Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-05-02

Porto Rico, can SO open the eyes what
will not happen when the full iniuuitv
Of Hanna-McKinleyism dawns on those
who have hitherto chung to the party of
"Honest Old Abe Lincoln?''
"Honest Old Abe!'' His name will
be the sign manual of this great move.
ment for salvation of the republic. It
will be the sin hoe signo" of the allied
conventions at Kansas City, and his pic.
ture will adorn all Of the large amount
of campaign literature, which is already
issuing from the League press. This
feature of the coming campaign will re.
mind many Lincoln Republican of the
days of the "Wide Awakes" and other
features of the campaigning Of abolition
times
Speaking of abolition days, the col.
ored people of Minneapolis are planning
for grand observance of the anniyer.
sary of John Brown of whose s'soul'
there will be SO much of marching
on" in this campaign for liberty for
all men of all races, in all chimes.
The addresses which Ex-Governor
Altgeld of Illinois is delivering in diff
ferent sections of the country must be
productive of great good. His Albany
Jefferson banquet speech is one Of his
greatest. And hopeful sign of the
times was that the Anarchist" was
cordially received by and made the
guest of one David B. Hill. The latter
is certain some day, and we believe in
the near future, to step out into the new
light and truly say, Il am NOW real
Democrat"
Whenever month passes that there
is not some kind of a political banquet
among the Minneapolis hosts of Bryan
why then it is very cold day for Ban
quet Baldwin. And so, he has been at
it again, and the Bryan club remem-
bered Jefferson's birthday, with feast,
of both sorts (for soul aud body, with
that never firing defender of the faith,
G. D. O. Brien of St. Paul, as the princi-
pal speaker.
The Twin City commercial travellers
applaud the course of Mr.. Dove, of
New York, in resigning from the body
which it was the apparent scheme of
the Hannaites to make a Republican
campaign tool.
Apropos of the travelling salesmens'
views, the following from a Minnesota
travelling man, in the American Arti.
san, is'right to the point:
while tie great trusts have felt the
prosperity, and through control Of the
raw material and output, have paid rich
dividends upon watered stocks, the con-
sumner has not felt the first blush of even
the newspaper prosperity. AS dealer
put it few days since, prosperity has not
yet reached the masses, and long before it
shall reach them I fear the great Hippo sat
will have sucked the orange dry, leaving
only the dry crusted rind for the con-
sumner and him who stands at his gate
way holding the supplies he may never
call for; in short, while the trust owner
seems we'll protected and fortified about,
the bag holder (the retailer), seems to be
at the mercy of fate"
The meager report given in the AS.
ISOLATED Press of the speech CT Senator
Hoar on imperialism, indicates that it
was great effort, marred only, per-
haps, by the senator's futile clinging to
the hope that he will drive his party
into the right action. It's too late, SEN
ator. Your idol is dead-its eyes is sot!
And, speaking of Senator Hoar, sew
eral Twin City letters. were written
him in approval of the principal portion
Of his speech. The Minneapolis anti
imperialists will send formal resolu-
ton of thanks.
Angus McKinnon, only son of Alex
McKinnon Of the state board of grain
appeals, has just been elected editor-in-
chief of The Gopher, the brilliant little
organ of the University Of Minnesota.
The election of Mr.. McKinnon is con-
sidered a triumph by the very active
anti-imperialists Of the old "U," and
indeed, it is becoming more and more
noticeable that the vigor and brain Of
the university, in quality as well as
quantity, leans far away from the Nc
Kinley' Hanna policy of the administra.
ton.
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