St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-13

preservation. commouto.the pessants IN.
the field as to the king upon the throne.
No sane man expects any other course
from man, no matter what his posi-
ton. He will look out for aud guard
his own.
In the contest now in progress IN
Minnesota no rational cause has been
assigned by the timid anti .Washburn
organs for the general opposition tothe
return of the present senator. The
reason for this omission is plain. The
Rep ublican papers, while they may OBJ
ject TO Washburn personally. dare! not
make bold stand against the interests
he represents, for they are the interests
which render the existence of the Re-
publican party and its extension of
power possible. To break away from
the traditions OF Republicanism and
take the bold stand that.no man has a
right to represent the people except
one who is in sympathy with the peoplb
Would BE treason.
The opposition to Senator Washburn
is not found in the stone buildings
where great railroads have their Offices,
nor behind the mahogany doors OF the
directors rooms in banks. 1t is found
among the farmers who have paid trib-
ute TO lthe railroads until they cannot
raise enough wheat to pay the mort
cages: it is among the railroad laborers,
who have stood reduction after reduc-
ton until there is only short step be-
the common people, who never get
a glimpse of their senator except at the
END OF six years when he appears upon
the hustngs asking for an extension
of time in which to serve his
masters and his interests at their
expense. If Republicans of Minnesota
were honest enough to admit the truth
of the opposition. courageous enough to
ioin hands with it and sensible enough
to carry it to the point Of electing SEN
ator who would have heart for the
tOiers of the land. they would take
step that would place them far III au-
vance OF their
Colleagues in other States.
Wherever elections have been held
this year the rule has been that gold
won and merit was turned to the wall;
for is it not in truth a Republican year,
and is 1t not proper that plutoeracy
should claim Its OWn?.
During his term Of Office Senator
Washburn introduced bill, which, by
the way, never became law, to pro-
! hibit speculative investment in grain,
! El,1+ 2 i-
! essary to make is that the merits OF the
/ bill are still a question Of controversy
! among his nearest and dearest friends.
! He was deeply interested i'll measures
| affecting the promoters OF Canadian
/ railways, but concerning which no two
! of his friends seem to agree. He voted
for the Sherman bill and then voted to
repeal it; he voted for the Mckinley
/ bill. and. be it. said to his credit, against
the force bill. He always answered the
roll call when he was present and felt
! like it. and he secured large sums of
money to blow enough of the bottom
out of the Mississippi river to make
water run up hill and
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money so secured was expended to the
purpose Of securing the greatest amount
of advertising for Minneapolis. but with
no visible effect upon the Mississippi
river. or the head of navigation.
Had Senator Washburn been candi-
date for election at the polls last fall he
| would probably have, gone III on the
landslide. but it would have been in
spite of his record and his associations,
rather than because Of them.
That Senator Washburn is not IN
touch with the common people Is made
more apparent as the returns come in
every day, and unless his managers see
the danger and avert it by bringing a
more popular man into the field, knute
Nelson, in spite Of his arrogant, and
overbearing disposition and his alleged
ante election pledges, will be elected.
Nelson has so long
Simulated an Affection
for the dear people that the dear people
of the rural districts have come to re-
gard him as the Joshua who will lead
them out of the Republican marshes,
and he is not going TO 10 anything tC
undeceiYe them-at least not until the
senatorial election is over.
That a new man, one whose interests
are identified with those of the masses,
one who has been among them and one
Of them. could enter the field and win
there is no doubt. That such one will
enter the field is generally believed, and
the moment his name and candidacy are
announced there will be general rush
of those who have frozen ID the pres
cree of Washburn's arctic smile anC
shrunk in terror from Nelson's black
frown. Neither Washburn nor hi!
principal opponent have enough vote;
to nominate or elect. but the ideal CAN
didate would secure the major portion
of the following of each and take the
hating brethren in out Of the wet.