The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-02
Our POpulfst Governors.

There have been few better demonstra-
lions of the old saying that all things come
to him who waits, than is afforded by the
complete victory Gov. Waite has achieved
over his political and personal enemies in
Denver. Doubtless the doughty executive
now concludes that it is sometimes quite
as effective to await the slow process of
the law as to plunge, horse and bride, into
a sea Of blood.-St Paul Dispatch
True; but it is shameful thing the way
the Populist governors have been perse-
cuted
In Colorado the governor had the ap-
pointment Of certain local officials: he
undertook to remove them, for pandering
to the whisky and gambling elements; they
appealed to the supreme court for protec-
ton; the supreme court decided that the
governor had the perfect right to turn
them out; the governor proceeded to do so;
WhereupOn they made a second appeal to
the district court; a. subordinate, local
court; this court reversed the supreme
COURT! The governor called on the troops
to aid him; the recalcitrant officials gath
cred band of armed men, to resist the
troops The state was brought to the
verge of civil war; and every daily Re-
publican paper in the United States de-
nounced the governor and represented him
as a mailman and usurper The governor
although clearly right, submitted to the
mob rather than cause bloodshed. The
matter went agin to the district court and
it took the back track. Again it went to
the supreme court and again that court de-
cided in favor of the governor; and the re-
bellous officials had at last to go out And
now every Republican paper congrat ulates
the governor because it's power for evil is
exhausted
We have seen much the same state of
things in the case of Gov. Tillman of
South Carolina. He is a Democrat with
Populist principles. The legislature, desir-
Gus of abating the evils of intemperance,
adopted the Scandinavian system of sell
ink liquor. The state appointed agents to
take charge of dispensaries, where intoxi-
eating liquors can be bought by the pint
not to be drunk on the premises. This
ended the saloon business; and was rapidly
reducing lntemperance to small figures. 1t
is the same system, practically, demanded
by the Peoples party of Minnesota. The
saloonkeepers organized civil war and kill
ed lot of the states officers; the gov
ernor sent troops to the scene of the out
break; the soldiers-probably good Demo-
cratic rummies-affiliated with the saloon
men and refused to obey orders; the gov
errors life was threatened; and it looked
as if the whole state was about to sink
into chaos. That was the golden oppor-
tunity for the monopolistic press They
filled the whole land with denuncia tons of
the governor and laudations of the patriot
ic rumselers. But Gov Tillman was equal
to the emergency. He called upon the
farmers for troops. and they came in such
numbers, with their rifles and shotguns,
that the Scoundrels had to hunt their holes;
and peace once more restored. And
then the Republican papers suddenly dis
covered that Gov. Tillman really
very sensible and able man; and that he
had been simply executing a law passed
by the people for the suppression of drunk
enneSS!