Willmar tribune., 1899-07-19
KNOCKOUT BLOW !

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DELIVERED BY GOVERNOR LIND IN
THE MILLER CONTROVERSY.
Senator Miller Completes His Retrac.
tion-His Further but Nveakling At
tempts to Bolster Up His Case-Ouota.
tlons Which Do Not Quote, and Refer
epce. That Do Not Refer "A Case for
''Dinkelspiel"-Now Here. a Chance
for the 'Fire Eater.'-The Filipino
Who Didn't Know the CountersiRu.
The Declaration Of Independence
Dropped ON the Fourth-More of Gold
Standard Trust Prospersty-W Wheat and
Silver Neck and Neck for Low Points.
State and Twin City Pol :tics-Cass Lake
Delendum Est-Good Words for the
State Administration-Gov Lind
Will Meet the Thirteenth-Note and
COmmen of the Week.
Reform Press Bureau.
ST. PAUL. July 10, 1s99
No event of the administration of
Governor Lind to this point has perhaps
been OF SO great interest as the action
taken by the governor regarding the
Miller warfare on him for the veto of
Senate File "A, the bill making pro-
ceedings before the grain and ware
house commissions court records in
cases Of appeal. No party, or faction of
one, was ever driven into so ridiculous
a situation as the Republican party, or
such elements Of it as were misled into
attack on the governor in that case.
AS stated last week, Senator Miller in
the Rock County Herald retracted the
base charges he had made against Gov
ernor Lind, on receipt of the governors
demand therefor, and the senator, as
promised, published the governors let-
ter in full. The senator in doing so
made a show of defending his position
as to the operation OF the measure, but
his statements were specious and with
out effect, and in most cases where he
quoted authorities or opinions they were
without name or identity, which weak
ened or nullified his effort.
Wide publication has been given Gov
crnor Lind's communication, it having
been published by the state press gener-
ally, regardless of politics, a sign of
fairness that is lot usual. Few papers
have been rabid enough to refuse this
courtesy to the governor, in matter of
SO much concern. Numerous Republi-
can papers have borne down hard on
Senator Miller for, as they charge, mis-
leading them both as. to the facts and
the effect of the action for which Gov
ernor Lind was criticised.
AS it was the charges of unworthy
motives that led Governor Lind to de-
part from his usual course and give at
tention to the case, we herewith give
the terms in which Senator Miller
made his full and explicit retraction, as
follows:
In his issue Of June %, upon receipt
of the governors demand, Senator Mil
Ter said:
The statement made in these COL
umns June 8 respecting the Great
Northern Railroad company, and any
other statements which have appeared
in previous or subsequent issues of this
paper to the effect that the action of
Governor Lind in omiitting to sign SEN
ate File No. "A was in any way in
auenced by that company or any of its
officers, is hereby retracted."
In his next ISSUE publishing the gov
ernor's letter, he said:
'Senate File No. "a.
"After reading the letter of Governor
Lind, published elsewhere in this issue,
The Herald is convinced that the gov
ernor vetoed Senate File No. "a under
an honest mistake as to the legal effect
of the bill. Being so convinced The
Herald makes an absolute and unequiv-
ocal retraction of every statement in
any issue of this paper which directly
or indirectly charges or insinuates that
Governor Lind acted corruptly or was
actuated by improper motives or that
he was Influenced by any individual or
corporation in emitting to sign Senate
File No. 4.''
The responsibility of the Luverne
Herald in leading it's Republican breth-
rem astray is thus expressed by Senator
Miller's contemporary, the Luverne
Journal, Republican, of which w. H.
Workman is the editor. The Journal
says:
IF there was any one in the Repub-
lican party in position to know the
truth or falsity of the statements pub
lished, it was Senator Miller, hence the
article in question was taken as the
truth by the. Republicans and many
Democrats throughout the state, and it
was published by Republican papers
and generally circulated as fact that
the Great Northern Railroad company
Influenced the Governors action in the
In fact one paper dubbed him
the Great Northern Governor It
must be very humiliating to those who
have circulated the report to find out
that it was not true and had no founda-
tion in fact"
Such efforts to bring the Governor
into disrepute are a disgrace to re-
spectacle journalism and should not be
for one minute by men,
bers of the Republican party.
There has been no end of comment on
Senator Miller's concealment of the Eau
thorities:' cited, but no where located,
and in some cases it is asserted. by Re-
publicans. too, that the ''blind' author
ity must be the same as was behind the
bill when up in the senate, which no
one could definitely locate, hence the
gaining ground that if the
truth is ever ascertained, it will be