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WILLMAR TRIBUNE.
Published every Tuesday at
WILLMAR, MINNESOTA,
-BY-
JOHNSON & LAWSON.
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OFFICE IN GILGER BLOCK.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 1896.
PEOPLES' TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
OF NEBRASKA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
THOMAS E.WATSON,
OF GEORGIA.
FOR CONGRESSMAN, 7TH DIST.,
EDWIN E.LOMMEN,
OF POLK COUNTY.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
JOHN LIND,
of Brown County.
For Lieut. Governor,
J. M. BOWLER,
of Renville County.
For Secretary of State,
JULIUS S. HEINRIOHS.
of Hennepin County.
For State Treasurer,
ALEXANDER McKINNON.
of Polk County.
For Attorney General,
JOHN A KEYES,
of St. Louis County.
COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative,
CHRISTIAN JOHNSON,
of Willmar.
For Auditor,
NELS QUAM,
of New London.
For Treasurer,
N. O. NELSON,
of Whitefield.
For Sheriff,
A. T. BOGART,
of Willmar.
For Register of Deeds,
O. S REIGSTAD,
of Arctander.
For Clerk of Court,
JOHN T. OTOS,
of Willmar.
For County Attorney,
P. H. FRYE,
of Kandiyohi.
For Judge of Probate,
SAM'L OLSON,
of Willmar.
For Surveyor,
N. G. HIGHSTROM,
of Colfax.
For Supt. of Schools,
W. D. FREDERICKSON,
of Fahlun.
For Coroner,
Dr. O. T. HOFTOE,
of New London.
For County Commissioners:
1st District. OTTO NELSON,
of Mumre 3rd, A. J. SMITH
SON, Roseville 5th, J. S.
TROMBURG, of East Lake
Lillian.
WHICH IS THE WORSE, INCIT
ING TO FRAUD OR OM
MITTING A FRAUD?
The Minneapolis Journal, Oct.
the 9th has the following editori
al:
"Reports come from Cottonwood
county where Judge Perkins of Win
dom has been stumping for silver, to
the effect that the speaker is advising
'to allow the Wall street gold bugs
to foreclose their mortgages, and then
take their year's redemption, by which
time Bryan will have been elected and
they can pay the mortgages in cheap
er money.' In other words, Judge
Perkins, if he is correctly reported, is
pointing out the way to repudiation
whereby the farmers may rob their
creditors of half their due. This is
the real purpose of the free'silver
movement, stated somewhat more
frankly, it is true, than it is usually
stated by the silver orators, but still
the same in essence.
Judge Perkins' advice is by no means
sate even if the farmers were disposed
to follow it He assumes that the
courts would be just as dishonest as
the plan he is advocating. That mat
ter has been discussed by lawyers of
„, mffeh more distinguished ability than
Judge Perkins, and the general ver
4$efc is that the man who relies upon
th« promises of #)N»nt dollars to pay
100-cent dollar debts will get the worst
of it. even if Bryan should be elected.
In the first place, any^man whose
mortgage may be over-due, and a great
many are, will have forfeited all claims
to any further leniency on the part of
his creditor, and must expect to meet
fhe vigorous execution of the law with
out delay. If his mortgage contains
a gold clause, and gold has gone to
a premium, it will be just that much
harder for him to pay the debt.than it
is now. Any suggestion that the pay
ment of the gold contract can be avoid
ed is without proper foundation. The
man who loaned the money loaned 100
cent dollars. He is entitled to pay
ment in 100-cent dollars, and the
courts will protect him in his claim.
Otherwise justice is a farce and gov
ernment a sham."
Now we will grant for the sake
of argument that Judge Perkins
is correctly reported and that
farmers should pay their debt in
silver dollars in the future, where
is the fraud? Every intelligent
person knows by this time that
the silver dollar is a 100-cent dol
lar now, and always will be. We
propose to coin the very same sil
ver dollar in the very same dices
that we have used heretofore, of
full weight to wit: 412^ grain of
standard silver, the 16 to 1 dollar.
That dollar pays legally and equit
ably every obligation and written
bond owed by the United States
government. William McKinley
himself voted for the Matthews
resolution in 1878, and this reso
lution says it does do that. The
United States government takes
it for 100 cent for custom dues
and taxes of all kinds and will
take if offered 500,000,000 of them
every year. Every state gov
ernment will and must accord
ing to law, take each and evejy
412£ grain silver dollar offered
them for taxes aud dues of all
kinds for 100 cents, and they
take annually another 500,000,000
of them if tendered. Thus there
is provided in taxes alone, state
and national redemption of 1,000,
000,000 of silver dollars annually
at 100 cents. To still keep assert
ing that a silver dollar is only
worth 50 cents when the govern
ment, national and state, stands
ready to redeem all our silver dol
lars twice every year for 100 cent
is too ridiculous for any person of
common sense to listen to. Such
assertion is a gross insult to com
mon sense. It proves that our
gold bug advocates look upon the
people of this country as a lot of
ignorant fools, ready to swallow4»cause
the grossest trash and rot. In
deed, if the people of the United
States can be deceived by such
humbug as this* 50 cent dollar
talk then we admit, that we as a
people are utterly unfit for self
government A south sea Is
land savage couldn't be fooled by
such clumsy and ridiculous
tricks. And it is on th 50 cent
dollar humbug that they base
their charges of repudiation!
Give us a rest gentlemen! Talk
a semblence of sense anyhow, if
you must talk for the gold stand
ard. To not insulr, the intelli
gence of this long suffering and
over-patient American people too
much. We pray you for your
own sake to let up a little. The
common herd isn't quite so dense
as you take them to be.
C.J.
The Republican Gazette quotes
an extract from a Graceville pa
per on a joint debate between F.
M. I:ddy and E. E. Lorn men.
Now the real facts are that Lom
men did up Mr. Eddy so bad that
Eddy declared afterwards that
he would never debate with that
Norwegian again. We have that
from a reliable party from Grace
ville who was present and saw
the whole encounter. Mr. Lom
men is ready to debate with Mr.
Eddy anytime and anywhere
from now on to. election day.
Mr. Lommen does not go around
and make auy great blow. He is
in fact as all know an ordinary
farmer, but he can whip Eddy
any day in public debate. Bro.
Crosby should not talk about de
bate after the biggest gold-bug
champion of America Jim Mc
Cleary refused, to meet an ordi
nary man like Prof. T. J. Caton.
MarkHanna wrote to the $t.
Paul Dispatch last week and in
his letter stated that "Something
must be done to counteract the
work of our »opponents in the
Northwest, and
IMMEDIATE
S^^Sf,
action
is necessary.'vtt Andv still they
are trying to make us ^believe
that confidence of McKinley's
election had something to do with
*iS*
OUR COUNTY TICKET.
Brief Mention of Our Different
County Candidates.
N.O. Nelson, of' Whitefield,
was nominated for the office of
treasurer. Mr. Nelson is one of
the prominent farmers of White
field, honest and true and very
popular. He is well known all
over the county as a man who has
always stood in the front rank of
those who have labored to ad
vance the interest of the masses.
Mr. Nelson will prove a strong
candidate, and if elected, as he
no doubt will be, an efficient and
accomodating officer.
W. D. Fredrickson of Lake
Elizabeth was chosen as the can
didate for Supt. of schools of the
county. Mr. Fredrickson is well
known all over the county as a
competent school teacher emi
nently qualified to make a first
class school superintendent.
He made the race two years ago
and came near being elected.
This year he will undoubtedly
get there, and he will be an honor
to the party, and Kandiyohi coun
ty,
Dr. O T. Hoftoe of New Lon
don was nominated for coroner.
Dr. Hoftoe is a graduate of Rush
Medical College of Chicago, is a
well qualified physician and an
ardent populist. While we hope
there wont be much coroner's
business during the next two
years, we can assure our readers
that Dr. Hoftoe is the man to tend
to what there may be. The Doc
tor deserved the recognition for
his fearless independence in
maintaining-his honest convic
tions on the burning issues of
the day.
John T. Otos was nominated
for clerk of court. Mr. Otos has
lived in Willmar for 22 years.
He is one of the many able' men
that the people's party has got
from the prohibition party. Mr.
Otos is a very competent busi
ness man, careful and accurate.
He is very popular all over the
county and is. one of the strong
est men on the ticket. John Otos
is a force in the people's party
and his untiring energy for our
deserves the recognitionhe
has been given. John Otos is
just the man for clerk of court.
O. S. Reigstad of the Town of
Arctander was nominated for
this office. Mr. Reigstad is a
farmer. He nas served as coun
ty commissioner with credit and
is a highly respectable and com
petent man. The delegates from
Norway Lake and Arctander
came down to the convention and
requested that their locality be
recognized -by the nomination of
Mr. Reigstad for register of
deeds. Everybody conceded th%
justness of their request, Mr.
Reigstad will, make an efficient
officer and is a veryestrong can
didate.
P. H. Frye, Esq. was nominated
for the office of county attorney.
Mr. Frye is a well qualified and
competent lawyer, although he
resides on his farm, two miles
east of Willmar. If elected to
the office of county attorney he
will tend to the official duties
thereof in a manner that will be
highly satisfactory to the people
of Kandiyohi county. Mr. Frye
is one of our Jtig hearted noble
men in this cause for the right of
the people. Twice when there
was no prospect of election he
has fought campaigns for the
building up of our party. Now
the people will reward him by
electing him, and at the same
time secure a highly competent
official.
Hon. Nels Quam, our candidate
for county auditor, is up for of
fice with a salary attached for the.
first time in his long political
career. Mr. Quam has spent
more time and money in the po
litical reform movement in Kand
iyohi county then perhaps any
other individual/ He has served
with distinction in the legislature,
is an expert accountant and will
make a model auditor The peo
ple of Kandiyohi county will elect
him hy & big vote, as a well de
served recognition of his many
years of servic^ein'furthering the
interest of b^s fellow farmers.
No more deserving compliment
OT
the~*ecmfc .slight .risein wheat, .was gken,by.ihe "people's paW 4idjwunty?coniniissioner:^^
L*fe^'
'^Ifif^
•5iew"
convention than the nomination
of Mr. Quam for auditor.
JUDGE OF PROBATE.
For this honorable and respon
sible office Samuel Olson Esq. of
Willmar was nominated. Mr.
Olson is one of our young rising
attorneys. He is a son of the
well-known furniture dealer, 1. C.
Olson, one of the oldest and most
prominent business men of Will
mar. He is a graduate of the
law department of the University
of Minnesota, and of more than
usual ability. Last spring he
was chosen president of the
Young Men's Republican Club of
Willmar. Ho began then for the
first time to study che political
question of the day so as to
be able to defend his creed.
And like many a man before him,
while studying to defend repub
lican principles, he found that he
was compelled to resign his posi
tion at the head of the republican
club and get over into the ranks
of the free silver army. Mr. Ol
son deserves great credit for
having courage to stand up for
what his judgment told him to be
the true political faith not-with
standing the flattering prospects
held out to him for advancement
and honor in the party he left.
Mr. Olson is already building up
a good law practice, and his cour
age to dare and do what is right
under all circumstances is the
best recommendationtothepublic
who may trust him with their
business He was averse to run
for office, but his eminent quali
fication for judge of probate made
him the proper man for our con
vention to nominate lor that
office His many friends, not
only in the free silver ranks but
in the republican party as well,
who admire this bright Willmar
boy, will see that he is elected by
an overwhelming majority.
Mr. A. T. Bogart for sheriff
was an especially well deserved
compliment to a man who is a
martyr in the cause of down trod
den humanity. For understand
Mr. Bogart is^qiot now out of his
employment "and blacklisted for
anything he has done in his own
interest. The A. R. U. strike
was inaugurated to give the poor
ly paid trackman and section
hand his just recognition Some
one above the ranks of these
manual laborers had to espouse
their cause, and Conductor Bo
gartf on account of his high
standing was chosen to represent
them. His cause won, but he
fell at the front of battle Every
man who is earning his daily
bread by the sweat of his brow
in the employ of a mighty cor
poration»and every farmer who
has a boy that may some day be
compelled to do so, should step
up in his booth on election'day
and cast his vote for A. T. Bo
gart for sheriff. By this act you
can in some measure recognize
the worth of humanity and prin
ciples and make Mr. Bogart feel,
that though the R. R. revenged
itself on him for his fidelity to
his fellow men, you the common
people of Kandiyohi county have
in so far as you can redress the
wrong done him, and protested
against the iron handed treat
ment of him by the railroad com
pany. The people's party, true
to its sympathy for the A. R. U.
cause in particular and the labor
cause in general, did itself honor
in placing Mr. Bogart on its tick
et for the responsible office of
sheriff.
Our convention also nominated
three county commissioners, one
each for the 1st, 3rd and 5th dis
trict. Otto Nelson of Mam re for
the 1st. Mr. Nelson is a compe
tent man, a respected and well-to
do farmer, who will tend to the
county matters in the best pos
sible manner.
A. J. Smithson of Roseville was
nominated for the 3rd district.
He will contest the race with Law
yer Haselton. Mr- Smithson is
one of the prominent, oldest and
most respected citizens of the
northern part efthe county and
aud will of course be elected by a
large majority.
J. S. Tromburg was nominated
for the 5th district. Mr. Trom
burg is a leading farmer of East
Lake Lillian. He has been as
sessor of the town for a number
d£yearsX *Hj -will m&ke ^a splen-
DEFECTIVE PAG
E
N. G. Highstrom, for many
years in the past surveyor of
this county was again nominated
for this office. Mr. Highstrom is
a good surveyor and will, and
ought to, be elected.
The people of Kandiyohi have
no particular fault to find with
our republican brethren, but they
realize now that achange once in
a while is a mighty fine thing. We
are happy to be able to present
to them such excellent material
for a change as the above candi
dates for county officers on the
people's party ticket.
ATO N-MC'CLEARY.
The Silver Knight Exposes the
Fallacies of the Gold Stan
dard Gladiator.
"What do I think of McClea
ry's speeches?" said Prof. T. J.
Catou, who has been chasfng
Congressman McCleary through
the Second district, vainly en
deavoripg to run him into a de
bate, "what do I think of his
speeches? Well I'll tell you.
They are simply hours of soph
istry. There is not a sound,
economic principle in his speech.
You will not find a single author
ity quoted to sustain his state
ments, not a line of argnment to
support his conclusions. He is
wise in keeping out out of a joint
debate.
"When his speech first came
out it composed 74 pages, two
months later it was a speech of
50 odd pages the one now circul
ating contains^ about a dozen
pages. They all purport to be
his speech, delivered in congress.
The more the Republicans study
it the smaller they make it. If
the evolution keeps up it will be
a speech of one page before elec
tion day. He denies the quant
itative theory of money, and en
joys the doubtful honor of asser
ting that all the great economic
writers and statesmen on the
world were wrong when they
announced that 'prices are con
trolled by the volume of money
in circulation.' Pro£ McCleary
denies this universally establish
ed proposition but gives neither
argument nor authority to sus
tain his denial. Then in closing
his speech he denies himself and
affirms the correctness of the
economists by saying tbat free
coinage will drive 600 millions of
gold out of circulation and that will
bring on a panic cyclonic in its
ravages. Now panics are always
due to a contraction of the cur
rency aud panics ^always pro
duce falling prices, and therefore,
according to McCleary,in begin
ning his speech, the volume of
money does not control prices of
commodities but in closing his
speech he reasons that contract
ing the money volume brings
falling prices.
"Again he tells us that an era
of peace results in falling prices.
Now all economists and states
men agree that falling prices re
suit in poverty, misery, de
gradation, bankruptcy and nat
ional decay. Therefore, accord
ing to McCleary, an era of peace
will bring us into bankruptcy
and ruin. If we have peace for
a few more years we are ruined
by falling prices and if we go to
war to get higher prices we must
suffer the ravages of battle. It
is a new order of statesmanship
he ushers in that informs us that
we must go to war to obtain
prosperity.
"Again, he tells us that wheat
has fallen since 1873, because of
overproduction and labor saving
machinery since that date. Then
in the same speech he informs
us that farmers sold wheat be
fore the war at 54 cents per bus
hel and took their pay in wildcat
bank currency. Well before the
war we did not have overproduc
tion, or improved machinery,
and yet we had 50 cent wheat.
So his statement that cheap
wheat is caused thereby must be
false.
"He says silver has fallen be
cause of overproduction. Then
he shows that the increase in the
production of gold is as great
that of silver But gold has not
fallen. He does not tell us that
gold is kept up by the open mint,
and silver has fallen because of
the closed mint.
"He says that we now produce
annually in the United States and
for years have produced -more
than one thousand times as much
8.J^M%
silver as we did before the war.
Yet in 1858 we produced $500,000
worth of silver. Multiplying
that sum by 1,000 gives us five
hundred million—about three
times as much as the entire word
produces annually."
"These are a few of a score or
more absurdities, false statistics
and fallacious reasoning I find in
his congressional speech. Is it
any wonder it is revised and cut
down every moon? But his
campaign speech is far more
fallacious. He says he favors
the coinage of silver on govern
ment account, and the free coin
age people favor the coinage of
silver on private account. But,
if he favors the coinage of silver
dollars on government account,
why did he vote to repeal the
1
Sherman law in 1893, when under
that law silver was coined on
government account? How
many dollars each month does he
favor coined on government ac
count? How soon does he want
such a law enacted, and how
would such a law differ from the
Sherman law, which he was ac
tive in destroying? The fact is
he does not want silver coined at
all,and puts up the 'government
account' plea to hoodwink his
constituency who are bimetall
ists. If he is in favors of coin
ing on government account all
the silver offered for sale to the
government, then there is no
difference between that and free
and unlimited coinage. In either
case silver would be worth $1.29
per ounce. But if he limits the
amount of silver bought on gov
ernment account, then such coin
age will have all the defects of
tne Sherman law, and the silver
dollars will not contain 100 cents
worth of bullion.
"He says he is opposed to bi
metallism because the "thing"
won't work. That one of the
metals will go to the mint and
the other to the market. Now
that is false, unless by "market"
he means the mint of another
country that coins the metal on
more favorable terms. He well
knows that we failed to get the
concurrent ciucttlation of both
metals before 1873 because we
did not adopt the French ratio of
15£ to 1. He tells us, that money
is cheaper today than ever be
fore, and proves it by saying
that interest is cheaper than
ever before, the cheap interest
means that gold has cheapened
instead of appreciated. Yet
every economic student knows
that it is dear money that pro
duces cheap interest. Interest
on money is like the value of the
crop on a farm. When the land
is high the crop does not yield so
large an income on the invest
ment,
Again, Prof. McCleary says
"You ask one of those gentle
men why he favors free coinage
on government account, and he
will probably answer as a friend
of mine answered me not long
ago. He said: am in favor
of free coinage because the mer
chants, lawyers, doctors, bank
ers and all these men who have
got ahead in life are against it,
and for that simple reason I am
for it."
Now, that statement is the
rankest sort of demagogism, and
the only redeeming feature is
that the man into whose mouth
Prof. McCleary puts those words
is a "friend" of his. But no such
person ever existed, nor did any
person ever make such a remark.
The statement was made by Prof.
McCleary as an appeal to prej
udice, ignorance, and passion,
arguments which well become
the advocates of the gold stand
ard, which is so good that his
party is pledged to destroy it.
Again, he says, "bimetallism
never did work in any country,
and never will work." And yet,
he is a member of the Repubican
party which is pledged to give us
bimetallism as soon as "Mamma"
will give her consent. But the
bimetallic system was good en
ough for Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, and Lineoln, and for the
first time in the history of our
country have we produced a pro
digy in statesmanship, who has
discovered that the financial
system of our constitution, won't
work, and never did work.' The
statesmanship of our great he
roes who builded our republic
of Bismarck, who made the Ger
man empire great of all the econ
omic writers since Adam Smith,
are at last, discovered to be only
kA
m^mrruFi1'' .JM »wim^" J""ffI'-WHK
"pothouse" politicians in'their
financial systems, foisting upon
nations a currency system that
"never did work, nor never can."
Who would have thought that
our beloved state would have a
son who would made an economic
-discovery that would blot out the
records for wisdom of the time
honored statesmen of the past?
Again, be says "you can't legis
late value into money," and a lit
tle later, says, "free coinage
might rai&e the price of silver to
120 cents per ounce, but not to
129 cents per ounce, then it would
drop back again to about 50 cents
per ounce. He gives no reason
for its refusal to rise to 129 cents,
after it has risen from 69 cents to
120 cents nor does he give any*
reason for its fall to 50 cents after
it has risen to 120 cents. He
simply dogmatizes and we are
supposed to believe. We sup
pose he means to tell us that sil
ver will go up at first, because aU
the silver of the world will be
dumped upon us and then it
would fall back to 50 cents, when
the dumping process is complete,
and silver bullion gets scarce
again. It is so natural you
know for prices to rise when the
market is flooded, and for prices
to fall when the supply is about
exhausted.
Then again, how effective and
beautiful was that master stroke
of his, in the middle of his three
hours of kindergarten talk to rest
the wearied virtue of his too
patient audience while they sing
at his request "America,"
"Sweet Land of Liberty, etc."
where the gold standard have
given us four million enforced
idlers, the sweat shops of our
great cities, where girls and
mothers toil for 15 cents a day,
and are expected to add to their
wages the earnings of a life of
shame to keep alive the spark of
life in the tenement of clay, that
has closed our mills, covered our
homes with mortgages, turned
our farmers into serfs, bankrupt
ed hundreds of thousands of our
business men, fiUed our jails, asy
lums, penitentiaries, almhouses
with the children of crime, born
of the poverty that follows in the
wake of the goia standard
wherever corruption, bribes
and fraud sets it up. "Sweet
land of Liberty," where the labor
ing men, to hold their employ
ment, must sacrifice their right
of free thought, free speech, and
free ballot. Such maudlin appeal
to the National hymn to arouse
enthusiasm for the betrayer, and
enslaver of the human race, will
be met by0 the stern rebuke of
eight million patriots at the bal
lot box on November 3rd. "For
right is right since God is God
and right, the day must win. To
doubt would be disloyalty to fal
ter would be sin."—Penny-Press,
"Consistency, thou art a jew
el. Thus 'exclaimed the sage of
old, and thus we are tempted to
exclaim in viewing the desperate
capers cut by Bro. Birch. If we
remember rightly a few years ago
he was an ardent free silverite
and denounced in strong terms
the demonetization of silver. To
day he is eulogizing the republi
can party and the gold standard
and as far as we know he has not
given one single word in expla
nations of his sudden change of
front. It seems that even Bro.
Birch is in the clutches of Wall
street, Lombard street or 4th
street, and lacks the manhood
and courage to stand up and fight
for his convictions.
Bro. Crosby is undoubtedly
one of the rankest partisans in
the country. When John Lind
was yet a member of the repub
lican party, Bro. Crosby was one
of the foremost to shout Glory
Hallelujah for "Honest John."
Now that Lind has decided to
cast his lot with the free silver
ites Bro. Crosby can find no epi
thet too opprobrious to apply to
him.
Old papers for sale at the
BUNE office."
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OLE J. BECKrmOPRIETO&
Good Accomodations
for Travelers and Good Stabling
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