The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-11-04

| to Shoulder and Fight for the
| Honor of the Country.
! The impression is growing stronger
as election day approaches that this Is
good year to vote the Republican
| ticket straight from the presidential
| electors to the county coroner. The
more the people analyze the Chicago
| platform and note the dangerous doc
| trines which predominant in it the less
they seem disposed to indorse it in the
least by even electing a member OH u
county ticket and SO indirectly giving
| endorsement to the dangerous heresieS
promulgated.
| Early in the campaign there were
many Republicans who were disposed
| to vote for John Lind for governor be-
! cause they simply looked at the man
as they had always know him, and not
| at the dangerous hereSies and princi-
| pies he has been led to espouse and
| defend. They took him at his word
that he was still Republican though
! he disagreed with his party upon the
| question of silver. They believed him
honest when he said he accepted the
| nomination not as Democrat or a
| POpuliSt, but as a citizen. And they
were staggered by his almost immedi-
ate declaration that he stood squarely
upon the Chicago platform and en-
| dorSed it from first to last, and he has
made that portion of his faith in his
| campaign since. The people have
| found that it is question not Of men,
but Of principle. That while Mr.. Lind,
| as governor of Minnesota, would not
| have devolved upon him the carrying
| out Of any of the principles Of that
| platform in a national sense, yet a
| vote for him for governor would be to
| endorse it's utteranceS, and that as gov
ernor and subscribing to it's dangerous
| doctrines he would be in a position to
carry them out by blocking the presi-
| dent in the enforcement of the federal
| laws in the state if the extreme ele-
ment of Popocracy so demanded.
| The endorsement Of the Chicago plat
| form by such q vote is to help place
Minnesota in the position which Kan
| sas and Nebraska have been and from
| which they are now making desper-
| ate attempt to shake themselves for
ever out of. Surely the lamp of expe-
rience respecting these states ought to
| be sufficient to turn the voters Of Min
nesota away from such fatal move.
| And in the matter of congressman,
vote for the Popocratic candidates in
any Of the districts would be direct
| and square endorsement Of all the Jan
| gerous ideas that are embraced from
| the first to the last line of the Chicago
platform. 1t means just as full and
complete an endorsement as does a
vote for Bryan, because in the house
of congress the members agreeing with
| it are pledged to carry out it's prOyis-
/ ions. 1t means q vote for free silver,
| for free trade, for making the federal
courts the mere puppets Of party in
stead of the bUlwark of the liberties Of
| the people. 1t means the binding OF
the hands of the chief executive of the
nation by the repeal of those statutes
| which able him to fulfill the prom
| Uses OF the constitution in the enforce
ment Of the federal laws. 1t would
mean the denial Of private contract be-
tween individuals.
! Ordinarily political feeling does not
hold so strong so far as the county
| ticket is concerned. But this is not an
ordinary year. Never before, with the
possible exception of the civil war,
| has such a crisis confronted the coun-
/ try, and those who endorse the danger
GUS theories embraced in the Chicago
platform should be given no comfort
| whatever.
The work of the Chicago convention
has given encouragement to the forces
which operate against good govern
ment, which will take years of work
to eradicate The spirit of class hatred
engendered, the theory that our courts
| should be cut from the mornings to
which through the years Of the repub-
lie they have been anchored to are
| fully as dangerous as the doctrine OF
| secession ever was 1t has sifted down
through the party and has been en-
| dOrsed in all local conventions, and the
| only way to kill the virus is to vote
against it wherever it is found.
Equally important is vote against
| the legislative ticket which represents
the Chicago platform, and all the Pop
ulist vagaries afloat. Minnesota has
had one experience with a Popocrat
| legislature and it wants no more. 1t
was one of the most eXtrayagant and
reckless legislative bodies in the states
history, and yet the ideas of the Pop
ocrats at that time were conservative
compared with their pernicious doc
| trines of to-day. Good government
and the future welfare and business
! interests of Minnesota and the devei-
| oDment of its natural resources de-
! mand the defeat of the Popocrats. 1t
is not a matter of men, but a question
| OF principle in which are involved the
welfare of our state aud the founda-
| ton of the life OF the republic and it
is a time when all men without regard
to past party affiliations who believe
/ In sound money. good government and
rational irtegrity should stand shout
| DE- to shoulder and vote solidly against