Willmar tribune., 1900-10-24
MAY ECLIPSE THE SECOND RUN
OF The LITTLE NORWEGIAN.
John Lind has Made the Best Governor
Minnesota Ever Had, and All Peo-
pie, Regardless Of Party, Creed
and Of Nationality,
WILL VOTE TO HOLD UP HIS HANDS.
The Gang in This County That HAS
Seen Chasing Around Lying About
tho Governor, will be Buried
With Van SAINT.

AT this writing there appears not
the slightest doubt that John Lind will
be reelected with majority that will
be fitting reward for the good work
ne has faithfully done during the past
two years. From every nook and cor
ner OF the state, from Winona to Kitt-
son and from Rock to Cook, advices
are such as lead us to believe that his
majority will be inc, eased everywhere.
Even the First district, which was
the only district in the state that was
carried by Eustis, will very likely
turn in majority for Lind. The big
corporations are against him, the
banks are against him, the daily press
IS against him, the old political ring
sters and their country echoes are
against him, and the discharged state
employees are against him, but the
great mass of farmers, laborers, and
business men whose interests he has
served so faithfully, without fear or
favor, will roll up vote for him that
has never been equal ed in the history
OF the state, unless it was the majority
OF Knute Nelson in his second run.
Unlike the Little Norwegian, however,
Lind will serve out his second term
and not use his large majority simply
to advance himself. Mark Hanna and
his local SUBJ bosses have poured out
money without stint; every old polit-
ical ringster whose services are for
sale, either. for cash or for the prom
ise of appointment, has been enlisted
to fight Lind by fair means or foul,
and spellbinders we'll paid for their
services swarm over the state doing
nefarious work in unjustly criticising
Lind's work. But the people of Min
nesota love fair play, and they will
vote to sustain the governor in his
great fight. All the unjust abuse and
downright lying that the opposition
are using will have just the opposite
effect from what they imagine. A re-
action has set in that not only will in
sure Lind IS reelection but that prom
ises to elect most of the state ticket.
The railroads and elevator kings arc
now eentering their fire on the railroad
and warehouse commissioners. hoping
to be able to cripple Governor Lind's
second administration by the election
of Miller and Mills, thus taking the
grain and railroad departments out
of his control, but people everywhere
are alive TO the necessity of electing
Ringdal, Knox and Owen, and there
can be but little doubt of their elec-
tion.
In this county the old courthouse
gang has been making a particularly
vicious fight on Lind. They were
obliged to do this in order to secure
the good will of the faction whose partic-
ular pet candidate Van SAINT is. But
by so doing the nominees on the gang
ticket have made the most serious po-
litical mistake of their lives, next to
their alliance with the blind-pig ele-
ment. Even people who do not en-
tirely agree with Lind in everything
will not consent to see him unjustly
accused of wrongdoing. They know he
has done what he honestly thought
was right and for the best interests of
the great state he is serving, and they
have a right to suspect the motives of
any politician who unjustly attacks
him. AS a rule the Lind republicans
in Kandiyohi county will be found
this year voting the peoples county
ticket straight. The same motive that
leads them to vote for Lind in the in
terests of good state government
will induce them to vote for the clean
set of candidates nominated directly
by the peoples organization OF Kan
diyohi county, as by SO doing they
will break tho backbone Of the whisky
ring Of v1iIlmar that tries to dominate
county as we'll as village politics.
One of the most interesting political
battles ever fought in Kandiyohi
county is on, and every good citizen
will line up and do his duty as he
sees it.