The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-09-18
REPUBLICAN MANIFESTO
ISSUED BY TIE STATE CENTRAL
cOMMlTTEE.

! and Whose Future Is So Promising.
Chairman Joel P. Heatwole and Sec
rotary Talrs Bixby, Of the Republican
state central committee, have just issued
a manifesto to the voters OF the State OF
Minnesota, giving concise statement
of the tissues of the campaign, the Drin-
ciples involved, and the reasons for vot-
ing the Republican ticket. The address
III full is given below:
The people Of Minnesota once more
find themselves in the throes of polit-
ical campaign. Once more they are
called upon TO determine by the peaceful
arbitrament of the ballot what the
policy Of this great state shall be for the
next two years. In this, as in every
electoral contest, we are confronted by
certain existing problems Of vital i'm
portaIce to the public weal-problems
which can find their true solution only
through the test Of practical experience.
The Republican state central committee
desires, therefore, to call the attention
Of the voters to certain indisputable
facts, which may aid them in solving
these problems for their own best inter-
ests, and for the well being Of the people
at large.
First--The Republican party, born as
it Was out Of the agouies of long
suffering people, trampled upon by the
most corrupt and villainous oligarchy
that ever cursed republic, has now
more than thirty Tears Of history behind
it. That history is replete with wrongs
righted, justice established, homes fur
nished to the homeless, and the horizon
of liberty made bright and clear by
removing therefroln the cloud of human
bondage. When first called into exist
ence it found labor degraded and dis
honored through the malign influence Of
slavery in the South. It also found labor
unprotected and struggling in ruinous
| competition with the pauper labor of
European nations; it found the govern
ment bankrupt, with neither credit nor
money: it found narrow and selfish
land policy which practically prohibited
tho growth and development Of Western
states and territories; it found the curse
of intemperance rioting unchecked and
unrestrained throughout the land. From
the date Of the organization of this great
| party the course of the nation has been
steadily onward and upward. Assailed
as it has been by the enemies Of progress
and reform, and by every other reac-
tionary influence, it has kept the pole
star Of national progress constantly in
Wow, and every step taken has been
steadily and surely forward toward the
clear sunlight of a happier and better
civilization.
Second-The founders Of this match
less political organization fought and
| conquered the enemies Of the Union in
the War Of the Rebellion; they restored
the credit of the nation to point be-
yond all precedent, and made United
States promise to pay good in every part
/. of tn" civilized world; they commenced
i; the work of reconstructing on firlner,
| broader and deeper basis the temple Of
civil liberty. But to-day we are con.
| fronted with new problems. The Amer
lean temple of civil liberty will not be
complete until we have firmly estab-
li2hed anl provided fer the permanent
maintenance Of the eternal prin-
ciple Of right and justice be-
between the warning elements of CAPT
tai and labor; until trusts and monopo-
lies have been destroyed or are regu-
lated in the interests of all the people, and
until every American citizen, without
respect to color or condition, is pro-
tected III the exercise Of every right
guaranteed him by the constitution of
the United States.
Third-No political party can succeed
for any length Of time, or ought to OBJ
tain control Of tho government, which
represents but one principic or which
has in view the accomplishment of but
one purpose. The Prohibition party
stands only for the destruction of the
saloon and the forcible cure Of the crime
or disease Of drunkenness. The Farm
ers' Alliance aims only to secure justice
to TIE farmer and to promote the we'll
| fare Of the agriculturalists as class,
forgetting that in our complex social
and political systems there are many
other equally important interests which
demand and should receive equal con-
sidcration at the hands of state ard ma.
tiolal government =
Four h-Sinco the policy of our
stdte and nation mas been CON
trolled by the Republican party
there has been sleady and conz
slant development Of all the industries
and interests which combine to make US
a great and prosperous people. Internal
improvements have been encouraged;
natural resources developed manufact-
uring interests have been built up, and
markets for their products created until
we have become the greatest industrial
nation upon the globe, thereby creating
for the products of the soil market IN
surpassed in any country under the sun,
developing our agricultural interests
beyond all precedent, and securing to
the farmer a larger profit than ever bes
fore known in history. = -.
80 The COMING CONFLICT.
Fifth-But the contest of 1890 is not
between the Prohibitionists and Farm:
ers' Alliance upon the one hand and the
Republican party upon the other. What
ever minor issues men may strive to
bring into temporary prominence, the
struggle to-day is the same it ever has
been. tt is the same old contest between
the spirit Of progress and assured ma
tiouaI and state development as repre-
scented by the Republican party and the
reactionary political spirit embodied in
and practiced by the Democratic party.
Should either of the so.called parties
which stand for one idea in national and
state growth succeed, their triumph will
DO but transitory, and the next political
contest will be narrowed down to the
two great national parties. The history
OF all parties organized in the interests
Of particular class demonstrates the
correctness Of this conclusion; but
neither the Prohibitionists nor the Farm.
srs' Alliance expect to elect their ticket
ct the coming election, but Democrats
think by protesting friendship for these
parties and encouraging them with prom
ises Of support at the polls, they can
thereby effect the d;sintegration and de-
feat of the Republican party. And it is
these false professions Of friendship and
these insincere Democratic promises ON
which the hopes Of many Of the MEM
| hers of fhasa portiac ora friday founded