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NEW ULM, MINN.
F, W. JOHNSON .Editor and Publioher.
Wednesday, January 27, 1892.
THOSE BA CK-R0OM MEETINGS.
After the Lowrj banquet in Minnea
polis last week it is stated that three or
four gentlemen of different political
faith laid their heads together, not as
the result of the champagne's subtle in
fluence, but with deep intent and seri
ous purpose, to mould the politics of
he state. They were men, high in
standing in the political and business
circles of the great cities, and men too,
who in the manipulation of plot or plan
know no law or sense of right to pre
vent its execution. So much for the
character of those who formed the par
ty. What they did is patent to only a
few, of course, but it is hinted, never
theless, that they named the n,ext gover
nor, afew legislators and senators to suc
ceed those now in office. Be that as it
may, however, the conference, to judge
from the time, place and parties inter
ested, betokens no good or noble object.
Back-room meetings at most can nev
er constitute a part of good politics.
They may succeed in attaining their ob
jects once or twice, but their lease of
power is measured only by the sluggish
ness or neglect of the masses. That
neglect is sooner or later dispelled and
then the hopes and schemes of secret
sessions, where "une or two aie gath
ered together," will be swept, as with
a tornado, by the desire of the people
to do what is right then honesty, which
is always at the bottom of the convic
tions of the majority, will visit venge
ance upon the methods of those who
would °tnke at all that is g«od in Aniei
ican citizen ship.
It is true, of course, that the wire-pul
ler is still abroad in the land with no
little force and that frequently a hand
ful of men are allowed to introduce
then wishes into the resoli tions of theone
caucuses and thereby dnect the course
of conventions and stifle pure politic*
With a secret hand, but it i» only be
cause the people are unnecessarily lm
posed upon and not because of anyevery
strength within the practices themselves.
The people have but to give matters of
thi^ kind moie attentiou, and they will
cease. They are the suckeis played
upon, and if they rise in thcr power
and refuse to be trilled with, that ends
the business. That they aie beginning
to do this is evident, and the move is cei%
tainly a most gratifying one. Aiding
them too are the schemers themselves.
This may seem strange, but it is never
theless tiue. buccess with a selfish or
moderately greedy man, always begets
the hog in him. One or two triumphs
call for further and more audacious ones
and the ravenous lust after power, that
thus grows withm the/ secret sessions,
oon manifests itself to the people in
such a manner as to be unmistakable.
Then comes the revolt and with it thegood
downfall of the self-appointed bosses.
And so it will be with men like those
who gathered in Minneapolis after a
night of feasting and drunkenness.
They are going too far in their aspira.
tions, and when the people learn to a
certainty that three Twin City tricksters
would assign all the offices, they will
sit down upon them wiih a force that
will crush. Let. the distinguished
banqueters therefore beware.
MISJUDGED AS USUAL.
Oyer in Nicollet last week a man died
•who had two weeks previous been an
inmate of the insane asylum at St.Peter.
His face was disfigured as the result of
something and to first appearances that
somechmg was nothing less than inhu
man abuse. His friends grew suspicious.
The idea of ill treatment grew to pro
portions,and an inquest was demanded.
When the coroner told them that such
a step was unnecessary and that the
cause of the disfiguration was apparent,
they turned their distrust on him and
with it the accusation^hat he was in
league with the arch fiends who pre
side over the institutions for the care of
these who are bereft of reason/ They
giew determined. 'Ihe matter must be
proved to the bottom, they said, and
this terrible instance of human cruelty
brought to the knowledge of the public.
Wei!', to satisfy them, the inquest was
held. A post mortem examination fol
lowed and by process, simple and plain,
the physicians showed how no blows
had been dealt by heartless attendants
and that the disfiguration was clearly
the result of erysipelas in a virulent
form.
And this is but one instance, perhaps,
of numerous other cases in which the
hospital managers have been hastily
judged and consequently abused.
Friends of inmates are moved with com
passion for their unfortunate fellow be
ings and that compassion tempts them
to forget to see the many circumstances,
leading to mishaps, over which the
managers have no control. To imagine
that any being about a hospital is sowhich/through
lost to human feeling as to disfigure a
patient's face and break his nose is pre
posterous, it would seem, but yet that
is just what those Nicollet county peo-1 fully slopped over in the foregoing par
pie in their haste believed and it is just I agraph is pitifully apparent.
what lots of others are believing eyery
day. The managers, it is plain there
fore, are the victims of mistaken sym
pathy for those confined within the
latticed walls. Accidents occur and i1
is hard to explain them. The sympa
thetic friend, of course, sees only the
pitiful side and attaches blame where ic
is most convenient, Gossip and per
sonal spite then take up and aid in the
prosecution and the managers are pur
sued with a spleen from which, owing
to the peculiar circumstances, there is
no escape. If, as in the case cited, the
facts could always become known, these
unjust attacks would not be so frequent,
and the positions of the gentlemen,
whom we believe to be true humanitar
ians,would rest on a more certain foun.
dation.
A GLEAN CANDIDATE.
There is call this year for clean can
didates. The voters and workers for
party success have grown tired of pur
suing a line of defense, and there is a
rumbling foreboding in the air that no
more personal interests shall receive re
cognition. What is wanted are nomina
tions that, without persistent defense,
will command respect and defy the
tongue of abuse and raillery. All parties
have such men, and politics for the wel
fare of the common weal demand that
they should be the ones to be honored.
Being a presidential year, many can
didates, who would ordinarily be treat
ed to proper defeat, could perhaps be
carried on the wave of enthusiasm or
the popularity of some presidential can
didate to the haven of success, but this
prospect should not lead any party into
making the test. In cards it is well
enough to occasionally risk much on a
poor hand with one or two good crumps,
but in the game of politics it doesn't
pay Not that it might not succeed,
but it never work wonders, and that
plan is much better which provides for
presencing a front that is strong and
honorable all along the line. Then
there is no necessity of drawing upon
the strength or admirable qualities of
candidate to cover up the defects Of
another and the contest need not be
made with half the caution and defense,
but on the contrary with confidence in
every auxiliary and enthusiasm along
line of attack. Instead of apolo
gies, there will be determined antagon
ism instead of defpnse there will oe bold
and earnest opposition in place of de
feat, victory.
For the last few years the Republicans
of Minnesota have looked for success
in excuses. They have held good cards
but they did not know how or otherwise
were afraid to play them they have
had signal opportunities to strengthen
themselves in the selection of candi
dates, but it is the rule and not the ex
ception that they have misemployed
them. This year they should attempt
an improvement. The 3 ear is a
grand one, the harvest is ripe and the
incentives are plenty. They were
wronged and misjudged last year, but
daily events show that this will be a
one in which to be corrected. They
had many poor candidates last fall, but
if they are careful they can make selec
tions hereafter, that, coupled with the
name of the nation's brlliant secre
tary of state, will win back all former
prestige. They will have Blaine to lead
them,and united work,a bold stand and
disregard of bossism will claim for Re
publicanism a surfeit of laurels. Is it not
worth while then to pursue the right
track and stand by principles that have
made this nation "mightiest among the
mighty P" Let Kepublicans get to think
ing:.
ISHMAEL'S NONSENSE,
An ordinary fool is not, I think, par
ticularly obnoxious to me, but the fools,
who have been giving publication to the
statement that Congressman Lind has to
look after the claims of all the old sol
diers in Minnesota,giveme an incurable
pain. If Congressman Lind has the en
tire business of Minnesota on his shoul
ders and is the only representative in
Congress to whom Minnesotians can look
for relief, why is it that the republicans
of his own district are so aggravatingly
complacent in accepting his premature
declination to run again. As a matter
of fact I apprehend that Congressman
Lind is just about as good and not a
whit better than the average Congress
man, He knows enough to vote with
the party to which be belongs* and nev
er makes the mistake of doing anything
startling or original. The men who are
trying to make him out greater than
his boots are doing him no kindness,for
he is not in any sense of the word a
great man, and when he undertakes to
come up to the mark which a few of his
admirers have set for him he can only
register a failure that he would not have
made had he been left alone where he
belonged—in the list of political light
weights.—Ishmael in the Anoka Union.
Ishmae],the author of the aboye spec
imen of battered reason, is an unknown
in St. Paul, who occasionally offers,
from the stores of keen perception and
remarkable foresight, gems of thought,
the medium of the Anoka
Union, are supposed to go ringing
through the state as if branded5 with
eternal truth. But that he has sorrow-
weight.
In the first place, Mr. Lind or hisattracts
friends are not the intentional fools to
make the claim that Ishmael charges
them with. Some correspondent, after
the pattern of Ishmael bimself,saw that
Mr Lind was doing the bulk of the bus
iness for the old soldiers in Minnesota,
and, as correspondents generally do, he
thought that he might include what was
left as well as not. The mistake, if
there was any, was therefore with the
correspondent and not with his political
friends. None of the latter, we can safe
ly say,have ever urged it with any great
gusto. And as to Mr. Lind's being a
great man—one of the nation's peers
veil, we don't know that such an idea
ever lingered for a moment in the mind
of even his staunchest supporters. The
best of them have never indulged in
spread-eagle or convention oratory orer
his merits, but haye been quietly con
tent to look upon him as a faithful,
hard-working, stndious and ambitious
young man, who has has already climbed'
higher on the ladder of fame, than Ish
mael will ever rise in a thousand years,
unless he learns to treat his fellowmen
with at least a moderate degree of re
spect. But then, we suppose, the day
will never come when a man by his
own efforts will be allowed to gain hon
or in this world without being attacked
by a stripe of critics, who like Alphon
so of old, imagine themselves an im
provement upon even the creator.
The claim that Mr. Lind's decision to
withdraw from politics is complacently
accepted in the Second district is alike
ridiculous with the plea that he is over
estimated. Every Republican, who is
true to the principles of his party, rec
ognizes in Mr.Lind a fearless exponent,
and the fact that every Republican pa
per has attempted, and honestly too, to
dissuade him from his recent action,
is proof in abundance of Ishmael's
falsehoods. Many Democrats too, lead
ers in their party, stand ready to admit
that the Second district will not suffer
with the present representative in con
gress. This is not braggadocia, and it
is in fact all that Mr.Lind's true friends
ever claimed for him, They have never
endeavored to set a mark for him and
never will,for those who know him best
(and they are not the guessers of Ish
mael's kind) know that his ability and
ambition will lookout for him without
the aid of friends and supporters. He is
not of the kind to rise by sudden streaks,
nor is his ability of a flashy nature, but to
judge from the past, John Lind will be,
with or without the consent of Ishmael,
a congressman of more than average
ability, with more originality than his
accusers are willing to give him credit
for and one who will toe any mark that
has been set for him. And now, in con
clusion, a word I to Ishmael. He is
not much known to the world, but ad-*
yice to him may not altogether be wast
ed. It is nice to try to cover thefieldof
politics, religion, philanthropy and phi
losophy, but it doesn't do hardly to write
about things which you know nothing of
Don't try to be too sm£.rt don't think
that you know itall and above all don't'
tryto be bigger than your boots. Yonas
are apt to give yourself away as a light
SAME THING OVER AGAIN.
By a stroke of political scheming that
challenges admiration for the quiet and
shrewd manner in which it was mani
pulated, Chicago gets the Democratic
convention and St. Paul, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati and Indianapolis are endea
voring to accustom themselves to soup.
Each of the latter cities went before the
committee with a moderate following
and each was buoyed up with a suffici
ency of expectancy. Chicago was not
considered a candidate at any time and
probably was not, but the eye of Hill
and his supporters had singlea it
outcratic
as the place, best suited to their inter
ests, so that, when it came down to
business, the contesting cities were wo
fully surprised to see in what direction
the strength of the committee was
pointed.
The balloting was peculiar and amus
ing. Chicago was the objective city
from the start, but in order to keep
good feeling the wily "cocks of-the
walk" gave each of the hopeful candi
dates the empty honor of a complimen
tary vote. Taffy was poured on first
this town and then that, each taking the
lead on different ballots, but, oy ihe
thoughtful disposition of Mr. Hill, none
were allowed to secure enough to elect.
Then after each had been fondled a lit
tie, the Hill forces centred on Chicago
and gave the convention to her without
auy trouble.
The immediate result of this unlooked
for outcome of the Washington meeting
will be a little dissatisfaction, perhaps,
among the people of the defeated cities,
but that will soon blow over. A Dem
ocrat can be made a sorehead for a mo
ment without much trouble, but it
doesn't last long. In fact, as the scory
goes, Sinall tights amongst them only
seem to engender more of the same
Among the great mass of non-parti
san voters, however, the Democrats,' it
would seem, have lost an advantage by
holding the convention in Chicago. I
a city of that size,such meetings can be
held and the political effect is small. But
iu cities like St. Paul and Milwaukee,
they awake enthusiasn which naturally
votes. In St. Paul for instance
it would hav#fcended to offset the influ
ence of the Minneapolis convention?
which promises to be the biggest ever
held in the country, and in Milwaukee
it would have done much to hold Wis
consin to the record made last fall, but
in Chicago its effect will amount to lit
tle or nothing. 1$ is quite apparent
from this therefore that the selection is
to a considerable extent a mistake. Jjp
Then too, it has demonstrated, beyond
a doubt, the relationship that exists be
tween Mr. Hill and his accidency, Gro
wer Cleveland. The two are no longer
secret enemies, but the Democracy can
hereafter reckon that what suits one of
these two leaders will surely call forth
the bitter antagonism of the other. This
perhaps, more than anything .else, will
indicate the result of the next election.
Milwaukee was a Cleveland town and
will regret the action of the committee
on that account more than for any finan
cial or business reason. And so, no
doubt, with others of the aspirants. The
picture from all sides is pretty discour
aging to most Democrats, and Republi
cans are accordingly chuckling.
NEWSPAPER POLITICS.
Mr. Johnson, of the New Ulm Re
view, evidently misunderstands the po
sition of this paper politically. We
have simply "stopped walking the floor"
and intend to let the "other fellow" do
that. And we intend that the "other
fellow shall make the enemies. "—North
field News.
If by the above the News means that
it has merely dropped the advocacy of
individual candidates, retaining the
right to advocate principles, i*s con
clusion is good enough, but it will find
that it has entered upon a hard road to
travel. Individualism in politics, to be
sure, is to be avoided, and one man-ism
is a detriment to the futherance of prin
ciples. But so frequently is the one
made to hinge on the other that it is dif
ficult to see how a paper,that would be
at all political, can refrain from advanc
ing the interests of the man to maintain
the standing of the priaciple.
The Review by this would not imply
that a paper should give itself up body
and soul to any candidate or that it
should cringe or fawn to personal in
terests, or that it should devote its entire
space to the publication ot political
matter to the exclusion of local news,
but too often it occurs that the mistakes
of caucuses and cor ven tions or the plans
of political schemes, demand that the
press should take up the fight on can
didates as well as on issues. An ins
tance offers in this state. Current
opinion holds that a scheme is on foot
to defeat C. K. Davis through the use
of money, and that the purpose is to
place unfit men in his position. Davis
represents party principle, it is true,
and under ordinary circumstances a
fight for principle, in which the candi
date is swallowed up in the issue, might
be sufficient to elect him. But under
the circumstances as they actually ex
ist,itis necessary that the contest should
be made a personal one wherein Davis,
the advocate of principles, should be
set against the others, backed by mon
ey and influence. If it makes enemies
to do this, there is consolation in the
fact that it was done in the performance
of duty and the upholding of a good
cause. Advocacy of principles offers
no easier or sunnier rewards. Besides
a paper should not live in the hope of
not making enemies. Adherence to
right always makes foes, but it is never
the less what makes a good paper.
BEADY TO FACE THE MUSIC.
Last Monday's installment of political
slush in the St. Paul Globe contained
the following concerning congressional
candidates in this district: "With a
probability of an Alliance-Demo
fusion in the district staring them
in the face, the Republican leaders seem
to be just a little slow in coming to the
front. Senator Davis seems to be the
only man willing to take the honor and
face the music, whether it comes from
two seperate bands or one large united
one. This may result in securing him
ths nomination. .Lieut. Gov Ives, of
Nicollet county Hon, O Tnrrell, of
Redwood Senator F. A. Da ,, of«Martin.
and one or two other local favorites are
mentioned, but no work seems to be
under way in their behalf.
The Globe need not- distress itself
about Republicans being unwilling to
face the music in the banner Republic
an district of the state. Republicans are
reluctant to abandon the idea of re-nom
inatmg John Lind, but before the nom
inating convention meets they will have
no difficulty in finding a fit standard
bearer to succeed him. We are not au
thorized to speak for any of the gentle
men above mentioned, but in case the
Redwood county favorite, Mr. Turrell,
should be invited to "face the music,"
we will guarantee that he will not lack
for enthusiastic followers both in this
and several neighboring counties. Mr.
Turrell is notSut of a job and may prefer
to stick to his present business rather
than be drawn into politics,but once in,
the fusion candidate will have no reason
to complain about coming to the front.
By the way, isn't the alleged fusion still
more backward about coming to the
front with a congressional champion?
Gea. Baker was sent to the rear at the
late alliance convention, and it would
be strange if he emerged from the soup
to again carry the banner of reform in
this district,—Redwood Gazette. W
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All New Stock
Cmplete Assortment
Dry Goods, Grocris
Grockry, Glasswar
Dress Patterns
And a nice selection of dress
goods. The Stock is select
ed with the purpose of pleas
ing the public and giving
them everything new. Fine
holiday gifts can be selected
from my large assortment
of glassware and lamps.
Doehne Block Opposite Arnold's Store.
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DRY GOOS, NOTIONS AND GROCERIES.
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I also carry a large line of Groceries and canned fruits
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goods at very low prices,
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compelled to sell my stock of heaw winter goods at cost.
This stock includes ladies' and children's hoods and caps shawl*
gloves and mittens, heavy flannels andUnderwear,Hosiery,and Yarns~
which by the way are selling for 5 cents a skein, and blankets and
quilts at greatly reduced figures.
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