New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-01-05
Will He
Accept?
The Newspapers Continue to Discuss John
Lind's Position. .$..
The Majority Inclined to the Belief that
he Will Have to Accept.

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lis is by no means taken as final. Some
Of the strongest weeklies in the state,
Republican as we'll as Democratic, are
outspoken in their belief that no other
man can be elected and that therefore
he will be compelled to consent to make
the race.
The Duluth Commonwealth insists
that no other name should be considered.
The Jackson Republic, commenting
on the suggestion that J. A. johnson OF
St. Peter be nominated, says there is on
ly one man that would stand ghost Of
a show of being elected and that man is
John Lind.
The Lake Crystal Union believes that
if Ed. Weaver is the nominee on the Re-
publican ticket tor the office of COVER
nor, Mr.. Lind will not be candidate.
If Mr.. Weaver is defeated for the nomi-
nation, Mr.. Lind will be the nominee of
the reform party, and he will be elected.
John. G. Wise, the veteran editor of
the Mankato Review, has this to say:
In the light Of seeking the nomination
Mr.. Lind was not last fall and will not
now be d candidate Hence, when his
name was mentioned at the recent con-
ference in Minneapolis, be frankly dis
claimed aspirations in that direction.
We have no doubt, however, that should
the opposition forces combine with any
reasonable degree of unanimity and tend
er nomination to Mr.. Lind, he would,
as he did before, accept it, and make an
active, vigorous fight for an election.
There need be no fear on the part of the
party in power that they will escape a
vigorous contest, for it is in store, and
they must not only put their strongest
man forward, but strengthen their lines
whenever it is possible to do so. Whist
ling now that Mr.. Limo will not be in
the field will not relieve next falls 6i-
lemma,
The Republican editor of the Jackson
Republic expresses the opinion that if
Lind has declined to be a candidate, a
lot of republican candidates can rejoice,
for if John Lind can run fifty thou
sand votes ahead of his ticket in a pres
idential year, he could make it hun
dred thousand in an off year.
One ri the strongest Republican pa,
pers in the state IS the Albert Lea T.lA,s.
Its editorial on the Lind declaration
contained tie following: John Lind is
a man of unquestionab BILE integrity and
acknowledged ability. His leadership
Of the silver parties In Minnesota last
,, year brought to the support of its state
ticket nearly forty thousand gold stand
ard Republicans and Democrats who
found it impossible to endorse the meth
DDS or the men of the Republican state
machine;. but while Lind's resignation
from the leadership, If it is rendered in
good faith, is a loss which the opposing
parties will find it impossible to make
good, yet Republicans should bear in
mind that were it not for the president.
ial election last fall any decent man at
the head of the silver party could have
been elected over the disreputable and
repudiated Clough, and in the coming
campaign it behooves the party in Min.
nesota to head their ticket with the
name of some capable man whose RECORD
is clear and whose integrity the people
feel they can trust.
|. The St. Peter Free Press, an indepen
dent Republican journal, comments OF
the chances of Lind and reads the Re
publican leaders strong lecture in th'
following: If the republicans SHOULD
make weak nomin alton, we are willing
to go on record as saying that Lind vii
not only be a candidate, but will com,
dangerously near getting elected. He ap
pears to have lost none of his forme
popularity with the people and to on
mind it is poor policy to underestimate
his strength. The next election vii
be an off year and none Of the advant
ages going with presidential election
can make up for the blunde,s, mistake
and uncalled- for greed of irrepressibl
and ambitious politicians. # the re
publican party doesn't want to place il
gubernatorial candidate III jeopardy .
the coming election, it must place ma
in nomination conceded to be the choic
of its majority instead Of being the re
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