Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-02
large sum OF money ($40, 0o0) had


been sent up from Missouri to enable
the Legislature to see the course OF
Justice in liberating the last of a band |
OF murderers. So persistent were
these rumors that Gen. Wilson, the
author Of the act, found it necessary
to publicly deny them. Now, when
such state OF affairs exists Mr.. EIi-
tor, it is quite conclusive that there
is an African in the woodpile. OF
course our friend Grue couldn't be
Influenced in such way. His vote
was from personal conviction only"
says his sponsor Lawson. But
nevertheless this fact remains: that
Mr. Grue in voting to ]iberate the
YOungers voted to supercede the
law, voted to circumvent the consti-
tuition he had sworn to uphold, and
absolutely misrcpresented at least
seven-tenths of his constituency.
And Reform Lawson knows this
but, as usual, he hens and haws and
finally says it was "personal convic-
ton only Mr.. Lawson il you are
going to continue the humbus OF
creating reform Legislators, try to
get it into your and their craniums
that a lawmakers acts are solely
representa- tive! Try to acquire the
fact that even Pop senators should
be the servants of the people who
elected them, and that personal con-
viction must give way to the views
and demands Of their constituents!
supposed "Populism' meant "pop-
ular' or "peoples" government? In
the case Of Mr.. Grue it seems to he
different. 1t becomes "personap'
government.
And then reformers (?) of the Law
son species shout and rant about
''imperialism." In the name of com
mon ordinary decency Reform Law
son ought to take a tumble to him
self, go out to Green Lake and soak
Not the Feig Style Of a "soak."
his head. And then he wants to
know why l don blame the twenty
three Republican senators who voted
for the Younger Bill. Now, Mr.. Law
son told you in my last article that
two wrongs don't right one. If the
whole Legislature had jumped into
the Mississippi would you hold that
out as an eXtenuation of the folly of
your pet Grue? You evidently have
just trifle OF old Ewes nature about
you. When you or yours are caught
in foolish or wrong act you always
have a snake handy to blame, viz:
the bad Republicans. But, friend
Lawson please always bear this in
mind that it is you and your pets
that are now on the gridiron. l
catechised you as to Grue's act in
this case not that of John Jones or
jim Brown. Because the latter COM
mitted disgraceful exercise of their
official prerogative doesn't relieve
Grue. Grue is the man we are now
dealing with in this case and with
Grue, Nelson and Lind in this discus
sion. Besides we expected better
things from your reform CD senator
than that he should follow in the
Expects crue to be Better than Re-
pubIicans.
wake Of wicked Republicans. If Grue
was simply the football of Republic
cans Mr.. Lawson, then how could
you expect those promised reforms?
Then dear Vic. you helped foist upon
your own political associates a trail
tor to their cause. So don't quote
alleged Republican misrule any more
Mr.. Lawson, as an extenuation and
excuse for the follics of your own
pets. It's childish, peevish, effemi-
nate way of excusing the reprehensi-
bleness of your proteges.
Now l will take up the Sugar
bounty votes of Reform (?) Senator
Grue. Grue voted both for and
against this bill. Mr.. Lawson ad-
nits this much and says he voted for
it because it was a illegal claim
against the State.'' And so it was,
everyOn admits this; even Governor
Lind in his vetoing message said it
was legal and moral claim against
the State.' And still the second time
it came up Grue voted in the mega
tive. 1t was still a legal claim, it
was the same identical bill that he
voted for before. But, he voted no!
And why? Reform Lawson tells us
because he recognized the force of the
governors message that it was
necessary to restrict the bounty law
What did the bounty law have in
common with this claim? The boun-
ty law provided a bounty of one cent
per pound on sugar made from Min
nesOta beets by a Minnesota factory.
Certain capitalists had complied
with the provisions OF the law They
had made sugar from Minnesota
beets and they now presented their
bill for bounty subject to Legislative
audit and investigation. Ii found
right it would constitute a legal
claim against the State. The credit
of the State stood pledged to these
men for this specific purpose: They
| fully compiled with the law, and