Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-09-06

BEFORE HE HAD UTTERED A DOz-
EN- SENTENCES, THE CRISIS-FARNI
LEADER WAS CARRYING HIS AU-
DIENCE @SrEPTBY STEP. /
our adaptive state, political trickery
in high places, backed by the puissant
might of alien corporations, :. has
ground us into the dust.
But now the time of our deliver
ance is at hand. Great movements
give birth to great leaders; and in
this, our. holy crusade against oppres-
sion and tyranny, the crises has: bred
the man. Ladies and gentlemen, I
have the pleasure of presenting to you
the speaker of the evening: our friend
and fellow citizen the Honorable Jas
per G. Bucks, by the grace of God, and
your suffrages, the next governor of
the state" -" - SO
In the storm OF applause that burst
upon the dramatic peroration of the
ex-district attorney, a man rose from
the center of the stage semicircle and
numbered heavily forward to the foot
lights. Loring's first emotion was of
surprise, tempered with pity. The
crisis-born leader; heralded by such a
flourish of rhetorical trumpets, was a
giant in size; but with his huge figure,
unshapely and ill-clad, all promise of
greatness seemed to pause. ~
His face, broad-featured, colorless.
and beardless as boys was either a
blank or an impenetrable mask. There
was no confinement in the lack luster
gaze Of the small, porcine eyes; no elo-
quence In the harsh, nasal tones of the
unframed voice.: or in the ponderous
and awkward: wavings of the beam
like arms. None the less, before he
had uttered dozen hating sentences
he was carrying the audience with him
step by step; moving the great con-
course of listeners with his common
place periods as; a mellifluous Hawk
could never hope to move it. 49,
Explain it as he might, Loring soon
assured himself that the Honorable
Jasper G. Bucks was laying hold of the
sentiment of the audience as though
it were a thing tangible to be grasped
by the huge hands. q Unlike Hawk,
whose. speech famed easily into denun-
citation when it touched on the alien
corporations, he counseled moderation
and lawful reprisals. Land syndicates
railroads, foreign capital in whatever
employment, were prime necessities
in any new and growing common
wealth. The. province. of the people
was not to wreck the ship, but to guide
it.. And the remedy for all ills lay
In controlling legislation, faithfully
and rigidly enforced. zs..s,: nj =.,*..
Il. my friends: I'm only plain. hard.
handed farmer, as those of you who are
my fellow tOWnsmen. can testify. But
I've seen what you've seen, and I've
suffered what you've suffered. Year
after year we send our representatives
to the legislature, and what comes Of
It Why, these corporations, looking
only to their own interests, as they're
in duty bound to do, buys 'cm they
can. You can't blame 'em for that;
it's business their business. q; But it is
our business, as citizens Of this great
commonwealth, to prevent IT. We have
good laws on our statute books, bu,
we need more of ''em: laws. for con.
Etrol, with plain, honest men at the
capital, in the judiciary, in every ROOT
and branch Of the executive, to en-.
force 'em. With such laws, and such
men to see that they are executed
there would mt be any more extortion
any more raising Of the rates OF trans.
portation on the produce Of our ranches
and farms merely because the eastern
market for that particular product
happened to jump q few cents on thu
dollar. 95sSs
No; my friends; plain; hard handei
farmer though Ibe, II can see what.wil
followsan honest election Of the people
By the people, and for: the peopls. The
state can belt ought to be sovereign
within Ito own boundaries. ne We ris,
Snp as one man next Tuesday and.p1lt /
] ticket into the ballot box that says II,