The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1908-03-01
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which was gratifying to the temper
ance people, and he introduced an
anti-cigarette bill which was unfOrtun-
ately defeated by the party in power.
But when the county option bill was
struggling to get out of committee, in
1907, and a call of the House" was
ordered, he violated the rules and ST.
lently stole away. He was not in the
legislature to represent HIMSELF but
his PARTY. Senator S. D. Works, of
Blue Earth is nice man. He is a
Baptist preacher, a total abstainer and
vigorous and outspoken enemy of the
liquor-traffic Only a few years ago
he was an active party Prohibitionist,
who attended our state conventions,
arranged meetings for our speakers,
and, as Prohibition nominee for Con-
gress, put up hot fight for election
on the Prohibition ticket. He was
elected State Senator by the Demo
Gratis When the county-Option bill
came up in 1907, he helped to stone it
to death with his vote. He was not in
the legislature to represent HIMSELF,
but his PARTY. No man is elected to
the legislature to represent himself.
Some of the above named men are
Republicans, some are Democrats. II,
without changing the sentiment of the
men personally in the estimation of
hair, you should send them to the leg
islature as representatives of the Pro-
hibitiOn party, you would change the
record of every man to satisfactory
showing on the temperance question.
Suppose man who is bOOze-drinker
and seller and defender, but who is,
none the less honest, should be elected
to the legislature on the Prohibition
ticket and a prohibition bill should
come up. He would vote for it, Not
because he was personally in favor of
it. But because he would not be in
the legislature to represent HIMSELF,
but his PARTY.
But suppose the voter whose sigma
ture 1 am soliciting says that there
are so many other important issues in
the politics of the state that he must
sustain his party on the other import
ant questions?" Ask him, without the
slightest suggestion of argument or of
sarcasm, to name one question OF
STATE polity wherein the Democrats
and Republicans disagree. There
were bills introduced in the two
houses of the last legislature. OF all
that were introduced by Republicans
or Democrats there was not one that
could be singled out from it's subject
matter as being Republican or Demo
cratic measure. The roll was called
about $40 times on the passage of
bills, adoption of reports, etc. And
there was just twice when the onlook-
er could tell to what party a man be-
longed by his vote-on the vote for the
election of Speaker in the House, and
for the election of U. S. Senator.
Maybe he will say that the Pro-
hibitionist cannot win" Show him
the record Of the party We polled
1000 legislative votes in 1902. In
1904 we conducted our first Out-tO-win
campaign, and our vote swung up to
10000. In that campaign, the first of
it's kind in the state, change of 16
votes would have elected one of our
men and change of so another. The
next campaign, that of 1906, the voters
flocked to our standard by the thous-'
ands, and pushed our legislative record
to $4,000, electing three of our men,
and the sheriff of Kandiyohi to boot,
while ten legislative candidates were
within arms length of the goal.
"He may object on the score that
we have not the strength nor capacity
for conducting comprehensive cam
paign" Tell him that in 1908 we will
have 106 college men in the field as
paid organizers; that we will have
over 5000 committeeman and volun-
teer soldiers; that we will go into
every one of the 1855 precincts and
interview 100000 to 100000 voters in
their homes, shops, banks, offices,
fields and stores, and that we need his
signature, his enthusiasm, his influ-
ence and cooperation in the most stu