Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-24

point a committee satisfactory to
the friends of county option who
will ren0rt out for MASSAGE a c0l1n.

point a committee satisfactory to
the friends Of county option who
will report out for passage a coun-
ty option bill, all over the state
Republican candidates have de-
clared for the measure and Gov.
Eberhart has promised to sign the
bill if it is passed. To put another
ticket in the field could have no
other result than to split up the
friends Of county option. Inter-
lake Tribune.
We fully realize Bro. Gordon's
position. 1t is the position taken
by all who are committed to the
success of the political organiza-
ton which has in this state secured
control IF the name "Republican."
With them it is the party first,
every other consideration later. A
good many Of them want to see
county option, but they are content
to wait for it, until it comes thru
the Republican party" Forum
ately all people of the state are not
so tied to party name that they
do not take into consideration
what set or class of men have con-
troll Of the party machinery. They
vote discriminatory, supporting
such men in whose integrity and
steadfastness they have faith, re-
CARELESS of the party to which they
belong. The independent vote is
the saving quantity of our state and
nation, and when county option
comes it will not come because Sam
Gordon always votes the republican
ticket but because the interests
which control the party organiza-
tion dare not antagonize the inde-
pendent voter who votes only for
such men as he believes stand tru-
ly for the thing he, the voter,
wants. When bad men control the
party organization. the party-tied
man wraps himself in his mantle of
party selfrighteousness, votes the
ticket and helps the bad men con-
troll the party. The independent
voter rebukes the party and helps
put the bad men out Of business.
Pray, how can the county option
friends be more hopelessly divided
than they are right now, being in
three different party camps with
the greatest proportion of indie
pendent voters of any state in the
Union casting about for chance
to vote their real sentiments?
Now is the opportunity for getting
together by nominating a ticket
which would represent the thing
the people want, which the old par
ties say they must not have.
All this twaddle about the exec
utive branch Of the government hav-
ing nothing to do with the legisla-
tive work, about county option not
being party question. etc. are
Simply poor excuses by a lot of
trimming politicians who are try
ing to stand in with both sides.
County option is the great live
issue before the people of Minneso-
ia today, and when the parties fail
to recognize the issue and attempt
to evade it, why should not county
option find expression by ticket Tor
if you please, a party of it's own?
Bro. Gordon is quite misleading
about that Temperance plank" of
the Republican party having refer
ence to county option. The conven-
ton voted down an innocent and verv
weak resolution pledging the party
to give county option "a full, free
and fair consideration In other
words the Republican State conven-
tion decided by a vote of 648 to
435 that they would not give coun-
ty option any consideration at all.