The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-04-26
/. ATTEND fHE cAUcUsEs.

the elections,
This is a government of political
parties. 1t is simply senseless to try
to get away from this proposition.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred
candidates for office that will be
elected this fall will be party nomi-
nees. We served in congress eight
years, four full terms, and during
all that time there was only one
member who was not a party noml-
nee and he exerted about as much
influence on National Legislation as
a wart on a toad's back effects
Dan Patch's speed record.
A man that does not know our
law-making and law-enforcing does
not depend on the law-making and
law-enforcing officers nominated by
the parties does not know enough
to keep his mouth shut when he
comes home at 2 a. M, and his vile
has to get up to let him in because
he can't find the keyhole.
In the county conventions, the
calls for which will soon be issued,
every voter should attend the eau
cuses, IN his precinct. Candidates
should be discussed and measures
talked over, and care should be taken
to send delegates to the county
conventions who in turn will select
delegates to the state convention
who will favor candidates voters
want, and measures the people de-
mand. Nine times out ten eau
cuses are.turned over to professional
politicians. Nine times out of ten
men are selected as delegates to
state conventions because they have
passes OF have pull enough to get
their fare and expenses paid.
We are no spring chicken in
politics. We have played the game
in all departments and played it to
the limit. If the convention at
Duluth is but repetition of past
conventions we would rather have
pocketful of railrord passes than
headful of brains if we waited to
secure nomination for state
office. We would rather have a
thousand meal tickets on the Spald-
ing hotel, than good record if we
desired recognition. Yet the voters
have no right to kick because such
deplorable condition exists. In
every county there are clean handed,
unpurchasable men, men who love
the right, men who believe that
rectitude, righteousness and justice
should rule and reign. 1t is up to
the voters, will you attend the eau
cuses and conventions and see that
these kind Of men go as delegates,
or will you stay at home and let
commercial politics rule?
We are neither prophet or the
son of prophet, but we predict that
at least Is per cent of the republican
voters of Minnesota will stay away
from the primary caucuses and then
will growl like bear with a sore
head because they don't get the can
didate they want and the legislations
they desire.
The voters of party are it's
masters if they choose to exercise
it. If they don't exercise their
power it will be ignored.
The reason there are so few
editors in the penitentrary is they
do not possess the courage to shoot,
they have no opportunity to en-
bezzle anything, they can't write
well enough to commit forgery, and
mighty few of them ever have
money enough to buy BURGLARS
kit.
Bryan would never have been
known outside of his own town if
it had not been for the papers. If
you want your business known use
the papers:
Business men would not keep
man in their employ very, long if he
sat still all the time, but they fire.
qnently keep men in office year after
year that are not even good chair