Morris tribune., 1914-10-30
OLE SAGENC TELLS
WHY HI IS FOR LII
Otter Tail Senator Certain Election of
Candidate Will Bring Better Gov
eminent to Minnesota.

really are.
Hammond's Neutrality Declaration.
If Mr.. Hammond's declaration to his
chairman means anything, assume
it should be construed as a decIara
ton of neutrality, together with a
vague promise to sign a county op
ton bill if one should be passed.
One of Mr. Hammond's first
duties as governor would be to =
advise the legislature by mes
= sage. What is he going to say :
about county option? He can
not ignore it. He admits that
it is one of the absorbing issues
of the campaign.
=
I appeal to every sincere friend OF
county option in the Democratic party
not to be deceived by the idle prom
Use, such as it is, to sign county op
ton bill.
John Lind on County Option.
am quoting now, as reported in the
Minneapolis Journal, from a speech By
the Hon. John Lind, delivered in the
city of Albert Lea, October II, 1910
Mr.. Lind said:
81 would not feel that | had done
this occasion justice without dis
cussing the most important ques-
ton agitating the public mind
more fully. refer to the ques-
ton of county option. County
option does not mean county pro-
hibition; nor does it, of itself,
make any county wet or dry 1t
simply means that the legislature
shall pass a law authorizing the
people of the county to determine
by a vote for themselves whether
saloons shall be allowed in the
county or not. For the life of me
l cannot see anything startling in
this proposition. The startling
thing to my mind is that it is not
the law today"
"The Saloon Wants Boys"
= y SIS
II was out at Portland and
took a street car into the sub
urbs of that city. / happened
to pass little Methodist church
and notice nailed on the side
of it attracted my attention
I read these four words, in
crude, large letters: The sa-
loon wants boys My attention
was riveted on that notice as
it never had been before by any
other notice. I thought of my
boys. Almost unconsciously l
began to scrutinize it. Who did
the lettering? Who put it there,
and why? Was it a widows
desperation, or was it a brok-
en-hearted mothers revenge"
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What the brewery interests ar
bending every effort to accomplish i
this campaign is the election of Nj
Hammond and tractabIe Legislature
The only candidate who stands /
their way as far as the success {
our part of their program is concerne
is William e. Lee. Shall the force
of temperance deliberately play int
the hands of the enemy by seattle
| ing their votes among two or tire
candidates?
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We have situation in Min
nesota today similar to that
which confronted the best eIe-
ment in the Democratic party in
Nebraska four years ago, and
we have not forgotten that the
greatest Democrat in the ma
ton, Mr.. Bryan, did not hesitate
under those conditions to repu-
date the candidate of his own
party.
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What contrast to Mr.. Lees
frank and candid position on
these questions we find when
we examine the attitude Of the
Democratic candidate. On the
question of county option he
starts out with declaration of
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neutrality declaration full of
holes by making an extended
argument against such a law.
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All the time, however, he holds OF
a vague promise to sign bill if OF
is passed. Is it not remarkable tn;
this man of great attachments coul
not find words in the English la
guage to say even that much brief
and plainly?
If MIR. Hammond were to shut h
eyes and in broad daylight walk I'M
a crowded street trying to make II
people believe that darkness covere
the earth he would be just as CO
Vincing as he is in his present effor
What will the people of Minnesof
do? The choice is between canc
date who takes the people into h
confidence and one who meets the
with bubbles and silence.