The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-01
BEWARE OF RooRRAcks


The public -should-be- advised, even
at this early date, against the familiar
and discreditable tactics almost sure
to be resorted to by failing and de-
spairing party, of Spreading broadcast
reports and circulars filed with false
hoods~just prier-te election day. The
hard work sof this canpaign in Mime
sofa is over The result is today sub
stantially decided. No candid political
! observer able to read the signs of the
times on. either side of thespolitical line
doubts the election of John A. Johnson
by very large majority. 1t is almost
equally certain, SO great is the political
revolution in this state, that it will
carry into Office Mr. Winston and prob
ably all the other candidates on the
| Democratic state ticket.
/ Men who know that they are beaten
are desperate. 1t is true that the cir
culation of canards and roorbacks at
/ the last moment is so old a dodge that
| it ought notrNtos deceive the simplest.
Yet wez find every day men who lose
money on the lock trick or the bogus
! freight bill or some other of the simple
bunco devices that have been exposed
million times. Therefore it is in or
der to warn the voter against the polit-
ical confidence man. His ears and eyes
will. be assailed with flaring headlines
and resonant lies between this and
! Tuesday morning. Let him be on his
guard, believe nothing that he has not
already heard argued out and exam
ined for himself, and strike swift and
| hard at the party which brings out any
alleged sensational disclosures at the
| last hour.
We have good warrant for putting
the voter on his guard No one can
| have forgotten that four years ago this
disreputable trick was sprung. A cir
cular was published in the principal
Republican organs in this city and dis
tributed everywhere among the voters
protesting to show that John Lind was
opposed to the new capitol. 1t was
lie pure and simple. 1t was designed
to prejudice the voter and make Re
publican votes. What they dared to do
in 1900 they will not hesitate to at
tempt in 1904. Where at that time
they were only frightened, they are
now convinced of accomplished defeat
They will take long chances and stick
at nothing. Therefore, we remind the
voter once more that not a particle of
confidence is to be placed in any state
ment proclaiming political disclosures
or carrying political sensation between
this and election day.
The issues are made up. All the
facts have been put in evidence The
public knows all that it will or can
know until after the ballots have been
placed in the box about the respective
merits of John A. johnson and r. c.
Dunn. We have been advised that
circular similar to that distributed in
l9OO, but containing different allega-
tions, is already printed and ready for
distribution by Republican hands.
| These tactics should be SO promptly
! and emphatically rebuked that the
| roorback will become an extinct spe-
cies. Trust nothing in the way of new
charges or allegations that you hear
between this and Tuesday next; and if
any party manager, campaign orator or
newspaper seeks to impose upon you
by a fabricated story prepared to do
dirty work at the eleventh hour, re-
taliate by shifting down the party, the
cause and the men in whose interest
his work is done.