Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 29, 1898, Page 4

Grand Rapids Meraiae'MReview By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months........$1.00 | Three Months..........50¢ Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minn., as second-class matter. ee) The Democratic State Ticket. .JOHN LIND,‘Brown county .J. M. BOWLER, Renville J. HEINRICH, Hennepin .. ALEX. M'KINNON, Polk .GEORGE N, LAMPHERE, Clay .. JOHN,F. KELLY, i. Austin, St, Louis Governor... Clerk Supreme Court:Z. dge ‘THOMAS CANTY, Hennepin 7 Supreme {PASTEL BUCK, Blue Earth Court .... | WM, MITCHELL, Winona Congress, Sixth District..CHAS. A, TOWNE, 3 St. Louis. Democratic County Ticket. For Auditor.........ccseoseseysiees E. J. Farrell For T: vO. ©, Miller For Sheri Phillip Caselberg urer For Register of Deed: wees A. B. Clair For Attorney........- * -R. J. Donohue For Judge of Probate .T. M. Brady Mrs. M. 8. Ehle M. Perredult ..Al PAllips P For Coroner Sup’t of Schools. For Surveyor. County Commissioner: District No. 1.... ntetrict W. Robinson . John Rellis District No. -Thomas Trainor District Cc. E, Leeman nineties ha NANA A STEP NE DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM. Hereby reaffirm the Chicago, Na- tional Democratic platform, and pledge toit their unswerving support until its principles shall have be- ,atablished governmental come the policy. We recall with pride the courage and gallant leadership of our late presidential candidate, William J. n. His devotion to the prin- s of free government and splen- did elucidation of those principles in the campaign entitle him to the last- ing g e of the people. We commend as wise, patriotic and brave the actions of our Democratic and representatives in con- and we confidently trust them inall the trying emergencies of the hour to preserve the people’s rights while they uphold the country’s hon- vr. In the momentous struggle in which we are now engaged every re- source, moral and ‘material, should be employed ina vigorous prosecution of the war to a triumphant conclu- sion. When jour country is engaged in foreign conflict, political partisan- sbip should be merged into united and enthusiastic support of all meas- ures necessary for the success of Ame n arms. We_rejoice in the skill, brayery, artial exploits and fortitude already xhibited by our gallant soldiers and We demand that those who may vive shall receive adequate recognition of their valor, devotion ind sacrifice, and we:pledge to them that they shall not be forgotten at home while they are fighting our battles abroad. Those who may fall in the fight shall be ever held in that grateful remembrance traditionally characteristic of the American people. We hereby denounce monopolies and trusts as dangerous foes to the peace, well-being and prosperity of the people. ‘i We ‘find in the public affairs of Minnesota a political condition such as to cause in the minds of thought- ful citizeus grave apprehensions. Great as has been our progress in population and wealth, we declare that such growth would have been much greater had there been at all times an open, honest and impartial administration of our public affairs. Let facts speak io prove this as- sertion true: 1. During the period of Republican control our people have seen their vast heritage of public lands—agricul- tural], timber and minera., an empire in itself—frittered away ut a price rediculous when compared with their true value. They haye seen millions of res thus obtained wrongfully with- held from taxation. 3. They have seen the farmers, toilers and producers of wealth com- pelled to bear this increased burden of taxtion. 4. They haveseen them subjected to the most merciless exactions of railroads, warchouses, elevators and other favored corporations. These corporations specially favored have in return controlled legislation, dictated nominations and furnished the money to carry elections. The policy. of this class has been to divide and ruin, then conbine, divide and ruin again, 5. Our hanking institutions, established to care for the deposits of the people, have not had their condi- tion of solvency or insolvency ex- amined by a competent bank examin- er. Even where reports of insulyen- cy were made they have been with- held from public view. Througha songful combination at the state i senator sailo. capitol millions have been lost to our people, while the good name of our state has suffered abroad. 6. The offices of the clerk of the supreme court, oil'inspection and sur- veyors of logs have been allowed to demand and _ receive exorbitant fees, amouuting to about $50,000 annually, which, if at ‘all proper should have gone into the public treasury. In- stead thereof, they have been used for the most part to perpetuate “machine rule.” 7. Our railroad and warehouse commission has failed to fully pro- tect the people. Unjust discrimina- tions and exorbitant charges in rail- way rates demand proper regulation by this commission. In every portion of the state equal and reasonable charges for transportation should be faithfully maintained. The members of such commission should be no longer open to appointment by the governor but should be subject to election by the people. 7. Weare even now confronted by aspectacle more humiliating. The present administration, assuming to act under the honored party name of Greeley and Lincoln, attempts to pro- vide for its succession and uses there- for the public machinery of the state. The’ favored corporations name the public officials execute, and thus itis farcically proclaimed that the people of Minnesota are to be allowed to continue in the enjoyment of ‘good government and sound money.” In view of all these and many other. wrongs inthe administration of our state affairs, this convention now pledges itself to the work of thorough and complete reform. It dernands: 1. That the public lands remain- iug unsold shall be sold only at their fair value. 2. That all public institutions shall be managed with prudence and economy, --3. That we shall not lose the fruits secured by the decision of the Supreme court in the land tax case. By that decision 8,500,000 acres of un- used railroad lands will be added to the tax list. Thegincreased valua- tion will be from $15,000,000 to $20,- 000,000, annually. We demand that in-the threatened appeal to the United States supreme court the legal department of this state shall per- form its full ‘duty that the people’s rights may be protected. 4. Ofstill greater value, perhaps, is the decision of the supreme court in the Steener rate case. 1t estab- lishes the principle that the basic charges for transportation should be no more than a fair income on the cost of reproduction of the plant. This principle should be maintained atall bazards, and applied in all matters of public franchise. Both these decisions and many others amply attest the fullfilment of our promises. made in 1892 in refer ence to the judiciary. 5. Regarding agriculture as one of the substantial foundations of pros- perity. We look with interest upon all forms of diversified farming. 6. We favor the election of United States senators by the people direct. 7. We condemn with severity all partisan appointments to the judiciary. 8, We favor legislation looking to the construction and maintenance of goud roads. 9. We recommend that within reasonable limitations the principle of direct legislation be applied. 10. We faithfully promise that if entrusted with the administration of affairs there shall be atall times wise, frugal and competent government. To the end ;that all these wrongs may be righted and all these reforms effected. The Democrats of Minnesota, deep- ly impressed with the solemnity of their cause and actuated only bya stern sense of duty, now call upon all the people, irrespective of former political affiliations, to join with them in one grand and heroic effort to break down “the rule rings” and to redeem our state from its long and oppressive misrule. $10 Excursion to Detroit. September 13 is the date set by the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic rail- way for their third annual autumn excursion to Detroit. This excursion, which has been so popular the past two seasons, will leave Duluth 6:30 p.m. the above date, by rail to St. Ignace, where the train is due to ar- rive at 10 o’clock the next morning, when passengers will be immediately transferred to the City of Alpena, one of the double-deck steel side-wheel steamers of ‘the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation company, giving a twenty- four hours’ sail to Detroit. or thirty hours’ to Toledo or Cleveland. The round trip fare to Detroit wiil be $10 and to Toledo or Cleveland $11. The return limit will allow a full ten days’ stop at destination. State-room berths on the steamer may be reserved in ad- vance, and there will be no over- crowding, as these steamers have 175 state rooms and parlors that will ac- commodate three persons each. For further particulars, reservations and tickets apply to T. H. Larke, Com- mercial Agent, 426 Spalding Hotel bloek, Duluth, Minn. LAND GRANT AND LINED SEPTLERS The Political Sequel to the Hastings & Dakota Land Grant. WHEN WILL REPUBLICAN OUTRAGE END? faving Tricked the State by Deeding Lands to Russell Sage, te Defeat the Forfeiture Bill, Sage's Agent end At- forney in Evicting Settlers, Lyndon A. Smith, Ie Made Candidate for Lieuten- ant Governor—Fraud and Trickery Fit Companion to Guaranty Loan. Two years ago, although somewhat late in the campaign, attention was called to the manner im which the State of Minnesota was defrauded out of more than 5,000 acres of land in the western part of the state by the Russell Sage— Hastings & Dakota—land grant fraud, better known as the Hastings & Dakota steal. Inthe time that has elapsed the matters come home to individuals and people and come into the campaign with peculiar applicability, from two facts, First, that the settlers on the lands are being ejected therefrom; and second, thatthe instrument or attorney in Rus- sell Sage’s evictions IS THE REPUB- LICAN CANDIDATE FOR LIEU- TENANT GOVERNOR, LYNDON A, SMITH, of CHIPPEWA COUNTY, _ Two years ago the state Democratic commitiee officially stated the case from the records, and from the same source the Reform Press now presents the fol- lowing summary: Hastings and Dakota Grant. The land grant of the Hastings & Dakota railroad had never been finally adjusted, but in the course of time the supposed rights remaining due under it had come into the ownership of Russell Sage, the many times millionaire of New Yous. In what manner this oc- curred, and how the hocus pocus has been worked to keep the lands from the tax assessment rolls, is not important to the case now. Concerning the grant it- self, the facts are old to most residents of the western portion of the state. Con- gress granted the lands away back in 1866, reserving, and by subsequent act continuing to withhold, such lands in the certain belt, as might have been taken by the settlers, In the years following there were numerous changes, lapses and ex- tensions, during which time settlers con- tinued to go upon the lands which the railroad company expected to obtain, and the questica of title and ownership became greatly complicated. One thing remained clear, howev-r, that people settled on lands in good faith and went on te make their homes and improve the country, increasing the other lands in value. Where Sage Coines In. In due time the Hastings & Dakota company dissolved, and what it pos- sessed, or expected to possess, passed, as has been said, into the hands of Russell Sage What remained? The people claimed that nothing remained, but that the lands belonged to those who had se- cured them under the government laws and the protection of the state. This matter has been agitated for years and reached several sessions of the legisia- ture, ahd was the stock in trade of sev- eral very active Republican politicians. It came to a head in the session of 1895, under the efforts of twosuch politicians, respectively, Representative J. F. Jacob- son, of Lac qui Parle, in the House, and Senator E. T. Young, of Swift county, in the Senate, as representatives from tho region where many of the victims of what has come to-pass reside—or did be- fore ejected from their homes. Those gentlemen made the campaigns of their lives for their friends and neighbors, op- pressed by these adverse claims on the art of Russell Sage. The Hastings & Dakota land grant was more talked of than any other proposed legislation of the period. In a previous session something had been attempted, but not till the session of ’95 was success at- tained. These ‘‘defenders of the poor settlers,” united the whole Republican strength of both houses for the bill they agreed on, which declared a forfeiture of all rights and interests of Sage and any one else but the settlers occupying the lands. Lands not occupied by set- tlers became the property of the state. This was agreed to be the only way in which relief could be had for those peo- ple in that part of the state. Where the People Go Out. Senator Young, by agreement with Representative Jacobson, introduced the bill in the senate, and piloted it through that body. It passed there on the 11th of April by a vote of 32 to 6. Then Mr. Jacobson took it up inthe house, where it passed on the 13th of April by a yote of 90 to1. While both managers talked much of corporate op- ition to the measure, and expended Tier galore, it was notorious that there was little or no opposition to the measure from the railroad lobby, which usually fought such legislation. The reason came out later. The bill became law on the 18th of April by being signed by the Republican governor and being deposited in the office of secretary of state, and the legislature a few days later adjourned. When it was safely departed, then was the discovery made that on the 18th of April, FIVE DAYS BEFORE GOVERNOR CLOUGH HAD SIGNED THE FORFEITURE BILL, THERE HAD BEEN MADE, SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED, BY THE SAME GOVERNOR, A DEED FOR THE STATE, TO THE SAME RUS- SELL SAGH, FOR THE VERY LANDS. DECLARED FORFEITED BY THE ‘ YOUNG-JACOBSON BILL. hus, not tf ae | pens WHOM SO MUCH MAD RE FASTE RETRISVABLY IN TH. TUNES. Lyndon A, Smith, Attorney, OVEN das MisFOR- There has been no recourse but to leave their homes and their property, or to make settlement at Russell Sage’s own terms. This engages the attention of much of the court machinery and the several agents in the counties chiefly in- terested, those of Chippewa, Big Stone and Traverse, including Candidate Lyn- don ‘A. Smith. The following isa list of the lands which Sage thus obtained, by Republican assistance, and from which the farmers will be evicted, un- less they pay Russell Sage: Parts of Sections— Acres Mees. 49 160 44 80 40 129.97 40 160 41 160 41 160 NWigotN EM a1 1) 41 40 EofNEM {Ol 121 41 80 NW X....506 27 121 41 169 Bie. Bi 121 41 ce NW 88 1a 41 1 NW... 85 121 41 160 W14 of SEM. . 6 121 42 80 N of SEM W of | SW {SEY of SW.. 17 121 42 200 NW Bes loc +23 121 42 160 7 42 40 19 42 76.69 27 42 160 42 120 42 40 42 160 43 233.85 43° 171.60 21 43 120.53 22 43 48.35 S \ of SEX. 15 122 43 80 Lot No. 6..... .17 128 48° 160 Lot 5 and SW \ of SW i ee sesee 29 123 43 72.50 SEX of NE % NEY of NW KandSE ..,. 81 122 43 200 S \ of SB 122 43 80 NW X..... ~ (170 123 160 E44 of NE SW Mot NE NW%X....0...- 33 123 43 230 S%ofNE wand E of SE \%.. 8 192 44 1¢0 NW Kot SW &%. NE ¥% of SE &% De Boaisia have ov SWx of SW. - 11 123 44 How the Old Thing Works. The sequel to this interesting story is to be found, first, in the actions to de- prive the farmers and other owners of the lands on which for the most part settlements have long sitice been made, and next in the action of the Repub- lican party in making its candidate for Lientenant Governor, the attorney for Russell Sage in the evictions which have d, The actions are found in the s of Bigstone, Swift and Tra- verse counties, where the lands for the most part are located. The cases are so numerous that the complaints on which they are brought are printed by the wholesale, all ready for filling out and filing. Some of the farmers are able to defend by having occupied the lands long enough, under the statute, to make them, secure by adverse pos- session, fifteen years. Such as have not this defense must leave, or what is mostly desired, settle, and pay Sage’s agent or agents. THE RESULT IS THE CONSiANT REMITTANCE TO THE NEW YORK OFFICE OF SUCH SUMS OF GOOD MINNESOTA MONEY AS ARE EXCEEDINGLY GRATIFYII.GTOALLCONCERNED, EXCEPT THY POOR VICTIMS. The whole is well illustrated in the picture, “How the Old Thing Works.” In the Republican state convention, after Guaranty Loan Candidate Eustis had been selected to head the ticket, the attorney and agent of Russell Sage, Lyndon A. Smith of Montevideo, was very properly selected as the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Guaranty Loan, and the Hastings & Dakota grant, with their sequels of ruin and distress, are proper companion pieces. THE DEFEAT OF BOTH SUCH CANDI- DATES WILL BE ATTENDED TO CAREFULLY BY THE VOTERS OF MINNESOTA AT THE POLLS NEXT MONTH. EUSTIS UNDER A GALLING FIRE. Preston National Republican: Will- iam Henry Eustis is under a galling fire from his outraged Minneapolis constit- ueacy. His conduct as mayor of the city was flagrantly wrong and inimical to the sacred rights of the whole popu- lation, except those of the Guarantee Loan Association and the Tom Lowry street car combine, and new he is called to account for his absurdities and cor- rupt peculations. In favor of the street car company he disobeyed the law as laid down by Judge Smith. The City of Minneapolis has never beea aroused by a mayor more heedless of its muni- cipal righs. What he has been to that municipality he is expected to be, if elected governor, to the pine land rings, the school land and iron mountain thieves, and all other combinations or- ganized to rob the state. Allof the local political riggs that are now shout- ing for Eustis do so with a full knowl- edge of his unworthiness. From the tables of his central masters in political fraud the most of their crumbs are dis- tributed. In return misrepresentation and lies are manufactured to deceive voters. 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