New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-16
NO, IT rs NOT TRUE.

NO, 1T rs NOTTRUE.
This cannot be true. Last Saturday
the Pioneer Press published an inter
view with Hon. John Lind, making
that gentleman say that he would rath-
er see democrat elected to the United
States senatorship than to have another
Republican defeat Mr.. Dayis. We can
not believe Mr.. Lind made any such re-
marx, but if he did, it was time he was
read out of the Republican party. Mr..
Davis is an admirable Republican, a
brilliant statesman, and deserves we'll
of his party, and we are proud of him
as United States senator, but there
are other Republicans as able and true
as Mr.. Davis. According to the alleged
statement of Mr.. Lind, if Mr.. Davis is
not returned, the former gentleman
would bolt the Republican party to be
consistent. No, Honest John never
said So Marshall News Messenger.
No, Mr.. Lind did not say 50. What
ne did say was that if the Republicans
were in the majority in the next house
Mr.. DAYS. would be reelected, or lille
gitimate means would be employed to
bring about his defeat. The latter
meant the election of boodler, and
rather than witness such falling-otf
within his own party he would prefer
to have agood Democrat elected as Mr..
Davis successor. That was the true
substance of Mr.. Lind's interview, and
in expressing such sentiments he was as
certainly in the right as he would have
been in the wrong had he talked as the
newspapers reported.
Individualism is injurious to the party
that entertains it. No man ever lived
who in politics could hold the friend
ship of all the members of his party,
and the moment anyone is set up as par
e1cetIence or as necessary to the
strength and existence of the political
organization which gave him promi-
hence, there is disruption. Party faith
tends to unite, to bind together and en-
thuse. Individualism excites jealousy,
unpleasant personalities and division.
Party principles will permit of broad
discussion, and it's advocates are
strengthened by arduous defense of
what they believe TO be right. But in
dividualism on the other hand walks too
often on narrow plank, and there is
very little of strength in any man except
as he represents the principle, that are
at the foundation of his party's success.
Mr.: Lind, we are glad to say, is not
follower of personal interests, his true
Republicanism having caused him at all
times to hold the party superior to the
man. The reported interview, there
fore, did him great injustice.
Had the congressman been quoted
corr ectly, he would now be receiving
credit for This manly utterance instead
of having his Republicanism questioned.
No good Republican is anxious to see
a Democrat elected to Office when party
lines must necessarily be drawn close;
but neither should good Republican
be content with the election of hood
Ter. The latter is the shyster of the party
which he infests. If claiming to be Re-
publican, he is more to be dreaded by
the members Of that party than all the
filings and attacks of enemies from with
out. lie isaa curse, pest that drags
down and never builds up. He is the
selfish political Iscariot, suspicious, un.
scrupulous and ambitious beyond his
proper sphere. His every act leaves
vantage ground for the opposition, and
he is to be avoided even as healthy
man would avoid poison. Mr.. Lind was
right then in saying that, unless the Re-
publicans can elect somebody besides
boodler, they should elect no one at