The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-15
THE GOVERNL.RSHIP.
WHAT LIMBS ELECTION WOULD
MEAN TO MINNESOTA.

WHAT LIMBS ELECTION WOULD
MEAN TO MINNESOTA.
The Demo-Pops and Their Free Sil-
yer erase Hurting the Credit and
Good Name of the State-Fusion a
Proof Of weakness and a Breeder
of Observation-Disclosures. CIoughs
Clean, Honest Administration
and His Many Admirable Quail
ties ms Man Make Him asDead
Sure winner.
Fusion in Minnesota is proving to
be what fusion always is, proof of in
dividual weakness and breeder of dis
satisfaction Mr.. Lind has nominations
from three parties and he is Satisfac-
tory only to the least OF three-the bolt
ing silver Republicans He is not a
Populist, and says SO. He has no SYM
pathy with Populism, as Populfsm was
known when there was a Populist par
ty. His real feelings toward Democ-
racy were expressed when he said that
mot all Democrats are horse thieves
and murderers, but nearly all horse
thieves and murderers are Democrats"
He is high prOtectionist and declares
1t. Indeed the only pretense at har-
mOny Of belief between him and his
sets Of supporters is the free coinage
issue, and yet he claims that when in
congress, he three times voted against
free coinage and offers only the fiimsy
excuse that had the bill passed the
president would have vetoed it. It
is rather hard for Populist, let alone
q Democrat, to vote for Democrat
hating, high tariff, two-months-ago Re
publican, and attorney and lobbyist for
the Millers' association, ON the free
coinage issue alone, when even his free
coinage record is merely that of
Shirk or coward.
This being the fact with his own
supposed followers, is there any rea-
son why any man who loves his state
and regards it's credit should vote for
Mr.. Lind in preference to Mr.. Clough?
Most emphatically, No! Mr.. Lind is
nice man, but in no sense a great
man. He is not leader and is simply
seeking to reap the reward that he
hopes will come by the work of others.
IT elected he would have to turn the
entire machinery of the state into the
VI Tic IIlS Is III
deed all that holds to him any follow
ing. With the state offices in their
control, the new Democracy expects to
take final gulp at the Populists and
end that organization If Mr.. Lind
should be governor and either Senator
Davis or Senator Nelson ST. otllds die he
would name free silver Democrat to
succeed him; a change of one vote in
the United States senate may mean the
control or loss of control of that body
to the Republicans. If for no other
reason than this no Republican can af-
ford to vote for Mr.. Lind. Again, the
example. of Colorado, Kansas, Oregon
and Nebraska has shown the result to
the credit and good name of a state
of the election of a Populist governor.
Credit is a very delicate matter, and
Minnesota above any and every other
state in the Union needs to guard its
financial credit This becomes plain
when it is considered that no other
state is so great a borrower, and neces-
sarily so. 1t is estimated that it takes
from ten to twelve millions of dollars
to move the wheat crop of the North
west each. falls. This money: scomes
from Canada and the East. and nearly
all Of it passes through the banks Of
st. Paul and Minneapolis and is direct
ly loaned to them and to. the wheat
men of those cities. It is the credit
Of Minnesota's financial institutions and
meh that provides the money that mar
kets the wheat of the, Northwest. Be
sides which are the millions used each
year to carry on the numbering opera
tons. 1t is a fact that the absolute
inability, because of the free coinage
agitation, of any one to get money
this fall to buy any what save for
export, is shutting out all competition
in wheat buying and all holding Of
wheat. In this way the Demo-Pops,
With their silver craze, are costing the
farmers Of Minnesota and the Dakotas
from ten to fifteen cents a buShel on
MI wheat sold from this crop. The
canadian banks which have hereto
fore been the chief source of money
supply at this season. will not loan a
dollar because Of the uncertainty Of
The future Of our money. This makes
the buying of wheat hand-to-mouth
affair, and shows how more than i'm
portant, how absolutely necessary to
the prosperity Of Minnesotas farmers
is the financial credit of the state. The
action of the Canadian banks, the &C
ton Of all capital as shown in the cases
Of the states that have tried the ex-
pertinent, tells how capital breads and
shuns Populism, and its loose financial
notions. The election of Mr.. Lind
would simply be a notice to capital
that Minnesota had given itself over to
the vagaries of the Demo-Pops, that it
had surrendered to the free silver
mania, and it would be inevitable that
capital would shun the state and the
farnccr would be the immediate suf-
fc"p.
O. IL" other hand, Mr.. Clough has
a reputation for business sagacity, in
tegrity and honesty second to that of
no man in the state. Born poorer
than poor, a workman in the pine for
ests, by industry, courage and ability,
he made his way from the ranks Of
the day laborers to be one of the fore
most business men of Minneapolis.
During the trying times Of 1893 he
showed courage, will and endurance
that won the praises of every financial
man Of the state, and saved many OF
his fellow business men from ruin.
Last year, when forced by the failure
of another, to himself make an assign
ment, there were universal expressions