The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-31
RING RULE TO Be ENDED,
An Appeal to the Honest Voters
of the State.
The Record of the Leaders of the
Dominant PartN
Washbt. =. Fletcher, Clough, Ken
yon, Manage and
Streeter.


control of this state for 35 years, but this
has been in name only, since for a great
many years the railroad pine land, bank
wrcckers and other thieves have had alb
solute sway i'll the state, and controlled
conventions, caucuses and the press.
The decent elements of all parties have
now become aroused and are determined
to put a stop to the continuance of
the rule ring that seems to
have nominated and run Knute Nelson
hence it follows that the arch enemies to
society and good government are badly
scared not at the possibility but the prob
ability of Nelson's defeat picturng to the
voters the dire calamities that may fol-
low, and in order that the reader may fully
appreciate the kind of law and order the
advocates of Nelson seem to worship, let
us call attention to few of the nominees
and appointments made-not by the party
but the ring that seeks to cram Nelson
down your throat.
DR.. A. b. cole is the nominee for the
senate in outer Tail county, and also one
of the doctors who aided in sending a
sane man to the asylum, certifying that
the disease was increasing, decreasing and
stationary" and being present at a meet
ing had between Mr. Hoskins, Dr. Buchan-
an and myself at which DR.. Buchanan
stated, Or. Cole coinciding, that there
was no evidence of insanity against Hos
kins." He, Cole, is the man who in my
presence started to tear up the notes of
testimony he had taken, and who has
presumably destroyed the same despite a
protest made. Also refusing to allow me
to testify to certain facts which would
warrant Mr.. Hoskns to believe he was the
victim of a conspiracy and not laboring
under delusion.
c. NJ. Start, the candidate for chief jus
tice of the supreme court, is or was a
stakeholder in one of the Fergus Falls
banks that seemed to be SO active in
trying to send sane to the asylum.
Judge K. D. Russell a pleasant gentle
man whom the writer has always enter
tanned kind of feeling is candidate fer
the bench, and it is with great reluctance
we feel compelled to criticse his acts on
that bench, since it is plain from his
charge to the jury in the Streeter case that
he could not have had clear conception of
the law and his duties hereunder or else
he must have allowed his ,sympa1h for
the prisoner to get the better Of his judg-
ment for it has been apparent to many
amounting almost to an instruction to ac-
quits largely, if not solely, due the failure
ITO convict
Here was case that took three weeks
TO try and to which the county attorney
and his assistants had devoted over a
years time IN prepare ton. presenting to
the court and jury mass of facts and
evidence that appalling 1t was proven
by the makers of the 800 notes that they
had signed same in blank and were not at
the time financially responsible. These
notes had been kept in a desk of which
Streeter had the key and later, partly by
his orders filed out for large sums ano
disposed of valuable commercial paper
with slips alta he'd describing the makers
as men of financial responsibility.
Streeter had sworn on the trial that never
at any time had ne signed descriptive slips
or riders, yet later a large number were in
PRODUCED at the trial that bore his lStreet
er's) genuine signature.
While the notes, or the proceeds, haC
been passed to Manages account, Streetel
held a power of attorney; in fact had
Endorsed checks made payable to Menage
ON this and Il mass of other evidence
the court-.Judge RusSell-delivered his
charge. 1t. was remarkable in that its
close was not in harmony with its begin
ming, since in the closing he almost in
structed the jury to acQuit, and there be
members of that jury who claim that under
the charge of Judge Russell they could not
do anything else than vote to acqut.
The motives Of Judge Russell in deliver
ing this charge cannot be stated, but the
fact is not changed that thereby the re-
suit was a terrible blow to the peace and
safety of the community, and a result
not CalculI ted to inspire confidence that
the law would always be enforced against
the rich criminal as against the poor, ana II
has done al much or more to bring disgrace
and discredit on this community as the
preparation of the gigantic swindle itself,
since it in effect places this community. in
the position OF condoning, compromising
and shielding the notorious criminals who
have perpetrated or aided the gigantic
fraud.
Toyop thatcher the candidate for con
gross. is a director of the Guaranty Loar
swindle, and said to have acquired with his
partner, I-orins, nearly S25OO,Ooo worth o.
land by aid of alleged scrip.
VIM D. Washburn, United States senator
Is another director of the swindle, stand:
charged by one or more committees as be
ing a bribcr and is also connected will
the 500 road. of iron-clad contract fame.
ID. NJ. Clough, lieutenant governor tim
Der land man. who president of the last
senate. failed to carry out the instructions
of the Keller resolution. looking to an in
vestigation OF Weyerhauser.
NJ. ID. Kenyon, the bank examiner who
don't examine, who is either incompetent
or corrupt, and who by physical force
tried forever to close the mouth of his ac
CuSer.
a<nute Nelson, the governor who dom
govern even his own temper, who has re
fused to obey the law in more than on,
instance, who possesses to a re1narka biz
degree the attributes of a bully and car
say more insulting things on the stump t.
his lady auditors than any being outside Of
the slums.
And so on al nauseam Among those
who doubtless will consider it dire cal
aInity to this state to see Knute Nelson
relegated to tho obscurty to which lie is
best fitted, may possibly be found. Johr
S. and Geo. \. Piilsbury, H. E. Fletcher
. Thomas Lowry, {. II. Petit, VIM. II. EuS
It's, y. j. Dean, Clinton Morrison, w. H
Clark, W. G. Crocker, Chas. Robinson, w
S. Strectcr and Louis f. Menage all Of
whom. shown by records have been d
rectors of the Guaranty Loan swindle, Will
liabilities Ct $loG000,G00 CT more aud assets
possibly to get. So, too, possibly II. X
Cole, the Sunday school superintendent
under indictment, the bank wreckers
and all and singular, their allies in office
and out on the press and off, in the al
legged sanctuary and out, together with the
feeble minded Of all degrees, conditions and
Chimes. JOHN II. BURKE.
Scmi-Annuai Payment OF Taxes.