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JUDGE FRENCH H0MIN4TED.
The Ninth District Senatorial Convention
Names Him Por Senator.
The Delegation "Was Solid and Enthusiasm
Prevailed.
Speeches Mads by Lind, rench, Jones
and Others.
Jacob Klossner Places the Name of the
Winning Nominee Before
Convention.
The Republican Senatorial Convention
was held at Sleepy Eye, Thursday, and
resulted in a rousing victory for Judge
E. D. French. Early in the morning
the delegates and visitors began to as
semble and the Peterson faction rustled
around for everything that offeied the
slightest hope. At ons o'clock the Red
wood people arrived, full of courage and
detei mined that no resort to tucks should
cheat them out of -what what was justly
their due.
The convention was called to order at
3 o'clock iu Griffith &, Smith's Hall by
Chan man Bigham of the Senatonal com
mittee, the othei membeis of the com
mittee, E G. Koch and H. C. "VVainke,
being also pi escnt M.Biowne of Red
wood comity v,t\s chosen to pieside ovei
the dehbeiations and E, A. Lyman was
elected unanimously as secietaiy. A
committee of ciedentials asthen appoint
ed, consisting of R. E, Devereaux, H. G.
Eaton and Kiook, This committee
found twmtj one Redwood and twenty
Blown delegates entitled to seats The
ongmal delegation, chosen at Sleepy Eye
in June, constituted the representation
ghe to Brown, but of this only four
appeared in the convention-Jacob Kloss
nei Jr., Martin Mueller, L. Spellbiink
and A, A. Lairobee.
The tempoiary organization was made
permanent and the convention at once
pioceeded to the nomination of a Sena
tonal candidate. Jacob Klossner nomin
ated Judge E. D. French of Redwood
Falls, and a second came at once from
the Redwood delegation. The first
and only battot resulted in 41
votes foi French, the Brow county dele
gates present having been empoweied by
the Sleepy Eye convention to cast the
full vote of the delegation. Accordingly
Judge Fiench was declared the nominee
and a committee was appointed to wait
upon him and biing him to the hail.
In the meantime, lesolutions prepared
by a committee consisting of Jacob
Klossner, Jno. N. Jones, Chas. Fleischer,
A. A. Lairabee and Martin Mueller, were
reael as follows
We endoise the platforms adopted by
the State contention, as well as the na
tional Republican platform, and pledge
the nominee of this convention, if elected,
to do his utmost to carry out within his
sphere the punciples embodied in said
platforms.
We point with piide to the acts and
legislation of our party, both in the State
and National legislature, and aige upon
the attention of our fellow citizens of
this district the changed conditions that
un-foitunately prevail over our whole
land since the advent of Democratic rule.
Under Republican rule our people weie
piospeious and happy. A man's labor,
whether in the field or shop, wasieward
ed with plenty. An American was as
piosperous as he was proud. Want, idle
ness and poverty, for the first time in
thnty years, force their unwelcome pres
ence into every American community.
To lemedy this state of affairs so far as
it results fiom political causes, we know
of no other way than to re-instate that
party under whose intelligent and patri.
otic guidance our country grew and
prospered as never before. For these
reasons we ask all good citizens of this
district to aid us in the election of the
nominee of this convention.
Judge French soon arrived and made
a neat little speech of acceptance and
pledged himself to the trust reposed in
him by woiking to secure the greatest
good to the greatest number. He was
received with loud applause.
At this juncture Jno. N. Jones suggest
ed that a committee be appointed to
wait upon W, W. Smith, a member Of
the State Central Committee, and invite
him to address the convention. The
committee returned in a short while and
reported that Mr. Smith declined to ap
pear before them. He had just been
taking a leading hand in the bolt of the
bogus convention which nominated Pe
teison and of course was not in a mood
to manifest his allegiance to the regular
nominee.
Hon. John Lind was called for and
when he arose was greeted with terrific
applause. In the few remarks that he
made, he said that he had been informed
that this convention was to be his funer
al, but he had enjoyed the obsequies and
was glad to look into the faces of his
Republican friends at a time when he
was not a candidate for office. He con
cluded by saying that the convention
was not assembled to further the interests
of anj particular individual but rather
to advance the interests of the masses
and the great party of which he was a
member. He called upon all the dele
gates to go home and testify to its regul
arity and thoroughness, and work from
now until election for the candidate
whom they had placed in nomination.
Speeches were also made by O. B. Tur
rell, Attorney Bowers and Jno. N.Jones.
It adjourned with the best of feeling and
with no fears as to the outcome of thei
deliberations. The rotten work of Sen
ator Peteison and his lieutenants was
only laughed at and ridiculed.
Lind at Sleepy Eye.
Dunng the convention at Sleepy Eye
Thuisday arrangements weie made for a
meeting in the evening at which John
Lind and Jno. N. Jones should speak.
Geo W. Somerville pi esided at this meet
ing and an excellent chaiiman he made
too The glee club of Sleepy Eye opened
with a song, and then Mr. Lind took the
stand. He spoke without pieparation
but made a strong impiession by his no
vel and inteiesting method of handling
public questions. He preluded his re
marks by lccalling how Redwood coun
ty had always stood faithfully by Brown
county whenever she had a citizen for
public honors, and he urged his Brown
county friends to treat Redwood county
as kindly in return.
Drifting into national affairs, he made
a very apt illustration by way of com
paring the thiee great parties. The Dem
ocratic party was a regular old hull
floating down the stream without sails,
without a rudder and apparently with
out any objective direction. The Re
publican party, however, was a full rigged
ship, with every sail set and with a man
at the rudder to guide it safely down the
stream. The Populist party on the other
hand was one with all sails, spread to
catch eveiy wind and liable to be dashed
upon the shoals at any time for lack of a
ruddei. He did not wish to belittle the
party oi ridicule it. Many of its ideas
and theoues were beyond thetimes Re
publican extremists, he called them. The
day might come when their precepts
might be followed to the good of the
country, but this was not the time. He
concluded with a biief probing into the
financial question. Jno. N. Jones, can
didate for representative, and J. R. Lank
ard followed him, each making short but
acceptable speeches.
THEY PICKED JOHN SCHMID.
The Springfield Citizen will be the Demo
cratic Candidate for Senator.
The Convention was held at sleepy
Monday Afternoon.
Eye
John B. Schmid will be the Democra
tic candidate for State Senator. Such
was the conclusion which the Democra
tic joint convention at Sleepy Eye deci
ded upon Monday.
Twenty-one delegates were present, 13
from Brown and 8 from Redwood coun
ty. Dr. J. C. Rothenburg of Springfield
was chosen chairman and Dallas E. Laird
of Redwood Falls secretary. J. H. Stras
ser, M. Juenemann and McLeod of Red
wood seived on the committee on creden
tials and as soon as they had reported,
nominations were made. An informal
ballot resulted as follows: Schmid, 13
McLeod, 5 Addy, 1 Skinner, 1. As
soon as this was announced, McLeod
moved to nominate Schmid by acclama.
tion, and it was done accordingly. The
convention occupied but a few minutes
and was decidedly harmonious.
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When Sam Peterson reached Sleepy
Eye Thursday morning it was after
many months in which his head had
worked with all its cunning. He knew
well enough that the masses of the peo
ple were opposed to him, but he trusted
to his fine Italian hand to manage the
conventions. He had got what he want
ed out of the Republican county conven
tion byspiingingan unwarranted resolu
tion at an unexpected moment, and he
had so much misplaced faith in his slip
pery powers that he thought it was pos
sible to make everybody do his bidding.
But he was terribly disappointed. The
first man he woiked upon was D. L.
Bigham of Redwood Falls, chairman of
the district senatorial committee. To
him he proposed that the committee cut
off one delegate from Redwood county's
appoitionment and thus make their it
piesentation equal to Biown's. But
Bigham knew that it was the custom
with the Republican party to make their
apportionments on the vote cast for the
highest office voted for at the preced
ing election and he therefore adhered to
the call. He also remembered that Pet
erson had been chairman of the senatori
al committee four years ago and had
based the apportionment of the conven
tion that nominated him for senator in
the same manner as was done this year.
It was useless therefore to try to mislead
Bigham and Peterson was compelled to
have all his threats disregarded. Noth
ing was left for him, but to await the ar
rival of the Redwood delegates. Then
his eye became steadfast, his tongue
smooth, his smile bland and his body
busy. But it was all in vain. The Red
wood delegation stood firm and afforded
consolation in minutest quantities. Sam
saw it was of no use to continue the fight
and thought to scare his opponents by
not entering the convention. His faith
ful "twenty" gathered about him and
with disconsolate looks they made for
the Commercial Hotel. They took Dick
Gerdes of Morgan with them. Cautious
ly they guarded the entrance from eaves
droppers. They acted upon the nonsen
sical resolution adopted at the last coun
ty convention and made up their minds
to hold a convention of their own. Gerd
es was there and why, thought Sam,
couldn't he cast twenty votes for his old
chum. Peterson? It was true he was not
a delegate from any convention empow
ered by the people to cast a vete of any
sort, but what mattered that in a gath
ering of the Peterson forces? It was go
ing to be a bolt anyhow,so why shouldn't
VOLUME XT I. NO 40. NEW TJLM, BKOWK COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEB 26. 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 870
THE BOGUS CONVENTION.
Sam Peterson Benominates Himself With
the Aid of Dick Gerdes.
Behind Locked Doors He Holds a Bogus
Convention For the Sake of a Bluff.
W. W. Smith, Central Committeeman, and
H. G-Hays, county chairman, Aid
the Bolt.
Geides also bolt honesty and Redwood
county sentiment? Besides, the chair
man of the Republican county committee
and a member of the State Central Com
mittee were there to see that it was done
after a fashion.
In this rotten manner forty votes were
cast for the champion of the anti-tights
bill, and a messenger was at once dis
patched on a bicycle to file the nomina
tion certificate with the auditor at New
Jim. It was hoped by this trick to keep
out the certificate of Judge French, for
when Secretary Lyman of the regular
convention arrived here Friday morning
Auditor Krook refused at first to accept
the certificate and file it. He was told
however that legal steps would immedi
ately be taken to enforce him to his
duty and then he finally gave in and per
formed what he should have done with
out a moment's hesitation.
Mr. Fink's Address.
Mr. Henry Fink, the German orator,
devoted his time last night especially to
the annals of the Democratic party since
1856, when the Republican party first
became a power in national politics.
He showed that under the Democratic
rule of President Buchanan in 1857 the
financialjand commercial depression was
only equalled by the state of things in
1893, just after the Democrats had as
sumed the reins again. He pointed out
that with the advent of the Republican
party into power in 1861 with Lincoln
as president, began a new era of pros
perity, notwithstanding the war and all
it cost the country, the enormous debt
it created and the economic|loss in the
men who fell on the field of battle.
?£!Trif? S
He showed that from its very tradi
tions and the forces with which itN was
allied before the war and which are still
at work within it, the Democratic party
is naturally for free trade. The South,
which forms the backbone of Democra
tic strength, is naturally an agricultural
conimumty, but those who till the soil
differ from the Northern farmer in being
freed slaves for the most part. This la
bor, it was recognized, could not be util
ized in the more highly developed manu
facturing and mechanical operations,
such as the bulk of the Northern popu
lation engage in.
Again the Democratic party is natur
allly the opponent of the foieigner, be
cause the foreigner who believed in the
dignity oi labor, whether in the shop or
in the field, settled in the free state and
was naturally hostile to slavery. Slav
ery as a political issue was dead, but its
traditions were still to be seen govern
ing the policy of the Democratic party.
The hostility of the Democratic party
has been shown conclusively in its atti
tude to the land laws.
From the very establishment of the
land system Democratic statesmen, and
especially Calhoun, had attacked the
system. The pie-emption and home
stead acts had been enacted thiough Re
publican inf lence and pushed thiough
by Republican statesmen. Under these
laws millions of foieigneis German,
Scandinavian, French and Irish flee
ing from poveity in the old woild, had
sought and estabhbhed homes on the
public domain and attained to honoiable
independence if not to wealth.
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Mr. Fink also dwelt upon the tariff,
and the vast difference between the prom
ises of the Democratic party as set forth
in the Chicago platform and its perform
ances.
In conclusion he spoke of the history
of the Democratic party in Wisconsin
since 1848, and predicted not only an
overwhelming Republican victory in
Minnesota and Wisconsin in the coming
election, but prophesied that every one
of the states this side of the Ohio river
in 1896 would be united under the ban
ner of the Republican party.
Lind's Idea.
Yesteiday we called on Mr. Lind to
get his views as to the outcome of the
Congiessional contest in this di«trict this
fall. Mr. Lind said Judging on the ba
sis of the vote cast four years ago when
Gen. Baker was my opponent, Prof. Mc
Cleary will be elected by upwards of
2000 majority even if Mr. Long is in
duced to withdraw and if Gen. Baker re
ceives the entire non-republican votP.
The strong democratic counties of Le
Sueur and Sibley have been transferred
from the second to the third Congres
sional district since that election and
Waseca has been put into the first.
A comparison of the vote cast in the
counties, now constituting the second dis
trict, in the election of 1890, for Baker
and for myself, shows that I would have
had a majority in the district as nowcon
stitutcd of nearly 1600. This is the vote.
Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Jackson
Lac Qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Baker Lind
2596
1684
484
793
754
1072
675
877
425
622
1143
852
595
752
600
559
648
2606
1371
616
1792
781
843
329
829
1016
644
1347
688
495
935
758
783
869
15131 16702
The Vote of Chippewa county which is
now in the district added to the above
does not vary the relation of those fig
ures. About one half the vote of that
county is republican.
In addition to this it must be bora in
mind that in the election of 1890 the re
publican party had the McKinley bill to
defend ana the alliance movement was
at the heighth of its activity. That was
not a republican year and^this in my
judgment is one. For tbjse reasons I
feel confident that McCleary will have at
least 2000 majority this fall."
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THE DEMOCRATIC HOSTS.
In County*^ Convention They Put up a
Ticket.
Ohas.BerejforBepresentative and Bertrand
For Anditor.
Ffaender an George Benominated by Ac
clamation.
Beinhard, Baasen, Steinhauser, Black and
Schmid the Other Barkises.
The Democratic leaders of the county
got together at the court house last Sat
urday and put in the field a county tick
et. Seventy delegates occupied seats in
the dingy old court room and from two
till five they turned out victims or win
ners as the ides of November may de
cide.
C. W. H. Heideman presided and
Henry Bebnke kept tab of the doin's as
official secretary of the convention. The
chair, upon motion, appoiuted the fol
lowing committees. Credentials, James
Addy, Fr. Jaehn and Geo. Graff Resolu
tions, Dr. Fritsche, Henry Kath and
John B. Schmid. After a brief recess,
the committee on credentials repoited,
and then James Addy, like unto whom
there is no other, took the floor and nom
inated Charles Beig of Sleepy Eye for
repiesentative. John B. Schmid was al
so nominated but withdrew and the name
of Oscar Redding was announced instead.
The ballot made Berg a winner by a vote
of 57 to 10.
For auditor,there were four candidates.
Geo. Graff received 13 votes, E. P. Ber
trand 53 and Henry Behnke 5. Bertrand
was declared the nominee amid applause
For treasurer, as a candidate to lead
the forlorn hope against Burg, Anton
Zieher suggested John Reinhard and C.
W. H. Heideman extolled upon the vir
tues and qualifications of Henry Wehye.
Reinhard was triumphant, receiving 56
votes while Wehye received only 16.
Cnpt. George was renominated without
a dissenting voice and so was Fred Pfa*n
der for Register of Deeds. The popu
larity of these two men was attested in
loud applause:
Fr. Baasen had no oppositiohfor judge
of probate. Neither did Albert Stein
hauser for county attorney nor Dr. Roth
enberg for coioner.
Three men were suggested for shepff—
John Black, N. Heinen and M. Feuer.
The ballot resulted as follows: Black 43,
Heinen 15, Feuer 9 and Nels Anderson
1. Black was declared the nominee.
Jos. Schmid of Springfield was chosen
to contest for the office of supenneend.
ent of schools and Julius Berndt for that
of surveyor.
John Manderfeld will be Matt Roeck's
opponent for commissioner in the second
district, while will battle
with P. D. Raverty in the Fourth. Such
were the labors of Brown county Demo
cracy in convention assembled.
Senatorial Convention Notes.
Legal proceedings will have to be in
stituted of course to decide whether Pe
terson's or French's name goes on the
ticket in this ceunty as the regular Re
publican nominee. Of the result there
can be no doubt. No court will ever
sanction such underhanded convention
proceedings as gave Peterson a bogus
nomination.
Six newspaper men handled the repor
torial end of the convention—Aiken of
the Redwood Gazette, Hughes of the
Reveille, Bohanan of theLamberton Lea
der, Wright of the Springfield Advance,
Hodges of the Herald and Johnson of
the Review. Hays couldn't be present
as he was busy at the bogus convention
selecting a committee on credentials that
would have the nerve to seat Dick Ger
des with twenty votes,
Editor Hodges and Samuel Dennis,
as the Globe calls him, met on the street
shortly after the latter had been nomina
ted by himself and hislieutenants. When
Hodges offered to shake hands with him,
Peterson said that he supposed he want
ed to congratulate him. Hodges retort
ed that he couldn't do that, inasmuch as
he thought it was his funeral.
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Both Hess and Krook, aschairman and
secretary of the convention held in June,
played a nice role in refusing to furnish
the delegates chosen at that convention
wi+h credentials. Both claimed they had
been made out and handed to Hays or
Smith, but nobody seemed to knpw
where they were, and strange to say, the
chairman as well as the secretary refused
iH«n
to make out new ones. It is hardly ne
cessary to say that we do not envy them
the reputation they are making for them
selves fey such strange practices. ^SM
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Visitors were present at the conven
tion from all over. From Springfield
came Warnke, Erickson, Frank, Sheffield
and Wing from NewUlm, Lind, E. G.
Koch, Rudolph, Boos, Eckstein, Johnson,
Alwin, Schleuder, Wm. Koch and Trae
ger from Redwood Falls, Turrell, An
derson, McKay, Byram, Lankard and ma
ny others.
The real name of Dick Gerdes now
bears a good deal of resemblance to that
applied once upon a time to the individ
ual whom he helped at Sleepy Eye on
Thursday. If we remember rightly the
appelation was first sprung upon the sen
ator over the Western Union wires while
he was at St. Paul a day or so after
his traitorship to Davis,
The delegates to the bogus convention
were the most disconsolate looking fel
lows we have seen since our spring elec
tion. Wonder what made it! Couldn't
have been the pricking ot conscience,
could it?
What do the chairman of the
county committee and the member of
the State Central Committee mean by aid
ing and abetting Peterson's bolt? Do
they think it is heiping the Republican
party any throughout the county? If so,
a visit to various sections would do them
some good.
The four delegates who represented
Brown county were men who believe that
when they are once chosen to perform a
trust, no scheming or trickery will pre
vent them from doing so. Klossner, Muel
ler, Spelbrink and Larrabee were on hand
because they had a right to be and be
cause they were so commissioned, and
whether they were selected through an
o\ ersight of Sam Peterson or not, makes
not a particle of difference,
Poor Dick Gerdes! What a fool he
did make of himself.
If Dick Gerdes ever had any idea that
Redwood county might some day erect a
monument to his memory, he lost all
claim to such a hope when, without any
authority whatever, he went into league
with Peterson at Sleepy Eye on Thurs
day.
The nomination of Jadge French for
senator is one that we can heartily com
mend. In the first instance it means
that the people have begun to move for
ward that they are tired of faithless and
untrustworthy politicians and have turn
ed their faces towards a better and purer
representation of themselves in offices of
every nature. Then again Judge French
is a man whose integrity is unquestioned
and as far as ability is concerned he is so
far superior to the present senator as to
make him far more usefal to his district
if elected. There is a difference between
the two, morally, intellectually and pol
itically, and the difference is all in favor
of the gentleman whom the Republicans
have seen fit to nominate. The one is
honest, while the political character of
the other is as unreliable as can be. The
one is a Republican, the other a political
crow seeking what it may devour. The one
is a man against whom nothing has ever
been said the other a character concern"
ing whom the papers here teemed with
bitter denunciation. For these reasons
we congratulate the Republicans of the
district and trust that Judge French will
be accorded a rousing vote. His election
is conceded to-day, but interest should
be awakened in administering as severe
a rebuke to the man, who is seeking to
force himself upon the people, as possi
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