St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-01
MINING SLAVES.
No Southern Picture Can Ap-
proach the Situation in
st. Louis County.
The Minnesota Mining Com
pany in Absolute Control
Of It's Politics.
Miners in Soudan and Ely
Dare Not Say Their Souls
Are Their Own.
The Corporation Bent on
Eleeting Members to En-
act Laws 1t Wants.
Law 0verridden Now and Bal
lot Boxes Will Be Packed
Later On.
This Is the Civil Liberty Of
Which Senator Davis
Has PPated.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Oct. 31.-The political tyr
amy exercised over its employees by the
Minnesota Iron company is an old story
so old that the average Republican
politician of Duluth yawns when he
reads articles upon that subject in the
present campaign. He has vague, un-
defined impression that the bulldozing,
reckleSSneSS and terrorism which pre-
walls on the Vermilion range is vener-
able with the age of some six or eight
years, and therefore it ought not to be
disturbed at this late day.
There was some hope that the law
extending the Australian ballot system
to the rural districts would take out OF
the hands of the Minnesota Iron COM
pany the power to dictate to its en-
ployes just how they should vote, but
the manner in which they ignore the
law in the matter of selecting judges
and establishing precincts, shows that
4hey do not intend to observe the law.
Whether they can now successfully
carry out their schemes of intimidation
and compel their workmen to vote the
straight Republican ticket is a question,
There are Democrats and there are
Populists among the miners at
Soudan and Ely, but they dare
not come out openly and work against
the Republican ticket. TO do so is
equivalent to throwing up their jobs.
Capt PengilIy and Capt. Sellwood
through their subordinateS hold every
thing in their power on the VermiiOn.
They are the dictators of Republican
politics in st. Louis county. If a Re-
publican is nominated against their
DEGREES. they slaughter hih at the polls
with the slaye votes of Soudan and Ely.
Want Special Legislation.
This year their special pets are the
Republican legislative candidates-Lon
Merritt, jim Boggs and j. b. Cotton.
The latter is harmless young man,
Boggs is a tool of the Minnesota Iron
company, while Merritt is prominent
iron man, representing the Mesaba
range. Merritt, of course, wants to go
to the legislature to look after his own
interests and see that the iron mines are
not taxed as other property. TO con-
tinue the present system of nominal
taxation of these rich mines is just what
the Minnesota Iron company is looking
after, and candidate Merritt is salts
factory 10 them. Cotton they did not
want, but Boggs they must have, and
so the nomination of both was agreed
upon as compromise.
Now the city Of Duluth, including its
suburbs, will give a safe and a strong
majority against Sellwood's Republican
legislative ticket. The fusion candi-
dates are Hon. Charles Canning, j.
Adam Bede and John JenSWold Jr.
tools will not only be defeated in Du-
luth, but that the Soudan riots have
raised up an intense feeling of bitter
ness against the company. They know
that at heart many 0f their employees
perhaps one-half of them at least-are
intending to vote against the Repub-
licans. If the voters were allowed to
exercise the privileges accorded them
under the new election law, there
would be
No Republican Majority
from the Vermilion range this year
none for Harrison, nor Nelson. nor
Searle, nor for the legislative and coun-
ty ticket.
This would not do at all for the cor
poration, which has usurped the gov
ernment of st. Louis county. The Dem
ocratic party of Minnesota has dared to
raise its voice against the injustice
which permits this corporation with its
enormous wealth to escape with only
nominal taxation, therefore some method
must be found to save Cotton and Mer-
ritt and Jimmie Boggs from defeat.
They must be sent to ST. Paul to PRO
tect" the Minnesota Iron company, as
the Republican party has been doing in
the past, and TO continue in force Il Spe-
cial law which practically eXempts the
company from all but nominal taxa
tion.
The only way to do this is to ignore
the provisions of the new election law,
to run in illegal voters, to pack the cleo
tion boards, to terrOriZe the voters and
send down to Duluth a Republican
majority as enormous as it is fraudulent.
There is nothing overdrawn in this
statement of the intentions of this bully
ing and unscrupulOus company. AL
ready the work has begun. The GLOBE
showed day or two ago how the law is
defied and the protests of the Democrats
ignored in dividing up the Ely district
into six precincts. There can be but
one purpose in that step. 1t was not
necessity; it was done to facilitate the
casting of illegal votes. There are sew
eral hundred foreigners who came there
last summer to take the
Place of Discharged Rioters
at the mines, and the most of them
have not been in the country year.
They are registering these men with
the intention of voting them. When c.
o. Baldwin, Democratic candidate for
county attorney, was at Ely last week
he visited the board of registration at
one of the precincts and saw men apply
for registration who, upon being Ques-
toned, admitted they had not been in
the United States year. The
man who was running them in
is bookkeeper or clerk for the
iron company, and when Mr.. Baldwin
objected to any such registration this
Insolent scoundrel insisted that the
names of these Illegal voters should be
registered. Mr. Baldwin said to him:
"perhaps you can run in these men on
the next registration day when Lam
not here. or at some other precinct, but
you can't do it just now"