Willmar tribune., 1900-08-15

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the reasons for more than reaf6rmation
OF the Chicago platform.
''And never pull down the flag,'''
shouts Van SAINT. Well, what would
You do in China? Garry it to the heart
of the Celestial empire. and create ar
mics to keep it there, or simply let, it
flap, here and there, as over such roost.
ers as John Goodnow?
Hanna denies that he jumped on
Roosevelt about his speeches. Alice
samee Rosey is laid of until Septem.
ber, until presumably he can revise and
prune.
And speaking Of Consul General
Goodnow, someone asked the other day
if there was really any danger of "Gen.
eral" Goodnow being killed. and a
former Republican associate of John q
cruelty replied, "Oh, no danger. You
know the Chinese don't kill anybody
but Christians" Now, wasn't that
tough?
Speaking of the Roosevelt speech, we
judge that the high jink of the Repub.
ican press bureau made bad mess in
sending it out to the state press. Least.
wise we have reports from several Of
the Democratic papers that they re-
ceived the supplements, which con.
tanned both the Roosevelt speech and
the manuscript that Senator Nelson
read to the istless leaguers. Our boys
had no use for them unless for wrap
ping paper.
Washington Reader: No, when your
papers speak Of the Powers, they do not
mean the Minnesotan in the Merriam
census bureau, the dirty work man.
They refer to the governments, includ.
ing McKinley's, whom the heathsn
Chinee has been making asses of for
several long and painful weeks. The
Minnesota man is himself a sort IT
Chinaman, known for his political
ways that are dark, and tricks that are
vain"
"D--n the Dutch, " shocted an nli-
nois Republican in the state convention,
when Boer resolutions were introduced.
"Down with Catholic anti-imper. .alists
and Protestant lovers of the Flipinos, I"
says Paul Van Dervoort. one of the ~.
cent Hanna "converts. - After all our
own William Henry Eustis set the ex-
ample for them all, when he spoke of
Swedes and Norwegians as mere ''vot-
ing CATTLE" The latter remembered
our Minnesota q. o. P. 'leader." I"
What will tho other do?
Speaking of Van Dervoort, who ap.
pears as rival to Roosevelt for the
place of "Burchard" in this campaign,
he is the same Van Dervoort who once,
when commander-in-c chief of the G. A.
R., was kicked out of the government
service for cause. He then became a
mid-Populist, and thoroughly discred-
tied there, has at last joined Hanna
Good enough.
Speaking of Consul General Good
now, that functionary is pictured" by
the Philadelphia Record, as round,
sleek, heavy-set man, with heavy,
dropping moustache, who is saown to
be writing away for dear life, under
gas light, doing that important "diplo-
matte intercourse" that the admins.
tration is giving him so much praise
for. A call bell is at hand for sum.
moning the menials, and there is big
ink stand, presumably loaded to the
brim with black, very black ink. selah!
Speaking of Roosevelt, the shiver he
has caused may upset the plan Of using
rough rider emblems in the campaign.
Still the speckled bandanna handker-
chief is doing duty as hatband for the
goppites. as an Offset to which the
Democrats will probably don the red,
white and blue. Minnesota introduced
such hatbands at Kansas City, and
they were approved. Put on the colors.
Roosevelt on Democrats-au Demo-
crats-''Dishonest at home and towards
abroad"
The race for the Burchardship in this
is close one between Roose.
velt and one Paul Van Dervoort of Ne.
braska. To date both are neck and neck
in violent abuse of Democrats, Van Der.
voort having recently professed to have
been a Democrat, but Roosevelt is the
more respectable virago. Van Dervoort
is thoroughly despised by those who
know him best, and especially by veter-
ans of the Civil war who knew him as
commander.in-chief of the G. A. r.
A noticeable feature of the ''changes''
that the Republicans have professed to
find in the Mckinley favor, have been
of the same unsavory character as the
Van Dervoort case, fitting companions
for the Neelys, the Rathbones and
Carriers, and the canned beefers, and the
horde Of department robbers that in.
fest the administration.
Already there is demand that Van
SAINT say less of national and more Of
state issues. And there is no lack.
There is Inspector Clausen, and there
is Commissioner Mills, and there is
railroad taxation. Up and at 'em, Van.
80 '.#' - s.
Sept. 6 is the date set for making
the winning reform ticket for 1900 by
the fusion forces. Remember both the
date aud prediction. ~
. Let's see. Governor Lind was first
elected in 1895, and counted out by the
Bixby machine. He was again elected
in 1898, and is closing his term as the
best governor the state has ever had.
In November he will receive his third
election and round out a record of state
service Of which all may well be proud.