The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-01
THE NOMINATIONS.

Since our last issue the Anti-Monopo-
lists have held their State Convention
and also their Congressional District
Convention for the Sd District. The
proceedings will be found elsewhere in
this paper.
The candidate nominated for Chief
Justice, Hon. WEscorr W1LKIN, is one
of the purest and ablest men in the
State. Even the St. Paul Press has to
acknowledge his high character and
fitness for the place, and the only rea-
son it alleges why he should not be
Chief Justice is that the Press does not
want to lose his va liable services in
the local court in Ramsey county, over
which he now presides. This will be
aecognized as the best reason why the
State should have the benefit of those
services. Ramsey county has no right
to monopoiize such man.
Judge Wilkin is brother of the la
.nented Col. Wilkin, who fell in our late
civil war. bravely fighting for his native
land. Wilkin county was named after
him.
Our candidate for Associate Justice,
Hon. WIN. LocHREN, Of Minneapolis, has
earned for himself an enviable reputa-
ton among the lawyers of the State, as
well-read, profound, clear-headed,
honorable man. He served with great
credit in our army during the war.
Leaving lucrative practice and entering
the ranks as private soldier, he for
months bore all the burdens and dis
comforts which fall to the lot Of the
common soldier, until, by mere force Of
merit alone, he was promoted to the po-
sition of lieutenant, which rank he held
at the close of the war.
Both these gentlemen are from the
people and Of the people; and all their
spmpathies are upon the side of the
community in its great struggle with
corporations. We have no doubt they
will both he elected. F. r. E. Cornell,
the candidate on the Republican ticket,
for Associate Justice. has been for years
the attorney of Selah Chamberlain and
the Milwaukee & St.Paul Railroad COM
pany. He was Attorney General of
the State for years, and yet he never
enforced the law:passed in 1871 for the
protection Of the people against the
railroads. During his administration,
as law officer of the State, the railroad
companies treated the people with infin-
lite contempt. To place him on the
bench in this crisis would be simply SUI
icidal for every interest for which We
are contending. His interests, his sym
pathies. are all on the side of the capt.
talists.
The nomination of HoN. EUGENE NJ
WILSON for Congress in the Third Dis
trict, against Bill King, is one eminent
" f. to be made. Mr.. Wilson
name will prove tower Of strength IN
the contest. Thousands Of respecta-
BILE and reputable Republicans, who arr
disguised with King, and alarmed Al
the evident tendencies of the age. viii
vote for WILSON; while he vii
. unite the Anti-Monopolists more
| completely than any other man posi-
bly, could do.
We oppose to Bill King, who. as th'
) St. Paul Press says, sent ''the hario
: of corruption striding in naked horro
, over the District" and whe ssbought u
men and caucuses like sheep for II
1 shambles,' an honest and HONORABLE
). gentleman, who did not seek the noml
: nation, but upon whom it was absolute
e iy forced. We oppose to corruption
: character; and to the mere politician
$ of the baser sort, statesman. Ca
b the people hesitate where to choose!
We cannot refrain from noticing Il
II admirable character of the State ar
l. District Conventions. They we're cor
he posed of the best men of both the o
2 political parties; there was no scram