The Sauk Centre herald., 1906-03-08
SOME POLITICS
that CAMPAIGN FUND

fellow, but that was pipe dream
wherein he imagines that some seventy
thousand dollars can be raised by
popular subscription for Republican
campaign fund. Fillmore county, TO-
instance, is no doubt as patriotic az
any of 'em but we imagine the wry
faces we would meet if we were to ask
any of our citizens, not an Office
holder, or with a hope for Office, tt
dig down for V to help elect the
other fellow. We would rather be g
book agent than a solicitor for cam
paign funds. Preston Times.
We are opposed to Frand Eddy's
idea of raising campaign fund by a
popular subscription. Let the man
who receives the benefit pay the ex-
penses. Madison Press.
The above sentiments may be good
republicanism, but it is not the kind
we sucked from our mothers breast
and were taught at our fathers knee.
Our grandfather was a republican on
the border of the Southland, and for
years his property and his life was in
constant jeopardy because OF his re-
publicanism. He was never too busy
to devote his time to the cause, and he
was never too poor to contribute to its
advancement. Our father never in
his life could call thousand dollars
his own, yet we have known. him to
stop his work in harvest to work for
the republican party, and we have
known him to 60 down into his
pocket and dig up his last dollar to
aid in the election of republican
officials when the bottom of the flour
barrel was in sight, and the sugar box
was empty, and he was never candi-
date for either an elective or appoint
alive Office In his life. We were taught
that republicanism meant something,
stood for something, was worth living
for, paying for, sacrificing for, and,
if necessary, dying for.
We take square issue with editor
Langum in regard to Fillmore county.
We lived in that county before he did.
We we'll remember that in the little
city of Chatfield, then mere village,
thousand dollars was raised for the
Sanitary Commission, for the benefit
of the men who were fighting for the
primitive principles of republicanism
at the battles red front, just as rapidly
as men could write down their names.
We saw in 1896 $500 raised in free
silver convention for Bryan, in less
time than it has taken us to pound
out this sentence ou the typewriter.
We have seen $3.50 raised in little
seven by nine prohibition convention
OF less than thirty delegates, and we
think if republicans cannot do as we'll
as free silver democrats and prohibi-
tionists then we better admit at once
that republicanism is party of pc
cuniary profit and not of principle.
We take square issue with the
Madison Press. We do not want
candidates that are willing to buy and
pay for their nomination and election,
as they would pay for package of
sugar over the counter of country
store. If such men are nominated
they will be defeated they ought
to be defeated. We do not want men
for whom the corporations
will open their strong boxes and pour
out a golden stream of ducats. If
such men are nominated they will be
buried beneath an avalanche of votes
and they ought to be.
We may have placed our estimate of
a campaign fund too high. We live
in Stearns county, and this county
and this county has reputation of
"asking a-plenty when it is asking"
but the same principle should rule
no matter what the amount.
We cannot speak for other counties,
but we will guarantee that if the next
state republican convention will adopt
a platform that bristles with republi-
can principles, that fearlessly declares
for absolute equality of property rights
and peoples rights, and will nominate
that the voters know will
exert all their official influence to
crystalize these principles into law,
we will raise Stearns and Pope
counties proportion of the necessary
campaign fund without turning a
hair. That is the kind of republicans
we have in this neck of the woods
and we speak by card.
If there is not enough loyalty and
generosity in the Republican party of
Minnesota to meet and pay all legiti-
mate expenses without calling on
corporations for funds or candidates to
open barrel, the sooner the party is
buried the better it will be for the
commonwealth. eff this is political
treason make the most of it,