The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-22

Proof of Weakness and II Breeder
OF Observation-Disclosures. Clough's
Clean, Honest Administration
ties as n Man Make Him q Dead
Sure Winner
uS!on in Minnesota is proving to
De what fusion always is, proof of in
ulN.dual weakness and breeder of dis
satls1actlon. Mr.. Lind has nominations
from three parties and he is satisfac-
Tory Only to the least of three-the bolt
ing silver Republicans. He is not a
IopuiSt, ANA S.'ys 50. He has no SYM
patny with PCjII.Sm, rs P0pulism was
KNOWN when tntie was Il POpuliSt par
~. LIS real feelings toward Dem0c
facy were expressed when he said that
Not I'll Democrats are horse thieves
and murderers, but nearly all horse
thieves and murdererS are Democrats"
lie is high pr0tertiOnist and declares
1t. Indeed the only pretense 1T 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 iiinSy
president would have vetoed it. 1t
is rather hard for Populist. let alone
Democrat, to vote for Il Democrat
hating, high tariff. twO-mOnthS-agO Re-
publican. and attorney and lobbyist for
the MlllerS association, on the free
coinage issue alone, when even his free
coinage record is merely that of Il
Shirl. or coward
tIiS being the fact with his own
supposed followers. is there any rea-
son why any man Who loves his state
and regards its credit should vote for
Mr.. Lind in preference to MI Clough =?
Most emphat:cally, 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
would name a free silver Democrat to
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 Il state
of the election of POpulist governor.
Credit is a very delicate matter, and
Minnesota above any and every other
state in the Union needs to guard it's
financial credit. This becomes plain
when it is considered that no other
state is so great 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 fall. This money comes
from Canada and the East, and nearly
all of it passes through the banks of
st. Paul and Minneapolis and is direct
ly loaned to them and to the wheat
men of those cities. 1t is the credit
of MinnesOta's 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. 1t is fact that the absolute
inability, because of the free coinage
agitation, of any one to get money
this fall to buy any wheat 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
all wheat sold from this crop. The
Canadian banks, which have hereto
no Of
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 a hand-tO-mouth
affair, and shows how more than i'm
Dortant how absolutely necessary to
the prosperity of Minnesota's farmers
is the financial credit of the state. The
action of the Canadian banks. the ac-
ton 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
ferer.
On the 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. 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 he
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 We're universal expressions
of regret. and we believe no personal
creditor will lose dollar. Governor
Coughs administration has been t-l;tt
of Il business man. He has enforced
strict economy i'll all expenditures,
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