The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-27
SHAMERULREC0RD.
Recklessness and Extravaxance Of the
Late Fusion Legislature Of
Minnesota,
The Whole Session Was 4 Miserabla.
Expensive Farce, Disgrace to
Our State.
The People Should Not Place tho Same
Elements in Power 4 Second
Time.

Safety Of Our State Depends Upon
Electing the Straight Republican
Ticket This Fall.
For thirty years the Republican party
had controlled the law-making power of
the State of Minnesota.
Under its wise, conservative, econom-
ical sway, the state had prosrered be-
yond all expectation and precedent.
Taxes had been low, and yet the COM
monwealth had been fully developed.
Splendid state institutions had been
built up and maintained; the public
school system was universally di1fused
and had magnificent endowment, pro-
vided and augmented under Republican
policy.
In 1890 the people of the state, moved
by sophistical arguments and base mis-
representations, elected an opposition
legislature.
This opposition was divided into two
antagonistic parties-the Democrats and
Farmers Alliance or "People's" party,
but they readily fused, under the "cohe-
sive power of public plumber"
These men were elected on solemn
pledges of reform"
They promised to expose the alleged
rascalities of thirty years of Republican
rule.
They promised to curb the corpora
lions, improve the grain and warehouse
laws, reduce expenditures, abolish sine
cures, cut off barnacles, and lessen
taxes.
What did they do?
In organizing the house, the Alliance
members surredered to the Democrats.
who were dominated wholly by corpo-
rate interests. Under the terms of the
surrender, tho Alliance secured the
speakership and many petty Offices and
clerkships, but the Democrats dictated
the leading committees, especially those
on railroads, and on temperance, so that
during the whole session the hands of
the farmers were tied.
BY this surrender the Alliance mem
bers efectually killed any possibility of
securing the relief they had been spe-
cially sent there to accomplish.
Of the railroad committee only eight
out of seventeen were farmers.
It was packed by the Democratic-Alli-
ance speaker in the interest of the rail
roads.
Here is the proof:
The Courier" railroad bill, accepted
by the farmers as the measure of the re-
lief they demanded, known as H. F. 6S,
was introduced Jan. ~, 1891, and re-
ferred to this railroad committee.
1t was not reported back until March
10. and then only on compulsion.
The committee failed to agree!
Two whole months cogitation on a
bill that ought to have been decided on
in two weeks-and then no agreement!
It was held in committee until the cor
p> Dations could get in their deadly work
on the "cheap" members of tho house.
And when this great relief measure for
the farmers came up in that body for
final passage, body having a clear ma
jority Of thirty-two votes for the Demo-
cratic-Alliance fusion, the bill was LOST
by vote of AZ ayes to IS nays.
The "fusion". speaker betrayed his
trust by interpreting false parliamentary
rulings to prevent q reconsideration
thus tho bill died, and with it all the
farmers hopes from that "reform" body.
Another railroad measure of import
ance to the farmers, the Hompe Elevator
site bill, which had passed the senate,
was killed in the house by about the
same methods, and at probably about
the same expense to the railroad COM
maniac