The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
CONDONING CRIME BY YOUR
VOTES.

opCCIdU1c duu wealthy CIIIuIudlS VIII
have controlled the political and finan-
cial destinies Of this North Star State
it will be found that for nigh on to forty
years crime and fraud have been rife in
the acquisition of the i'll gotten gains
Of the horde-some of whom have
passed beyond the vale, and may be So
journing in tropical resort where the
timber they have stolen will come handy
to feed the flames of that fiery furnace
of which the old school moral teachers
are wont to expound.
Others have, by the aid of venal or
servile press, succeeded in avoiding the
felon's cell and DOMINIC the convict
garb, and instead fastened their venom
GUS fangs into the political destinies Of
this state till the state has become a
stigma and reproach throughout the
whole civilized world in the minds of
all lovers of country, and stencil in the
nostrils of all decent people. Thus
making the cleaning out of this Augean
stable of crime and corruption such a
herculean task that no man could or
would care to undertake it,
He who should dare to undertake the
task must be prepared to withstand the
shafts of calumny and reproach that
secretly and openly would be hurled at
his head and be prepared, if need be- to
sacrifice his life or liberty for the truth
and humanity as did Knox, Calven, Luz
Their, Father Damien, Lincoln, the Pill
grim fathers and the Revolutionary
sons.
There may be those who will con-
slider that some of those who have so
long been robbing this state are receiv-
ing their punishment in this world by
being associated with others on the
alleged Republican State Central Com
mlttee. So, too, it is possible there may
be some who will consider that in the
person OF a part of that committee a
portion of it's members may have taken
the Thirty Third degree in crime. AS
early as about 1854 an onslaught is said
to have been made on the Saltwater
land office, and while there may have
been nominally a public sale, the bid
ding is said not to have been very ac-
tive, owing to the fact that any one out
side of the ring who dared to make a
bid would have been very liable to have
had his skull gently cracked with a
bludgeon, or some equally soft and per-
suading argument.
In July, 1854, was passed the Sioux
Half Breed scrip act, ostensibly in the
interest of the Half Breeds, who, by the
way, got but little benefit therefrom,
and If you have any doubts on that
score just examine the court and county
records of Wabasha county, in this
state, or the probate records of Ramsey
county, in which last named county you
may possibly find that one Myrick. of
st. Paul, figured in one or more cases as
next friend of sundry Half breeds or
their heirs.
Look again on the supreme court re-
ports OF California, or report of the
legislature of that state about 1875 and
especially for the testimony of one Dan
lei Alice, on the acts of William S.
Chapman, whose name will be recog-
nized by all old residents of this state,
and especially those in and around
Glencoe
Fraud, perjury, bribery and sundry
degrees of crime have for many years
been invoked by many of the leaders of
what was-but is not now-the Repub-
lican party of this state till in the per-
son of many of those leaders the party
of Lincoln, Sumner, Wilson, Thad
Stevens, Wendell Phillips and Grant
seems in this state at least to have de-
generated into party of would-be as
sasins, plug uglies, forgers, perjurers,
thieves and all round criminals, or the
aiders, abettors, accessories, apologists
and defenders of all or part of those
crimes.
1t is conceded that the great masses
OF the Republican and indeed all parties
are actuated by honest impulse and that
they would not knowingly sanction the
commission of these acts. hence the
leaders of that party have for many
years labored to keep the facts from the
public, and by some occult or other
means have succeeded in placing porous
plaster over the mouths of the press of
all parties, trusting thereby to defeat
the ends of justice and perpetuate their
lease to continue on in their mad career
of rapacity, rapine and plumber. Know
ing full we'll that seldom if ever would
any one man or paper dare to combat
them single handed, and if a man or
paper should ever arise having the te-
merity so to do and without the fear of
criminals before his eyes 'twould be an
easy matter to silence the tongue or pen
bye substantial arguments, ridicule,
SANDER, intimidation or violence
For the first time it may be in the
history of this state the gang of GRIM
inals have to deal with those who are
not afraid, and we opine before we get
done they will either find their Water
loo, the felon's cell or join Menage in his
tour Of exploration.
They admit they cannot approach nor
cannot scare while they do not dare to
try to lie out, since that would be only
useless waste of breath. Hence they
have no recourse left but to fight out, a
difficult proceeding indeed when the
whole band of criminals are ON the rum
as we use our sling of truth against the
army of Philistines.
It has been said that the time is not SO
very remote when an ex-state official
made favorable report on an insolvent
institution and thereupon a check was
drawn for $5O0-that was passed to such
offlcial-and while we do not mean to
intimate that any such transactions
have taken place between any of the
alleged financial concerns of this state
and M. D. Kenyon, the Bank Examiner
who don't examine, the victims of the
busted concerns on which he had made
favorable report may not be so char
itably disposed. Still, on the facts in
our possession or knowledge it is plain