Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-08-11

Gov. or else sufficient guarantee
thatall theimportantde
of state shall be filled by true
populists. The reason of this is
obvious. The office of governor
has nothing to do with national
issues, but it is the all important
Office for the correction of the
abuses that the farmers alliance,
the mother of the peoples party,
was organized to remedy, to wit:
Excessive railroad charges, de-
fective wheat inspection and
grading, not to mention pine
land steals, ETC., etc. The cor
rection of these abuses have al
ways been part of the Farmers
Alliance and Peoples Party pro-
gram, and now when their mum
erical strength entities them to
the officer that can correct these
abuses, it would argue insincer-
ity on the part of them not to
demand it. We felt then and
we feel much more strongly now
then ever, and all leading pop
ulist here about agree with us,
that the forthcoming fusion ad
ministration must be Peoples
Party administration. If our
friends the democrats and free
silver republicans will not con-
cede that, then all II bought Of
fusion is at an end. The peo-
pies party of Minnesota will not
vote into power a free silver re-
publican or democratic admins
tration even though gilded by a
John Lind.
The chief difficulty arises from
the fact that the peoples party
convention is held after the de-
mocratic. But our plan would
have obvlated all difficulty. We
recommended that the democrat
tic convention should simply have
recommended Mr.. Lind for gov
ernor, and have appointed a COM
mittee with plenary power to en-
dorse him, after we had nominal
ted him. The democratic con-
vention should have been gener-
Gus enough to have done that.
We, the peoples party, have en-
dorsed w. J. Bryan for presi-
dent without asking any ques-
tions, even without requiring
him to agree to our platform. If
Mr.. Bryan is elected,-an if he
carries this state it will be by
three populists votes to" one de-
mocratic vote, mind you-the de-
mocratic party of the state will
have full charge of the federal
patronage, and if peoples party
man should want a petty post
office he would have to go to some
democratic boss to ask for an
endorsement, to get it, to get
ever so small a favor, mind you,
from an administration that his
party had virtually elected in the
state.
Now then and under these Cir
cumstances we claim that the
peoples party in this state is en-
titled to name the governor and
be in possession of the admins
tration with all that this means.
For the democrats to offer US
anything less than that, would be
a gross insult to us, and we
would belittle our character by
accepting it. And we will not do
anything of the kind. The peo-
pies party of Minnesota is too
big and lusty to be swallowed up
by little faction of the democrat
tic party even if headed by Lind.
Minneapolis, democracy and
Lind, is quite a combination, but
still not quite big enough to gulp
down the peoples party of Mime
sofa.
Minneapolis and leading demo-
Gratis are shouting to turn out
the rascals down in St. Paul. It
reminded us of the song of the
committee Of 100. Very well, let
US turn them out, but let US be
sure that we get honest men in.
We have spent some time and
in this movement, and we
10 not regret it so far. Others
have spent much more, But we
feel now just as we expected to
see the fruition Of our labor, that