The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-29
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POPCCRACY.
DANGEROUS DOCTRINES WHICH
SHOULD De DEEPLY INFERRED.
The Chicago Convention Has Given
Encouragement to Dangerous
Heresies Which Operate Against
Good Government and Which IL
, Will Take Hard Work to Eradi.
cate-VOters Must stand shoulder
to Shoulder and Fight for the
Honor Of the Country.


/ to Shoulder and Fight for the
/ Honor Of the Country.
The impression is growing stronger
las election day approaches that this Is
"a good year to vote the Republican
ticket straight from the presidential
ELECTORS to the county coroner. The
more the people analyze the Chicago
platform and note the dangerous doc
|trines which predominant in 1t the less
tthey seem disposed to indorse 1t In the
least by even electing member ON
|county ticket and so indirectly giving
endorsement to the dangerous heresieS
promulgated.
Early in the campaign there were
many Republicans who were disposed
to vote for Jvun Lind for governor be-
cause they simply looked at the man
as they had always know him, and not
lat the dangerous heresies and princi-
pies he has been led to espOuse and
defend. They took him at his word
THAT he was still Republican though
he disagreed with his party upon the
LQuestion of silver. They believed him
honest when he said he accepted the
nomination not as Democrat or a
|Populist, but as citizen. And they
,were staggered by his almost immedi-
ate declaration that he stood squarely
upon the Chicago platform and en-
tdorsed it from first to last, and he has
made that a portion of his faith in his
fcampaign since. The people have
found that it Is question, not Of men,
but Of principle. That while Mr.. Lind,
las governor of Minnesota, would not
have devolved upon him the carrying
out of any Of the principles of that
platform in a national sense, yet q
vote for him for governor would be to
endorse it's utterances, and that as gov
Iernor and subscribing to its dangerous
doctrines he would be in a position to
carry them out by blocking the presi-
dent in the enforcement of the federal
laws in the state if the extreme ele-
ment of Popocracy so demanded.
The endorsement of the Chicago plat
form by such a vote Is to help place
Minnesota in the position which Kan
Sas and Nebraska have been and from
(which they are now making desper-
ate attempt to shake themselves for
ever out of. Surely the lamp Of eXpe-
Irience respecting these states ought to
be sufficient to turn the voters OF Min
nesota away from such a fatal move.
And in the matter of congressman, a
vote for the POpocratic candidates in
any of the districts would be a direct
and square endorsement Of all the dan
gerous ideas that are embraced from
the first to the last line of the Chicago
platform. 1t means just as full and
complete an endorsement as does a
vote for Bryan, because in the house
of congress the members agreeing with
1T are pledged to carry out it's prOvis-
ions. 1t means vote for free silver,
for free trade, for making the federal
courts the mere puppets Of party in
stead of the bulwark Of the liberties of
the people. 1t means the binding of
the hands of the chief executive of the
nation by the repeal of those statutes
!, which enable him to fulfill the prom
Uses of the constitution in the enforce
Iment of the federal laws. 1t would
mean the denial of private contract be-
tween individuals.
Ordinarily political feeling does not
hold so strong so far as the county
ticket is concerned. But this is not an
ordinary year. Never before, with the
possible exception Of the civil war,
has such crisis confronted the coun-
try and those who endorse the danger
GUS theories embraced in the Chicago
platform should be given no comfort
whatever.
The work of the Chicago convention
has given encouragement to the forces
which operate against good govern
ment, which will take years of work
to eradicate. The spirit OF class hatred
engendered, the theory that our courts
should be cut from, the mornings ito
which through the years Of the repub-
fA 0rN
fully as dangerous as the doctrine Of
secession ever was It has sifted down
through the party and has been en-
dorsed in all local conventions, and the
only way to kill the virus liz TO vote
against it wherever 1t IT, found. 81 ~
Equally important Is q vote against
the legislative ticket which represents
the Chicago platform, and all the Pop
ulist vagaries afloat. Minnesota has
had one experience with POpOcrat
legislature, and it wants no more. It
was one of the most extravagant and
reckless legislative bodies In the states
history, and yet the ideas of the Pop
-ocrats at that time were conservative
compared with their pernicious doc
trines of to-day. Good government
and the future welfare and business
interests Of Minnesota and the devel-
, opment Of it's natural resources de-
s4iand the defeat Of the Popocrats. It
is not a matter Of men, but question
of principle in which are involved the
welfare Of our state and the founda-
tion Of the life of the republic land it
IS time when all men without regard
to past party affiliations who believe
in sound money, good government ana
national integrity should stand shout
der to shoulder and vote solidly against
the national, state, congressional leg
islative and county tickets which IN
any way represent the Popocratic doc
trine.
short on POpulism, but Long on
Bastard Democracy.
Candidate Bryan, almost four months
inter being nominated by the Populist
national convention, and barely, four
weeks before election, has accepted the
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