Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-27

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.f7or ,sss-ilce, ate
convention in ssianeapelis in 1925 some
leading Pe5ul:sts desired to see Mr..
Lind face to face and ask him some
plain questions as to his i citation to the
two parties-the Democratic and Pop
ulist-in case he should be elected. He
was IN Mianelpolis, but. he could not
be locates by the Pop,llists in question:
although the fusion leaders had him
where they could put their fingers on
him at any time. After his nomination
he was brought in the room to make
his little speech to the convention, and
after 1T was made he vanished as sud-
denly as he appeared. Now, John Lind,
q. have every req son to believe, knew Of
this desire on the part of many. prom :
Slnent Populists to see him for the pur-
pose indicated and he purposely and
studiously evaded them 4 then cot the
IMPRESSION as did many leading Pop
ullsts, that John Lind and the fusion
leaders regarded US as a lot Of green
horns who could be handled like so
many cattle, simply by bell gingls1g,
Yelling and whip-crac king, and the
whole fusion program has since abund-
antly confirmed this view. Yet our re-
gard for honest John Lind was such
lthat we, to some extent, excused him,
and when he came out as the Political
EOrphan, a phrase selected by himself
as the proper term to define his political
affiljations, we determined to give him
our support and went out and solicited
votes for him among the Republicans
on. the orphan basis. I say it DELHI.
erately, for I know what am talking
about. that thousands Of Populists anG
Republicans voted for him for gov
ernor In 1898 in the belief that he was
strictly an independent and non-parti-
san candidate. And I believe that this
vote elected him. 90; i ....- ~
!. Il Now, according to my notion of con-
s1stency and political ethics, John Lind
should have remained a political or
phan' during his term Of office; other
Wise he lays himself open to the charge
OF having obtained his election by false
pretences. .s 5.- e ~
Gould not John Lind have found
some other suitable person to serve as
his private secretary and political man
ager than the state chairman of the
Democratic party? Was 1T necessary
to choose man who had made himself
especially obnoxious by offensive parti-
sanship in his dealings with Populists?
Was there no alternative but to choose
a man whose conspicuous ambition It
had neen for four years past to cripple
and destroy the Peoples party that his
1ofo
Ros1ng has now SO nearly succeeded,
by the aid Of Gov. Lind, in annihilating
the Peoples party that the remnant of
the latter is only the tail end Of the
donkey, and thus but laughing stock
or joke. :>.sf" @-t@ !. s..
Nov, this Lind Towne, end justify
ing-the-means program may be good
Democratic politics. for all know, but
to my notion Of political methods, &C.
CURED In the Republican and the
Peoples parties, 1t is disreputable. II
real and valuable reform in govern
mental affairs can cone into existence
by this road then all the political his
tory Of the past is a lie. ....... t.
Am sore at John Lind because he
has been the chief agent in wipinR ous
the Peoples party? Well, yes; haven't
J good cause to be? Suppose the Peo-
pies party had succeeded in UNDER
mining the Democratic party in this
state by similar methods, don't you
think Rosing and the O'Briens would
have been saying about US just what I
am now saying about them? Don't you
think they would have been employing
all thei- ponderous ingenuity to get
even with us? -~. y,
i. But we Pops are simply voting cat
tie! We must kiss the hand that
smites US! Yes. let those who are con-
tent to live on crumbs from their VIC
tors tables take them and be happy. /
am not built that way. I stand on my
dignity in politics as in other matters.
I will never degrade myself by voting
for man who has taken an undue ad-
vantage Of my generosity. I have only
one vote, but John Lind cannot have
|. 1t this year. will not vote to perpet-
uate Rosing political machine in
Minnesota" 4.>s,