The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-10
NOR CLOUGH AND JOHN
LIND.
POT CALLS KETTLES BLACK.
DECLARES SILVER IS BUT A MINOR
ISSUE OFF THE CAM
PAfGN.
SAYS HE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE
Worthy the SURFACES of Voters and
to Rule and the
Capitol.

DR.. A. A. Ames, of Minneapolis, the
independent candidate of the reform
wing of the Peoples party for govern
or, spoke upon national and state is
sues in the presence Of small audi
ence and little enthusiasm at Market
hall last evening. Not to exceed $50
people were present
DR.. Ames stated at the beginning Of
his address that it was not his pur-
pose to discuss silver, and declared
that free coinage was but one Of many
important issues with which the peo-
pie We're confronted in the most re-
markable political campaign the coun-
try had ever known, but before his
conclusion he lauded William Jennings
Bryan as the Moses who was to lead
the oppressed out of their bondage into
the promised land of national prosper
1ty, and admitted that as a national
issue silver was of vast Importance
Instead, however, Of conceding silver
TO be more than g. stepping stone to
ultimate prosperity, in that the none
IN need OF reform, he laid down as the
chlef issue the question of the initia-
i've and referendum, in the adoption
OF Which as general law the country
would free itself from the control Of
politicians and professional officehold-
ers, and become in truth a government
of the people. Too much emphasis. the
speaker said, was being placed upon
silver. The people were almost wild
\. sol. L.
would relegate the adoption of an in
lt1at1ve and referendum law until it
was too late, and the possibility of
government Of the people in the Unit
ed States had forever passed away.
II the initiative and referendum had
peen In effect in 1878, the act Of con-
gress known as the crime of '73"
which deprived the currency of the
United States Of nearly one-half its
volume, would never have become a
law, and the great crisis of TODAY
would never have had to be met.
AS to the issues at stake in the state
OF Minnesota Dr. Ames declared that
Tree silver was Of no comparatiy i'm
portance whatever. The state couId
not coin money, its governor could MOI,
enact laws and neither did he possess
even the power of veto; why, then
pr1ng the question Of the metals into
the state campaign at all. There was
a machine. however, controlling the
affairs of the state, and the abolition
OF this alleged agent of corruption was
one which should deeply concern every
cltlzen. Then to make his arguments
convincing DR.. Ames went down the
line with what he termed the Nelson
Ciough combine and also paired off
John Lind and ex-senator Washburn
as a species of the same genus.
When Nelson and Clough were elect
ed respectively governor and lieuten-
ant governor" said the speaker. sit
was but natural that each should begin
to look for higher office Nelson chose
the senatorship and naturally Clough
was in line for governor Each was
the ardent ally OF the other, and SEN
ator WaShburn was sacrificed by the
combination. Then the first thing
Washburn did was to map out a
plan of revenge. He does not surren-
der easily, and in the recent RepubIi-
can convention he precipitated one of
the hottest fights in the history of the
Republican party in the state He
was again defeated, but he resolved on
another plan and John Lind was NOM
mated by the free silver Republicans.
and Endorsed by the Populists and
Democrats as an end to it's consumma-
ton. What Is the plan? Lind has de-
clared all along that he is free silver
Republican and the plan is that if he
is elected the Republicans will still
retain control of the state house What
the people want is some one who will
turn up the records of the capitol and
let them know what has become of
valuable school lands and timber pre-
serves, but this will never be If John
Lind Is elected, and still WaShburn
will have had his revenge, because he
is still a Republican"
In regard to his own position DR..
Ames said he stood today where he
did in 1886 when he was the standard
bearer of the state Democracy He
was said to be q traitor of the party.
but this he declared to be untrue. The
grounds of the charge he said, were
that he had declared himself to stand
upon the Omaha platform of the Peo-
pies party. This was true. He did
hold to the tenets of that platform,
but his reason for so doing was be-
cause 1t was almost identical with the
Democratic platform of 1886. 1t was
the party which had changed and not
himself. He was opposed to the gov
eminent bond system and the Unequal
ity of state assessment and favored the
enactment Of state law which would
place the poor and rich on level in
the matter of taxation.
Previous to the address of Dr. Ames.
W. N. Williams spoke briefly on the
national issues of the present cam
paign.
Sixth district Republicans were nu-
merous about state headquarters yes
terday, and all were confident that
Towne is already beaten in the race
for congress. Alvah Eastman, of st.
Cloud. said that Page Morris is al
ready as good as elected. If the cleo
ton should be held today, he said,
Morris would win without difficulty.
AS it is, he will poll still larger vote
in three weeks from now, as he is
making friends every day Of his can
vass. J. Y. Breckenridge, secretary of
the Sixth district congressional COM
mittee, also expressed the same senti-
ments. st. Louis county will go for
Morris without a doubt, in the opinion
of State Senator Hodge, and the re-
mainder of the district will more than
counterbalance any Democratic ma
jority that Stearns county may give.
Maj Bowler and Patrick Fitzpatrick
spoke at Kasson last night, and today
will join Keyes, Lind and Meighen at
Winona to participate in the mass
meeting to be held there tonight.
Walter Wellman, of the Chicago
Times-Herald, is in the city to size up
the situation for his paper AS he is
hobnobbing with Tams Bixby and 9TH
erS of the generaliSSinos ahauf tba Do