Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-07-09
TUESDAY, July 9TH, 1895

gets excited thusly:
How is it that this man Taylor
can steal quarter of a million
dollars of the state fund and thus
escape? He is a Republican, he
belongs to the G. o. p, that
is it. He is one of the leaders of
that party in South Dakota and
he is not subject to the laws as
an ordinary man. Of course the
Republican party might not be
responsible for his stealings,
but if it stands still and let him
evade the law the party is "par-
ticeps criminus" after the fact
and as guilty as Taylor himself.
This is the veriest rot, untrue,
unjustifed, uncaued for, and is on
q par with usual Populist argu-
ment. Taylor has given all he
had to square matters and gone to
Jail besides, and his bondsmen
will pay the rest. In the Demo
cratic crash Mr.. Taylor's wealth
and property declined with
other peoples and investments
made proved losers and like many
others he ran away to escape con-
sequences. But his manhood
came out victor and he has squar
ed everything and is imprisoned
beside. Probably the TRIBUNE
like many others believe he
should be severely punished be-
cause he gave up a good thing
when he had it. Trying to down
any man making an effort to re-
trieve his honor is very unbe-
coming in q paper that has so
many Republican sins to look
after. "-Atwater Republican.
We especially ask our readers
to carefully look over the above
from the Atwater Republican.
It will be remembered that we
quoted the honestand manly crit
icism of this Taylor tiasco from
the News Ledger of Litch6eld, a
Republican paper, and then pro-
pounded the query how it was
that Taylor got off so easy, and
gave our opinion of the matter.
But the Republican says that
our statement is rot, untrue,
unjustifed and uncalled for, etc.,
etc. And then he goes on and
pleads the case for Taylor, The
Democrats were really to blame
for Taylor stealing! He simply
did what many others did! He
came back penitent?- The officer
of course had him cornered be-
fore he decided to become pen
itent and unload his haul-and
his bondsmen paid what they
would have had to pay any way,
and all this proves that Taylor is
not a very bad man, nay he is in
fact a good man, a man trying
Ito retrieve his honor" Well,
millionaire thieves know now
where to apply for defense. The
Atwater Republican is their
champion! It was of course very
unkind of US torefer to this mat
ter, but almost every Repubi-
can paper of any standing had
condemned Taylor as severely
as we did, we thought we might
have our say. But we are popu-
lists, and according to this great
Atwater Republican, we mustn t
say anything bad no matter how
true about a high-up thief, if he
is Republican. The Republi.
cans may of course say what they
are of a mind of about the Popu-
lists, whether true or not. That
is it, Bro. Satterlee, is it?
But this is only the party view
Of this matter, only of small i'm
portance. There is the far great
ereproblem of the public veal in.
volyed. tits apainful fact that
embezzlements are the crime Of
lineage in this country, and the
main cause of this state of affairs
. is party politics. Party politi:
clans and some party newspa.
pers are willing to excuse and
shield the criminals of their par.
ty that is, they consider the
sue cess Of their party of more
consequence than the execution
of the laws Of the land. This was
what we protested against in our
comment on the Taylor case.
That our criticism was timely
and to the point, the above howl
zot the Atwater Repub ican but
toe clearly proves. Suppose
sylor; had been 9 Populist; q 4