The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-11-01
Gov. Pillsbury's Administration:
From the Winona Republican Oct. q.

Both political parties having formally
declared that in accordance with the
Constitutional provision to that effect, no
adjustment of the old railroad bonds
shall be effected except with concurrent
popular vote, the Bond issue is practi-
cally taken out of the present contest,t the
people having the undisputed right to
vote up or down any future measure
which the Legislature may propose for
the settlement of the question. The f.
nancial question is so purely national in
its character that whether Gov. Pillsbusy
or Mr.. Banning shall be elected the re-
suit can practically cause neither a great
er nor less circulation of paper or gold.
The Southern problem is already practi-
cally solved, while specie resumption,
civil service, the tariff, and other national
issues have but an indirect and remote
bearing upon purely State campaign
involving the choice of mo- members of
Congress.
In this condition Of affairs the plain
question which addresses itself to every
sensible man who desires his own and the
public welfare is simply-Which of the
candidates before the people will best pro-
mote that good government and general
prosperity, which is the honest desire of
good men Of all parties? On the one hand
we have a plain, minded, broad
viewed, straightforward man, {who to
modest pretensions, unites executive abil-
ity OF the highest order, and whose two
years administration-it is conceded on
all hands--has been among the best and
ablest our State has ever known. The
reelection OF Gov. Pillsbury will involve
no experiment, and incur no risk. His
past insures his future. On the other
hand, we have man of respectable abil-
tiles, and doubtless good intentions who is
a heated partisan, and, Of all our public
men the most liable to be warped 10y pas
sion and prediction. He has been all
things to all men, and nothing long, and
he is attempting now to crown tortuous
career of singular Inconsistencies by So
Letting imitation votes upon hard money
platform. The election of Mr.. Banning,
whose views are essentially at variance
with those of the party supporting him,
would be rash and needless experiment
at best.
Governor Pillsbury is therefore entitled
to the cordial support of sensible and
appreciative people, for the following
PRACTICAL reasons -
First because, he will continue to bring
to the discharge of his public duties the
same skillful management with which he
rescued the State University from finan-
cial ruin, and successfully conducted his
private affairs.
Second-Because, although non-resi-
dent Of the capital city, he has devoted
more hours to the assiduous performance
Of his public duties than any ofhis prede-
cessors.
Third-Because, amone his first public
acts, he had the nerve and sagacity,
against strong pressure, to veto bills for
over appropriation amounting to 81 10, 900,
and thereby saved the State from serious
embarrassment.
FOurth-Because he took prompt meas
ures to avert the ravages of the grasshop-
pers, and inaugurated the concerted move
ment which, through the action of the
Omaha Gubernatorial Conference, result
ed in the creation of the National Com
mission for the thorough investigation of
the locust question.
Fifth-Because of his prompt and wise
action for the capture Of the Mortified
robbers, and his firm resistance to per-
stentapplications for the employment of
strong military force, which would
have entailed heavy expense upon the
State without increasing the chances of
capture.
Sixth--Because of his devoted and self
sacrificing labors lin alleviating the suf-
ferings of the grasshopper victims, his
timely and generous conduct in leaving
his comfortable Office to face the fierce
storms of the frontier in order, by shar-
ing the hard fare of the sufferers, to as
certain their actusl condition-and be-
cause, with clear head to plan and q
big heart to execute, he achivcd the
mastery and grateful work of saving
more than 5000 persons from starvation.
Seventh-Because he had the courage
to veto u swarm Of senseless grants of im-