The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-10-13
GOVERNOR JOHN LIND.

GOVERNOR JOHN LIND.
On the first three evenings of this
week Governor John Lind, the peo-
pies candidate for reelection, received
an ovation in every part of this city
and was listened to with rapt atten-
ton by appreciative audiences. He
took occasion to reply to the speech
of State Auditor Dunn Mt Milaca and
also to the address delivered by Capt.
Van SAINT in the northern part of the
state. Referring to the utterances of
the Winona navigator, Governor Lind
said he was astonished that the good
natured captain had spoken as he did.
"If it had been anybody else," said he,
II should have got mad, seriously mad.
But, to tell the candid truth, don't
think he was responsible for it. l
don't believe that he wrote the speech
that was credited to him." He said 1t
would afford him great pleasure to
meet the captain on every platform
they could both reach in the state
between now and election day to dis
cuss the issues of the campaign be-
fore the people.
In the speech written for him by
his political manager Van SAINT tried
to deprive the governor of all credit
on the ground that it was the Republi.
cans passed all the good laws of the
state. "Of course, it was" said Mr..
Lind, "what other party was there to
pass them?" The Republicans have
been in possession of the state govern
ment for forty years.
He then took up the captains speech
and pointed out the inaccuracies of his
statements. The captain, for instance,
had said that the Republicans passed
laws taxing inheritances and foreign
corporations. Mr.. Lind reminded him
that the Inheritance law was pro-
nounced unconstitutional by the s,l.
preme court on the 4th of last Febru,
airy, and as for taxing foreign corpora
lions, the legislature would not do it
on his recommendation.
The governor next advcried to tho
speech of Auditor Dunn. whom he
credited with doing n great deal OF
good work, but whom he reprimanded
for saying that the public school lands
of this state had been honestly admin
istered in the past. He took up Dunn's
own official report on the question and
showed that Republican officials of the
state deliberately, wilfully and know
ingly took S12,0OO,O0O from the school
fund and turned it over to John Rock
efeller by the REIMBURSEMENT of the
land to the Mountain Iron Mines in
the northern part of the state, in spite
of the fact that the commissioner of
the general land office advised the then
state auditor, w. w. Braden, not to re-
ltnquish any of the lands. He then
read the record of the joint committee
of the house and senate which investi-
gated the matter and ended by saying:
"These Republicans and Populists
signed this report charg-
ing the state officials of this state
with having deliberately robbed the
school fund of this state of twelve
million dollars. And still my friend
Dunn said that it was because of the
good management by the Republican
party OF the school fund of this state
that it had attained it's present dimen-
sions. How does that correspond with
the fact? Is there any state that has a
bDaclier page in it's history than this:
Think of it!'
Governor Lind undoubtedly made Il
deep impression in replying to Van
SAINT and Dunn. Though he spoke to
a late hour he held the audience spell
bound to the end and was then rap
turously applauded.
In another of his speeches delivered
in this city the governor explained the
operation of the grain department and
the prison Irvine plant and showed
that during his administration the!
We're run more economically ind eff
ficiently than in the past. He ex
planned that the tax on property II
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Duluth ha6
been reduced ten per cent by the state
equalization board which he now con
trolls, and how the licences paid by
foreign corporations doing business II
Minnesota had brought into the state
treasury the sum of $4,000. And ye1
he declared he was no foe of corpora
tons, but wanted them to pay what Il