Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-11-01

The ou4aNeyes men @06 sOenvefNA1y4E Issued
circular showing what It has cost the
state Of Colorado to .lect Populist gov
ernor. It is there shown that $500, OOO, 600
of values In the state have been destroyed; !;
while tts credit, as well as the borrowing
power Of individual members Of the COM
munity, has been reduced to actual nul-
lily. Through fear of hostile legislation,
capital refused to enter the state, or to
remain there, when already invested, enc
moment longer than 1t was bound to do
by contract. This was the price that had
to be paid wherever the Populists obtained
control OF the executive and legislative
powers. And we ask every citizen Of Min
nesota whether he is willing to pay It.
Great as Is this danger, however, there
is a greater which menaces Minnesota
more nearly. II 1t is loss to have the party
OF anarchy secure control Of the governors
Office or the legislature, It Is ruin to have
1t master OF the courts. Against that
fr1ghtful misfortune every voter In the
state should be warned and armed. For
the others are remediable. A governor is
elected Tor but two years. A legislature Is
succeeded by another after the same In
terval. What the people do with these
agencies of power in some lapse of intel
Hgence they can undo quickly. In the mean.
time, both are restrained from their worst
BY the written constitution and the guard
ianship OF the courts. In two years after
such desperate experiment, quick repen-
lance can sweep the worst Of Its conse-
Quences away.
Not so II Populism should capture the
citadel OF power, the supreme court Of the
state. That Is the worst fate that can be-
TALL an unhappy community. II the Popu-
list candidate for associate Justice should
be elected this year. he would, with the
two members Of the court chosen on the
fusion ticket by the aid Of Populist votes
Two years ago, constitute majority Of the
supreme bench In Minnesota And this ma
jority could not be overthrown or changed
Tor from five to six years to come It is
little less than appalling, when we consider
now the Populist usually regards the law
and Its Interpretation where 1t comes in
conflict with his party views or interests
to think OF such q possibility.
In every state where the Peoples party
has obtained any control OF the courts, It
has used that power unhesitatingly for per-
sonal and party ends. Honor is nothing to
It. The usages Of the law do not nind It,
lt CONSTITUTES statutes to meet Its own pur-
poses. The law as the protector Of lib
erty and individual rights is lost sight of.
aud the purity of justice becomes myth.
a legislature might pass bene6cept laws
by the score, and q PopuIist court could ret
tncAu dSlue OF CO0SIrue them TO the Opp0.
site effect Of the trainers intent as fast as
they reached It. We have no need to go out
of this state, to look at Kansas or Colorado,
to see the judges Of South Carolina obeying
1illman's orders In approving his whisky
law. In the judicial actions Of the Populist
candidate for associate Justice In Minnesota
Judge Willis In his decisions for political
ends, In his extraordinary ruling that
mans vote must be counted because no
would have voted for the Democratic ticket,
although he did not vote at all and was not
prevented from doing SO, we see the Popu-
list on the bench revealed. There is no
danger hanging over Minnesota to-day at
all comparable to the calamity of having
the supreme court Of tbs state in the pos
session OF Populists and; POpulist sympa.
Is a danger which menaces the rights of all
investors, all the securities of property, the
savings s0f Tie workingman as well as the
foundation of all commercial credits. The
election Of this man Willis to seat on the
supreme bench would excite approximations
for the stability of all contracts and the
safety Of all investments which would mr.
rest theSwheels of returning prosperity for
half q dozen years to come. 1t would cost
ton of the executive and legislature has
cost Kansas and Colorado. -
Judge Collins and Judge Start are men OF
experience and splendid reputation. Their
learning and ability stand unquestioned. As
judicial officers, the records OF the state
speak for them. In their hands the best
interests OF the state, as: well as those OF
its humblest citizen are safe. Let every
voter give them his earnest support.