Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-10-13
PRINCIPLES BEFORE MEN,

i We had supposed that the cam
paign this year would be for princip-
les and that the candidates would
stand for the principles of their re-
spective parties. Instead of that,
however, it appears to have been de-
graded into a campaign of personal
abuse and defamation OF character
OF the two candidates. We believe
that both Eustis and Lind are gen
tlemen OF high and noble character.
and that their lives, both private
aud public, are exceptionally clean
and above rcproaeh. But if one
reads the democratic st Paul Globe
and some OF the Swedish papers. es-
pecially Svenska Amerikanska Post
en-, one might almost Ire tempted to
believe that N-. Eustis was an es-
capped criminal from states prison.
He is charged with the Guaranty
Loan swind!e, a city hospital swin1le
and numerous other high crimes and
misdemeanors that We're never heard
OF before now After the collapse of
the Guaranty Loan the people OF
Minneapolis elected him mayer, and
never thought of making that charge
against him. Until Menage took it
into his head to wreck the Guaranty
Loan company it was all right. It's
business was to obtain money from
eastern capitalists to loan out on
western farms and city property and
hus help to build up this new coun-
try-a perfectly legitima te and praise
worthy enterprise. Had not the
hard times during Cleveland second
term come over the country, the
company might have pulled through.
MIR. Eustis is also charged with the
heinous crime 81 having been instru-
mental in building the 500 railway,
thus securing aeompeting line from
Minneapolis to the wheat fields OF the
west, and it is probably for this rea-
son that Jim Hill is said to oppose
Eustis and favor Lind. Minneapolis
Veckoblad and Svenska Folkets It'd
ming, while favoring Lind, neverthe-
less, are honest tcfenough to speak
highly ofthe character OF Mr.. Eustis,
and the former strongly urges its
readers to support the balance oft
republican state, congressional and
legislative tickets. Mr.. Eusuis is
next held up as q hater OF the Swedes,
and is credited with saying that he
does not desire their votes. Of
course it is an absolute falsehood.
No public man in this state would be
SO short sighted as to make such a
statement. The facts are that as
mayor OF Minneapolis he appointed
more Swedes and Norwegians to Of
| flee than any other mayor before or
since. The lie is circulated in order
to arouse the prejudice OF the Swedes
against Mr.. Eustis, that is all. 1t is
| we'll that these false charges and mis-
representations have been made so
early in the campaign that they can
be met. Such methods will not help
the candidacy OF MIR. Lind. Ii the
democrats have any principles other
than getting office, let them trot
them out. What has become OF Is
to /, crime of III, FREE trade and all
the other issues? Even dead and
discarded issues would be better and
kmore eleyatinS to discuss than to
|villify an opponent. The private
characters OF both Eustis and Lind
are good enough, but in this cam
tpaign they stand for or should stand
flor the principles OF their respective
parties. The candidate whose party
stands for the principles We believe
to be right is the candidate to vote
flor. And republicans, even Swe-
dish republicans, have no reason to
desert their noble leader MIR. Eustis,
and thereby turn the state over to a
democratic administration.
FOR SALE.
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