Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-11-04


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Dulnth Herald The issue HE the
goyernofshi p Sca mpaiRns isSS
plain that he who unssmay read 81.
Is Minnesota to Il remain Minneso tas
assfree commonwealth under james
Gray, q free man. 81 is 5it;. to become
aGsecond$ Rhode Island, ID controlled
state, under ;Adolph Eberhart, "a can !
didate in leading strings? St. = Il
! Is Minnesota to be q free and self
governing citizenship, or "a pocket.
boroGsh for the special interests: a :. n }
There can be no evasion of E that
issue. There is not, IN fact, any.
attempt on the part Of the Eberhart:
forces to evade it. The campaign, for.
the Republican candidate for governor
is wholly unlike the campaigns that
are being waged for uncontrolled cam
dldates in other states. 1t is more like
the campaigns OF. twenty years ago.
when candidates and party workers had;
their pockets filled with railroad passes
and their dough bags filled with cor.
poration money, when the campaign:
speeches were full of high sounding
and mouth-hlling but meaningless
platltudes, when all the voters got was
demand that be stand by the party,
and when neither men nor issues but
party supremacy. was the aim in the
struggle.
On the one hand, in this campaign,
is James Gray, candidate abun.
dainty fitted by capacity, personality
and sternness of purpose to be the gov,
ernor OF this state and to lead the
peoples fight tor progress and pros
perlty and Justice. His hands are clean
and his hands are free No, man accused
him of being denominated by or die.
tated to by any special interest. His
case is the peoples his purpose u.s. to
fight for the peoples rights. and his
platform is simply that the people
shall have the right to decide on their
own policies and shall have public SER
wants who will carry those policies
into effect. He has opinions on vital
issues, and he isn't afraid to express
them. =!
On the other hand is Adolph Eber-
hart, a candidate who comes before
the people asking to be elected cover.
nor solely because he is Republican,
and because he happens to hold the
Office through a curious set of cir
cumstances that began with bis nom-
nation for lieutenant governor by Ed.
Smith that he might form committees
in the senate amenable to the will of
the special interests. and that was
completed by the untimely death of
John A. Johnson, which elevated him
to the governorship. No claim Is
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the peoples fight; no claim is made
by him or for him that he will
undertake to lead the peoples fight.
His hands are not clean. because they
have been soiled with the dirty work
of special interests in the control Of
the Minnesota senate. His hands
are not free because they are tied by
his allegiance to the organization of
lobbyists for special interests which
is conducting his campaign under the
leadership of the Aldrlch of the Min
nesota senate The platform on which
be stands and the campaign COM
mittee by which his fight is being
conducted were both arranged by the
cabal Of special interests which has
dominated the Republican organization
in this state through three successive
defeats. His cause is the cause of re-
action, of standpatlsm. of special
privilege. His platform is one of
evasion and subterfuge. and his
public attitude squares with the plat
form. If he has opinions on vital
issues he is not permitted to express
them.
The choice could not be clearer or
the issue more plain.
The election of James Gray means
a free people and a free state-the
triumph of popular government
IN a free Minnesota.
The election of Adolph Eberhart
means just the opposite. It means
turning over the state government to
the crew OF special interests which
dominates the candidate and his plat
form and will dominate the admin.
istration. The election of Eberhart
means that Minnesota will become the
Rhode Island OF the West.