The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-15
THE GOVERNCRSHIP.

WHAT LIMBS ELECTION WOULD
MEAN TO MINNESOTA.
The Demo-Pops and Their Free Sill
yer Craze Hurting the Credit and
Good Name Of the State-Fusion q
Proof Of Weakness and a Breeder
of Observation-Disclosures CI0ughss
Clean, Honest Administration
and His Many Admirable Quail
ties ms Man Make Him h Dead
Sure winner.
Fusion in Minnesota is proving to
be what fusion always is, proof of in
dividual weakness and breeder Of dis
satisfaction. Mr.. Lind has nominations
from three parties and he is satisfac-
tory only to the least az three-the bolt
ing silver Republicans He is not a
Populist, and says SO. He has no SYM
pathy with Populism, as Populfsm was
known when there was Populist par
ty. His real feelings toward Democ-
racy were expressed when he said that
mot all Democrats are horse thieves
and murderers, but nearly all horse
thieves and murderers are Democrats
He is high pr0tectionist and declares
it. Indeed the only pretense at har-
mony Of belief between him and his
sets of supporters is the free coinage
issue, and yet he claims that when in
congress, he three times voted against
free coinage and offers only the fiimsy
excuse that had the bill passed the
president would have vetoed it. It
is rather hard for Populist, let alone
a Democrat, to vote for Democrat
hating, high tariff, two-months-ago Re-
publican, and attorney and lobbyist for
! the Millers' association, ON the free
coinage issue alone, when even his free
coinage record is merely that of a
Shirk or coward.
This being the fact with his own
supposed followers, is there any rea-
son why any man who loves his state
and regards it's credit should vote for
Mr.. Lind in preference to Mr.. Clough !?
Most emphatically, No! Mr.. Lind is
nice man, but in no sense a great
man. He is not leader and is simply
seeking to reap the reward that he
hopes will come by the work of others.
If elected he would have to turn the
entire machinery of the state into the
hands of the Democrats. This is in
deed all that holds to him any follow
ing. With the state offices in their
control, the new Democracy expects to
take final gulp at the Populists and
end that organization. If Mr.. Lind
should be governor and either Senator
Davis or Senator Nelson should die he
n
succeed him; a change of one vote in
the United States senate may mean the
control or loss of control of that body
to the Republicans. If for no other
reason than this no Republican can af-
ford to vote for Mr.. Lind. Again, the
| example. of Colorado, Kansas, Oregon
and Nebraska has shown the result to
the credit and good name of a state
of the election of a Populist governor.
Credit is a very delicate matter, and
Minnesota above any and every other
state in the Union needs to guard its
financial credit This becomes plain
when it is considered that no other
state is SO great a borrower, and neces-
sarily so. 1T is estimated that it takes
from ten to twelve millions of dollars
to move the wheat crop of the North
west each falls This money scomeS
from Canada and the East. ndsnearly
all of it passes through the banks of
St Paul and Minneapolis andtis, direct
ly loaned to them and to: the wheat
/ men of those cities 1t is the credit
of Minnesotas financial institutions and
men that provides the money that mar
kets the wheat of the. Northwest. Be
sides which are the millions used each
year to carry on the numbering opera
tons. It is a fact that the absolute
inability, because of the free coinage
| agitation, of any one to get money
this fall to buy any what save for
| export, is shutting out all competition
in wheat buying and all holding of
wheat. In this way the Demo-Pops,
with their silver craze, are costing the
! farmers of Minnesota and the DakotaS
from ten to fifteen cents buShel on
Ill wheat sold from this crop. The
canadian banks, which have hereto
fore been the chief source of money
! supply at this season. will not loan a
| dollar because of the uncertainty of
| the future Of our money. This makes
| the buying Of wheat hand-to-mouth
:tfrair, and shows how more than i'm
| portant, how absolutely necessary to
| the prosperity of Minnesota's farmers
| is the financial credit of the state. The
action of the Canadian b"nks, the &C
| tion of all capital as shown in the cases
Of the states that have tried the ex-
pertinent, tells how capital breads and
shuns Populism, and its loose financial
| notions. The election of Mr.. Lind
would simply be a notice to capital
that Minnesota had given itself over to
the vagaries of the Demo-Pops, that it
had surrendered to the free silver
mania, and it would be inevitable that
capital would shun the state and the
| farmer would be the immediate suf-
fc,p.
u tbs other hand, Mr.. Clough has
| a reputation for business sagacity, in
| tegrity and honesty second to that OF
no man in the state. Born poorer
than poor, a workman in the pine for.
| ests, by industry, courage and ability,
he made his way from the ranks OF
| the day laborers to be one Of the fore.
most business men of Minneapolis.
| During the trying times OF 1893 ne
showed courage, will and endurance
| that won the praises of every financial
| man Of the state, and saved many OF
! his fellow business men from ruin.
Last year, when forced by the failure
Of another, to himself make an assign
| ment, there were universal expressions
Il W III NIL