St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-03
BAKER TO POPUL|STS.
The General Writes PEOPLES
Party Hen an Earnest,
Honest Letter.
ASKS THEM FOR THEIR VOTE,
Why They Should Cast Their
Ballots for a Demo-
crat.
ASKS THEM FOR THEIR VOTE.
DEMOCRATS THEIR FRIENDS.
The Present Congress Has
Enacted Into Law Many
PopuliSt Measures.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MANKATO. NOy. 2.-Gen. James Fl.
Baker, the Democratic candidate for
congress in this district, has just ad-
dressed an open letter to the conSiderate
and thinking Populists of the district,
in which he shows the Populist nomi-
nee, l.. G. Long, the reasons that led
him to suggest Longs withdrawal. This
letter contains strong statement of the
Democratic position. and shows reforms
accomplished rather than mere prom.
ises. 1t follows:
Oak Cliff Farm, Nov. 1.-Some time
since | addressed all open letter to Mr..
Long asking his attention to certain
points of agreement between the true
friends Of reform and myself My LETT
ter was civil, courteous and sincere. To
that letter Mr.. Long gave scurrilous
and abaSiVe reply, using the language of
butfoon, without, in the remOlest man
ner, touching the questions presented
in my communication. His letter was so
wanting i'll every quality of civility as
to require no further notice. But the
great BODY of PCpulists are civil, re-
tined and intelligent, and to these no
sincere person need TO fear to address
himself.
In my letter pointed out to such per.
SOILS that we substantially agreed upon
free silver and other measures, and
demonstrated by official figures that
there was good chance for my elec-
ton. and not the reIHOtest possibility of
Longs election. That statement of
facts was not controyerted. but by ST.
lence conceded.
What L now wish to say is that the
mar IL of oaf4 ftNy
achieving and completing these very
reforms so much sought by our Pop-
ulist friends. Here is the evidence:
ElrSt-AS to free silver. lt was the 133
Democrats in the house who passed the
Bland bill, and with the Democrats in
the senate passed that bill over the
veto of President Hayes.
The Democratic speaker of the pres
ent congress. Mr.. Crisp, is the staGnch
friend of free silver. A very large and
working majority of the Democrats IN
the present house aud majority of the
Democrats in the senate are the friends
OF free silver, as proven by many test
votes. The Ohio Democrats have fallen
fully and enthusiastically into line on
the silver side of the issue. The Dem
ocratlc party Ill this state. and very
especially in this district, have assumed
unquestiOEed ground in favor Of free
silver. Mr.. Bryan, of Nebraska. a DEM
Ocrat, has presented the strongest argu.
ments ever yet made for free silver. and
his speeches are the arsenal whence
POpuliSt papers and orators procure
their strongest weapons. The only
hope our POpulist friends have for the
ultimate triumph of free silver is
through the Democratic party.
SecOnd-1n the matter of the incoms
fnx lnR,r n tod
party. the Democrats have just made
that principle an accomplished fact and
it is component part of the Wilson
bill. (See Wilson bill, sections "a to SO,
inclusive.).
Third-In the matter of a war upon
trusts" the Democracy has again LED
the advance for our POpulist friends,
and has adopted the strongest and most
effective laws against all pernicious
combines that have ever yet been placed
in the statute books of the nation. (See
Wilson bill, sections 73 to a, inclusive.l
Fourth-The Democratic party has
just made national bank notes and
United States treasury notes taxable as
other moneys, aud the same as other
property, All entire new measure, and
directly in the line OF your special de-
sires. (See act approved Aug. Is. 1S94.l
Fifth--The Democrats in cOngress
have just passed bill providing for q
change in the constitution whereby
senators may be elected by direct vote
of the people. 1t is now pending in this
senate. This is part of the PopuliSt
platform.
SiXth-This congress has just passed
law giving state courts Jurisdiction
over railroad corporations, making all
such corporations citizens of the states
wherein they are doing business, thus
preventing citizens from being dragged
away hundreds OF miles TO distant fed-
eraI courts. This is just what our Pops
uliSt friends were asking for.
Seventh-FOr three successive years
you denounced the Mckinley bill in
your platforms as ''the crowning infa-
my of protection" and demanded its
repeal. The Democratic party have just
blotted this sum of all tariff abomina~
tiOnS from the statutes.
And so the work goes bravely on,
Every desirable and practical reform
you have sought is being worked to per-
feet accomplishment by the reforming
Democratic power. My POpulist friends
must see that their practical issues ara
all being taken away and built
into statutes by the Democratic party,
Here are seven of your plankS, cast
into the mould Of law by the last Den-
cratic congress. If you complain of the
Democratic party, you complain of thu
best friends you have, yet found on
earth. With arms stronger than yours,
without the noise of Chinese battle
gongs, but with a firm faith and an un-
purpose, the true Democra,
cy are waging splendid and triumphant
battle against the combined forces OF
and plutocracy; and wheu
you come to vote, think of these things,
ana place your vote where it will moi
be thrown utterly away. Respectfully,
j. Ii. BAKER.