New Ulm review., 1900-10-31

At recent meeting at Minneapolis,
Governor Lind took Auditor Dunn in
hand, and by the records completely
proved the falsity Of his statements. The
governor said, in part:
Mr.. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen,
g., Citizens Of Hennepin County,
l was somewhat astonished when I
woke up this morning, or, rather, when
| went down to breakfast, to find in the
morning papers that my friend, Capt.
Van SAINT, had lost the good temper for
which he is known. He accused me, in
speech that he made at some point in
the northern part of the state, of being
plagi iarlst, Of being guilty Of theft, of
having stolen lot Of Republican
thunder, OF having appropriated Repub-
llcan ideas. 1aughter.) Well, now,
he ought to be the last man in the state
to complain of me if I have appro-
priated Republican ideas. | am not
egotistical enough to think that what
have said and have advocated has not
been thought of, acted upon and said by
Others
I do not stand here tonight, nor will
l go before any audience in this state
or elsewhere and claim that the rank
and file Of the Republican party are not
as anxious for good government as we
are, or as | am We are all the same
clay. We are all members of the same
commonwealth We all have the well
fare Of the state at heart. | want to
see good government and good admin
apportioned to all. So do our Repub-
,rrl,h I~
cratic neighbors. So do Our Populist
and Silver Republican neighbors. There
is no difference in that respect.
Now, | say | was little astonished
this morning that the good natured
captain came out and called me these
names. If it had been anybody else
l should have got mad, seriously mad
But, to tell you the candid truth.
don't think he was responsible for it
| don't believe that he wrote the speech
that was credited to him. Laughter.)
Now, | will tell you why. Thursday
preceding the meeting at the Exposi-
ton, | went up to the northern part
OF the state to meet the next president
Of the United States (Applause), and as
| was going tip | bought Minneapolis
Tribune. Glancjng over the news,
saw this announcement: Capt. Van
SAINT has not spoken on state issues,
and he does not intend to- | think it
said: He does not intend to- but
am not certain about that 1t did state
that he had not spoken on state issues
and it said no one should pay any at
tentlOn to that. 1t is not his fault
He is simply obeying the command of
the state committee.
VAN CAN'T 11nrDrD ~oArrDor
1t is amusing to see a citizen travel
ing around the state as a candidate for
the high office OF governor should have
SO little control of his own time and his
own convictions and his own plans that
he was bound to follow out the dictates
Of any committee. | do not propose
to have any committee or any individu-
al, or any citizen of this state, not even
the chairman of this meeting, dictate
to me what | shall do or what l shall
say. (Applause) l say. that rather
led me to think that this was forced
upon him, because I never discovered
any guile in Capt Van SAINTS heart.
(Laughter( He is not man who
would go out and abuse fellow citizen
without strong provocation, and | do
not think that he has had the provoca-
ton in this instance
He says: 1T was a Republican leg
islature that provided for the taxation
of the earnings Of the railroad COM
panes." Well, OF course it was. That
is the only kind that we have had in
this state ior thirty years. and every
body knows that railroads pay some
taxes. He says: "They passed the So
called Anderson law, that provides for
the taxation of unused railroad lands"
Now. we know that a Republican legis-
laturc passed the Anderson law, but |
am very sure that if the captain had
noticed this part of his speech before
he came to read it on the platform he
would not have called attention to this
fact, because it appears that while
member of the house, when the Ander-
son law was passed. he lodged the vote
on that same Anderson bill. (Laugh-
ter)
Then again, he says, "They have
passed law for the taxation of the
property of foreign corporations. I"
Well. that is just exactly what they
have not done. There is not law on
the statute books of this state which
enables the taxing power of the state
to claim one cent of taxes from the
s o1eAAo''b u VA ooAipeaHy, VI lIC sugar
!. trust, or any other foreign corporation
doing business in this state. 1t is to
remedy in part this fault, this injustice
/, to our people. that I made the recon-
&mendation that did to the legislature
n at its last session.
SAVING PUBLIC LANDS.
Now, there is another matter equally
important, that means as much to the
state as the matter of taxation, only in
/ a different way, that commands the at
/ tention Of the executive 1t is the pres
ervation and saving of our public land
/ I was reported in the papers as saying,
d in a speech l made at Crookston not
d long ago, that our present state auditor
had been guilty Of derelietion of duty in
that regard. I was enormously quoted
I said that former state auditors had
Z squandcred public lands, had lost to the
+ state millions OF acres; had prevented
our state school fund from attaining the