Willmar tribune., 1900-08-15
RIPPED ! OPEN.
W'oe, IS THE STATE REPUBLICAN
CAMPAIGN, ~

WIDE Is THE STATE REPUBLICAN
; CAMPAIGN,
And the "Rip~ Extends From Some Place
Up Narth, Down to the Eleventh MIN
s:s.mbo.ter Van SAINT a. Chief Grip
II pers"-The 'topenins" Much Like Roose-
vslts-A Hint Of tho Big job Manager
Blxby Has ON His Hands-other STAT.
and National Political Comment o.
Reform Press Bureau,
St. Paul. Aug. 6, 1900.
The event Of the week has been the
''opening" Of the Republican state
campaign by the joint efforts of Candi.
date Van SAINT and J. Adam Bede. The
rip" commenced at place called
Frazee City, in the northern part Of the
state, and extended in a more or less
gaping wound" down to the Eleventh
ward in Minneapolis. The lynx.eyed
psoss has failed to record only the
briefest outline Of the speeches made by
Mr.. Van SAINT, and not word, as yet,
OF the Bede accompaniment.
Captain Van SAINTS ''opening" COM
menced with false quotation Of senti-
ments imputed to Mr.. Bryan in the '96
campaign, assuming which to be true
the captain said was reason for oppos-
ing him. They being false, the infer
ence must be that the captain may
be tor him. Again falsely quoting Mr..
Bryan as saying that we would have
mo exports" and sell mo goods
abroad" if Mckinley was elected, the
captain gave the figures Of our con.
stantly increasing trade-increasing
year by year in the natural growth of
the country-crediting Mckinley with
the total OF such trade, some 81, 1884,
100000. BY the same token Cleveland
should be credited with our total for
eign trade Of his administration. Every
one knows that the oountry's com.
merce increases year by year with in
crease Of population and needs.
At this point the veteran steamboat
man is said to have thrown down his
written speech and gone into some-
thing Of personal interest to himself,
the chances of his defeat being the up
permost topic. His conclusion was
that he would be elected if he got votes
enough-if Republicans enough voted
for him. The more he dwelt on this
phase the more fixed seemed the i'm.
preston that he would lose, whereupon
he observed that if he was to be knitted,
the rest of the ticket should be sup
ported, for. he said, in his mind calling
the administration of Governor Lind as
proof, 1--WE can keep house without a
Republican governor" Still further
contemplating this probability he urged
that he should be elected, lest the ap-
pointment of a United States senator
fall to the lot of the new governor.
stranger things than this have hap
pened," said the candidate. Then
retrospectively, or as if reimpressed
with the gloomy outlook, he repeated:
If I con have the united support of
my party I shall win. If I am defeated
it will be by Republican vo;es." And
then he said in closing: "Let me say
to my Republican friends, who for any
reason might vote against me as the
head of the ticket, that they should
ponder we'll before doing so"
From all appearances the opening of
the Republican state campaign has been
as inauspicious as the national opening
by Roosevelt has proven frosty and in
effectual.
Captain Van SAINT says that when
"they" proposed to dismember the
Union he threw off his Lincoln cam
paign cap and put on the uniform of q
soldier. "And there are Others" And
plenty Of them voted with the G. o. P.
as long as they could possibly do so
without stultifying themselves. They
belong to the Liberty party now.
And this is as good place as any to
remark that the quotations of Bryan
in 1896. used by Republican speakers,
among them Van SAINT, that if McKin-
ley was elected we would "export no
goods, but would import from foreign
lands all the goods we would use," are
not only false but absolutely silly. In
general the predictions made by Mr..
Bryan of the results of continuation of
the ruinous financial policy were full
filed to the letter, as witness the great.
est failures, and more business disasters
for the first two years following Nc
Kinley's g inauguration than marked the
Cleveland panic times. And but for
the adoption of the money policy Bryan
advocates, Of an adequate money sup
ply, at least in part, by the providen-
tial increase Of gold, and later by an
immense imitation of bank paper, the
widest predictions of misery and woe,
whether made by Mr.. Bryan or others,
would have been realized. And let us
call witness, as Candidate Van SAINT
says, and it will ba Van SAINT, where
he says: "Our money, including paper
currency, gold and silver, has become
greatly increased since Mckinley took
the chair" And Van SAINT quotes from
McKinley's acceptance speech, where
he refers to the fact that we now have
''more money!" than we have had be.
fore. "More money and fewer mort
cages" Mckinley said.
And this is a good place to emphasize
that by the Kansas City platform the
Democrats are not oily pledged to the
quantitative theory of free coinage, but
to take from the banks the power Of
issuing their notes, which are not re-
doanahle in ANYTHING and which ,,otoa