The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-02-26
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Ansnt the Governor,hi Of Min.
sI355. nesota.
Wosdstock, Mimi. Feb. IL. a 9O4. ~
Wilr.you kindly allow space in your
valuable columns to a humble citi-
zsnFwho has been watching the pol,
itical sky and especially the guber-
Material ho1izon with deep interest,
to express few thoughts on the!
question in which quite number
of news papers throughout the state
seem to be very much interested,
viz. The gubernatorlal situation.
From reading the twin city dailies
one would suppose that the people
in general had nothing to say in the
matter. However that may be it is
erroneous. The voters who support
ed the present incumbent with their
fifty thousand majority two years
ago for the manly stand he had tax
en- against the powerful railroad
monopoly are going to have some
thing to say as to who shall be the
next governor and however much
the merger papers may advocate
the merger candidate, Mr.. Dunn,
the name OF the next Republican
nominee for governor will not be
his name. It must be conceded, it
must be acknowledged, it cannot
be successfully contradicted, that R.
c. Dunn represents the merger in:
terests in his candidacy for COVER
nor. Now are the farmers going to
nominate man for governor of
Minnesota who is backed by the
great corporate interests Of the
,state9 Mr.. Dunn has evidently.
chosen the wrong company. He
will be side tracked or derailed long
before his train reaches the goal to
which he apsires.
When this country was in the
throes OF war when it was sought
to b destroyed:b by it's enemies,when
the rattle of musketry was heard in
the land; when the cannons were
booming on the field Of battle and
men were lying wounded and bleed
ing on the battle fields, starving and
being tortured to death in prison
pens and the martyred Lincoln call
ed for more men, men rushed to
the front in answer to their count
ry d call, and among the multitude
who offered to bare their breasts to
the rebel steel leaving homes, fam.
lies, friends and thsir al TO- l, hattie
and die, if need be, that their c0un-
try might've, was one Loren ".
Collins, now known as Judge Coll
ms Of the supreme court Of the state
of Minnesota He enlisted as pri-
.vate soldier and came out of the SER
vice AZ captain having been regular
~ promoted for his great gallantry
on the field Of battle. As judge Of
the supreme court he'has gained the
admiration of his associates and ev-
cry one who knows him. He is an
honest and upright jurist and thor
oughly con versant with every detail
of the ship:of state. He is the man
whom the Republican voters of this
state are going to place in nomina-
tion and elect governor of Minneso-
ia. He will till the gubernatorial
chair with honor and dignity. His
great knowledge of the laws Of the
land and his executive ability place
him in the front rank of our fore
most statesmen. The thousands of
Union veterans within the borders
of the state will rally in solid pha-
lanx to his support, and these old
veteransshave not been idle since
the war. Most of them have sons
and daughters. The sons are veters
and the daughters have husbands
who are voters and are Republicans
almost to Il man and will rally
around the Collins banner. F.
One paper in the state while adj
vocating the nomination Of Dunn,
md rldiculing one Of itseontempor-
aries for supporting Collins so de-
graded itself in the scale Of deprav-
ity as to state that this paper was