Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
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THE TWIN ISSUE WITH ANTI-lM.
PERIALlsM. FOR 1900.
The Two Will Be Pushed In Min nesota
ON Non partisan Lines-Truas Evils
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Eleosion Re.
suite Most Emphatio-Ths Column for
Bryan's Unanimous Re. Nomination Led
BY Miohigan-Good Words for State
Grain Observation-Disclosures c. Moe.
Reeve Called to Succeed Warden
wolfsr ut stnlwatsr-The w..l..
Roundup In National and State Poll
Reform Press Bureau.
ST. PAUL, Nov 20, 1899.
But tbs past, and tho blazoned in story
The name OF our victor may be-
Accused Is the march of that glory
Which treads on the hearts of the freel
q "a NCesACA Cuo grave. Ut the prison,
lllumed by one patriot name.
Than the trophies of all who have risen
On liberty s ruin to fame.
Thomas Moore
Three striking: political events have
marked the past week, the first, the in
auguration of the non-partisan Mime
sofa Anti-1mperialist movement. seat
ed, for the present, at Minneapolis, but
to go into the whole state. Its head is
Henry j. Fletcher. Esq, the widely
known attorney, a lifelong Republican,
with other Republicans and men who
supported Mckinley in the other Of
fetal positions. For the coming mass
meeting. expected to be held about
Dec. IA, the expectation is to have so
vice-presidents, from the most promi-
nent men of Minneapolis, regardless of
their party connection.
This arousing of the American con-
science is not more marked, however,
than the movement. also in non-parti-
san lines, against the trusts. This is
likewise being launched in Minnesota,
coming, as did the anti-imperialist
movement. from Chicago, directed by
Hon. R. w. clearinghouse, secretary
of the national executive committee.
That gentleman has communicated
with large number of Minnesotans,
who will be invited to attend the COM
ing conference at Chicago. The plan
is to carry OH this warfare by organiza-
lions in all parts Of the Northwest.
The third event has been the sorrow
full rallying of the goppites, to consider
the straits they are in in Minnesota, the
occasion being the return of Senator
Knute Nelson from abroad. The oldest
political" inhabitant cannot recall
such a gloomy gathering. In fact the
three days of righteousness brought a
terrible rain storm. The chief question
was whether the resourceful Nelson
could give them any light, any hope of
success in Minnesota next year. And
the resourceful Knute could not. In
the first place, there was the miserably
selfish course of Mr.. Nelson, himself Ito
describe it as Republicans describe it)
when. in the terrible crisis of the last
campaign, Nelson took to the woods
and devoted himself to the still hunt
for the senate, leaving Eustis and the
state ticket to their fate. What time
Nelson could spare from personal beset-
ments was given to squaring himself
with Eustis and the rest for that act.
He devoted whole days session in the
latter city to applying Nelson salve to
the sores made by having refused to
lift up his voice in the campaign for
Webster. If report is true he made but
poor progress in all the many sit
tings."
Two interpretations are put on Nell
sons purposes, the one that he and the
federal machinery, including Merriam,
Powers, Fletcher, ct al, is to be put
into activity to make District Attorney
r. G.. Evans the Hanna candidate for
Governor. The other is that the state
management is to be returned to Bixby,
Byrnes, Jamison, Powers and the rest
who were displaced by the Steele
Eustis aggregation. Nelson met, for
the one, the hostility of the many can
didates for Governor, and for the other,
the deep-seated hatred of the old ma
chine, which for years and years was
able to muster only bare majority for
state candidates.
These matters and the awful pressure
for places in the census department
here and elsewhere, made the Junior
senator's homecoming anything but
pleasant. He has left bad feeling be-
cause of the shabby treatment of many,
whom he lodged and turned down
without remOrse. He even snubbed
the State Historical society, celebrating
semi-centennial, being on the pro-
gramme for an important paper, in.
volving his colleague, Senator Davis,
in weak fib, about business" pre-
venting Nelson's presence.
Senator Nelson, in interviews, shows
that he favors militarism. He brings
home to foreign born voters The sur
prising information that large standing
armies are good thing, and in the
same breath approving our new policy
in the Philippines. shows that he will
be right in line with Hanna and Nc.
Kinley for their bayonet government.
German-American citizens will be
astounded to be told by Senator Nelson
that he found in Germany, where he
studied the Kaiser's military establish.
ment thoroughly, that the Germans do
not regard the army as burden, but
are proud of it and look upon it mot as
an economic drain,'' but as an lin.
creaser. of consumption and relievel
Of the stress of population" What