Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-01-28

'Ihey have feltSand known that
some hing WI ing about the
a affairs 81 the nat 90, and ii liking
about for ID formal on they find
that The social ed official crank Of
the first class 8 IS IS ID his
theories
Thus the phil her and the
mid lie class have fnany consoli
dated or enVo lved {. into a new
political paaty Here il Mime
nesota We have gro Wn. so nu1ner
Gus as TO cons itutes q respec table.
min GRITTY Of the. voting populas
stion.
But now that we have become
q political par q graVer OBJ
lem confront us, to wit: The
management ola poll tical party .
Here IS where are party faces
a crises. IS one thing 10 aggi7-
tate, and create ublic senti-
ment. lis ano other thing and
requires differen talent, tounite
that sentiment into a harmoni-
Gus and eff Gent or gan zation of
a poll tieal part SO as to carry
victory at the polls. It is one
thing to recruit soldiers and drill
them in the use Of arms but it
lis quite another thing to COM
mand that army against q skill
ful enemy What the People
Party nowneeds and needs badly,
is skillful and peten polite
al generals. thout such the
Peoples Party is simply a mob,
that a n uch smaller and we'll
drilled political party will, ana
CAR, beat IN DETAIL.
N oW nderstand we do not.ad-
Vocate bossism in any political
party, least Of all in the Peoples
Party But we must have lead
ers that can be trusted to man
age the affairs Of the part il
a part in q general way And
to these leaders the rank and file
must yield Cheerful bed ienceand
|support There is no other way
|.to. succe ss. Supp ose il the q late
war that the generals of armies
could have been chal lenged by
every sui bore Innate as to the rea-
sons for their N cement? The
result would and must have
been disastrous and neVitable
failure. There is another ele-
ment necessary to the success
Of a new poll cal part at the
polls Whieh am any Peoples Party
men d. not seem to und erstand,
and that is fnanc ial aid from the
rank and tle. t takes money to
run CAM aign part in j Of
| E
flee can assess. it's ofde holders
for expenses Of party machine cry.
Anew par ty IS not il Office and
the rank and file must contrib
ute the money to carry On the
party e say cry freel
for we are not see king office, and
care not if we do offend some
Peoples Party me that unless
the rank and file Of the oples
Party are willing to tribute
none for the part willing to
Isaerific &c some thing to D win the
part IL sneYer y -, local. o..
.ggenlerallllJ And reall5y ought
not ste vii US illustrate
what we mean 5 refference to
this count d 1894 the Peoples
Part put ounty ticket Of
presentati q mel The tic 1et
fough tsnotss Q much to he elected
to Office as FOR the princ1 pies Of
the part tha rs s. much
for their owl nteiest as ia ID
cause gene refor q
cost Ut. S. 90 apiiece be:
sid q good deal of time most
:of them Some 9th least
could not vel this outlay.
The rank and file ollgh have
borne some ttheses peases az
least So IN conl,ec ne
will say p,1ist zandiy os
counf 1pl1 il1 The
near allure Az ibis B d q q poll
tics oeether al llsbepns
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