The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-23
AN ALLIANCE VIEW.

Correspondence Of the Gazette:-
With your permission l should like
to say few words to your readers Ill
regard to our candidates of the farm
and labor party for the Legislature.
Messrs. Stewart and Barber. As l note
by your last that when man has 6
particular job to perform he tiles t
secure suitable person for said job.
We have taken las farmers great pains
to do so, and further propose that
when we let the job we shall let it tt
men who will live up to the contract
and stand upon a platform formed no.
by one-horse politicians, but by plain
farmers who think that they have !;
faint idea of their own needs as we'll i:
not better than said politicians.
Against O. B. Turrell as man |
have no word to say, but as repre-
sentative he has record which [ con
slider public property. According t1
his own statement he failed to support
tie railroad and warehouse bill because
it did not meet with his approval, arc
this in face of the fact that there wa:
a strong demand for such Legislation
by nearly the whole producing class
of the state. If he could not approve
the measure presented why did he not
try to amend it. But no, we find his
vote recorded against this measure.
which was of vital interest to his con-
stituents. He opposed the reduction
of interest for reasons too apparent tc
every farmer. It is true he secured
his share of the bridge money, $780,
to be put where-into bridge across
the Minnesota to improve the trade Of
Redwood Falls.
And now what consider the worst
feature of the matter, if we elect Mr.
T. to the legislature, is this: He vii
20 there and 60 into caucus for in
structions in regard to important meas
ures that may effect his constituents
And when he comes out of that caucu!
he stands as the tool of the politica
bosses of this state to do their bidding
and not our bidding. On the othe
hand if Tom Barber is sent there he il
pledged to stand upon the farmers
platform, to enter no caucus, but t.
cast his vote as the people demand
and not as some political boss ma.
dictate.
Now farmers, take time, conside
the subject carefully; be influenced b,
no boss, but cast an independent bal
| LOT for xo,,r own intaraSf
Now in regard to senatorial candi
dates: S. D. Peterson also has rec
ord, and we find that eight years ag
he gave his best efforts to down VIM
Window for U. S. Senate and on tn
final vote, by the record of the Ponce
Press, cast his vote for D. M. Sabir
What I have said in regard to Mr.. I
and the caucus applies with more fore
to Peterson for he is known as one Q
the worst type of bosses in the state
And when Redwood county politician
figure upon the certainty of his cleo
ton they show that they are not in
formed as to the feeling in Brow
county. The farmers of Brown count
are thoroughly awake in alliance mat
tiers, as the following incident wi
show: Ole Jorgenson, of Linden, wa
nominated by the republicans for coun
ty auditor, but refused to accept, stat
ing that be owed his first allegiance t
the alliance. Now Brother Farmers
the alliance candidate, A. D. Stewar
is young man of good abilities, VIII
also pledges himself to stand SQUARED
upon the farmers platform. He is c
known probity and has far better abb
tiles as a speaker than either OF hi
competitors. Now farmers of the Mint
Senatorial District shall we select
representative farmer pledged to on
interests, or shall we elect bushes
man pledged to his own will, or sha
, we vote for true principles and goo
men, or be the tools of unscrupulou
, politicians? You have it in your ow
, hands. Study the matter carefully, d
not be ruled by prejudice but by req
son, is the advice of
=, T. L. GILBERT.