Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-29
should cut Tom Meiqhl,e,n1 n f.yor 81 4

should cut Tom MeiRhen ii favor 81
either Of the other two candidatesp
Absolutely none. There may be
times IL politics when some vital ques-
ton will depend upon the election 81
one or the other Of the candidates Of
the two leading parties, or when there
Is such 9 vast personal difference In |
the candidates that for the sake Of the |
credit Of the state third party man
may feel tempted to aid In. the selec-
tion of one of them. But there is no
such condition facing the people Of
Minnesota today. - T.. :. =. 49,
Van SAINTS only basis for asking the
support OF our people is that he had
his attorney-general and one OF Tom
Lowry's attorneys bring q suit before
the supreme court of the United States
and get it thrown out. Rosing says
he agrees With Van SAINT on that qpes.
ton, and It therefore ceases to be an
issue in the campaign between those
two. ,...---
Aside from that futile attempt to
earn the lasting gratitude of the 500
road by attacking the Jim Hill COM
bination, Van SAINTS record is not
one to enthuse the people very much.
His appointments were so VIGOROUSLY
bad that large number of the respect
able republican papers throughout
the state openly fought him until they
were silenced by the anti-merger clam
or. His vote for raising the valua-
ton OF farm property and against
raising the valuation of Tom Lowry's
street car company show that he
favors the corporations, and makes
credible the statement that his anti
merger talk was Influenced more by
the 500 road than desire to help the
people. His attempt to make capital
for himself out of the reduction OF
grain rates by the Hill roads fails
when it becomes known that the reduc-
tions made by the roads favor the
Dakota farmers more than those OF
Minnesota. When q populist remem-
bers that Tom Meighen as member
of the board Of equalization stood out
strongly for raising the valuation oil
the Lowry street railways it will be
pretty hard for him to vote for the
man who voted against the farmer
and in favor of Tom Lowry.
Now, what great and wonderful feats
has Rosing accomplished that the pop.
ulists should sacrifice their party and
its great leader Tom Meighen for him!
None. He stands before the people a.
a policy man, q man who is willing tc
truckle to corporations to secure The
means for running campaign ani
then poses before the people as thei1
champion. When we have said tina
he Is a smooth politician we have sale
all that is known of him as a publ.
man. he has shown this smoothnes!
ESPECIALLY in steady and persistep
effort to undermine the peoples part,
organization. He has addressed tn,
peoples party committeeman as if the,
were his committeeman. Last summe
he notified them to call the primarie
i and county conventions to elect dele
gates to the democratic state conven
ton. He has persistently spread tn
T false statement that Meighen wa
nominated merely to preserve tn
party organization and that it wa
not intended that Meighen should &c
t much of q vote. This underhande'
method of attacking our party deserve
: rebuke and every true member of tn
peoples party will help administer
by voting for Meighen.
Posing as the champion of the PEG
pie, he is supported by the creates
: monopolist of the Northwest, J.
Hill. He is very fluent in talking O
regulating corporations, but thos
who know Hill, know that he woul,
not support q man who talks that va.
unless he was sure that the talk wa
intended only to catch suckers.
ROsing has the support of Jim Hill
Van SAINT has the support OF Ton
Lowry. Meighen has or ought t,
have the support of the people.
: Why should populists ruin thei
own party to run errands for Jim Hill
or Tom Lowry?
If you believe in the principles O
the peoples party vote for Tom Meig
T hen. If such champion of popula,
rights, q man whose every public &C
shows his rugged honesty and devo
ton to principles, a man who ha.
made so many sacrifices for the party
is sacrificed to promote slick poll
tician or a political mountebank, the1
it will be absolutely impossible in tn.
future to get decent man to accep
the nomination on our ticket. TIL,
enemies of our party know this, ant
therefore they are making a specia
effort to draw votes from him. Don
let them fool you into such an act
Meighen deserves your vote and b,
ought to have it.-Minnesota Forum.
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