The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-08-23
POLITICS AND NEWS.

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Gossip and Opinions Gathered In
the Capital City.
The discord within the ranks of
Minnesota Democracy is constantly
breaking out in new places, and no
one need be surprised to find the par
ty torn to pieces before the campaign
next year. That forty-year appetite
seems to be the real cause for the
latest outbreak, and Gov. Lind, who
has tried in vain to GUST republicans
from certain state institutions, in
Guiding the soldiers home, gets the
blame for being in league with the
Republican party.
The only two newspapers in the
Twin Cities that have supported
Lind have been the St. Paul Globe
and the Minneapolis Times. One
day last week both of these papers
came out at the same time with an
article roasting the governor to the
queen S taste. The introduction to
the Globe-Times article will prove
interesting. 1t is as follows:
''The course which Governor Lind
has followed in state board appoint
ments and the disposition of those
officers which come more or less di-
rectly under his charge has not been
of a nature which commends itself to
his supporters. Criticism has been
quietly offered in the past, even by
his state appointees. The action of
the board of trustees of the soldiers
home Tuesday brought matters to a
climax. Yesterday there were NUT
terings loud and deep about St. Paul,
and the name of the state executive
was not spared by his friends.
Governor Lind is trying the souls
of his political friends these days.
There is no end of criticism which
the governor is being subjected to
by those who supported him Loyalty
during his campaigns. To hear the
talk, it is doubtful if he does not find
his ranks deserted in many quarters
unless he shortly shows a disposition
to take hold of matters pertaining to
appointments with a firmer grip than
be has displayed up to this time.
Governor Lind s friends do not
understand him. They are beginn-
ing to think he lacks tact or frmness.
Instead of getting his friends into
positions which they can fill as well
as the barnacles which can be found
around every institution in the state,
he has up to this time, it is said,
though it sufficient to intimate what
were his wishes and then trust that
those to whom the intimations we're
given would respect them. The re-
suit has been that in every case
state boards have shown more re-
spect for the wishes of the relics of
the Republican era than they have
for the present chief executive.
"What makes his friends more free
to criticise him than they would
otherwise be is that he has not
learned by experience but has time
and again waited to see the same
thing repeated, much to the discom-
future and humiliation of those who
expected to profit by the governors
good intentions. His work so
strongly contrasts with that of Gov
ernor Clough in the matter Of taking
care of his friends that everybody
is talking about it.
SIT is pointed out that ifGovernor
Clough wanted man to do anything
he sent for him and told him what
he wanted. If the man showed any
disposition to do otherwise Govern
or Clough read riot act to him there
and then. He got what he wanted.
Governor Lind, it is alleged, takes
the more suave way with the result
that not once but many times cha
grin and disappointment have been
visited on his friends and his Rebuff
lican enemies take another quiet
laugh.