The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-02

the United States and running said Irvine
plant in debt several thousand dollars,
besides squandering all the cash balance
on hand which the Republicans turne
over to them. Senator Nelson also
emphatically declared that Gov. Lind's
administration has ruined our system of
wheat grade and inspection, so that now
lots of our wheat was sold by sample at
--nneapolis without being graded at ALL
although some of the no grade wheat
sold as high as II cents per bushel, and
this was all because Gov. Lind had dis
Charged all honest and competent Re-
publican members of the wheat grade
and inspection department and put in in
experienced and incompetent Democrats
to fill their places.
TESTED THE QUALITY.
Now in answer to the charges of the
quality in the Saltwater Irvine will sim
ply state that l have used more or less
of said Irvine since it was first manufac-
tured, and in 1893 I sold car load of said
Irvine here in Fertile, and the Saltwater
Irvine has always given as good satisfac-
ton as any other Irvine sold here. In
1899 I bought $50 pounds of said Irvine
and compared it with the pure mania
Plymouth Irvine and to my surprise
found that the Saltwater Irvine reached
iuss as far as the best grade Plymouth
tWlnG, WHICH Is COIlSIOCAO GU NAAO SN'N
the market In 1898 1 could not get
Saltwater Irvine for money; my cash or
der was twice returned, so L bought the
hest Plymouth Irvine and used that, put
in 1899 | had no trouble in getting Stltl-
water Irvine at all, yet [ did not send my
order in before the latter part OF july
This last summer, 1900, bought my
Irvine from the local dealers IN ferule'
II was the lowest grade McCormlck
T DOunQ 1OE
II and If was old Irvine, since 1879, Whlch
the dealers were glad to get RID OF dC
any price. but I am sure that II INC
drouth had not destroyed over NAN OIL al
the different crops in the Red river val
lev the price Of binder twine would nave
been higher than in the last ten years
SURPRISED REPUBLICANS.
Senator Nelson's charges regarding the
u,boat inspection simply made votes
for Gov Lind Several strong Repdp-
licans told me after the speech that they
were astonished to hear Nelson make
such remarks. Why, says one hepupi1c-
an 7 have farmed here twenty years, out
never did l get better grade anu less
dockage than In 1899 and 1900, up 10 thls
fall. and this fall, says he, 1t is 1mpos-
sible to get any grade on account VI Tic
dampness of all grain.
In 1898 the farmers around Fertile or
ganized a farmers elevator company
called the Garfield Farmers Elevator
company, of Fertile, Mimi, and In the
fall of the same year built an elevator
which was ready for business Oct. 20 1888,
l am a shareholder and also a director
of said elevator company, and in 1888 and
1899 and up to July 6, 1900, was also sec
rotary of said Garfield Farmers Elevator
company. The companys books plainly
show never before did we get as good
grade, and as low dockage as from July
l, 1899, to July 1, 1900, and If any one
doubts my words they will with pleas
ure, be allowed to examine our books
at any time
VIII the Republican leaders please ex-
plain how 1t was that from Sept. l, 1897,
TO July l, 1898, every farmer who shipped
his wheat either through the Farmers
elevator or loaded on track lost from
four to thirty-one bushels, gross weight,
on every car load shipped and that at
a time when wheat sold in Duluth from
81 cents to $1.75 per bushel. In the fall
of 81 L shipped two car loads of wheat
through the Farmers elevator. at Fer