The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-29

owned property. Railroad officials con-
ferred, and a conference of leading Re-
publicans was held at Topeka to map
out programme that would surely de-
feat Doster. This fight occurred when
nothing but county officers were to be
chosen. It was an Off year Republic
cans believed that IL they could unite
with the Democrats and defeat the
legal adviser Of the new Populist party
1t would never again rise to disturb
them. The whole power Of the state
was crushing defeat to Doster The
Republican state league was called to-
gether at the beginning Of the battle,
and this address was prepared for use
in that district:
The wandering vagabonds who have
Joined the alliance for political pur-
poses only and who are trying to
make living by the sweat of their
jaws instead of honest toll, will, Of
course, fail to pay their debts. An
epidemic Of unreason swept over our
state last fall, and many of our people
were inoculated with the pestilence.,
Quarantine had been esta blished and
Is rigidly maintained. The epidemic IS
not spreading, and many of the orig
1nal victims are convalescent.
The new party, under the seductive
leadership of demagogues, who magni
fy the farmers misfortunes and belit-
tie their resources, obtained control
of the lower house Of our legislature
It's conspicuous failure as law-mak-
ing body filled the more sensible mem
bers Of the alliance with chagrin, and
they will embrace the first opportunity
offered to reinstate themselves in the
Republican party.
Kansas is marvellous in its history,
matchlesS in its resources and magnf-
ficent in it's achievements, and the par
ty that maligns the state and dishon-
ors itself is already struck with the
blight Of death.
DEMOCRATS SUPPORT HIM.
The judicial district central commit
tee, composed Of Republicans and
Democrats, charged with the conduct Of
the campaign against Doster, issued a
stirring address to the people. and
Judge DOSter was defeated But the
judge was not discouraged. He 'bided
his time. In the Populist state con-
vention at Abilene in July last he was
unanimously nominated. The state
Democratic convention, then in session
at Hutchinson, Endorsed the nomina-
ton, and at the recent election he was
chosen chief justice of the supreme
court by $500 majority. Many of the
Democrats who Joined the Republicans
IN 1891 supported him, and some Of
them were in the Democratic conven-
ton that Endorsed his candidacy along
with the other candidates on the state
Populist ticket.
CAPITAL AND ITS USERS.
When the recent campaign opened
the Republicans scattered broadcast
the extracts from Judge Doster's
speech IN the famous judicial fight in
his district in 1891. He paid little at
tention to this onslaught, but prose-
cuted his campaign, dealing with the
money question, which he declared
was the paramount issue in this cam
paign. A local paper published at LIE
Roy, the home Of the new
Populist governor elect, wrote Judge
Doster early in September ask
ing him to explain his radi-
cal declarations, "that the right Of the
user OF property are paramount to the
rights of the owner" On the Sd of
September he addressed a letter to the
local publisher in which he said:
ITO the first inquiry concerning the
relative rights Of users and owners of
property, l answer that I never ex-
pressed such a view as an abstract
proposition Of social right, and never
uttered the words quoted, singly and
alone, to express any completed un-
quailned thought. 1 did, however, use
SUCH language, but in sense and with
meaning limited and special, and In
connection with other Language which
plainly showed that 1t was usef in
qualified and special sense and illus
trated my meaning by reference to in
stances which plainly showed the linn
tied and special application made of it,
NOT CORRECTLY QUOTED.
The quotation is a. garbled, isolated
extract taken from a public address of
several years ago. wrested from its
context, perverted in meaning and de-
prived of the benefit of all ACCOMPANY
ing explanatory language. It's cdrcuIa-
ton in the partisan press in this mutt
lated form Is an apt instance of the
truth Of the old proverb that "a half
truth Is a whole lie." I was discussing
the claimed mutually" between labor
and capital, and had by processes of
reasoning Gmmaterial to the purposes
Of this explanation and immaterial
whether right or wrong) reduced the
words Tabor and capital" in their
last analysis, to what I deemed their
equivalent expressions, 'tuse" and
"ownership"-"use by the laborer
Ownership" by the capitalist 1 then
asserted in the user of capital a right
paramount to the owner, but in imme-
date connection Herewith I drew a
distinction between kinds of capital
Quoting enough Of the address to
show the distinction drawn, I said:
Before passing from this subject let
me draw a distinction proper to be OBJ
served, and yet so plainly existing that
1t would seem superfluous to call atten-