Daily globe., 1883-08-20
LIEUT.. GOV. FRAzEE.
i Republican Paper Pulls Down Gill
mans Name and Puts up Frazee.
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[Aitkin Age-Rep.
Owing to the failure of telegraph notice
to reach the Age before going to press on
the 4th inst, the name of r. L. Frszee
could not be substituted where it now ap-
pears in place Of the regular nominee on
the Republican state ticket for lieutenant
governor. The Age had the honor to call
the attention of the Democratic party to
its present nominees for the Office men
toned in advance of any other newspaper
in Minnesota. The rapid and ready re-
sponse with which it was met by both the
press and people of the state is both natural
and very gratifying to the editor of this
paper. When the unfortunate catastrophe
occurred to the Republican party at its late
state convention, wherein, like the man in
the scripture who undertook to go from
Jerusalem to Jericho, they fell into the
hands CT (political thieves, the better ele-
ment in the party revolted from the idea
of being compelled to support disreputa-
BILE candidate simply because he by cum
ming and strategy captured a convention.
People in general are said to be much
alike, but the Age believes that the masses
Of the Republican party in this state desire
to see good men elected to Office. It does
not believe that the fiat of cancus or
convention can bind the honest and indie
pendent voters who compose its rank and
file, 10 cast their ballots for any corrupt
political knave who may have captured a
majority Of its machine politicians. We
are told that ''all men have souls" but he
who discovers the soul of a professional
politician will have to hunt for it through
all eternity. A class of men who attempt
TO bind the will of honest men with cords,
who endeavor to command them to do
that which their better nature reVolts
from, who drive men immeasurably supe-
rior to themselves socially, morally and
intellectually to giving up their franchise
and their manhood at their beck and call,
have 10 claims, no matter what organi-
cation they may appeal through, to COM
mard the vote of honest men. With
this belief firmly established in his mind,
the editor of the Age also believes that
every honest Minnesotian who holds per-
sonal and public honor higher than he does
the comm 2nds of political convention,
will hail the nomination of R. L. Frazee
for lieutenant governor with open and IN
restrained delight.
This is bad season for the pros perity
of political rings, and the Republicans of
Minnesota heve smashed several before.
They have before them name that, by
placing it upon thoir ticket, they each
and every one will do honor to them
selves. AS Republicans, as gentlemen,
as pure and honest citizens, they can
hereafter point with pride to the fact
that they rendered the Minnesota Re-
publican state ticket more worthy the re
spect Of the world by placing upon it the
name of r. L. Frazee for lieutenant gov
ernor. He is M;nnesotian IN whom in
deed is no guile. He is ono of these few
men who never did mean act in his life.
Closely allied since his advent in Mirneso-
ia with its material business interests he
has through long and successful business
career built up & character for integrity,
manly independence and virtue strong and
enduring as the rock Of Gibraltar, against
which the shafts of malice and envy beat
N vain but find no Judgement. He is a man
whom his enemies respect, strangers
honor and his friends revere. He would
bring to an Office of grave responsibilities
pair Of cieaE hands. Gn able brain and
pure heart. He would be Just 10 his enc
mics, impartial to his friends and honest
toward everyone, and no man who voted
for him would ever need to blush for the
act. knowing R. L. Frazee to be worthy,
able and honest, the Age again calls upon
every honest, liberty loving voter i'll Min
nesota who holds honor above party, to
begin now to work for his election and
never cease till the tides of November
shall have purged the escutcheon of tne
ruling party by his triumphant election.