Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-10-28

shown more plainly in this campaign
| than he ever had occasion to show be-
fore, and that is devotion to duty. When
called by 100 Of his party associates
| to become their candidate for governor
! he sacrificed a certainty for an uncer-
tainty. And then. when he knew that
his presence in the campaign in Mime
sofa meant great deal to him person
ally he sacrificed his personal consider
atoms to attend to his official duties as
member Of the most important House
| committee during the preparation of
| some of the most important legislation
proposed and carried out during the last
half century. Citizens of Kandiyohi
county, can you get any stronger assur-
| ance that If you elect Winfield Scott
Hammond as governor you will have a
| man in that important position who will
| attend to his duties conscientously and
without regard for his own welfare or
| profit? Would it not be well to show
| that you appreciate such conduct and
| prove to the servants of the people that
| the voters are not ungrateful and that
the best way to win their favor is to do
| their duty?
His principal opponent, Mr.. Lee. seems
| to be laboring under the delusion that
| If he is elected he will be the legisla-
/ ture as well as the executive, and for
| that reason he is trying his level best
to inject into the gubernatorial cam
! paign legislative question, namely
county option. AS both Hammond and
Lee have promised to sign a county op-
| ton bill If passed by the legislature, I
| consider that question eliminated from
the gubernatorial campaign. If the peo-
pie elect county option legislators this
fall they will get county option bill
governor. Does Mr.. Lee imagine that
he has such tremendous personality
| that he can force the legislature to do
he has, why has he not been able to set
the saloons out of his own home city?
Is he unable to influence his neighbors,
or is this sudden scratching for temper
ance reform caused by the gubernatorial
| itch? It looks very much as If Mr.. Lee
has figured out that county option is a
popular issue and has jumped on to the
band wagon in the hope that he can ride
it to the goal Of his ambition.
In my opinion the friends Of temper
ance REFORM or prohibition need not WOr-
ry over the governorship. Let them
rather use every effort to get the initia-
tive and referendum amendment to the
constitution adopted at this election.
Then they can get a chance for a direct
vote on either county option or state
wide prohibition. There lies the real
temperance issue, and it is up to the
people to see to it that they get this
weapon Of initiative placed in their
hands. When you get the pink ballot
look for amendment No. and place a
plain cross in the Yes" square after it
and you will have done your share in
placing county option or prohibition
within the reach Of the people Of Min
nesota, II they are ready for it.
Mr.. Hammond's position on the veto
question is the correct one for popular
government. He says that the veto
should be used only against hasty and
ill-advised legislation. but that when q
question has been discussed during a
legislative campaign and the legislature
then passes = bin on the subject the