Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-10-27

This would indicate, Of course that
.eports though not well founded may
sometimes be true, and as Frank Eddy
Used to say when campaigning fof
congress in the seventh District, 10
lever tried to refute any charges made
against him by the opposition for fear
hat they would prove them true.
However I believe that I was tho
irst candidate for a state Office to take
! position on the question of county
,ption and some of the other issues
low before the people. Long before
the nominating convention of my
party, stated in effect plainly that IL
elected to the Office of Lieutenant Gov
ernor and I was permitted to name the
committees of the next state senate,
l would appoint committee that
would report out without delay q
straight out county option bill and
force the senate members to vote q
yes" or vote mo- on the PROPOSE.
ton. I have not changed my 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. I believe in open
legislation and wish to be counted az
an enemy to the nefarious system Of
pigeon holing or suppressing in COM
m1ttee proposed legislation on we'll
defined issues such as county option.
re-apportionment, amendment for road
tax, and similar measures. AS I have
said before, the Republican platform
declares for a ''fair, full and free"
consideration Of liquor traffic legislar
ton, which means that county option
must have square DEAL Gov. Eber.
hart has publicly promised that ho
will sign a county option bill If It 10
passed by the legislature; throughout
the state Republican candidates for
the legislature in large numbers have
declared for county option and on tho
whole the Republican party stands
ready and willing, stands pledged IL
you please, to give county option q
fair hearing in the next session of tho
legislature. If l did not believe this
TO be true I would not be here asking
your support for the candidates on the
Republican ticket, for will not know.
1ngly support any candidate other than
fair-play and sQuare-deal candidate,
care not what Office he seeks or what
party brand he wears.
RepubIicanism Is Progression. y.
There have been suggestions in
some quarters that the time was ripe
for the formation of 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 1t IS made up of human member
ship and it is human to err, but on tho
whole it 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
it's membership body permits it to be.
Left entirely to aspiring, self-beneflt-
Ing politicians and individuals repre-
senting interests seeking special priv.
leges to the detriment of the great
mass OF people, political party will
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 eolors and in the per.
Torrance of their official duties make
good their party pledges The Repub-
ican party membership, and especial
y in Minnesota, has, ever insisted up
OF 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
its 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
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