New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-23
Lind And
I>Onlrnen.
They Address Two Big Meetings. at Fer
gus Falls.
Both Discuss the Financial Question in a
Convincing Manner.
Mr.. Lind Has Something to Say as to What
he Will do if Elected,

apolis Penny Press thus describes the
Lind and Lommen meetings IN that city
last Wednesday:
Hon. John Lind and Hon. E. E. Lom-
. men addressed huge audience, almost
wholly of farmers, in the Lyceum theat-
er this afternoon. 1t was the largest
gathering of the campaign to this time
and is not likely to be exceeded in num-
bers or interest this year. In the evening
Mr.. Lind held the platform alone, and
delivered strong speech to another
great audience, this tiEe largely consist
ing of city people, who listened with in
terest, and were not only convinced OF
Mr.. Lind's sincerity and honesty, but al
SO impressed with the great ability which
he displayed. The afternoon audience
was particularly enthusiastic, and wave
after wave of applause rolled through
the hall as the two speakers made their
telling points.
Mr.. Lind both in his afternoon and
evening address devoted much time to the
silver question, which he covered in such
Il clear, convincing and impressive way
that he greatly strengthened the feeling
in favor of the white metal which already
existed among q large part of his audi
Ia o.
least set them on the road to conversion
In the course of his evening speech Mr..
Lind spoke Of the need ofreforms in the
state government. He proposed, he said,
if elected governor, to till the important
offices with men of special fitness for the
positions, and the minor positions with
The best qualified persons, regardless of
their political affil1ations--in other words,
an approach to the national idea of civil
service reform. The people," he said,
':did not like the idea of the supreme
court being obliged to step in and clean
house for the governor. If am elected
/ propose to do my own house cleaning.'
He said the tax system now in use, which
chiefly taxes the visible products of in
dustry, and permits capital, used for its
income value, to largely 90 free, is unfair
and unjust, and urged that reforms in
the system ought to be made. He spoke
of the shameless and scandalous methods
which have been in vogue in the public
land system of this state, and explained
in detail the manner in which the people
have been robbed of their valuable swamp
lands. The concluding words of his
speech were: "1f am elected and you
give me an attorney general and other
state officers, in sympathy with the new
administration, and a lieutenant COVER
nor who will appoint the committees of
the senate as they ought to he appoint
ed, not as some corporation wants them,
we will 60 at the job in a business-like
way, will be as prudent and careful as
possible, and will give the state,as good
an administration as we can for the states
interests"
From Ada, where Mr.. Lind and Maj.
Bowler spoke the day before, the reports
are as follows
Farmers by the hundreds came in for
miles around to hear John Lind and Mai.
Bowler speak on the great issue of the
day. At two O'Clock the hall Was crowd
ed and sIill they came. Business houses
were closed for three hours. Major
Bowler first spoke for one hour and a
quarter on the relation of prices to the
volume of money and the necessity of a
bimetallic system to increase the basic
money of the world. He was greeted
throughout by hearty applause.
John Linl was then introduced as the
next governor of the state and the APP
plause was unanimous and many times
repeated. Mr.. Lind spoke for one hour
and half to as attentive an audience as
any speaker ever had the pleasure of adj
dressing. He appealed to the merchants,
instead of taking the side of Lombard
and Wall street in their nefarious efforts,
to take the side of those people, the
great producing classes, the farmers, up.
on whom they depended for their pros.
perity.
A silver club was organized with a
prospect Of over 500 members.
At Willmar, Mr.. Lind, Maj. Bowie,
and Hon. E.E. Lommen addressed 4, OO0
people at the two largest halls in the ci.
ty. A procession Of 500, with torches
and banner carriers greeted them on their
arrival and escorted them to the hall. It