Willmar tribune., 1900-09-12

out their full vote. But they fear the
result because Of over.con6dence., There
Is, they say, general apathy in their
ranks. Several of the leaders have
sounded anote Of warning against over
confidence. Of course, this simply
means that Republicans are troubled
with apathy, not because they are con-
fdent Of McKinley's election, but be-
cause they don't care whether he is
elected or not.
Lyman Gage, secretary of the treas.
ury, says that if Bryan should become
president ''he could order his secretary
OF the treasury to make payable in sill.
yer all the public debt payable in coin
and all current disbursements as we'll -
1t this were true it would prove tho
loose.jointedness of the Republican Leg
islation for the firm establishment Of
the gold standard.
Nothing, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, affords more convincing proof of
the plutocratic tendencies of the Re-
public party than the frank confidence
with which Chairman Hanna goes from
city to city making his levies for cam
paign funds upon rich men and office
holders who have obtained wealth and
preferment through partisan favoritism.
He told the Philadelphia magnates who
on Saturday last were gathered to see
him that Philadelphia would be drawn
upon for 100000. This is an immense
sum. If the size Of the draft be any
criterion of the real exigencies Of the
Mckinley campaign it is an evidence
Of desperation.
Edward Scofield, governor Of Wiscon-
sin, is Republican who refuses to take
his views ready.made from the head
quarters of his party. At the banquet
of the Iron Brigade in Chicago some
days ago the governor made a speech
and raised his voice in warning against
the growing spirit of miitarism. He
used this languages:
"The most highly trained army, all
the authorities to the contrary not.
withstanding, can never subdue wholly
an army of intelligent men fgh ting for
their homes. This fact becomes more
true every year and our nation will do
well to head it. We have had taste
of war recently, which unquestionably
has awakened a military spirit, and
what we have now to guard ourselves
against is too great and dangerous
growth Of this spirit. We prefer peace
and we are nation whose glory Is that
when it does engage in war it is not for
conquest, but for righteousness sake"
He declared that ''our path to glory
in an honorable future does not lie
through bloody seas
The poem entitled "America and
Liberty" by Professor Wilhelm PETER
son Of Minneapolis, is becoming fa-
nous. 1t contains these spirited and
patriotic lines, which will appeal to
every believer in the true American
doctrine of human rights:
Who said Haul down our flag?" No man
Whose warm blood is American
Thou Freedoms noblest symbol, rise
In growing splendor to the skies;
And be, where'er thou art unfurled,
The flag of hope to all the world"
But. mark ye we'll, our flag must wave
Ger loosened chains, to free. to save.
And if they say it waves it's folds
Ger ships with slavery in their holds;
And if they say it waves DER lands
Where men In arms as cOnQuerer stands,
IT'S but false, pretentious rag,
IT'S not OUR flag, It's NOT our flag.
OUR flag must wave, where'er it be,
For Justice, Right and Liberty.
The Goodhue County News pays this
deserved tribute to Governor Lind:
"There is not a department. of the
states activity where his influence is
not felt, invariably in the peoples in
terest. The secretary of state neglected
his duty; Governor Lind called his at
tention to the lapse by citing facts
without comment. Other governors
never troubled themselves with the
states affairs in the attorney generals
Office. Governor Lind, without Off.
ciousness, has had more consultations
with the attorney general than all his
predecessors. Other governors have
named railroad commissioners and let
it 20 at that. Governor Lind knows
what the railroad commission is do.
ing and has made not few suggestions
upon which some of their most impor.
tant initiatives were based. In the
coal rate case, the Southern Minnesota
grain rates, the Northern Minnesota
joint rate case, he has been informed
Of every step.
''Other governors have appointed
their boards and then gone off and left
them. Governor Lind never fails, if he
can help it, to attend the meetings of
the prison board, the charities and cor
rections, and so on. There is not an
institution with whose workings he is
not familiar. There is not a problem
he has not studied. There is not an
interest of che state upon which he is
not informed. There ie not an interest
Of tho people for which he is not zeal.
ously concerned.
Nobody knows how much he has
done for the state, how useful his
labors have been. He is governor every
minute and to every purpose"
The Des Moines Weekly Globe. Re.
publican paper, believes in imperialism
and makes no secret of it. The paper
speaks right out in favor of q change in
our form Of government. 1t develops
it's views in this wise:
For q long time thinking people who
have large commercial interests have
felt unsafe with our present form of
government from the fact that we are
controlled by the little cheap John pol.
iticians and ward heelers. Now is q