St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-22
AN JONATHAN ROAR
The Sage Says the Great
Stake Is the United
States Senator.
COUNTY OFFICE TO THE DOGS
PO1ulists Should Give ALI
Their Attention to the
Legislature.
REFORMATION WITH A BIG l..
State, National and Universal
the Business OF thu
Populists.
COUNTY OFFICE TO THE DOGS
REFORMATION WITH A BIG l.,

The differences between Hon. Ig-
nalius Donnelly and Judge j. L. Mac
Donald still exist. The former farors
fight for the legislative ticket, while the
latter is eXerting himself 10 defeat can.
didates for local and state offices. The
Representative OF this week has the
following over the initials of its versa
tile editor:
Remember. friends, that the great
stake in the peuding battle is the United
States senatofship. That holds for six
years: the senate is ABOUT tie; Pop
ulist senator from Minnesota may de-
eide the whole action of congress. and
affect the whole destiny of the human
race OH this planet for centuries to
come. We are OH the eve OF great and
momeDtOuS events. No man can tell
what revolutions lie waiting for US in
the near future. A crisis is al hand.
We are opposed to FUSION" which
means sacrifice of principles for
spoil ;the coming together of discordant
elements for purposes of plunder. But
1t is no fusion TO say to the place-hunt-
ers: I'VE care nothing for who is
sheriff, or county treasurer, or county
auditor-any Intelligent man put into
those places will probably do their duty;
but we are after bigger game. You
want the large salaries; we want the
law-making power, state ana national;
you are spOilsInen, we are patriots; we
won't yield particle of our principles
for profit; on the other hand, We want a
chance to put those principles into law.
We are reforlnerS. We cannot reform
unless we succeed. If we fail now we
must wait for two years longer. We
may have 10 wait forever. Take the
big salaries and tie plunder, and give
us the law-inaking power: take the
county ofhces and give US Our state
ticket, congress and the legislature"
There is no fusion in this. If two
parties met and said: Here is the
county authorship, worth $4,000. you
take that; and here is the county treas
ureship. worth $500, we will take
that" and SO on, that would be fusion,
because it would be waiver of princi-
Piles for division of plunder. But TOR
a party of reforners to say. I'VE Weld
up all claims on the fat salaries. and are
contented TO take the lean places which
pay almost nothing, because we feel
that the abuses should be reformed in
the halls OF legislation" that is drag
ging progress out of the teeth of oppo-
sition. What difference does it make to
Us if all the county Offices i'll Minnesota
were conceded 10 the Democrats and
Republicans If we can achieve
the reforms demanded by our
platform? There are. of course, hon.
est men who will think that we
ought not to concede a pound masters
place,t0 win a-United States senatorship.
And there are knayes who VIII be hired
by our enemies to howl againt anything
that will make reform possible. And
these rascals will, Oh the 18th of No
ypruhpr plins their ill .pnI gains
and grin, while honest refOrmers will
sit, covered with Sackcloth and ashes,
and shame and humiliation, because once
more opportunity has yielded only dis
appointment, and wrong Is more firmly
entrenched than ever, and goodness is
discouraged and disheartened and ready
to lie down and die.
Brethren, boldly say to the seekers
after the flesh pots: Give US the Popu-
list state ticket, the congressman and
the legislative ticket and take ali the
rest"
If this be trading it is divine trad-
ing, which seeks to achieve the good of
mankind by yielding little to human
selfishnesS. We turn our backs Oh
sordidness and plunder. We 90 out
into the wilderness of poverty with
John the Baptists. The legislature
places pay at S5 per day-for ninety
dayS-the same as the dOorkeeperS, and
half as much as the chief clerks. Surely
our efforts to win these cannot be
charged up to greed.
Always keep your eyes fixed on Nov.
Z. the day after election. How Will you
feel then, if you know that Washburn
has won, and goes back to work for six
years more in the interest of the
plutocrats, and to make your condition
worse than it is? How will you feel if
Minnesota sends seven members of
congress 20 Washington TO labor for two
years more in the interest OF the money
power and against our impoverished
and well-nigh ruined people?
On, brethren. rise to the height of
this argument. You are reformers.
The people must have reform or perish.
Reform is impossible without the posses
sion of the law making power. state
and national. Bend all your energies
to that great object. Yield everything
-concede everything-to gain that end.
You must gam it. This is the battle of
the century; yes, of thousand CEN
turies. If liberty dies. In this genera
ton. OH this continent, mankind, hun
uredS and hundreds, perhaps thousands
of years from now. will curse you in
your forgotten graves for spermltting
the grandest heritage that ever fell to
mortal man to perish off the face of the
earth.
Don't yield hair of the head of any
man on our state ticket-fOr that would
be treason-but let the fools take the
spoil and trash and plunder OF the
county seats, if they Will give you an
opportunity to reform the state, the
nation and the world. ]. ID.