The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-27

ILLS WOULD Indicate, OF course tuos
reports though not well founded may
sometimes be true, and as Frank Eddy
used to say when campaigning Tor
congress in the seventh District, he
never tried to refrte any charges made
against him by the opposition for fear
tnat they would prove them true.
However I believe that l was the
nrst candidate for state Office to take
position on the question of county
opuon and some of the other issues
uo" before the people. Long before
tne nominating convention of my
party, stated in effect plainly that IL
erected to the office of Lieutenant Gov.
ernor and was permitted to name the
committees of the next state senate.
would appoint a committee that
would report out without delav a
stralght out county option bill and
force the senate members to vote a
yes" or vote mo" on the proposi.
ton. have not changed NV views
since that first declaration and do not
intend to change them after election.
You send men to the legislature to
vote and represent you, not to dodge
and deceive you. l believe in open
legislation and wish to be counted as
an enemy to the nefarious system of
pigeon holing or suppressing in com.
mlttee proposed legislation on well
oenned issues such as county option,
re-apportionment, amendment for road
tax, and similar measures. AS have
said before, the Republican platform
declares for "fair, full and free'
consideration of liquor traffic legisla.
ton, which means that county option
must have square deal. Gov. Eber.
mart has publicly promised that he
Will sign a county option bill if it Is
passed by the legislature; throughout
the state Republican candidates for
the legislature in large numbers have
declared for county option and on the
whole the Republican party stands
ready and willing, stands pledged. II
you please, to give county option q
fair hearing in the next session of the
legislature. If did not believe this
to be true would not be here asking
your support for the candidates on the
Republican ticket, for I will not know.
lngly support any candidate other than
fair-play and square-deal candidate.
care not what Office he seeks or what
party brand he wears.
Republieanism Is Progression. "
There have been suggestions in
M fhaf
for the formation of a new party, but
for one can see no necessity for such
a movement in order to bring about
desired reforms. The Republican
party may have made some mistakes.
for it IS made up of human member.
ship and it is human to err, but on the
whole 1t has been the party to reform,
the party Of progression and the party
OF grand achievement, and there is
every reason to believe that it will
continue to be such party. A politi.
cal party, in my opinion, is just what
its membership body permits it to be.
Left entirely to aspiring, settlement.
ing politicians and individuals repre-.
senting interests seeking special priv.
leges to the detriment of the great
mass of people, political partyawill
become corrupt and unworthy Of trust.
Party platforms amount to nothing,
high sounding praises of them and re.
sounding promises made from the plat.
form and in the party press less than
nothing, unless men are nominated
and men are elected who will stand
true to their colors and in the per.
Torrance of their official duties make
good their party pledges. The Repub.
lican party membership, and especial.
ly in Minnesota, has ever insisted up.
on the redemption of the party's'
pledges and the candidates of the
party in this state for the most part
are men who have been in a position
where they have proven that in the
performance of their official duties
they have carried out the will of the
voters and made good their party's
pledges. This is my political convic.
ton and stand with the Republican
party.
AS stated in the national platform.
in history the difference between Dem.
ocracy and Republicanism is that the
one stood for debased currency, the
other for honest currency; the one for
free silver, the other for sound money;
the one for free trade, the other for
protection; the one for the contraction
of American influence, the other for
it's expansion; the one has been forced
to abandon every position taken on
the great issues before the people, the
other has held and indicated all.
In experience the difference between
Democracy and Republicanism is that
one means adversely, while the other
means prosperity; one means low
wages, the other means high; one
means doubt and debt, the other
means confidence and thrift.
The darkest days in the history of
this country since the civil war, were
the days of the last Democratic con.
gress and Democratic president, when
Coxey armies were parading the coun.
try and cheap soup houses were
necessity to save them from starva,
ton.
In my opinion, Progressive Republic.
anism is the only kind of true Re-
publicanism. Progression is Republic.
! anism. Advancement has been the
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