New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-21
John Ind
InterYie Ned,
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The Peoples Candidate For Governor Talks I
S. Little Politics.
a Few Sensible Words AS to Territorial Expan
Il sion. a.5s8;

While the Twelfth was coming home
from Lexington Minneapolis Time.
reporter secure the following interview
from 1t. John Lind IS .5..
81 shall be at the disposal Of the state
committee as soon as Uncle Sam is
through with me. :"
81 have no plans made. I shall be
pretty busy for few days with my du-
ties as quartermaster. will then want
q little rest. After that / see no reason
why should not take the stump if the
committees want me to."
eWhat will be the predominant issues
in the Minnesota campaign this fall2''
was asked.
Well" he replied, 81 have been away
SO long and SO much occupied with my
work that have had little time for eth
er correspondence or keeping up with
the comments of the press; neither have
I had a chance to confer with our COM
mittees, so it is impossible for me to say
what questions are or are not likely to
be uppermost in the public mind. 4
tissues, that are worthy of the name
are not ready made or put forward by
any individual; they are the outgrowth
Of our economic and social activity and
development, and are suggested by the
thoughts and aspirations of the people.
''Take it for instance in Minneapolis.
I have not the remotest idea of what the
politicians are discussing, but venture
to say that the issues in the minds of
your people are to secure an honest adj
ministration of the city government,
more equal taxation and the overthrow
of the clique which has made Minneapo-
lis conspicuous in the annals of munich
pal rascality. L -
CHOW, in regard to the state, the ques-
lions that have addressed themselves to
my mind more than others In the last
few years have been the inequalities and
injustice in taxation; the criminal squan-
der of our public lands; the necessity of
a more business-like conduct of our pub
lie institutions,an Of removing their ad-
ministration from the malign influence
of the political huckster; the reduction
and adjustment of transportation rates,
so as to protect the interests and do JUS
tice to the lights of the producer and
shipper, as we'll as to the carrier, and be-
tween the different localities in the
state. .~'s- i: -.-*@. r. !
"These questions have appealed to me.
If my experience Is the same in this re-
spect as the mass of our people,, then
they are issues, and politicians cannot
get away from them. But these things
I can discuss to better advantage after
get home." .....@- -. -
Alger's Part In the war.
Mr.. Lind expressed the opinion that
the republican party would have to stand
responsible for Secretary Alger and for
the misconduct of the staff departments
of the army, which, he believes, has been
scandalOus. ',- ,--' ~ 's&
"'It was said at the beginning that this
was a republican war. 1t has been, SO
as far as the administration could make
it. It has been source of shame to us
IN the field, continued Mr.. Lind.
care you in favor of holding the
Philippines and all the territory con-
quered by our arms2''
81 hardly know how to answer the
question In way to make my convic-
tons on this subject clear. As to the
Philippines, we have military occupation
of portion, at least, of that domain
now, and cannot escape the responsible
ty of this state of facts until the terms of
peace and the future Of those islands is
finally agreed upon.
$50 far as permanent occupation Of
the islands is concerned, am clear in
my own mind that it would be an un-
fortunate policy forthe American people