New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-05

trained and 80 politically educated, bow
he could easily believe that It was right 5
and Just to give the home manufacturer
/ a special privilege, but that It cannot be
given to the farmer, the lai1ofer, the
mechanic, the professional man or any
4 other class.of American citizens. Hecould
/ easily believe, acting according to his
4 honest convictions, it to be light and
Just to pass law which would prevent
the American people from selling where
! they could sell the dearest, and from
buying where they could buy tae cheap
est; he. could easily believe that 1t was
right to pass a law that would keep, aWay
from our shores the products from 9TH
81. lands and have the manufacturers OF
this country have a monopoly OF the
home market and enable the greedy and
and avaricious monopolist to advance
his prices, enlarge his profits and charge
the people of this country his own rates,
because it is there where they are COM
PEELED to buy.
Thomas jefferson, the founder OF the
democratic doctrine, knew the people OF
this world because he loved them, he
knew them because he trusted them. Dur
ing his early lifetime he was compelled
to work and FIGHT out his own battle of
life among the surroundings Of his field
of labor. His political ideas were re-
ceived in the republican atmosphere Of
France, and when it was portentous with
the fumes of strife and war, and when 1t
was the reconstructed and recreated
! France. he felt that that movement re-
constructed and remodelled the civilized
world. He believed that the great wea-
pom Of taxation was givensto the people
for the government of the people and for
that purpose only, and not for the pur
pose of building up a privileged class
who should be the recipients Of special
exemption; but for the purposes OF rals-
ing revenue to pay the expenses of the
government and then to be honestly. SIN
cerely and economically administered.
That was his doctrine and which he sim
cerely and conscientiously upheld and
believed and he wrote upon the banner
of the democratic party, that emblem of
liberty which was unfurled to the winds
of Heaven more than hundred years
ago, which has been waiting on high the
world over, which has since then many
a time been torn and tattered with the
storms of more than hundred years
vet the words still CLEAN bright, those
! words of Jefferson, "Tariff for Revenue,
for revenue only-equal rights to all
special privileges to none" ....r
You have been reminded of the demo
cratic state convention, my friends, at its
recen. meeting nominating me for the
position of governor of the state ofMin-
gates or spectators, will remember that
as far as I was personally concerned, il
was unsolicited and undesired. honest
ly and sincerely hoped that I might be
accorded the grand privilege that was &C
corded to me in the past years in Mime
sofa, of being a private in the grand az
my of the democracy Of Minnesota that
is marching to a certain and splendid
victory in November. But | was reared
in the sun of the Wisconsin democracy
and in obedience to the voice Of light
mate authority, when the voice of that
i party spoke, bowed my head in humble
submission and accepted the nomination
and with my associates on the state tick.
ct and with the candidates for congress
of the congressional districts, we are be,
fore you, before the people Of the state
of Minnesota to-day, not upon political
and partisan issues but upon such issues
as good sense, good judgment and good
citizenship demand, no matter what you1
former political affiliations may be OF
have been, for the support Of the entire
state ticket.
| If elected have only one promise to
make and that IS this, if elected, I shall
be ON honest and fearless servant of the
entire people Of the state Of Minnesota.
You will not find that when Inauguration
day has come around that the indepen-
dence, that the manhood and that the We
to power of the governor Of the state Of
Minnesota had been misplaced OF placed
in pawn for the moneyed interests that
denominates the state of Minnesota I
would rather practice law and stay at
home playing with the babies thar be
rode into the state house on the cow
catcher Of a railroad company. And