New Ulm review., 1896-11-11
How Il They
Beat Lind.
It was Necessary to Resort TO the Most
4 Shameful Methods.
A c ampaign Lie of the Most Contempti-
BILE Nature Circulated
Against Him.
It Charges Lind Secretly with Acts that
are Absolutely Beneath
Hin.
No Credit Can Come to the Victors After
Such Low Tactics.

In the last hours of the campaign Min
nesota was flooded with many contempt.
bic lies about Hon. John Lind. Most of
these originated right here in New Ulm.
and the dlrtiest of all is acircular signed
"Many Citizens of New Ulm.''
It's republication will not injure Mr..
Lind and will only go to show to what
extremes tie opposition had to go to
keep John Lind from being elected as
governor.
Here it is:
lit Is only proper that the people OF
Minnesota should he informed as to the
position Mr.. John Lind, now candidate
for Governor, occupied in the celebrated
school fight which waged so fiercely at
New Ulm, his home, for several years,
in order that they may rebuke him at
the ballot box for his unwarrantel zeal
III trying to break down the public
school system of this state.
''For the benefit Of those who may not
know it we will here state that this same
John Lind is a member of the New Ulm
Turner Society, one OF the boldest ard
most habitual breakers of Sunday laws
in the country and the recognized enemy
and opponent of Christianity and church.
es. It sought to install permanently at
New Ulm the German system instead of
the regular public school system provil-
ed by law. Not satisfied with their con-
troll of the public schools, the Turner's
grew gradually boidcr and more often
sivc toward the patrons and pupils who
respected the Bible and church doctrines
until they practically drove the people
OF all the churches, and, in fact, all fair
minded people of the city, to make. all
effort for freedom, and in 1892 the op-
ponents of the Turner teachers succeed
ea in electing two members of the Board
Of Education. This only served to make
the Turner Superintendent of the Schools
and his allies worse than ever, and for a
year following they made it exceedingly
unpleasant for the children Of church
people. In 1898 the Turner's sought to
retain their supremacy by every avalla-
bic means, and this same John Lind, who
now expects the church-g going people of
Minnesota to support him for the high
office Of Governor. made speeches, wrote
newspaper articles and worked on the
streets and at the polls to perpetuate his
Goddess gang in possession Of the New
Clm public schools. But the spirit OF
reform had come to stay and Lind and
his lawlcss gang were defeated. Even
then the Turner Superintendent of the
Schools, aided by Lind aud other boss
Turner's, sought to defy the dictum of
the Board Of Education, and practically
ruined the schools for any benefit to their
patrons for several months, and until the
Board took decisive action in the right
direction and bounced the obstreperous
Turner superintendent and hired an eff
cient man i'll his place.
''lhe school fight ran into city elec-
| fn,o Il All Il,
Lind's voice and work was for his pets
OF lntidelity. Flom his once proud po-
sltion III New Ulm and Brown county as
'popular John Lind" he went down and
down, till, with all the efforts bis friends
could put forth, he could not be elected
as delegate fl ON his own ward to a CITY
caucus or convention. .
''Thc church people Of the United
States are liberal. They are willing tc
elevate to high positions men of all reli-
g1ous sects and crecds, or even the non.
atflllating man who does not wage wal
upon them, but they have drawn the
line at tie ranling infdel or hypocrlte
who is anxious to thrust his own opini
ons on such niat,ers upon them ana the
advocates thereof INTO positions of honor
and trust. What might not the boasted
public school system Of Minnesota come
to with the appointing power and patron
age Of y Governor inthe hands Of John
Lind9 Think upon these things, voters
Of Minnesota, before you cast your bal
lots for Governor this year, aud We are
sure " you will not be found voting for
John Lind. =