
anount of campaign literature" for moth
&Hg and by means of this attack on the ele
vafor raen and milers hope to reap some pc
EiEieaI benefit.
Thirdly-WOlcOtt obtains revenge or
Wasirburn and PillsbCry for personal griev
aaccs and incidentally earns an honest pen
~
Hut the promoters of this outrageous
scheme have forgotten several Important
etings-
1hey have forgotten that the interests OF
the Chicago wheat pit are not the interests
at the Minnesota farmers.
They have overlooked the fact that tn,
Waskburn anticipation bill has
BEEN ENDORSED BY THE REPUBLIC
Of Minnesota in convention assembled as
fEeasure well calculated to protect the agri
~rulturists of Minnesota and the Who'll,
Northwest against the operations of Tho
Chicago gamblers, who bear the price Of
wheat
They have overlooked the fact that the
sim of the Republican administration OF
the State of Minnesota has ever been tC
protect and conserve the interests Of the
farming population, which it justly regards
IS the backbone of the commonwealth
from the operations of just such gamblers
SIS those with whom the Democratic man
ayers have now allied themselves.
Another matter they have forgotten is
that ever since the organization of the state
grain and warehouse commission in 1885
chat department has used every effort to Sc
cure such additional legislation would
Ezrrnish the wheat grower with an open
market in which to sell his grain, and the
hest means of shipping and handling it,
aad that three important bills looking to
Gaese ends, which were introduced into the
last legislature, which was controlled by
Democrats and Alliance men, were actually
rejected by them.
They have also overlooked the fact, in
EjEeir anxiety to connect the Republicans
- with alleged elevator mems combine.
zf1sf many Of those elevator men are we'll