The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-12
so THE DEMOCRATIC NOTIFICA-
TION COMMITTEE HAS OFF,
CIALLY LEARNED.
He REPEATS THE STATEMENT
THAT HE ACCEPTS NEITHER AS A
REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT NOR
POPULIST,
BUT AS AN ORDINARY CITIZEN.
DISCUSSES AT CONSIDERABLE
LENGTH THE FINANCIAL ISSUE
OF THE CAMPAIGN.
RAILROADS AND STATE LANDS.
What the Candidate Thinks About
the Necessity for Legislation ON
These Subjects.
BUT AS AN ORDINARY CITIZEN.
RAILROADS AND STATE LANDS.

| These Subjects.
Hon. John Lind has now formally ac-
| cepted his nomination for governor,
given, him by the Democrats at the
Minneapolis convention. He verbally
accepted the same from the Populists
the day on which it was made, but his
reply to the nominating committee
covers the whole field again. Follow
Ing is the copy Of the notification and
Mr.. Lind's reply:
MR. LIND's NOTIFICATION.
St. Paul. Minn., Aug. 2S, 1896. Hon. John
Lind. New Ulm. Mimi
S1r-The Democratic state convention of
MI Minnesota; which met at Minneapolis on
| as It's candidate for the Office of governor
OF Minnesota at the ensuing election, and
we were appointed committee to formally
notify you of such action We take this
pleasing duty.
We have delayed giving you this notice
until the various political parties of this
state had met in convention, in the hope
that the Democratic tender of support would
be reinforced by that Of the Peoples party
OF the state Our hape has been realized
and you are now In a position to accept the
leadership of the allied forces of the friends
| OF free silver now striving for the election
| OF candidates, national and local, who have
taken common ground in the great struggle
for economic reform in progress In the
| United States
that you have not heretofore affiliated with
the Democratic party; but in this contest
party lines are and will be disregarded, or
| rather let us say that new alignment of the
great political parties is taking place. We
find many of our old and trusted leaders,
| men who in the past our party has loaded
| with honors, deserting us in the face of the
enemy, while from city, farm and hamlet
throughout the land have come recruits
men like yourself, men fresh from the peo-
| pie, men filed with lofty conceptions of true
American manhood, who put country before
+ party, who recognize that great reforms can
only be secured through some sacrifices,
and who in disregard of selfish interests
and personal advancement, cast their lot and
| link their fate with those who are doing
battle for the right.
We believe the single gold standard now
established in the United States and sought
to be perpetuated, Is an evil so great that,
unless abolished, the masses will be reduced
to degradation and grinding poverty. Behind
THIS WICKED POLICY
loom vast aggregatons of wealth, gigantic
and unlawful trusts and aggressive corpora
| tions, all seeking, often by corrupt and un-
lawful methods, their further aggrandizement
at the expense of the producer.
Already in this contest coercive measures
| are being resorted to to prevent the will
of the whole people being fairly expressed
through the constitutional means of the bal
lot. Such methods presuppose either that
the mechanic the laborer, the farmer and
| the clerk have not sufficient intelligence
to be allowed to vote according to their con-
| victions, or that they have not the right to
| do Either claim being once established,
government by the people is at an end
| In offering you this nomination and the
support of the Democratic party of Mime
sofa, we cannot promise to wage an expens-
i've campaign in your behalf; refer
| you to no well drilled and well paid corps
IOfo Il.
ever, pledge you the manly and intelligent
support of the rank and file of our party,
men who are earnest because they think they
are right, and who are brave because they
are honest.
And because you have shown that you
are able to occupy high official position,
| cause you follow your honest convictions
| without regard to your personal advance
ment; because you believe in the brotherhood
Of man without distinction as to nationality,
| religion or social position; because you are
intelligent and far-seeing enough to realize
the needs of our people, and brave enough
to advocate the peoples rights, we, upon be-
half of the Democratic party of the state
| of Minnesota tender you the nomination
of that party for governor and ask you to
John P. Rea
Frank L. Randall
e C. Gridley.
H Hmelman Jr.,
Christ O'Brien,
Committee on Notification
MR.. LIND'S ACCEPTANCE.
The following is Mr. Lind's letter Of ac-
ceptance:
John p Rea. Frank s. Randall e. c.
Gridley H. Zimmerman Jr., Thomas o Brien
Members of the Notification Committee, Ap-
pointed by the Democratic State Convention
of Observation-Disclosures: Having received
your communication advising me of my Sc
lection by the Democratic party of the state
of Minnesota as it's candidate for governor
beg leave to submit to you my acceptance
of the high honor conferred by the convention
of your party In so doing, | deem it proper
to state that have also accepted the nomina-
tion of the other great party of this state
the Populist party-and that in doing so,
stated to its delegates in convention assem-
bled that | should accept the nomination by
the Democracy Of the state of Minnesota, when
formally advised of 1t, l accepted the
Populist nomination, not Democrat moi
as Populist, nor as a Republican, but as
citizen of our great state, in hearty sympathy
with the aims and endeavors of the united
reform forces mad ready to do my share oil
the work in the pending struggle. This strug.
gle is to secure the adoption in the nation ot
financial policy which will tend to relieve
the working and producing classes of the
United States from the existing paralysis o
business, the loss Of profit in production, the
enforced idleness Of labor. and the misery
brought upon our people by the gold stand
ard as well to release our great state from
the grip of the small clique of individuals
who. under the name and through the organ
iZation of the great Republican party In thi:
state. have not only controlled its action bu
! have also IN FORMER years prOStftuted you
party, to give to their schemes, to defeat tht
will of the people, to prevent the passage O
wholesome reforms In legislation and ad
ministration. and to further the personal in
terests of those in control
In view of this, and you refer to tn,
fact that have not heretofore been affiliated
with your party, deem it not out Of plac,
. to briefly state my own convictions on tn,
issues in this campaign. The present con
test is not one of platform, but Of issues
Hence I shall not devote any time to plat
form discussion, exceDt to say that in tn,
new alignment of political forces which hal
taken place. and is in daily progress ther,
is sufficient unanimity the vital and i'm
, minent questions formally expressed ii
the several platforms of the reform forces
to enable us to cheerfully cooperate AM
work together for the common good of ou
state and nation.
That this is not an ordinary campaign ii
clearly evidenced, not only by the action o
your convention. but by the ection OF tn.
, other great party, to which have referred
No mere temporary condition of our polite.
would bring together such great divisions O
our people. who have heretofore been oppos
. ing and contending element In our politics
nor would so many members Of the Renub
lfcan party ignore fhe ffes of rartv e~eo