Year: 1859

From the wnona Democrat.


There is systematic course of election
eering adopted by the opposition politicians
of the Eastern States, the politicians OF this
State and the money sharks OF New York
City. Their plans of operation are adopted
each party has his part to perform as agreed
upon, and the spoils are to be divided to suit
the desires and wishes of each lst. the
politicians of the East. Their duties were
to visit Minnesota, to speak IN every town
of the State several times, to call the atten-
tion of the people to matters foreign to our
own interests, howl about slavery, prejudice
the minds of the people against the South,
try to make the foreign born voters believe
that the South proscribes them, as much as
they, the Republicans, do in the North.
These imported speakers set themselves up
as teachers, and use every argument howev-
er false and specious, or foreign to our inter-
ests, to draw our attention from those mat
tiers which are Of vital Importance to us all.
Their main object is to draw our attention
to foreign matters, as we have said before,
when we will fall an easy prey to New York
sharks. Their reward is political power
and notoriety. Most of them are now in
Office, which furnish them with plenty of
money to travel the country. By this means
they hope to get possession Of the Govern.
ment, and make fat job of it. Personal
aggrandizement and political power is their
reward, if successful. The wirepullers here
in Minnesota, of course want their party in
the ascendency, they want the little offices
which many of them are running for they
want the pay, which is all right, if they get
it without ruin to the State, and the dis
grace of reputation, and the blighting of
all our interests driving large portion of
our citizens out of the State, and preventing
any further emigration for five or ten years
to come all of which is the natural result
of their policy. Our ruin is to them source
of profit. The New York money sharks can
well afford to furnish first twenty thousand
and then thirty thousand more, to carry out
this scheme they make it easy and by just
such schemes as this--if they succeed in so
binding the minds ofthe people of this State
as to induce them to adopt their line of po-
licy. If they succeed in efforts to throw
more discredit upon our State Bonds, by the
adoption of the Republican platform, and
compelling refusal or failure to pay the
interest on the Bonds as it falls due, they
will not make less than one million dollars
out of it. Ere long they could purchase
these Bonds for few cents on the dollar,
and in few years at the fartherest, sell
them again at their full face. Their i'll
gotten gains is their reward. All this is at
the expense of the State and the people of
the State, and of so much expense to us is it,
that as before stated, it is our ruin as indi-
viduals, each of us, not excepting one in
hundred of the whole population, even the
wirepullers themselves must be the sufferers
in the end, our State will become by
word ofreproach and people of the Eastern
States, and II other countries, wanting
homes for their families, will seek other
Western States and avoid Minnesota. Our
lands bringing but nominal sum, work on
our Railroad stopped, no debts paid, no
money to pay debt, not enough to be had for
the purpose of leaving the country, heavy
interest accumulating, and heavy taxes
assessed, and no benefits therefor. One of
the Illinois Republican stumpers told a
Minnesota audience the other evening that if
they wanted money they must look to the
Republicans. They have the money. "We
are the only party to whom you can look
for help--you will find the Democrats at the
Five Points, &c. A grave Senator ad-
vised US to repudiate, as be said his State
had done, when in truth his State had nev-
er repudiated. Belieing and defaming the
State which honored him to seat in the
U. S. Senate, to induce US to take course
which would ruin and disgrace US, that his
associates may profit and his party be put in
the ascendency. These men do not labor
for the best interests of the State. They
care not for our interests. 1t is the public
plunder they are after. If the people of
Minnesota would entail irretrievafle bank
ruptcy upon the State, let them elect the
Republican State ticket and Republican
Legislature. Let them take the advice of
the hirelings of New York corruptionists,
and we predict that twelve months from to-
day Minnesota will be by-word of reproach
in every State in this Union.