Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-06-20

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He was invited to Minneapolis, to the
st. Paul pro- Boer meeting, to the one
at his home, Winora, etc., all of which
ne either ignored or gave trivial,
trumped.up excuse. He has not by his
course strengthened himself with our
liberty loving citizens, especially those
OF foreign birth, who know what it il
to stand up for country, and who have
live sympathies with any people strug.
Cling for home and liberty. These will
remember Candidate Van SAINT.
What's all this worry about tho Box.
ers in China; is not John Goodnow at
Shanghai?
Oregon election reports well illustrate
the garbled information of the G. @. P.
and so-called independent press.
Democrats were ''skinned," or the op.
position staggered according to each
respectively, the ''independent" party
dependent, rather exceeding its co.
patriots in zeal and such election
''lesson."
Now the fact is that neither class of
paper had such information, by
! freight or otherwise. It was only
''guess" by the ass ociated press,
based on fragmentary returns "claim.
ing" 5000 to 1000 Republican major.
ity. congressman 2,O00 to 5000, and the
legislature Republican,
Now, Oregon has never been any
thing but Republican but once since
1872, and that was in '92, when fusion
carried by 8l1. The average Republi-
can majority for the last five presiden-
tial elections has been neer 1000, and
was 1900 in 1894. In the election Of
1898, corresponding to this (for state
officers and congressman it was 10, ia,
the two congressman having above
2,00O and 5000 respectively, while the
legislature was 20 Republican majority
in the senate, and rs in the house, as on
joint ballot. Besides there was full
complement Of Republican state officers.
The latest reports are that the state
has gone Republican by about the usual
figure, except that the legislature is
largely reduced. Considering the
sheen and gloss of Expansion" in this
coast state, and all that the national
and state machinery, with supposedly
copiOus showers of Hanna money could
do, there is certainly very little Repub.
lican encouragement in Oregon.
Our farmers who have been market
ing their wheat for the entire year to
this point at barely SO cents will have
noted that the price of silver has for
some time ruled at 60 and better, chas.
ing close up to the market price of
wheat How few of them now doubt
but that if silver rose to par, wheat
would stand close to the dollar mark:
Silver would rise by free coinage. Is
the silver question then so dead, con.
sidering the interests of our producers:
Well does the party in the door go
cent wheat), as the cartoon shows it,
say to the party within, getting himself
up for the G. O. P. campaign, "Peek-a.
boo, papa, you can't lose me-"
The way departmental business is
done under the Lind administration il
we'll shown in the adjutant general's de.
partment in cases of Spanish war claims
by state volunteers. These numbered
500, covering every variety of case, un:
der circumstances with which all sol
diers are familiar. They were all acted
on by Adjutant General Lambert and
fled at Washington May 2. The adj
jutant general presented them in per-
son, and with such care and accuracy
that before the month closed he received
notification Of the settlement of all with
the exception of less than 30 referred
back for various unimportant details.
Such cases often drag for years, causing
no end Of annoyance and often loss.
:Gsneral Lambert receives many com
mendations for his success in the mat
ter.
The local event of the week politically
has been the Inauguration of "Honest
Bob Smith as mayor of St. Paul, the
result of the handsome victory by the
united reform forces of the Capital City
! Twin City people feel<better. St. Paul
ties have felt most keenly the bad name
of their fair city under Republican mis-
management, and look forward to sub
stantial improvement all round.
And Mayor Smiths retirement adj
mits Ex-Governor A. r. McGill to hi.
place as postmaster. Governor McGil
is so fair a man politically, that his per
sonal recognition, even by an admins
tration which he is believed to hold
in no great respect, is highly gratifying
to many. OF course this is not an
'evening up" of the ex-governor's old
score with his party, but he can SEE
what has happened to his predecessor
and gauge the thing up as stepping
stone, and take courage.
Says the Minneapolis Times:
IF Mr.. Bryan were president and the
Democratic party in power, tomorrow
they would do nothing practical to ai6
the cause of the Afrikanders. They woulG
not because they could not, without in
i volving this country in a war with Grea
Britain-an inconceivable price to pay"
If Mr.. Bryan and his party had been in
power there would have been action al
! a time when action could safely have
been taken, which would have saved
these two South African republics
Bryan and his administration would
not have been engaged in the same
kind of war that Great Britain ha.
been conducting. to-wit, one against
the Filipino republic. That is the meat
in the coacoanut. If the United States
had been doing right in the Philippines
in Cuba, and in Porto Rico, she could