St. Paul daily globe., 1892-10-08
STRUCK THEM HARD.
Republican Defenders of the
Wheat Combine Are in
a Bad Way.
They Charge Wolcott With
Being a Very Bad, Un-
scrupulous Man.
This Being True, Where Do
Pillsbury and Amsdem, His
III Employers, Stand?.
Denunciation of Woleott Will
Not Disprove the Letters
of the Wheat Combine.

"Wolcott robbed the poor farmers of
Minnesota" shrieked the Pioneer Press
yesterday morning in a half-frenZied,
illogical and pointless attemps to de-
fend the Republican maching which has
been running this state for so many
years in the interests of the combine.
the pine-land rings and various other
combinations.
Suppose Wolcott did rob the farmers.
Neither the GLOBE nor any OF the many
other newspapers that have been and
are engaged in uncoverng this villain
Gus combinations misdeeds ever de-
MED this or affirmed that Charles
Choate Wolcott was pure and
spotless character. Assume that Wal
colt robbed the farmers; but no amount
of denunciation of him will eXonerate
the men who employed him 10 carry on
the robberies. While MIR. Wolcott was
in the employ of the elevator combine
he was trSt-claSS man. and the letters
he has produced written by Amsden,
Pillsbury and others demonstrate to
every one the fact that Mr.. Wolcott
stood pretty high in the estimation of Z.
A, Pillsbury and the other members OF
the wheat combine.
1.-The farmers of Minnesota" again
cries the Pioneer Press. will place no
faith in the attacks of such a dlsreputa-
BILE man on the Republican party OF
Minnesota"
Fortunately for the cause of the
wheat growers Of the state. as we'll as
the business men, the character of MIR.
Wolcott cuts no figure in this war Oh the
wheat combine. The most Oyerwhelm-
ing evidence that has been produced is
in ha lattarc of MaSCrC Pills
bury, Amsden and others.
Every word uttered by Charles G..
Wolcott can be omitted without helping
the case of the Republican party and
the wheat combine one iota.
Every particle of the evidence given
by Wolcott may be thrown out, and yet
the heads of the wheat combine and the
leaders of the Republican party will
stand self-convicted of all that has been
charged.
In their wild attempts at defending
Nelson and the Republican party the
Pioneer Press and all the little organS
should remember the following facts:
First-If c. c. Wolcott was plunder-
ing the farmers he was in the employe
of the wheat combine, the heads of
which are c. A. Pillsbury and G. NJ.
Amsden.
Second-That the principal is respon-
GlDl6 lOI lllG dClS VI Ills dSGlll.
Third-That the state grain inspection
force has been SubSeryient to the great
combine.
The blacker Wolcott is proven the
more desperate does the situation be,
come for Pillsbury and the Republican
machine.
This is the way this manner of de-
tense will strike the people generally
The Waseca Herald, which no one will
claim is Democratic paper, takes this
view of the case, and in q late ISSUE
roasts the wheat combine to a turn
Under the heading The 'StOp-Thief
Defense" this paper expresses its opin
ions as follows:
They Are Hard Hit.
The souirming and twisting anC
Wriggling of the wheat ring show very
clearly that the shot from the Chicago
battery. which we publish this week
has struck the plunderers in vita
SPOT. The Pioneer Press and the Min
neapolis dailies, together with othe
papers controlled by the wheat ring
denounce the Chicago pamphlet as ''ful
of falsehoods," as ''blackmailins
scheme" as singular combination O
assertion, falsehood and forgery" ant
the elevator men or millers mas denied
ora can deny, the writing of tn
letters or the making of the contract
set forth and published in the pamphle
which are of themselves proof positiv
of the plundering conspiracy which ha
existed for years in this state, and int
which many honest men have bee
driven against their will. The admitte
contract with Wolcott, whereby Pills
bury's Minneapolis & Northern Elevate
Company agreed to pay land for two an
half years aid pay Woicott $1,000 pc
year not TO buy wheat in a certain loSa
ity, the wheat ring calls bl2okmail; bl