The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-10-03


pose indicated and he purposely and
studiously evaded them. then got tho
impression. az did many leading Pop
ulists, that John Lind and the fusion
leaders regarded US AZ q lot Of green
horns who could be handled like 50
many cattle, simply by bell-gingling.
yelling and whip-cracking. and the
whole fusion program has since abund-
antly confirmed this view. Yet our re-
gard for honest joan Lind was such
and when he came out a. the Political
Orphan q phrase selected by himself
as the proper term to define hts political
affiliations. we determined to give him
our support and went out and solicited
votes for him among the Republicans
on the orphan basis. say 1t DELHI
e.ately, for know what am talking
about, that thousands OF Populists and
Republicans voted for him for gov
ernor in 1893 In the belief that he was
strictly an Independent and non-parti-
san candidate. And / believe that this
vote elected him.
Now. according to my notion Of con-
sistency and political ethics. John Lind
should have remained a political or
pllan' during his term OF ONCE, other
wise he lays himself open to the charge
Of having obtained his election by false
pretences.
could not John Lind have found
some other suitable person to serve as
his private secretary and political man.
ager than the state chairman OF the
Democratic party? Was It necessary
to choose a man who had made himself
especially obnoxious by offensive parti-
sanship in his dealings with Populists?
Was there no alternative but to choose
q man whose conspicuous ambition 1t
had been for four years past to cripple
and destroy the Peoples party that his
own might profit thereby? This man
Rosing has now so nearly succeeded.
by the aid OF Gov. Lind. In annihilating
the Peoples party that the remnant OF
the latter Is only the tail end OF the
donkey. and thus but laughing stock
or joke.
Nov, this Lind Towne, end justify-
ing-the-means program may he good
Democratic politics. for all know. but
to my notion Of political methods. ac-
quired In the Republican and the
Peoples parties, 1t Ia disreputable. II
real and valuable reform In govern
mental affairs can come into existence
by this road then all the political his
tory Of the past u a lie.
Am sore at John Lind because he
has been the chief agent in wiping out
the Peoples party? Well, yes; haven't
! good cause to be? Suppose the Peo-
pies party had succeeded In under
mining the Democratic party In this
state by similar methods. don't you
think Rosing and the O'Briens would
have been saying about 10 just what !
am now saying about them? Don't you
think they would have been employing
all their pondsrous ingenuity to get
even with usf
''But We Pops are simply voting cat
tie! We must kiss the hand that
smites NJ! Yes. let those who ara con-
tent to live on crumbs from their vic
tors tables take them and b happy.
am not hunt that way. stand on my
dignity IN politics ~ IN other matters.
I will never degrade myself By voting
Tor q man who bar taken IN undue I'D
vantage Of my generosity. have only
one vote. hut John Lind cannot have
4 this year. WIN not vote 20 perpst-
uats = Rosing political machine n
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