The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-10-06

since been learned tkat it was the hrst
step toward radical reformation, be.
cause Adam has never voted q Demo-
cratic ticket since he resigned his oficc
back into the hands of President Cleve.
land. And. since he began to teach
good, broad gauge Republican doctrine,
it is amazing what subtle wit and high
talent Adam Bede has developed.
"Buttoni Buttoni Who made the
button?'
The st. Paul Globe rails ed furious
tempest in the political teapot a week
or two ago by denouncing William II.
Eustis and his committee because they
had purchased supply of campaign
buttons of a manufacturing concern
way down in New Jersey. Now tha5
it has been discovered that Mr.. Lind
and Mr.. Rosing, of the Democratic
committee. have purchased tu.l sup.
ply of Lind campaign buttons from
the same fcm, there does not appear
to be so much Democratic roaring on
the hind seats. By the way, how long
is it since the st. Paul Globe became
an advocate for protection for our
home industries.
By the way, did ever read ers of the
public press of the state see just such
campaign as the one now in progress?
A stranger reading the opposition
newspapers of Minnesota this year
would be prone to imagine that Mr..
Eustis was an escaped criminal. The
fact about him is that he is one of the
kindliest and most philanthrophic Of
men-with sympathies as easily
touched as those of the gentlest of
women. Not one of his neighbors in
St. Paul and Minneapolis but laughs at
those bugs boo stories about his con-
nection with the Guaranty Loan
swindle.
Honor bright. now-does any man or
woman who is full grown and possessed
of average common sense believe for
one moment that all the great and
small business men of this city would
have gone to the polls and worked as
they all did work for w. II. Eustis last
June, and thus made his nomination
certain at the approaching state con.
vention, if he had been the common,
vulgar rascal which the Den: ocratic.
Populist outfit are today proclaiming
him to ber ....
And now, a word about the claim
made by the opposition that Mr.. Lind
will carry Hennepin and Ramsey
counties at the approaching election in
November. AS chalmers of the earth
and the fullness thereof, the Demo.
cratic party is noted in the history and
traditions of the states. Away back
almost forty years ago the Democrats
commenced putting forward their
claims Of victory as each successive
election period approached. Old set
tiers will recall that regularly every
two years they are promised Demo.
cratic feast of fat things. And yet,
steadily, year after year the Repub-
licans have con tinued to roll up m q.
jorities sometimes waning to 1000 or
5000 during campaigns which were not
marked by any vital issues, and again
waxing up to $4,000 or 80, 900 when the
people of l. Etoil du Nord took the bit
in their teeth and buckled down to
business.
On, mol This is not good year in
which to predict Democratic or Popu.
listio success. In the first place, the
Republican state convention last sum.
mer removed all cause of complaint
among the people of the state by plac.
ing in nomination one of the strongest
and best tickets ever placed before the
people of Minnesota for their suffra ges.
Secondly the states of the great west
are just now at turning point. After
the most disastrous and trying period
of commercial and financial depression
ever known in the history of the coun.
try, the scales have at length turned.
People begin to realize that to return
now to the reactionary policy repre-.
sented by the Demo-Pop com bination
would bring renewal of the tough
times of four or five years ago. Who
has forgotten that the Democratic
victory of 1892 precipitatel the repub.
lie into the direst of commercial and
financial caves of gloom? The lesson
has not tesn lost upon the people of
Minnesota, and now that the sober sec.
ond thought has come, then the great
common sense majority of this state
is not prepared to monkey any further
with the crude financial theories of the
men who two years ago proclaimed the
evangel of the Stree and unlimited
coinage Of silver at the ratio of IL to
L." John Lind may be most excel.
lent citizen. but it Is not the person.
atty of John Lind, or John any body.
which constitutes the point at Issue.
Political parties stand for principles,
and persons count for little or nothing
during great political contests. A
state no less than man is known by
the company it keeps. and solid old
Minnesota has not yer gotten down to
the plane of principle of which Kansas
and Kentucky have grown ashamed.
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Hennepin and Ramsey counties con.
tain the TWO great cities of the com.
monwealth. For six long years this
twin center Of the business life of Min.
nesota has suffered more from the ex.
listing conditions of trade and com.
merce than any other section of the
state. The laboring men. the me-
chanics, the merchants have suffered
equally with the professional men, the
bankers and the spectators. All the
political signs point to the fact that
there is no disposition to try further ex-