Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-11-12

Count " Ia y ne q dJstrlc confirm our
stateme,1 made last week that The
straight 5Repnl,l lean legislative ticket
was elected The ma ority IS narrow
but it las the satisfactory result. The
district is to be congratul ated on
the result. and the delegation from
the sssstil Will be surnassed by none. iii
the legislature, and the result IS all
the more satisfactory when we consid-
2er the character Of the men who were
dafeated by the election Of the Re-
publican candidates. The campaign
made by the Democratic nominees
was one that meriten failure. Where
ever 4 crowd could be gathered TO-
| gether IL any part af the district they
were i,arat, g1ed i'll the most approved
style by den1agoruss. The people
were told that tlle Republican cansii-t
dates had 10 sympathy with ths. in
tcrests of the masses or oflthe develop.
ment Of the co:ntrv, and that they
THE l,en}otrsts1 had rel',ctently. taken
| The field tn.rrotect the great intrpsts
OF this section, az coantry. Siinilsr
nonsense was repeated by the bour to
Tall who wonld listen, and the result
shows Just how mnch stock their
hearers took in the sDeteh. The
attempt to represent Mr. Buck man as
air;ena Of tle monoposies lnet,with
dismal failure in the fact of his record
and known feeling. Duncan from Todd
county AS well~as the Democrats, and
had strolling ideas about what he
" onltl do. when placed in the legis
'afure. How false were his claims is
shown by the returns from Todd
county, whore he received less than
700 Of the 1900 votes cast: and this in
a county where almost all voters are
farmers and where Anses received 8
majority. TAI Lee, tina: terrible
banker, beat him over 675 votes in bis
own home. St'vers, the "lahor'' Call
dldate from Brainer,I, didn't set the
necessary votes. He was according to
his own story the choice Of the work
lngA'an Of Brainert', most OF whom
were Republicans He also represent
ted. the Democrats Of Grow Wing
county, also the farmers. He defied
opponents to meet him in debate and
alleged that his arguments were
unanswerable. The facts were that his
argument. didn't need answering
except by the votes Of his hearers.
'lum, the schenning railroad attorney.
carried Crow Wing county by over 300
majority, end nearly all the voters
they are either Iahorng men or
farmers and AmeS received a majority
[ot 200. OF Our Moses we shall no,
speak; it WAS bad company that
knocked him out.
b the election Of the Republican
candidates for senator and yepresen-
tive the people Of the district have
p"ced their Legislative affairs in the
hands Of able and honest men, who
Will devote their energies to sec,1rjnr
enactncnts of law that will benefit the
people OF the state at large and their
constituents in particular, Few, if
any, oftle voters believed that thew
would favor laws that were detrimental
TO the pnblic's good, and the efforts to
create that information were fruitle IS.
:. 1t was ole cry, and it was an insult to
the intelligence Of The voters to
make a campaign on that issue. Buck
n1;H}.s Flynn, Lee and Lum a,e all
EEsiness men who have no Interest in
Opposing any measure that WAS hest for
HE. people. The large vote received hv
FLYNN in This county, Ito, shows tina,
where be is best known the public had
confidence in, him, and results viii show
that thai confidence was not misplaced.