Year: 1879

WIN Cnl0 issue OF the 60Zetto all


will have been done that We can dc


to urge Republicans to stand firmly


by their party's ticket. We have


done this conscientiously and no,


because We had any personal feeling


in the matter. We have not treated


the SO called peoples ticket as the


peoples ticket because, we regard


the use of this name ~ the trick Of


demagogues who could not win in


any other way. This peoples party


as now managed is used for no other


purpose than to advance the inter


ests of Democrats in Redwood Co.


If its leaders wenld come out as


boldly with the Democratic colors


as they do privately with the Demo


cratic state ticket, they wouldn't


stand the ghost of a chance, and


they know it. But under the trans


parent guise of being so unlike other


men that their candidates are the
only ones that should be elected,
they try to mislead honest men who
want fair play in polititics. They
have only made very ordinary tick
ct, a portion of which they are Sec
reilly plotting to defeat, and yet they
say because the nominees of the Re-
publican Convention are not stamp
cd with their peculiar mark, the
"dear people" should not support
them, not because they are not hon
est, or capable, or decent citizens,
but for the reason that sthe ring" Of
this combination in Redwood Falls
have ordered that the freemen of
this county must do otherwise.
They would place collar on the
neck of every man that would SUBJ
NIT to their dictation and make him
swear eternal political enmity to any
Republican that ever acted with
them, who would dare to think that
this was a very good year to work
reform through his own party. They
don't make an open warfare, but are
Republicans or Democrats, 'sgood
Lord or good Devil" as the occa-
sion may require. Will Republicans
approve what these men propose?
Is not the Republican ticket all that
could be asked for? If there is any
portion of it that is not palatabie
will you better yourselves by voting
for the opposition candidate? When
Democrats become liberal where
they have the power, it will be time
enough to help them into Office
where they are in the minority. In
all the states that have voted this
fall the Republicans have made just
as earnest fight for county offices as
they have for higher positions of
honor and trust. They were not in
clined to be generous to a party that
drove from the Capitol at Washing
ton, as soon as they had a majority
in Congress, every Republican, no
matter if he was a MANNED or
wounded Union soldier, who had
any position whatever. That was
all right say Red wood County Dem
ocrats but that is not what we mean.
No, of course not. But if this rule
is to apply where Democrats have
the power we will hold you to it and
you will find that many Republicans
who have hitherto acted with you
will unite in giving their excellent
ticket an old fashioned majority.
The prospects for Republican vict-
ory were never better. We would
urge upon every Republican to vote
the straight Republican ticket from
top to bottom, SO that when he
hears the good news that is in store
for him next Tuesday night, he can
feel that his vote counted one for
victory in the Republican columns.