The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-29
BURY POPOCRACY.
DANGEROUS DOCTRINES WHICH
SHOULD BE DEEPLY INFERRED.
The Chicago Convention Has Given
Encouragement to Dangerous
Heresies Which Operate Against
Good Government and Which 1t
Will Take Hard Work to Eradt-
to Shoulder and Fight for the
Honor of the Country

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as election day approaches that this is
a good year to vote the Republican
ticket straight from the presidential
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 on a
| county ticket and SO indirectly giving
endorsement to the dangerous heresies
promulgated.
Early in the campaign there We're
many Republicans who were disposed
toevote 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-
IL,
made that portion of his faith in his
campaign since. The people have
found that it is a 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 its utterances, and that as gov
ernor and subscribing to it's dangerous
doctrines he would be in 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 a vote is to help place
Minnesota in the position which Kan
sas and Nebraska have been and from
which they are now making a 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 Il fatal move.
And in the matter Of congressman, a
vote for the PopOcratic candidates in
any OF the districts would be a direct
and square endorsement OF all the Jan
gerOns ideas that are embraced from
tho first to the last line of the Chicago
platform. 1t means just as full and
complete an endorsement as does
vote for Bryan, because in the house
Of congress the members agreeing with
It are pledged to carry out its provis-
Ons. 1t means a.vOte for free silver,
for free t"ade. for making the federal
courts the mere puppets of party in
stead Of the bulwark of the liberties of
he people. 1t means the binding Of
he hands Of the chief executive of the
nation by the repeal Of those statutes
which enable him to fulfill the prom
SEES Of the constitution in the enforce
nent Of the federal laws. 1t would
mean the denial of private contract be-
ween individuals.
Ordinarily political feeling does hot
lOld so strong Sc far as the county
icket is concerned. But this is not an
ordinary year. Never before. with the
possible exception of the civil war,
las such 4 crisis confronted the c0un-
~, and those who endorse the danger
lis theories embraced in the Chicago
PLATFORM should be given no comfort
whatever.
The work of the Chicago convention
las given encouragement to the forces
which operate against good govern
nent. which will take years of work
o eradicate The spirit Of class hatred
,ngendered the theory that our courts
should be cut from the mOOringS 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-
lOrSed in all local conventions, and the
only way to kill the virus is to vote
a gainst it wherever it is found.
Equally important is vote against
the legislative ticket which represents
the Chicago platform, and all the Pop
uliSt yagarieS afloat. Minnesota has
had one experience with Popocrat
legislature, and it wants no more. 1t
was one of the most eXtravagant and
reckless legisla alive bodies in the states
history, and yet the ideas of the Pop
ocrats at that time were conservative
with their pernicious doc
trines of to-day. Good government
and the future welfare and business
interests of Minnesota and the devel-
Opment of it's natural resources de-
mand the defeat Of the POpOcrats. 1t
is not a matter of men, but question
of principle in which are involved the
welfare of our state and 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
national integrity shout stand Shout
der to shoulder and vote So. ;iy against
the national, state. congress. al. leg
islative and county tickets Y. :: in
any way represent the Popocratl, : :