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«t. If* '& LT« .*« WILLMAR TRIBUNE. Published every Tuesday at WILLMAR, MINNESOTA, -BY- JOHNSON & LAWSON. VICTOR E. LAWSON, Editor and Business Manager. CHRISTIAN JOHNSON, Special Edi torial Contributor. ADVERTISEMENTS —Display ad's Inser. tod for 15 cents per inch per week Liberal discounts when taken in large quantities or when leftstanding- Local reading notices will be inserted for 5 cents per line each week Write for terms for the pxiblication of legal notices The WILLMAR TRIBUNE has a larger pen. oral circulation In Kandiyohi county than any other newspaper Our subsciiption books are open for inspection to advertisers SUBSCRIPTION price if paid before end offlrstyear. $1 00a year if delinquent long er, $1 2D a year will oecharged CONTRIBUTIONS of news items or short, pithy articles on questions of general inter est aie thankfully leceived, when the name o. ohe writer is made known to the editors. Rtguiar news correspondents wanted ii every locality not already repiesented Write for terms and instructions OFFICE IN GILGER BLOCK. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 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 L1ND, of Brown County. For Lieut Governor, J. BOWLER, of Renville County. For Secretary of State, JULIUS S. HEINRICHS. 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. N E S QUAM, of New London. For Treasurer, X. O. NELSON, of Wbitetield. 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. FREDERICKSON, of Fahlun For Coroner, Dr. O. I. HOFTOE, of New London. For County Commissioners: 1st District. OTTO NELSON, of Mamre 3rd, A. J. SMITH SON, Roseville 5th, J. S. TROMBURG, of East .Lake Lillian. "MCKINLEY, SPEAK OUT. Every day the New York World prints an editorial with the above heading, yet it never,meets with a response trom McKinley, and never will. How the World'can support him, considering its own opposition to the trusts, and the fact that McKinley is their can didate, is beyond comprehension. Its issue of the'6th contained this leader: SPEAK OUT MCKINLEY. "Mr. Bryan's explicit and em phatic declaration against trusts, in his Tammany Hall speech, cer tainly entitles Mr. McKinley to the floor on this subject. Mr. s* ., Bryan saidi 'I am opposed to the trusts and if I am elected I shall use as an & Executive what power I shall hava to drive every trust out1 of existence. 'If present laws are -\„nofcsufficient to meet this evil, I, elected will recommend such 'laws as will meet it. If the Con stitution of the United States is & »fio constructed as to prevent any ^interference with the operation of a trust, I shall recommend such an amendment to the Con- this board expects action to be stitution as will overcome that taken and in the part of the at evil.' "What has McKinley to say on the subject? He knows that the trusts are not myths. He must have seen the list of 189 of them in the World. He must be aware of the purely arbitrary advance of $1.50 a ton in the price of coal trust. He cannot be ignorant of their extortions and robberies by these ^monopolies. He has seen Senator Sherman's opinion, telegraphed to the World, that 'no doubt the existing anti-trust law can be enforced by a presi dent and vigorous attorney-gen eral sympathy with it.' "What does he think of trusts? Does he thiuk they ought to be suppressed? Will he say as much as Mr. Bryan did? Can he afford to say less? "We can tell him that the peo ple are thinking very deeply and warmly on this question. Hun dreds of thousands of votes may depend upon it. With the elec tion now to all appearances like ly to turn upon the votes of the Central Western States, where the feeling against monopolies is very strong, a silence that ap pears to give consent may prove hazardous to the Republican can didate. "What do you think about trusts "Speak out, Mr. McKinley!"— St Cloud Times. ATTY. GEN. CHILDS. The Honorable Reversible H. W Childs made a big side play for public favor in the Jim Hill Northern Pacific Consolidation matter, but his record shows that his ear is trained to catch the slightest pulsation in the neighborhood ot Jim Hill's pocket, and that in spite of his professions of friendship for the common people, and his party's declarations in favor of the tax ation of railroad lands he is unal terably opposed to the policy of railroad land taxation and will de lay and oppose it whenever an opportunity presents itself. In response to a resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners of Polk county December 5th, 1895, and submit ted to the attorney general for his opinion as to whether or not quowaranto proceedings could be instituted to terminate the ex istence of the St. P. M. & M. Ry. Co. as a corporation, on the ground that it had ceased to ex ist for the purpose for which it was created The following com munication was received. State of Minnesota Attorney Generals's Office, St. Paul, Jan. 27, 1896. MR. JOHN GLEASON, County Auditor, Crookston, Minn. DEAR SIR. I am in receipt of your communication of the 20th inst in which you apprise me of the resolution recently adopted by your board of county commis sioners, relative to the St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company. I am at a loss to understand why your board have requested me to advise them upon the ques tion submitted. It has nothing whatever to do with their official duties, and I must therefore de cline to express an opinion upon the subject. I am, very truly yours H. W CHILDS, Attorney General. Reply to the above letter Com missioner Norland offered the fol lowing resolution which was adopted by the board January 28th, 1896. "Whereas, on the 27th day of January, 1896, the attorney gen eral of the state forwarded to this board a communication, wherein he stated that he was at a loss to understand the reason for a cer tain resolution heretofore passed by this board calling for his opin ion-as to whether quo waran to proceedings could not be suc cessfully prosecuted to terminate the existence of the St. P. M. & U. Ry. Co. Therefore, be it resolved, that the auditor inform th9 attorney general that the reason for our action was to insure the payment of taxes on lands now held by said company in this country in the near future, should said cor porations existence ba termina ted and that as -representatives of the taxpayers of this "county \J torney general in this matter at once." State of Minnesota, Attorney General's. Office St. Paul Feb. 25,1896. MR. JO»N GREASON, County Auditor Crookstonj Minn. DEAR SIR: Your communica tion of the 21 inst advising me of a resolution recently adopted by your Board of County Commis sioners is just received. I note the purpose as therein expressed of the former resolution of wh'ch you heretofore advised me. The resolution referred to in your re cent communication fully ex plains the purpose of the former one. The matter will therefore receive proper consideration, lam very truly yours, H. W. CHILDS, Attorney General. His letter was dated Feb.25th, 1896. It is now Sept. 23rd, but nothing more has yet been heard from him in regard to the mat ter. He is evidently still giving it "proper" consideration, and will undoubtedly continue to do so unless the exigencies of the present campaign-compell him to resurrect the political capital.— Mcintosh Times. THE GAZETTE STORIES. Willmar Tribune' Lommen and Johnson divide the time at the meet ing at Irving Tuesday evening with Henry Peig, the Republican candidate for the legislature. It took the silver men just one minute to decide to con sent to the debate. Nevertheless, the Doctor, in opening his speech, said it was a Populist meeting, that the Popu lists had made all arrangements for it, and would use all the time they saw fit, and that Republi cans could have a talk after he and Lommen finished if they wanted to. Mr. Feigwas unable to be there, being at home sick with an attack of pleurisy, but it is evident the Populist managers had no intention of allowing him the privilege of talking even if he had been there. At the conclu sion of the meeting some one proposed three cheers for Lom men, and there was a faint re sponse but when three cheers for McKinley were proposed, a mighty shout went up that made even the shingles rattle.—Will mar Gazette. Nevertheless, Bro. Crosby, you are mistaken again, and I know you are misstating the fa cts, and so does every man that was at the meeting. I told the pie there that inasmuch as meeting had been cabled for men, that gentlemilp^*'" accorded the floor nlfc that I would debate Feigall night if necessi was told by several parties tjat Feig was there before we came, and also that he was in the im mediate vicinity all the time. I do not know as to the truth of those reports, but I do know that I was ready to- debate with Mr. Feig any time_and to claim other wise is a falsehood. There was a drunken, howling and braying mob outside disturbing the meet ing by shouts for McKinley much to disgust of those present and you are welcome to what comfort you can get from that. pee But then I notice that the columns of the Gazette are full of misrepresentation against our candidates. Well, Bro. tCrosby, if you are going into personalities we are loaded too, and we can show up such moral rotteness in your camp, state and county, that it wil} make your ears tingle. I give you fair warning, Bro. Cros by. Be careful that you don't raise a certain evil [genius that you can't put down again. C.J. CROSBY ON LIND, ETC. Bro. Crosby is trying to direct attention from his position in a deep and muddy hole on the John Lind matter by shouting to the people to look at the Doctor. Well the Doctor has the advantage Bro. Crosby that he never used personalities against any man. He even spoke kindly of the re publican candidate for governor, when you-afiti-Crough were ed nouncing him—as the lowest and vilest moral wretch in the state, And it is only a few months ago, Bro. Crosby, that you weredoing tfcis. So much for the Clough side of your honest stand! Now 4o the Lind side of youw Here, is what you say noWUt *4"s* ?t"We shouted for Mr, Lind I W republpananddo- ing loyal and able work for that party but we oppose him now that he is doing his best to defeat and destroy that party, and, as we conscienciously believe, advo cating a policy that if carried into effect would bring further hard ship and distress to our people," John Lind should have at least 2,000 votes in Kandiyohi county this fall for governor, and if the people are alive to their own in terests they will most assuredly cast their votes for him. It is their only hope of getting a chance to bust the ring which is robbing them. Clough, if re-elected, will keep the same old gang in office, and the railroads will still be pro tected in their extortionate rates of freight. As it is now the rail roads get about 25 per cent of the price of produce for hauling it from here to Minneapolis. The prices of what the farmer raises have fallen fully one-half, but there has been no ordering a re ductionof railroad rates, although the roads can haul the grain to market for less than 'VMjpwhat they could a few years ago, be cause they have improved facili ties and can with one crew and one engine, haul four times as much at a load, and they pay less tho for the crew, but* they put the ffferenot th*eir pockets, and railroad and'warehouse a fipi^ain in which 0gt become con- St the rates ought to be raised instep%f lowered.—At water Press. a The largest gathering ever as sembled at the Atwater town hall with one exception, to listen to a political speech, was that which greeted Prof T. J. Caton last Monday evening, although no ex tra efforts were made to get out a crowd, the ordinary announce ments in the Press and small posters sufficing. There was no band, nor torchlight parade, yet the hall was tilled to its utmost capacity and many remained on the sidewalk. Prof. Caton spoke entirely on the silver question, devoting three hours to it, and was given close attention from beginning to end. The speech was of course highly appreciated by the friends of silver, who are loud in their praises of it. Those who are as yet open to conviction on the financial question were well pleased with the fairness in which the question was handled, while those who are unalterably on the side of gold, could see nothing to commend and much to condemn. The streets have been constantly lined with small groups of men discussing the question pro and con ever since, and that shows that, whether many votes were made for silver or not, the speech had set people to thinking and talking, and that in itself is a goo* thing for all sides of all questions. Press. A*—*" -Atwate- A MANLY STAND. Still they are coming: A pro minent Republican in Renville county sees the light and resigns his candidacy for Supt. of schools. But you know Bro. Crosby that John Lind advocated the same policy last spring and early sum mer, and for that matter for years past, that he does now. You, and all intelligent men know, that Mr. Lind has not changed his princi ples, but that the republican par ty changed its principles at St. Louis by declaring for the first time in its existence for the single gold standard, and that Mr. Lind could not remain in the party without going back on all he ever said or done before on the money question Stop this silly twaddle Bro. Crosby. You are too worthy a man to be aping Henry Feig on this gubernatorial ticket. If you keep it up the people of Kandi yohi county will soon look upon the Gazette the same light that and that I guilty they now look upon the empty spoutings of the Harrison Lind Clough, silver-gold statesman. The usual republican roorbacks, and campaign tricks wont work ly^our.relations may nopersonals be les this fall, Bro Crosby. The peo ple are onto them. You can neither hurt John Lind nor the Doctor in this county, but only yourself, by your foolish and abortive efforts to besmirch their personal character. The only thing jthat will start the factories is orders for goods. The mills canuoti run long on "confidencce'" evei^ should Mc-held Kinley be elected? Raise the prices of the who constitute thejbome market the American farmfers, and there a great disappointment to the re will be Br little left I aftejr paying publicans who bank(?) on bis d© interest ito spend the stores* feat. SACRED HEART, MINN., IT xr x, 1 2 1 8 9 6 C. H. NIXON, ESQ., Chairman Republican Co. Com. Hector, Minn. DEAR SIR:—I have not yet been notified of my nomination as Superintendent of Schools but in as much as the time for ac ceptance of candidates will soon expire, I shall not wait longer, but write to inform you that it will be impossible for me to make the race upon the Republican ticket. To be perfectly frank with you, my convictions upon the great issues before the peo ple and the principles for which the Republican party stands in the pending campaign are so much at variance that I cannot longer act with the party. To vote for Bryan and silver and run for Superintendent ot Schools on the Republican ticket would be twilfnotbe practice duplicity, 1 not be guilty of. And you know it would never do to advocate silver openly and make the race, hence, I beg most respectfully to decline the nomi nation Trustin that we friendly, though in" politics must be antagonistic, I am Very respectfully yours, E. A. MILLER. Politicians of Kandiyohi Co. are not so touchy over such mat ters. Had Mr. Miller the finesse of G. O. P. political workers of our county he would accepted the nomination from the republi cans and placed the office on a "nonpartisan basis." Miller's act was a manly one, however, give one additional days labor to and meets the good citizens. approval of all THE REAL ISSUE. The real issue in this cam paign is very simple. It is this: Whether, as the gold standard men insist, we shall depend on England for our money supply, keep borrowing gold and bond posterity into perpetual bctod slavery, Or whether, We shall use our own money metals in which our mountains abound, pub our idle workmen at digging out the precious metals and open our mints for their con version into money, and pay our debt. That is all there is to it. Take your choice. Every U. S. bond and money obligation is legally and equitably payable in a full weight 16 to 1 silver dollar, such as we propose to coin. To band this country for the sake of paying this debt in gold, while our mountains arje full of silver and millions of men starving for want of work, would seem to be not only a stupendous folly, but a heinous crime against the American people. The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law Nov. 1st, 1893, which put an end to the increase of our stock of silver money, closed our silver mines and sent hundreds of thousands of miners out in the world away from family and home, as tramps and ragabonds was a deed as dark and infamous as is recorded on tbe page of history in modern times. When the Republican party as sisted Grover Cleveland to thus utterly destroy one American in dustry for the benefit of the bond holder, when it utterly ignored the interest of that Rocky moun trin miner, that it might help Cleveland, Carlisle & Co to issue $262,000,000 of bonds, when it Nov. 1st, 1893 laid violent hand on the miner for the benefit of the rich bond holder then the once fair grand old party fell from the battlement of heaven to the dark and dismal bottomless it of a As that dark and bloody act, and its real significance becomes known, as the blood of the miner cries to the American people for vengeance, so shall the down fall be swift and certain of every man, small or great, that had a finger in that bloody deed. £rod[uct& of those and a worker, and is making a strong campaign. He will prove ic C.J. Mr. Lommen left for Becker county Thursday after having three meetings in the coun ty. Mr. Lommen is a hustler i^i Sjsw^a^ *«s(» Hanna: "Say, Grove, he'll be giving us a frhirl next" Carlisle: "I've been therel Oh, I've been there!" In times past when "free trad-, ers" denounced the raising of prices on manufactured goods by means of tariff as a robbery and for the exclusive benefit of the manufacturers, republicans used to hotly resent the charge. Now these same republicans are so shortsighted as to declare that the free coinage of silver would be for the exclusive benefit of the silver mine-owner. McKinley says that free coinage would not any man. Republicans may con sider this "broad statemanship" but most people can clearly see that on injection of new money into our circulating medium would stimulate business, "We have plenty of money in the country' and there is millions of gold ready to come in from England when only confidence is restored," says the goldbug. "We have not enough standard money in the country but we pro pose to utilize the product of our own mines in place of getting farther into debt by loaning from England," says the bi-metallist. Take your choice of methods for getting more money. Tons of campaign matter,— roorbacks—are said to be stored away all over the country by the gold bugs to be turned loose on the people the last few days be fore election in the hope that the silver forces can be stamped ed. It will all be in vain. The people are educating themselves as never before on political ques tions, and will not be misled by lies circulated on the eve of elec tion. The statesman, whose volumi nous voice resembles the roar of many waters, in his travels takes exception to having it called "fog horn." But bless his heart, the term was first applied by his G. O. P. friends in days gone by. The wave of sentiment in favor of an American policy is increas ing daily. The country will be swept clean of toryism Nov. 3rd. N W a —Rocky Mountain News. Next time some republican says he is in favor of coinage of silver on government account ask him why the Republicans helped Grover Cleveland to repeal the only law on the statute books under which the government could purchase silver for the coinage of standard dollars in Nov. 1893, and when they pro pose to authorize the purchase of more? The Argus heads an article, "The ribbon Craze and the Trib une Lies," but fails to point out any falsehood made in our paper. Everyone, however, who was present at the Bryan meeting and reads the Argus report of the number attending and wearing yellow badges will readily see a divergence from the truth. McKinley will not betray a "trust"—No, to judge from his silence on the subject of trusts and monopolies, he is fearful lest people should tumble to the fact that he is the pet of all these il legal combinations of capital. ..16 to i.. Silver Army. A published. A S Populist vote your county tick et from top to bottom. The only hope for the old gang is to secure silver votes. The "silver man" who does not vote the silver ticket is no silver man at all. The Populist National Committe have given out a statement that from knowledge received the following states are reasonably sure for Bryan: Alabama, 11 Arkansas, 8 Flori da, 4 Georgia. 13 Louisiana, 8 Mis sissippi, 9 Missouri, 17, South Caro lina, 9 Tennessee, 12 Texas, 15 Vir ginia, 12 Colorado, 4 Idaho, 3 Mon tana, 3 Nevada, 3: North Dakota, 3 South Dakota, 4 Utah, 3 Washing ton, 4 Wyoming, 3: Kentucky, 13 Kansas, 10 Nebraska, 8, Indiana, 15 North Carolina, 11 Oregon, 4 Cali fornia, 9: Maryland, 8: West Virginia, 6. Total 232, eight more than necces sary to elect. Then there are a list of states in which Bryan's chances are as good as McKinley's, as Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and dela ware. Bryan is sure to carry some of them and hence be elected with a handsome majority. ii Great Campaign Document. 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