The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-10-27
A ELACKsIAII.ING SCHEME
Cnderlies the Production of the
PamphIet Written by WOlcOtt.

thuerIleS the PRODUCTION Oh INC
Pamphlet Written by WolcOtt.
Whatever the facts may be about the OPP
Grafton Of some OF the country elevators in
the Northwest; whether there may or may
not be ground for complaint of unfairness
in grading and dOckage and prices, the ele-
yator companies need not trouble them
selves to any great extent about the
charges made against them In book Is
sued be the Chicago option gamblers, and
which was prepared by one q. 9. Wolcott
under the sensational title Of "a Gigantic
Conspiracy: the Northwestern Wheat Ring
and it's Infamous RobDeries." For all the
statements In that pamphlet of DAM
aging character rest upon the authority OF
The aforesaid G.. G.. WOlcOtt, whose infa-
u.uus character as matchmaking adven-
turer of the worst type Is fully established
Ly the testimony Of leading business men
wuicn We publish elsewhere. charges
coulng I. OLD such a disreputable source ana
las, ,..ed 10y the basest motives do not
Lesa any other refutation than this expo
sire OF The unprincipled character of their
author. me facts OF his career NJ pa,
ku,a and Minnesota show that he divided
lis p,rouits between robblng the farmers
and pIac..Dlailing, or trying to blackmail.
elevator companies, and that as the ruling
b, irit of the Scandinavian Elevator com
Scail linaSian connected with 1.-THE con-
trived 10 combine both pursuits, roDblng the
farmers Oh the one hand and trying 10
other. This scheme failed, and the farm
ers who had been hoodwinked into taking
stock in ii lost their Investments
His pamphlet was conceived In sin ana
born in iniquity. 1t originated In q black
n'' IFS FOUNDATION WAS FRAUD.
bank to write decoy letters to the leading
elevator men of Minneapolis and to others
mourning as If tor the bank what thS w ers
Having obtained these letters which sta
ted the dividends Of several OF the eleva-
tor companies to be from ~ TO Az PET Genss
here, to blackmail the authors OF the !et,
tiers. In no other way can 1t be accounted
for that some time after they Were VIII If
some of his friends and confederates III
Minnesota, and that these men attempted
ton of surrendering them to their writers
the owners of the elevators. FAILING III
this the letters are again In the possession
text and foundation of the painphlet Is,
sued under the auspices and ut the expense
of the Chicago wheat gamblers ana adopted
and circulated by the Democratic STATE cen,
trail committee of this state as campaign
document. Wolcott's motive was one OF
revenge upon Pillsbury and the other ere,
nv hv'i him. The motive Of the Chicago gamb-
lSrs is to defeat the option Dill ny luahinS
Ii appear that Washburn, lts autnor' anu
Iillsbury, its earnest advocate, were par
ties to gigantic conspiracy for robbing the
farmers ,. ,>,cn,,n,,rr, TT
The aid of the Democratic state commit
tee in circulating the pamphlet was enlist,
ed by the addition of two or three pages IN
which was vaguely ATTEMPTED 70 cGnec. io
with the alleged wheat combine Dy tne
fact that in its platform it had ignored ITS
the connivance Of the Republican party and
that the warehouse commission had not
prosecuted an elevator company on cnatSes
preferred by Holcombe, the fact being tnat
Holcombe had been convicted OF Streaming
wheat from the company and was serving
cut his sentence in the state penitentlary az
the time the elevator company, surrendered
Its license and ceased to be under the Jurls-
.it ton of the commission. The only other
alleged Iatf 6e @heat combne was that
Gov. Merriam had pardoned Holcompe In an
irregular manner when no application adt h sad
Il Ie at Cow ot Merrinm had Pardoned Holcom6e
upon the application of his friends one day
before the expiration of his sentence IN or.
der to save his citizenship: a course which
l. always followed as 10 persons whose be-
IT PROVES A BOOMERANG.
The utten pit to connect the Republican
rarty AMI state administration with the al
legged "wheat combine" has proved a BOOM
suited In the complete demonstration from
official records that all the effective legisla-
ton for the protection OF farmers from
punieS had been accomplished by the Re-
publican party in providing for a complete
ana unassailable system of state inspection
at the terminal elevators and In requiring
the railroad companies to furnish cars to
individual farmers upon their application,
ami TO ship their wheat to any destination
and consignee designated by the farmer. At
the same time it demonstrated that the
warehouse commission had for years been
of extending their jurisdiction over the
country elevators so as to be able to pro-
tect the farmer from fraud, but that all
Ill He 90 hot affn hn6 1Afn bod hxyfh n
strenuous opposition of the representatives
of the farmers themselves; that such legis-
lation was urged without effect upon the
last legislature, which was dominated by
the Alliance men and the Democrats, and
that bill recommended by the commission,
designed to enable Independent wheat buy
ers to build elevators on the right of way Of
the railroad companies was defeated by
that Alliance-DemOcratic legislature.