Willmar tribune., 1899-12-27

Other Points OF National Polltics-St.
Paul Hustlers Bring the Republican
National League Hero. to Add to the
Campaign Firework State Political
Res Board OF Appeal Results.
Making Ready BY the Reform Forces
For st. Paurs Rsdemption-Eeh h oes OF
Trust Prosperity Motto and Com IN len
OF the Past Week.
Reform Press Bureau.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 1s, 1897
"Look ut your hands when blood is shed
For lust Of land or gold or fame,
And if you find them dripping red
Think not the patriots honored name
Will cleanse Jour guilt or purge your
Look at your handsl"
The Minnesota anti-Imperialists have
opened their campaign, and the Min
neapolis meeting was one of the most
interesting, as we'll as remarkable ever
held in that city of important political
events. There is not room for even a
brief summary of programme and
events, but the most striking feature
was the courageous spirit shown, in the
face of the contumely and opprobrium
which had been cast on the movement
by the subservient monopolistic press.
The latter has preserved an Otis censor.
ship, and no detailed, accurate or even
fair report was made by a single Twin
City daily.
The non-partisan character of the
programme was shown in the fact that
all those participating, with single ex-
ception, supported Mckinley in 1896.
The exception was Lieutenant Martin
E. Tew, of the Thirteenth, who earned
his right to speak, by his own blood
shed in McKinley's unholy war.
Among the proofs of our ''criminal
aggression" against the Filipinos, abso-
lutely unquestioned, are the following:
The Filipinos had an organizaed in
surrectionary government more than a
year before the Cuban war broke out.
Aguinaldo, when brought to Manila for
the purpose, turned this into an active
alyof the Americans and had cleared all
Luzon of Spanish, up to Manila, by the
time of the arrival of the first American
troops. Aguinaldo followed Dewey's
and our generals suggestions in all his
movements, our Consul "drawing up
the very proclamation to his people. -
Instead of being bribe-taker, as in
sinuated by Mr.. Mckinley, he spent
the Spanish gold given him for arms
for his men. Instead of making war
(or ''robellion') on the Americans, an
American fired the first shot, tho
strained relations leading thereto being
caused by the Mckinley proclamation
of sovereignty, in the face of implied or
actually promised independence, on
Dec. 21, month before the treaty with
Spain was confirmed, which gave us
such sovereignty.
Each and every proposition above
and much more, was proven absolutely,
by the official. governmental records.
Our allies, men who had struggled for
years for independence, and nearly won
it-this liberty loving people, proven by
Dewey's own words to be better quail
fed for independence than the Cubans,
are shot into subsection, and taken by
conquest, by the great American
power! No wonder awakened Ameri-
can consciences bring the cry of shame,
shamel
And no wonder the heart of the re-
generated Democracy beats responsive.
Governor Lind's connection with the
meeting was as mere but deeply in
terested spectator. The audience was
set wild by the reference of one of the
speakers to the governors sentiment
that the volunteer, soldier was unfit for
the purposes of conquest since he "car-
rles conscience as we'll as q gun"
This disclosed the governors presence,
and hence his brief speech. That the
~" boys are all anti was shown by
the fact that the real t'Ski U Nah" was
Justify given.
The jackson Day Bryan banquet,
Jan. 10. is the great political event to
usher in the new year and century.
The intention is to have 1900 present to
meet our great ch1eftain, who is now
taking short vacation in Texas. The
virtual opening of the 1900 campaign,
this will be an event that no prominent
member of the reform forces can afford
to resist. While it is to be under Demo
cratic auspices, all allies will be well
come. Address William Banquet Bald
win, Minneapolis. for particulars.
And speaking of a Twin City evening
papers proneness to use the snake, the
''copperhead, in political cartoons. does
it come from the frequency of finding
the serpent in the foot gear?
And the world do also move, do it
not, when Manitoba votss for public
ownership7
The political house cleaning promised
for St. Paul next spring is foreshadowed
by the shameful misrule in the comp
troller's Office. Comptroller McCardy
had held the Office 50 long and had been
treated with such courtesy (?) by the
Republican public examiner, that when
Public Examiner Pope sent a deputy tc
examine the records of the City of St.
Paul, and the assistant. Edward Elk.
man, found some transactions that
seemed to him in violation of the char.
ter, McCardy refused to furnish an OK.
PLANTATION which was politely asked by
the examiner. The examiners Office
went on, and now the comptroller is not
only foundering about in q sea of in,
consistent explanations, to city EN-.
ployes who had to go six weeks without
their salaries, but to his contemporaries