The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-11
GOV. LisD's ADDRESS.
VIII Not Again Be Candidate for
Governor Unless

UONSThoT tHfes3 -.
Gov Lind said: Friends:
Inc hour Is so late that even If l were
prepared to speak to you at length ]
would hardly be Justified I'M occupying
your time. l assure you that no one is
more gratified than / am to see such a
pray that the good work may go on
feel that while we had most pleasant
time time. here year ago, this occasion has
oeen even more gratifying. The first re-
hall and sitting down at the table was
a suggestion that the next president may
be seated here, (Applause) A year ago,
and prior to that. it was every day we
were anarchists. bu. now We are aunties.
Laughter) / don't know whether il is
that the Republican party has receded
grace. Naughter.) Now / say to you
frankly that resented the term an
arehist. and I think OH the whole the
last year has demonstrated there have
been worse anarchists than we are; |
don't resent the term aunty In the way
1T Is put. (Applause.) ! want 1t to be
unc erstood now and all the time and
everywhere that l am not only an anti
imrerlalist, but am an anti-Republican.
Iong and continued cheering) Now, /
say, 1 want to say to my friend Bryan
right here, that shall not thank him or
any one else who ever again designates
me as Silver Republican loud ap-
plause.) Nor that l have said or feel that
l am Populist, nor that | have said
T.,
casions of this kind I am content to be
good true, 10: al, American citizen
believe that there was time in the
history Of our country when it was more
essential even to forget party lines. and
don't think there ever was a time when
the principles of our institutions rested,
when the very essence of popular govern
,nent was more important and nearer
being at stake that at the present mo-
ment. Now l am not given to foreboding
or calamity bowling, neither do ] for a
eTlt Iao1t LII
pubic is in actual danger. 1t can rot be-
1t is not possible that this magnificent ex-
ample of century, the hope of creation
is to crumble away in the sight of in
tellisent men and women. 1t Is time
when it behooves us all to forget those
things 1t comes to pass when 1t is
our our, duty to forget persons. TO forget in
dividuaLs Think of our country and
think Of our duty as citizens, and perform
our duty as we. see it.
Now was going to discuss few gues-
but they have. been uncovered in such
eloquent Language by the two greatest
spec kers in the land that it would be a
waste Of. time, for any one else to as
they had dwelt upon. Now to show
you that the statements that I have
made with regard to- the .onlnous condi-
ton of affairs that confronts US are
true, let me read few quotations
from the Republican organ of this state
] reod from an editorial that appeared in
the st: Paul Dispatch of Jan. 5. Gaugh-
ter) You NAV laugh, but nevertheless
the St Paul Dispatch today is the organ
of the Republicans in the state of Mime
sofa. This editorial is headed Consent Of
The Governed"
Gnv Lind read:
"It IS all very well. and has pleasing
snurd, to talk OF government only by
the consent of the governed but IT ie
a delusion when reduced to the rule of
common practice. and q condition which
has never been experienced in this or any
other country 1t is exactly as when wa
say that every man has the right to
speak and act as he pleases We say
that and we believe it, but we know thai
freedom of speech and action has its