Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-01-22
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY %, 1902
WHO is IMPERIINENT7

of honest and rep ltable government in
this commonwealth. X n n This is
urquestior ably the desire OF the demo-
Gratis of Minnesota and is also I'M
doub tedly the wish of the members of
The Populist party who aided so great
ly in winning the victory of 1898
But the obstacle-the serious obstacle
in the way OF uniting under one BAN
Ger ali the elements of re'orm is the
test Of Organism which the populists
aud silver democrats will probably
try to saddle on the candidate. Indeed
this is tie attitude of thu state central
c ommittee Of the peoples party and of
the various organs of the state. But
as an essential is not this a little too
strongly accentuatea? If the contest
that we are going to have in this state
next fail shou'd involve the question
of free silver or have any relation to
the populistic issues with which Mr.
Bry an is identif,d it would be entirely
fitting, if not Indispensable, that TIT
nominee for governor should be an
ardent supporter of Mr.. Bryan and
MS faith. But the approaching state
contest is not going to hinge on issues
of that kind. The democrats will be
called upon to unite for the deliver
ance of the state from the control Of
-poiismen with whom publ, plunder
is the chief object Of political power
aud who base their sole source Of ap-
peal to the people upon the spa ctacu
lar stand taken in regard to the for
nation of the Northern Securities Com
pany. The honor and vel are of the
commonN ealth will be the main issue
involved, and with 80 plain and I'm
complicated proposition, requiring
she Performance IF but a single duty,
direct and III mistak able in it's charac-
ter, it may he believed that any at
empt 10 make Bryauism a test in the
guot rnatorial nomination would be
reg arGed by the democrats as inca led
Tor, if not an impertinelt Intrusion of
anil relevant questiOn.-MOrris Times
So that is the tune the bourbons are
humming now. And when they get
tune d up properly they expect us to
join in the chorus. Well, it does not
go with US. Before We are willing to
drop Organism as a test for fusion
candid att sit will become necessary to
convince us that Organism is wrong
The fact that Bry an has been twice de-
feated does not many way determine
the truth or falsity of the princip' es
he represented.
The Times tries to make people
think that national, ISIS ues should have
no we ght in a state campaign Under
ordinary coalitions this may be true.
II for instance, one party should nomi-
nate a.man who is VIGOROUSLY unfit
for Office it would be The duty of the
honest people in his party to vote
against him. Such, step would not
be treason toaparty or principle, for
it would help the party that thereby
suffered defeat, by making its leader 8
more careful in the future. But under
the present circumstances it will not
do for the honest democrat that be-
lieves in the Bryan platform to drop
national issues in the state campaign
Everyone who knows anything about
politics knows that a life ard death
struggle is going on inside the demo-
cratic party between the believers in
the last rational platform and the
trimmers who are ready to be "any-
thing to get the coon.' If the word
should go out 10 the other states that
Minnesota had nominated a gold
democrat, would rot that be taken as
victory for the trimmers, even if the
platform ignored the national issue
entirely? And if the populists should
join with them and help them elect
their mar, would not that give the
death stroke to Organism in this state
and weaken it in the nation? !
No,'the populi=ts are not so anxious
to merely see the re publicans beaten
that they will sacrifice their principles
FIR it. A victory won without guild
ing principle is worthless, and the
men who 60 into such fight place
themse Ives in the same category that
the Times puts tie present state ad-
Observation-Disclosures with whom
public plumber is the ch EFF object OF
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known as Organism. And now we are
told that our help is wanted, but that
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