Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-09-25

1RE l:ll ElENS his 1896 PLEDGE 1 o I !:

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n snd Democr tic Hy pocrisS,i, III
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sDr. Christian j johnson ~ M llrsiaAf.
n Who was one 81 the brainiest and most
y enthusiasts supporters ~ Bryan in tne
u Seventh district four years: g. SO, has
" seen the errorsof his ways and returned
" To his first love, the Repu bltcan party.
" E1s$ had aboutSsix years experience 60
M : B Populist. and while he considers
" these years wasted. IN . political sense.
n III values the experiences AZ an eye,
h epsner. N He learned to his satisfaction
N that Bryanism IL hollow delusion;
j that Lind u designing politician. who
4 obtained HIS election hy false pre-,
tences; that RosinK turns the machine
which grinds Democrats and Populistss
\ into Democratic sausage, and that
q Ringdaht and Bowler are 50 per cent
Democrats but wear the 9aTb OF Popu-
y lism in order to round up the Populist
herd and drive them into RoslnE's fold.
rs DR. johnson has practiced medicine
In Kandiyohi and adjoining counties
ri some sixteen years. and thus has an
\; extensive acquaintance with people ana
\ conditions in that vicinity. In 1894 the
silver idea, as advocated by Bryan.
! was waited through the air in the form
q OF disease germs, and many Of them
found Judgement in Kandiyohi county.
DR.. Johnson and a few others thought
/ they saw relief from the panicky con-.
ditions OF that time in the measures
championed by Bryan, and they found
ed the Peoples party OF tkandtyohf
The doctor is an aggressive, courage
Gus, fiery fellow. and his first step was
! to start q Populist paper, the Tribune.
All. who read that paper during his
supervision will never forget the sui
I try effusions of its intrepid author.
/, The doctor-editor was nominated for
the legislature and he advocated the
election Of Bryan. Lind and himself
in a way that was both original and
effective. he being defeated by only
twenty-nine votes by Henry Feig. He
accepted defeat. phiiosophically. and
with characteristic candor and hon
esty promised himself that II McKin-
ley's administration brought the pros
perity that his followers had predicted
he would acknowledge that Bryanism
was a nightmare and would join; the
ranks of McKinley's supporters. That
promise to himself Wlas redeemed 80
far as the president was concerned.
He remained an active Populist. how
ever, and IN 1893 not only supported
Lind with all the enthusiasm of his
nature, but came within q few votes
Of being nominated for congress by the
Populists, and then made another un-
successful race for the legislature. !,
His present position and his reasons
! for assuming 1t are given IN his own
!. words. His logic Is commended to-
every Populist: Ri 4, :
4: .tY Yes, sir. y guess I am q Republican
this year, and am apt to be for some;
\ time to come: II was orr 1nally# q Re
publican and worked and voted for
Harrison In 1892. But unfortunately
Cleveland was elected president. and
with him came the panic that struck US
oil arnidshtps soon after his inauEura-
tion.' @sA t&*s3' u =, >5' p H. n n, !.
AT FIRST the ordinary people were
\ daxed and d,lrnhfounded blythe nanic.
but by and by we found out that we
were beggared, that lands, houses and
goods, beyond what was needed for
Immediate personal use, were utterly
worthless. or worse, a burden OF taxes
and expense. The we'll -to-do were
bankrupt and the poor trampled and
starved. The promised relief from the
repeal Of the Sherman law did not ma
terialize, and a good many Of US CON
Guided that both political parties had
either lost their reason or had con-:
spired to destroy civilization on, this
continent ays : - &ts@ $syE@s5s. s@4
~ with this condition or public senti-
ment Populism hove into view and
opened the only plausible avenue Of re-
lief. Thousands and thousands Of the
\ common, people Joined Its ranks, and !
with them. Not that and others sub
scribed to the, ultra radical tenets OF
the party, but we believed that the
movement furnished the nucleus OF a
new political party that would in time
be able to satisfactorily i solve the
4 mighty social questions that then con
y fronted the nation. " And $let me- say
!: right here that If the Peoples party
4 had had leaders made Of the right stuff
1, statesmen instead Of officeseekers at
the heln--it would to-day have been
the second party IN the nation and still
4 have had d mission TO perform ,+A
y !, low am no milk -and-water sort of
a }n1an.6SIf the new part y would succeed
work must be done, and Z was IN it for
\ all 7 was worth. 3&5 4 # NJ s& i 6
4: I'm Kandivohi' county we fought the
&5canlpaign Of 1894 at a swinging gait
I We had no, newspaper, but + led, and
political friends stood by me. and the.
'Willnaar Tribune WAS established. It
was a. ivirile: spirited loopulist paper,
4 and was a Success FROM the start. l4%
n ne campaign of 1896, with Bryan at
4 the head:o the ticket, came on and |
Fought with all the, pow at my e COM
!. 1nar1dy 4 The issue in $50 was the res
81 toration Of prosperity. At that time
Il our financial condition. individually and
4 as nation, was a y out Of order Our
Il financial structure, SO & to speak, was
4 dilapiaated, the wind Ws out, the shin-,
II giles Off, and we we're At the mercy OF,
every sqnall Or I'm III wind let loose
S from the gaTlbl Il 81 s,sie,T centers Of
II the world. r sto remea les were pro-,
posed N Nj $ "a 81 N
4 rst Tear wi the old ,dilapidated
q money system. root and bra neh, and
establish an entirely new structure or
88 q new #plan--tha free coinage OF both
S money metals at s. rat ito of &is to- 4