The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-04
MINNESOTA WILL BE REDEEMED.
High Praise For Congressman Towne-l
Strong Letter.
Duluth, MINI.

Strong Letter.
Editor Representative:
The lines of battle for the political con-
test of this year are now plainly drawn.
1t has been matter of strong probability
amounting almost to positive conviction,
lines would be finally laid where they
now rest Hitherto however there has
peen mixed with the probability that faint
element of doubt. which surround all
transactions until they become accomp-
lished fatcs. The vote taken in congress
on the 10Th inst, on the Senate Free
Coinage Substitute" removes the last
Vestlge of reasonable doubt The Re-
publican party of Minnesota. through it's
legally elected and responsible represent
atives in both houses of congress, has, by
a vote of to /. voiced an endorsement of
the utter destruction of silver as primary
money. 1t has given uneuuvocal and Of
hcial notice that in Minnesota the Gold
standard is in the saddle. Protestations
to the contrary, by platform and polite
ians. will avail nothing. ACTIONS speak
louder than words"
pleasure, and a hopeful omen, to the
friends of democratic government, that in
the midst of on all but universal apos-
tacy, that has taken possession of, and is
giving direction to, the public acts of the
Republican party of this state, there is
mediocrity now misrepresenting the peo-
pies needs, their hopes and aspirations;
one voice OF prophecy heard above the
din and clamor for official spoils, one in
dividual with force of character sufficient
to wade through the putrid mass of polit-
ical corruption surrounding all official po-
s1tions and attain a sufficient elevation to
become conspicuous standardbearer,
without having first wallowed in the mire,
who has earned for himself that highest
title of nobility possible for human to
obtain; the right to be called man.
Charles Towne! We salute you. But
much as we admire Mr.. Towne's courage
and devotion to the interests of the peo-
pie. the logic of events within the Re-
publican party is against him. He can
only hope to fulfill that destiny for which
nature has equipped him by becoming
greater than his party, by defying it's lib
erty. destroying mandates and trampling
it under foot. This is no Chimera 1t is
solemn and portentious fact that all
free-silver men within the Republican
party will do well to heed and to profit by.
Look at the situation today, the Re-
publican party Of Minnesota is being sys-
dramatically stampeded beaten and bull
dozed by the bosses Of the east into line
for the prophet of the Gold standard.
"Wm. Mckinley with flirt at lesser
gold standard prophetic. K. Davis"
under the same old delusive pretense of
protection to the American workingman.
And this program is being carried out
with such supreme audacity, such abSO-
lutely brutal Indifference to the welfare
and wishes Of the rank and file, that the
politicians, poor weak grovellng crumb
gatherers-Mono and Bimetallists alike,
are trampling each other down in their
frenZied eagerness to get within the Nc
Kinley fold and within reach of the Re-
publican Pie Counter. The lesson is plain
and should be understood by every voter
in Minnesota. The success of the Repub-
lican party in this campaign means the
strengthening and perpetuation of the
gold standard. If the people of Mime
sofa believe in the perpetuation Of con-
ditions as they now are; if they believe
that the present system of money and
public credit based upon Understanding
bonds, payable in gold, is a safe and prop
err system their logical place is in the Re-
publican ranks and their votes should go
to the Republican candidates, for the
election of those candidates inevitably
means the continuation of the present con-
dtion and the firm establishment Of the
gold standard.
But if the people are in favor of the
constitutional bi-metallism of the early
days of the Republic; if they are in favor
of a change in present monetary and in
dustrial condition, they will only be
brought to support and vote for Republic
an candidates, through the basest and
vilest deception and double-dealing on the
part of the politicians. If they study the
record and present attitude of the Repub-
lcan party, and their relation to indus
trial prosperity, with a little Of that care
which they bestow upon their private
business, the Republican party will meet
its long deserved doom and be swept from
the chessboard of Minnesota politics.
p. M. Ringdal.