The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-11-05
| POLITICAL .ETCHlNGS
A Notable Political Article
From. Country Jour-
nalist.
MR.. EUsT1s on GRAIN INSPECTION
Necessity for Republicans to,
Get the Whole Vote
Out.
MR.. EUsTIs on GRAIN INSPECTION
MUST NOT TANGLE TIE KELLYs


newspaper, the Rock County Herald,
entitled "A Shattered Idol" This arti
Gle is a most striking example of the
power welded by man of strong abil-
1ty in a comparatively obscure journal
lstlc position. Again, it shows how it is
| possible to be keenly and incisively criti-
cal without at the same time being often
| sively personal, or in the slightest degree
untruthful.
The article opens by announcing that
''The Herald has always had very
high regard for the John Lind who was
once member of congress from this
district. 1t has had unquestioning faith
in his integrity and has had, as it has
now, great admiration for his undoubted
ability. That regard and admiration
for the John Lind to whom they be-
longed, are as strong today as they ever
| Were'
Then follows the statement that the
John Lind of those former days, and
the John Lind of today are two distinct
personages, 1.-THE one being an earnest
and sincere advocate of Republican
principles, and the other John Lind de-
nouncing those great principles as in
famous. Mr.. Miller, in the most glow
ing language, shows up the strong in
constituencies of Mr.. Lind's present
position; how he spent the best
years of his life in building
a splendid structure of Republican prin-
ciple, and now, assuming the common
position Of a politically depraved dema-
gogue, he is seeking by falsehood and
tinnesse to destroy the temple of honor
reared in the days of his youth.
Here is how Senator Miller draws the
contrast:
'Across the narrow separation of
three brief years, the two John Linds
confront each other, one looking
forward and The other backward,
each proclaiming the honesty of his
convictions and each denying what
the other says. It is indeed striking
and curious spectacle, this joint debate
between the two John Linds, the one
declaring Ito quote from his speech at
New Ulm in October, 1881 that ''all
Democrats are not murderers and horse
thieves, but pretty nearly all the MUIR
derers and horsethieves are Democrats"
and the other the candidate of these
same Democrats for governor; the one
proclaiming with the earnestness and
zeal of honest conviction that the Re-
publican administration of state affairs
has been clean, honest and efficient, the
other declaring with the zeal of a new
convert that this same administration is
and has always been shamefully cor
rupt and inefficient; the one declaring
that the one thing needful to the safety
OF the nation and the prosperity of the
people is the continuance of the Repub-
lican party in power in the state and
nation, the other replying that Republi-
can supremacy is hostile to every Ma
tional and individual interest; the one
denouncing the claims and assertions of
the other in the strongest terms, and
each in effect calling the other a liar
Mr.. Miller then goes on to show that,
for six years, the original Mr. Lind was
the trusted and honored representative
in congress from the Second district;
and how, while holding that high posi-
ton through the grace of the Republican
party, he succeeded in making good
reputation by upholding Republican
principles. The article points with pride
to the mutual confidence inspired by mu-
tual labors in a sublime and common
cause between the enthusiastic young
John Lind and his attached constituents;
and then turns with honest grief toward
that later and older John Lind who
''now confesses that he is neither Re-
publican, Democrat or a Populist, and
pleads for sympathy on the ground that
he is only political Orphan"
Is not the contrast between these two
John Linds notably sad one?
The other one is Mr.. John Kelly, a
well known telegraph operator, who is
entirely unknown and unrecognized as
member of the Ramsey county bar. He
is telegraph operator, and, as such, is
said to be exceptionally competent.
This Mr.. John Kelly is the man who has
received the nomination for attorney
general ct the hands of the Democratic
Populist com bination. It would be very
unfortunate for the states interest if
majority of the voters in Minnesota
should cast their ballots to make Mr..
John Kelly attorney general-he being
not notably competent for the position
the said voters thinking that they were
voting for Judge William Louis Kelly,
who is known to be well learned in the
law.
4
A final word to the intelligent voters
Of the state:
If a full vote is cast all over the state
next Tuesday there is no possible doubt
of the election by rousing majority of
the entire state Republican ticket. If
the voters grow careless of results and
remain at home, the matter will be in
doubt. It will therefore be well to re-
member:
1. That business conditions have just
commenced to improve under the com
mon sense policy of the Republican
party, and that returning to Demo
Pop policy will restore Demo-Pop condi-
hons.
2. That the defeat of the Republican
party this fall, will discredit the admin
istration Of William Mckinley, and
may result in long years of further CONF
mercial and financial depression.
| MORAL-Let every Republican who be-
ieves in the principles of his party, laying
aside all excuses, and postponing every
minor duty, go to the polls on the Eighth