New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-12-07
STACKS or MAIL.
Minneapolis Times Correspondent De
scribes a Visit to the Office of
John Lind.
He Says the Governor-E1ect May Have to
Leave the State to Find Time to
Write His Message.
That Document Promises to Afford Some
Very Interesting Reading.

Frank Stacy, now with the Mlnneapo-
| lis Times, called on Governor elect Lind
Sunday and here is the Times account
of his visit:
In front Of Governor-elect John Lind's
home in New Ulm stands the monument
Of the assault upon that town by the
Sioux during the memorable Indian out
break of 1862. .
New Ulm is again attacked by savage
and hungry braves, and will soon need
another monument; and the proper site
of this, as Of the monument already
erected, is in front OF John Llnd's house,
where the attack is centered and is waged
most ticrcely.
Every train that comes into New Ulm,
whether from the east OF from the ives:
brings the armed braves of democracy
and populism, armed with petitions and
hungry for scalps-the scalps of repub-
Lean oficeholders. They flock into
Lind's law office on Main street at all
hours of the day, and make for his house
on tue hill at all hours OF the night.
Lind has sought New Ulm as a refuge
in vain. There is no seclusion and no
escape for Kim either in his own law
study or in his attic at home. In writ
inc his message and consulting authori-
ties he cannot go to his own library in
peace, nor consult the public libraries in
Minneapolis or St. Paul. 1t looks as
though he would be driven from the
state.
Every mail brings in about hundred
letters, some fat and bulky, in ten-inch
envelopes, petitiouing OF in4uirirg about
state appointment; Lind's Miuneapo
lis mail is extensive. A portion of his
mail is congratulatory and does not pc
| tition for office, but the ce-seeNing
species Of correspondence easily over
tops and outclasses the rest.
The first object which strikes ones at
tention upon entering John Lind's law
Office, rs a representative of The Times
did yesterday, is a row o: letter stacks
and petitions covering the office sofa
and adjoining shelves and variously la.
beled according to the office sought.
This is Lind's unanswered political cor
rcspondcncc. Mr., Lind's office ass >ci
ate has tackeled the jol, Of opening the
letters and classifying them: Thele are
about thirty stacks Of opened letters,
each bea,ing its proper label.
One pile of correspondence, foot
and d half deep, bears tbs label, "Pub-
l1c Examinel;;" another, coil Inspector; .
and so on down through the list Of ;.p-
pointive positions. \ stack of brief let
ters and kilograms, about two feet deep,
bears the label "Congratulatory," and
another" "Miscellaneous Correspondence.
Today Private Secretary L. A. Rosing,
recent chairman of the democratic state
central committee, appears upon the
scene with a stenographer, and Will I'LL
dertake the contract of replying to the
piles Of correspondence.
| Lind's forthcoming message to the
state legislature will probably be one of
the most interesting and important state
papers issued in the history of the state.
It will probably co ntain more new mat.
ter aud cover more vital and burning is
sues than any other message issued by /,
Minnesota governor. 1t is known that
Mr.. Lind will devote to it a large amount
of personal research and exhaustive Ia
Dor i'll its preparation. 1t is looked for
ward to by some as u sensational aocu-
mvnt. This it probably will not be, but
it will be Of unusual interest neverthe.
| less. Both Its review of forty years Of
republican administration and its recon-
mendations for the reform OF that ad
ministration will he looked forward to
with an interest that has not touched
gubernatorial messages in Minnesota for
many decade. It is believed that Mr.,
Lind will present to the state Legislature
a number Of recommendations embody-
ing his views as Scrystalized from ten
years of study Of state institutions. Il
is known that he has views Of his own
touching some of the IN ost important
functions Of state Cover lnment that have
never yet been broached in the state
capitol. He will accompany his prepo.
/ sitions with the results Of his practical
research.
Too many make agod out Of the ma
j.ritY.