New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-08-17
!. HOW IT = APPENED.
Editor Stacy Tells the Public Of the Interests
that Brought About the Nomination B.
#ss of Eustis.

Inc late republican STATE convention
which nominated VIM. 81. Eustis, the
'spolicy'' mayor, tor governor against
John Lind, the candidate Of the people
was controlled by the following inter.
ests: nHz9 !. :s.s.e IL
i Rockefeller, the iron range monopo-
list, who sent down to st. Paul St
Louis county delegation controlled by
the attorneys and lobbyists of the twin
iron range syndicates. Is roo, s.r.@a !
= Jim Hill, whose active political satei-
lite, Tams Bixby, manager for Merriam
and all other Great Northern governors,
made the trades which landed Eustis in
the gubernatoria@ nomination. 2*
Peavey, the elevator magnate, whose
100000 bushels of Minneapolis wheat
are assessed at 7 cents per bushel, and
who was an active Eustis delegate in the
convention. ..-
Tom Lowry, whose $9,000,000 street
railway franchise, is assessed in Mime
apolis at $4,000, and whose employ
ees were packed into the primaries to
reward Eustis for his notorious veto of
the street railway transfer ordinance.
The nomination of Eustis for COVER
nor was based upon the Eustis record as
mayor. AS chief executive of the city
he set up the interests of the corporation
against the interests of the people, and
hypocritical "policies'' against the laws
Of the city and state. His street rail-
way transfer veto and his hospital site
deal proved him to be a servile creature
of the corporation and an instrument of
private greed when selfish interest re-
CURED; and that is what Hill and Rookie
Teller, as we'll as Peavey and Lowry, re-
quire in their business with the state
government.
The same convention that nominated
Eustis for governor turned down Mitch
ell, Buck, Collins and CAVITY, the su-
preme court judges who gave the peo-
pie the Stevenson railroad rate decision,
which will save Minnesota shippers and
producers 100000 during the ensuing
year, and the Merrill decision which
places on the tax rolls three million
acres Of hitherto tax-exempt railroad
lands, thereby swelling the revenue of
the state to the extent of 100000 annu-
ally.
This Eustis convention also TUNED
down Attorney General Childs who sue
cessfully carried the Stevenson and Mer-
rill cases through the courts and is now
fighting for the people against the Rock
efeller syndicate in the Duluth iron ore
rate cases.
1t likewise turned down Mr.. Merrill
the author of the famous railroad
land tax law, an act which the peo-
pie sustained at the polls in 1896 by, a
vote of 235, 5S5 to 29,530.
This Eustis convention in its plat
form ignored both the Stevenson and
Merrill cases, the most important to the
people of Minnesota in the history of
the state, and promised no aid to the
people from extortionate railway
charges or from the greed of railway
timber and mining syndicates..
This same Eustis convention nomina-
ted for the supreme bench, in place of
Justices Mitchell, Canty and Buck, three
attorneys, one of whom, Lewis, was Sc
lected by the attorneys and lobbyists of
the iron range syndicates, and another,
Brown, who as county attorney stipula-
ted away the case of the state in the
Stevens county railroad tax case. Why
Eustis was selected as the republican
nominee over Justice Collins, who was
also a candidate and who had stood
with Justices Mitchell, CAVITY and Buck
in the celebrated railroad cases, above
referred to, is to some a mystery, and
why Tams Bixby, manager. for the Mer-
RAM Clough forces in the interests of
the railway lobby in former campaigns,
should he manager for Eustis in 1898
and make the, trades whereby Eustis,
Brown, Lewis, Lovely and Douglas tri-
umphed over CAVITY, Mitchell, Collins,
Merrill and Childs is equally a matter
for explanation.
But the situation is clarified when, it
is known that Eustis as mayor had, not
only a saloon, dive and hospital site
policy" a labor policy a Scandi-
nayian '.policy,' and soldier veteran
'policy," but also railroad .'policy,"
which was that the people Of Minneapo-
lis must getadown on their knees and
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