New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-01

Waseca Radical &c begins 70 look IS
though the free silver Repnbl 81
the state were about to put q ticket u
the field with John Lind for governor.
There are several congressmen ready TO
try the effort though how they expect TO
succeed unless the populist party en-
ldorses them is more than we can see.
And certainly the pops can not be ex-
pected to endorse every thing the DEM
ocratic presidential nominee at Chicago
and then all the Republican lost ducks
In Minnesota. That would be too much,
even for the pops.
Minneapolis journal Indications now
point to the. consolid alton of all the OPP
position against us-demo crats, populists.
free silver republ leans, and everything
favorable TO silver punched together a.
gainst the republican party lighting for
sound money principles. The plan ap-
pears to be to select as. the candidate
for governor and the leader Of the oppo-
sition in this state one of the best vote
getters in Minnesota Hon. John Lind
of New Ulm. He does not need any in
production to the people of Minnesota.
There will be nothing upon which to
contest his election except upon the
question OF economic principles which
he represents. His personal fitness for
the Office Of governor and his qualifica-
tions by reason of his experience in pub
lie affairs will not he questioned. The
republicans Of Minnesota need not he
told that he would makes most formid-
able antagonist.
New Ulm News: Within the past
week there has been considerable men,
ton of congressman John Lind, of
New Tim, as candidate for Governor
on free silver platform. We believe
the drift is to have him announced as
an independent candidate, in order that
he may receive the votes of men of all
existing parties who favor the free coin
age of silver equally with gold at the
Government minis, on the same equality
it had before the law of Congress, passed
in 1873, deprived it Of that privilege.
Whether Mr.. Lind has consented to such
use of his name, and how far the propo-
sition has been carried, is only known to
persons who are in the movement. But
this we believe the public can be assured
of, that Mr.. Lind is a conscientious advo-
cate of the free coinage of silver, or in
other words, bimetallisn, by the United
States, Independently of what other Gov
ernments may do; and that, whether he
shall or shall not be a candidate for Of
flee, he will be found on the stump in the
present campaign advocating his views.
Ina speech at Duluth last week Ignat-
Jus Donnelly said: NIn all probability,
john Lind will be the silver candidate
for governor, aud if so, he will lie in
dorsed by the populists, and by the free
silver men in the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties. There are in the
state thousands more than enough silver
votes to elect him, and he will be the
next governor of Minnesota .~...
Minneapolis Times: The nomination
of a candidate like John Lind by what
ever party will open the way for the ca.
sy overthrow of the machine. tits true,
he is free silverite, but the financial
question is national one, and the cleo
tisn of free silver Governor cannot
materially affect the situation. Indeed,
we already have a free silver Governor.
so that the situation will not be altered
in that respect. Clough is free silver,
lite, who is supported Ivy gold-bugs like
Merriam and Jim Hill and the "Pioneel
Press" for the sake of plumber and pow
er. Why, then, may not decent Republic
cans support free s:lverite of integrity
and ability, as the sole means left open
TO them to overthrow a corrupt and dan
gerous machine and rid the party of a
gang Of self-constituted bosses? And
this is precisely what the party will do
if it is in real earnest in its determine
ton to maintain its integrity and free
itself from the degrading tyranny of the
Merriam Hill Clough machine.
St. Peter Free Press: Ever since ex-
Congressman John Lind refused to stand
Tor reelection to congress, when it was
generally supposed that he could have
retained his seat for the mere asking,
speculations have been rife as to his mo-
tives for declining a position so much,
and quite often unsuccessfnlly 81, sought by
the most eminent men of the land. Some
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