The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-22

working practical reforms In the state
government they must elect men to the
legislature and to other positions that are
earnestly in sympathy with such move
ment. He alone will be powerress to ac-
compiish desired results. and that uni SIS
4 change such as he suggests can be eff
fected, he does not want and will not
accept the gevernorship. This assurance
cannot be given before election, and Mr.
Lind must either retire entirely from the
field or take chances that the PEOPLE will
do as he says. We believe, however, that
Mr.. Lind will be the candidate for gov
ernor this fall. and with q campaign
such as he is capable of making. 1t Is
not Improbable that the people may IN
part carry out his advice. Let us hope
| So at least-Mankato Review (Dem.)
The Herald would advise Capt. Van
SAINT and other Republican leaders not to
bubble over with too much glee at the
| thought that they will not have to face
Gov Lind again In the great campaign
Of this year. The governor will lead the
people with the same zeal In a good cause
as of yore, and the Buffers and Metllu nS
OF the G. o. P. may as well take warn-e
ing that he fully realizes his duty, and
will not shrink from it. He will Rave a
| larger following of the people Of the ate
| who believe in good. clean. wholesome
government, than ever before.-Winona
Herald (Dem.).
The sanguine citizens who are so con-
fdent that plans have been matured by
which John Lind can be overwhelmingly
defeated at the polls next fall must be
close students Of election returns. They
say that this is a Republican year, also
that it is presidential year, and they
are certain of victory. but have they for
gotten that 1898 was a Republican year.
and that 1886 was a presidential year?
Yet in SO Lind polled more votes IAN
any Republican candidate ever received
prior to that time, and he was defeated
by only a beggarly plurality of tr!fle
over 1900 votes. In 1898 he was elected
by the largest popular vote, with two ex
captions, ever given a gubernatorial can
didate in the state, the exceptions being
Nelson, in 1894, and Clough, in 1856. We
would advise our Republican friends
to look up election statistics and revise
their estimates, for one thing is GER
tainty If John Lind runs for governor
rousing majority.-St James Journal
(Dem.-Pop.).
We will not question Gov. Linds sim
cerity, but his Minneapolis speech is
long ways from declining a nomination.
Cannon Falls Beacon (Rep).
About this Lind business: The people
want him to succeed himself as governor
and he will Well help it along with a
1000 majority here.-Little Falls Herald
(Dem.).
John Lind has stated that he will de-
cline denomination from the fusion
forces and retire from politics But Lind
does not mean that politics shall retire
from him. not in a thousand years. Lind
may make a backward feint just to show
the fusioniStS how necessary he is to them
and to make 1t appear when he Is unani-
mously renominated next summer that 1t
Is the office seeking the man, not the man
the office.-Freeborn County Times (Rep.).
Narrowed down to a few words Gov.
Lind's declaration means that II the peo-
pie " ant him to be governor again he will
not lay down the burden, But he proposes /
in that case to serve as governor and not
as political Office broker and vendor
of political jobs. He Is willing to run for
5ONSiAOI, VIII again NC Tile HOiilllleG anu
will be reelected and his political
enemies who were in such high g.ee at his
previous announcement are more than
ever in the slough of despond now.-St.
Peter Herald Dem).
Lind's words of withdrawal instead Of
being simple, sincere and decisive, are.
taken together, weak and ridiculous. If
he had said 81 will not be candidate
nf f1rCt
adopted and unless 1 feel certain that all
the elements of anti-Republicanism are
solidly arrayed behind me- he would
have been talking sense. Instead of that
he says: 81 will not be candidate I'M
less 1 am assured that the rest Of the |
state officers and the legislature are to
be of my politics" Nothing can be
more puerile than this and nothing can
be more certain than that this anti-cli-
max was not what Lind contemplated |
when he announced that he would de- |
clare his withdrawal from politics at the !
Bryan banquet. Gov. Lind practically i
says now: 81 won't be your candidate /
unless you tease me to be."-Duluth !
News-Tribune.
Lind is the only visible source of sup
ply and they may be relied upon to be !
una nimous in their demand that he !
again ruin. for though it is a wise son !
that knows his father, it may be stated
with equal positiveness that 1T Is fool
ish politician that doesn't know who
his mother is at meal time.--Anoka Her. !
aid (Rep).
The Minneapolis Times exultingly pro-
claims that Gov. Lind will not be can
didate for reelection and claims to know
that he has decided soon to positively !
announce the fact The Times assump> /
ton is born of it's fondest hopes, but
they are wasted. It's yarn is fiction and /
fustian, for Gov Lind will not accom- i
MEDIATE the Times. He will not get out
of the way of the ambitious but obStruc-
tive influences behind that paper; he Will |
again be the nominee of the harmonious
union forces and will as certainly be
elected.-Albert Lea Standard (Pop).
The fusion forces seem to have no
doubt as to their ability to induce Gov.
Lind to run again, Notwithstanding his
recent observation-disclosures Falls Journal
(Rep).
There are a good many Democrats who
do not believe Lind will refuse nomi-
nation for governor and there are also a
large number of his Office holders who are
very anxious he should again make the
run, as with him they believe they have
q chance to prolong their good things.
IT is said that Lind Is mere sangulne
than sagacious as politician and TINS
is possibly the reason why SO many OIL
his friends refuse to believe he has &C.
eided to withdraw and return to the prac-
tice of law at New Ulm, the home he so
dearly loves.-Stilwater Gazette QRep)
Gov. Lind has taken course that will
hush the sounds of the Populists and
Democrats who are dissatisfied with him
as governor. He has declared that he