St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-04
ALL PULL TOGETHER.
"A Farmer Wants All Tariff Re-
formers to Vote for MIR.
Lawler.
With Him The Party of the Plu-
tocrats May Be Driven
Out.
To the Editor of the Globe.

To the Editor of the Globe.
Dear Sir: You last Monday accorded
me space in your valuable paper for a
word to my brother farmers, but l beg
space for just another word that seems
to me should be said to every voter be-
fore Tuesday next, though would
rather another said it. [ shall only re-
iterate well-known and indisputable
facts:
First-Every voter wishes to see his
theories of government embodied in the
laws of the country.
Second-No voter wishes. If he can
avoid it. to lose his vote; but to cast it
so that it shall count in the solution of
political problems in accordance with
his views.
Third-Every voter wants to have the
laws that he advocates enacted during
his own lifetime, and to himself expert
ence the added comforts and the added
happiness that they promise.
Fourth-The American people are not
in the habit Of settling more than one
problem at time, and no popular gov
eminent can do more than this. A ma
jority of the people cannot be persuaded
TO think alike Oh more than one Ques-
ton at the same time; there should
therefore be new alignment of pc ople
in parties for each new question.
Fifth--The national issue before the
people in the coming election is the tar
iff issue. and the tariff issue alone. The
only state issue is, ''shall the combina-
ton of railroad officials, elevator and
mill men, and the state executive Off
GERS, cOnSpiring to rob the farmers of
their wheat. be perpetuated, or shall it
be torn up root and branch, and their in
famous doings exposed to the light OF
day 2"
In view of these facts and principles
the duty of every voter is plain. Polit-
ical parties are only the instruments by
which voters secure the triumph of the
principles that they hold dear. Men
should vote for the nominees of the
party advocating their favorite measure,
that are most likely to be elected in the
coming election.
The election of 1890 shows that there
are at the least 10000 voters i'll Mime
Kinley bill, and the reform and reduc-
ton of the tariff. to $4,000 who believe
in the iniquity and uphold it. The Re
publican party is pledged to the per-
petuation OF high tariff, high prices for
what we want, and consequently re-
stricted market for our produce and
corresponding low prices for our wheat.
The Peoples party and the Democratic
party believe that the Mckinley tariff
imposes an intolerable burden upon
labor and industry, and their nominees
are pledged to an Immediate repeal of
the law. Now, then, if those holding
these views DIVIDE THEIR VOTE, the
will of the minority will prevail, and
there can be no relief from the intoler-
able burden thatwe now sustain during
the lifetime of the present generation
of voters.
If the election Of Gen. Weaver, and
that of a majority of the Alliance nomi-
nees for congress is more probable than
is the election of Grover Cleveland and
the Democratic nominees for congress;
if the next congreSe is more likely to be
Alliance than Democratic, then it is
the plain duty of every Democrat and
Alliance man in Minnesota to cast his
vote in the coming election for the for
mer. But if relief is more likely to
come from the Democratic party than
from the Alliance, then it is equally
their duty and to their interests to vote
for the five Democratic electors and for
the four Weaver-Cleveland electors.
and for the Democratic nominees for
congress, as we'll as for the Democratic
state legislators, who are to choose the
successor to G. K. Davis. the man who
lives in Minnesota and is honored by
the voters of Minnesota, but who rep
resents in his every vote Eastern cap
ital and trusts, organized to rob his con-
stitueDts who have elected him to pro-
tect them from the robbers.
In the matter of choosing a governor,
. ~ 80 O,I,. khO
stronger in the state than the Demo-
cratic party, then those opposed to the
continuation of ring rule In Minnesota,
those opposed to the convertency of the
executive department of the state into
an agency for the protection of the
wheat ring, the pine land rings, the
state house ring, the insane asylum
ring should vote for IgnatiuS Donneily
for governor. But what are the facts?
The Democratic party cast 10000 more
votes at the last election than did the
Alliance; and they this year have a
stronger candidate in Daniel w. Lawler
than they then had. Can the same be said
of the Peoples candidate for governor?
Is it not plain that either Bruiser Mel
son, the avoWed agent of everything
that is unholy and corrupt in Minnesota
politics: or that prince of men, the peo-
PIE y ITlGuQ. DANIEL w. LdWlcIs VIII Uo
the next governor? Which shall it be?
Does it not depend upon the wise judg-
ment of the friends of good government
in concentrating their votes on the men
most likely to be elected, who are
pledged to right their wrongs? In no
closely contested national election in
the history OF our country have we had
so clean a campaign as in the one now
closing. Democratic speakers and
writers in this state, emulating the
noble example of their high-minded.
peerless leader. d. w. Lawler, have
reasoned with us, and appealed to our
reasons and intellect only. Republican
speakers have appealed to our preju-
diceS, and endeavored to blind reason
to ugly facts. We have heard much
from them about loyalty to party. but if
! it be the abandonment of principle, and
the placing Of men before measures,
if it be the promotion of the selfish IN
terests of class of professional office
| seekers before the prosperity of our
con TRY, then we should to the dogs
with party, and align ourselves anew
with each new measure, and vote for
men that represent the measures that
will most promote our individual pros