The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-06-29
JOHN LIND.

JOHN LIND.
CAMP THOMAS Chickamauga, June 81
-Quartermaster John Lind. of the Eth Min
nesota regiment, remains non-committal re-
garding the acceptance Of his nomination
for governor of Minnesota, but it Is be-
Heved at Camp Thomas that he will run for
the office. He is simply waiting to see
what the other people do. If he thinks 1t
will be to his advantage to return to Min
nesota and manage his campaign he Will
find way to do it, but 1t is thought he
will prefer to remain at the front during
the campaign. in which case he will have
an army record to fall back upon as an
argument for election.
If anybody thinks John Lind is going
to accept the mongrefs nomination for
governor, and come home and wrestle
with l.. c. Long for the Populist vote,
he is very much mistaken. Lind isn't
a fool
He has no war record while Long has
a splendid one. Lind lost his arm by
the bursting of fowling piece. Long
barred his breast to the bullets of the
enemy in a score Of battles. Lind is a
| lawyer-Long is farmer. Lind is
pleader-Long is an orator. Lind has
been attorney for years of the Miller 8
ring. Long has been fighting that ring
| ever since it was started. The people
admire Lind; they love Long
| Long is really the greater and ADLER
man of the two Long did not seek the
| nomination for governor. Lind has been
plotting and scheming for it for years;
aided by Bill Washburn, plutocrat-R9-
| publican, and head of the miller's ring
Long asked for nothing; Lind insisted
that the gold bug, VIM. Mitchell should
| be nominated, as we'll as himself, by
the anti-gold bug Peoples Party.
! Long belongs to the Peoples Party
and has belonged to it ever since it
started. Lind never belonged to it, He
| is like the fellow who, during the civil
| war, lived down in Tennessee, in a Sec
ton alternately overrun by confederates
and union soldiers; and who was oblig-
ed to pretend to belong to the party Of
his visitors. He was caught one day
by squad of Johnny Rebs, dressed in
federal uniforms, and came near being
killed. The next day another gang
called upon him and wanted to know
| what he was He replied: Nothing
and id little of that"
That is Lind's position in the politics
of the day.
Think of man who would seek the
| nomination of party he did not belong
to and then insist that the party should
also nominate another man who was di
ametrically opposed to it's principles
| and had not a particle of claim upon it,
any more than he had. 1t is gall H.
limitable
The effort to spread the mantle of
| military glory over a quarter-master
touches the heighth of absur5ity. The
| only charges" they make are against
the government; and they are usually
| terrible ones! They are generally NOR;
dangerous to the country than an army
with banners. While the gallant sons
OF Mars are stopping the enemy's bu:-
lets, amid the frenzy and bloody sacri-
fees of hideous war; the mercantile
| quartermaster, in some safe shelter. is
dealing out the salt pork and hard tack,
and entering up his profits.
| We are told that Mr.. Lind. like
most other lawyers, has felt the stress
| and strain of these days of Mckinley
prosperity (?); and sought the appoint
ment Of quartermaster from Gov.
Clough, to recoup his shattered for
tunes. He had perfect right to do
this. It was commendable. We have
not word to say against 1t. All we OBJ
ject to is the effort. of few shallow
lings to make him out Caesar or a
Bonaparte ;or Grant or Fitz Hugh Lee
and push gang of mediocre nobodies
into Office. under the glamour of his mill
itary record!
! II you want to defy the soldier-the
plain, common soldier-who took his
life In his hands, when it was uncertain
whether the nation would live or die
turn to L. c. Long-as noble tyne
of the American citizen as can be fonnd
IN this state. And, withal, a fcrvene
earnest, intelligent, faithful. gallant
noble-hearted patriot; who has proba-
bly, lost his homestead. through the op-
Grafton OF the single-gold- standard.
Rally around him. He has no commits
sion. He is not a quartermaster. Lift
him up and give Minnesota a governor
of the common people, firm and fixed as
the everlasting hills: honest and true ~
the purposes of God.
And if you want more military glory
there is Hon. Kittel Halvorsen, our can
didate for lieutenant governor, and an
old soldier; M. Wesenbeg. our candidate
for secretary of state, another old SOL
der, who goes On crutches to this dav
and Charles H. Hopkins, our candidate
for auditor. another old soldier. and
prominent in Grand Army circles.
We haven't got quartermaster IN
our ticket, and we do not want anv
I. D.