The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
a WIZ COMBINE.
Democrats and Chicago Wheat
Gamblers Fight the Anti
Option Bill.
By Attacking Washburn They
Hope to Defeat the Re-
publicans.
A Lying Pamphlet Being Cir
culated by Democratic
Managers.

~ 10 4 uTu1SucU ny Cu0 OpeCu-
lators Who Live on the
Farmers.
Democracy and the Bucket-shop have en-
tered Into an alliance, and are waging war
upon the elevator companies, and more es-
pecially upon Senator Washburn and G. A.
Pillsbury, the authors of the anti option
bill.
The OBJECTS which the Democratic Bucket
shop combine has in view are the destruc-
ton OF Senator Washburn's bill, by discred-
iting 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 millers
and elevator men of the Northwest are
band Of robbers, and they have induced the
Democratic party managers to take up the
tight against Senator Washburn's bill
which would compel the Bucket-shop bri-
gade to deal in something more substantial
than wind. The bears furnish the funds
and the Democratic managers do the dirty
work OF carrying on an alleged Campaign
Of education" in the hope of producing the
impression in the minds Of the people that
the Republican party, which has declared
in unmistakable terms its opposition to the
option selling of the Chicago wheat pit and
bucket-shops and has strongly declared in
favor of Senator Washburn's anti-option
bill, Is connected in some way with this
alleged elevator combine.
TO carry out the scheme of the Demo-
cratic-Bucket-shop alliance, the services of
a man named G. G. Wolcott, a resident Of
Chicago, but formerly of Larimore, N. D.,
have been secured and through his means
a pamphlet has been prepared in Chicago
embodying an attack on Mcssrs. Washburn
and Pillsbury, who are said to be members
Of a combination of elevator men and mill
ers formed for the purpose of defrauding
the wheat growers and killing off indie
pendent buyers Of wheat, and also alleging
that this combination practically controls
through the Republican administration, tue
Minnesota state grain and warehouse COM
mission.
THE CHICAGO GAMBLERS
have furnished the money for preparing,
printing and supplying this pamphlet to
the Democratic party managers who have
placed the services of their political organ
ization ut the disposal of the dealers in op-
tons and have become the agent of the
gamblers in distributing this Infamous lit
erature among the farmers and voters gen.
orally Of Minnesota and other Northwest
ern states. The Chicago Herald and the St.
Paul Globe have been selected by the bears
as the newspaper mediums by which the
scheme Is to be helped through. These two
papers have published long extracts from
the pamphlet, and the st. Paul Globe has
supplemented the extracts by several H.
bored articles which have been intended to
establish the connection between the Re-
publican administration and the elevator
mems alleged combination.
That the Chicago Herald should place its
columns at the disposal Of q local industry
like the wheat pit is not matter of sur
prise considering the tone Of public senti-
ment regarding wheat gambling which
prevails In Chicago, but that Minnesota
paper should throw its columns open to
the 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 instgators 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
shop combine hoped to achieve may be
summed up as follows:
frst-The Chicago gamblers in wheat
would prevent the passage of the Washburn
ant1-option bill, which, If it became a law
would destroy their ''business,' by bringing
into disrepute the author Of the bill.
Secondly-The Democrats secure a large
amount of campaign ''literature'' for moth
Ing and by means of this attack on the Gle
vator men and milers hope to reap some DO
litical benefit.
hirdly-Wolcott obtains revenge on
Washburn and Pillsbcry for personal sriey-
ances and incidentally earns an honest pen
ny.
But the promoters Of this outrageous
scheme have forgotten several important
) things.
They have forgotten that the interests Of
the Chicago wheat pit are not the interests
of the Minnesota farmers.
They have overlooked the fact that tho
Washburn anti-option bill has
BEEN ENDORSED BY THE REPUBLIC
ANS
OF Minnesota In convention assembled as a
measure well calculated to protect the aRri
culturists of Minnesota and the whole
Northwest against the operations of the
chicago gamblers, who bear the price Of
wheat.
They have overlooked the fact that tho
aim of the Republican administration Of
the State Of Minnesota has ever been to
protect and conserve the interests of the
farming population, which it Justly regards
as the backbone Of the commonwealth.
from the operations of Just such gamblers
a. those with whom the Democratic man
ayers have now allied themselves.
another matter they have forgotten IA
that ever since the organization Of the state
gram and warehouse commission in 1895
that department has used every effort to Sc
cure such additional legislation az would
furnish the wheat grower with nm open
market In which to sell his grain, and the
best means OF shipping and handling It.
and that three important bills looking to
last legislature, which was controlled nv
Democrats and Alliance men, were actually
rejected by them.
& They have also overlooked the fact, in
With an alleged elevator mems combine.