The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-10-15
NOT ENTITLED TO REPUBLICAN
SUPPORT.

The Herald unhesitatingly asserts
that Chas. A. Lindbergh, who, owing
to the laxity of our election laws will
have Republican" printed after his
name on the ballot in the coming gen.
eral election, is not Republican, has
not affiliated with the Republican
party and is not entitled to Republic
can support.
Two years ago he did not support
the National Republican candidates
officially recognized as Republicans
and appearing on the ticket as Repub-
licans.
He did not support the state candi-
dates nominated in the same primary
at the same time and in the same
way as himself, and during the entire
campaign neither on the stump or in
the press, did he make single utter
ance in favor of Republicanism, or
urging his constituency to support Re
publican candidates. He contributed
nothing to the Republican victory in
this state and was one of the factors
that caused the national defeat and he
publicly glories in that defeat at the
present time.
After his election he refused to CO.
operate with the Republican party OF
the House, bolted the Republican
nominee for Speaker, voted for Victor
Murdoch, the Progressive nominee;
accepted his House committe assign
ments from him; was appointed and
accepted as a member of the "Pro-
gressive Advisory" Committee,
purely political committee, selected by
the Progressive members of the house
and senate for the enhancing of the
interests of the Progressive party and
overthrowing the Republican and
Democratic organizations, and met
and counseled with that Committee
from time to time.
During the entire session he affil-
lated and consorted with Hinnebaugh,
ILL.,; Murdoch, Kan; Woodruff, Mich;
Chandler, N. Y; Temple and Huling,
Pa; and Bryan, Wash, the Progress
sive members of the House, voting
only with the Republicans when the
above named Progressives voted with
them and invariably voting with the
Democrats when they so voted.
Ever since Theodore Rooseyelt's
nomination in Chicago and the official
organization of the "Progressive"
party, the newspaper correspondents
in Washington, the press of the
country and of this state have invar-
iably referred to him as a Progress
sive." The leading "Progressives"
of the Nation and State claimed
him as one of their own, and all this
without word of objection, denial or
protest from him.
In face of this political record,
when he filed as Congressional cam
didate last spring, he filed as Re-
publican and made solemn affidavit
that he was Republican, had affil-
lated with the Republican party and
voted for majority of its candidates
in the last election.
On page 81 of his primary PAM
phlet, the Representative states, 81
filed as Republican because l have
associated more with the Republicans
than with Others" thus Indirectly de-
claring that with him party affiliation
is matter of association and not of
principle. He heads this pamphlet
with the statement, 81 am candidate
for Congress-" He does not state, 81
am a Republican candidate for re-
election to Congress-" In the whole 70
pages of the pamphlet he nowhere
states that he is Republican, or
that he will join the Republicans in
the House organization and not bolt
the same as he did in the 63rd Con-
gress, ar will join with the Repub-
licans in measures Of National policy.