Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-20
the TWO CONVENTIONS.

Notwithstanding the friendly sugges'
tons Of the INTER OCEAN last week thai
the two conventions which met here
Saturday would do well to indorse the
farmers nominated by the Republicans
nothing Of the kind was done. The
Democrats mapped out the program,
and the Peoples convention, under the
management Of Nj. Mooers, followed it
but the following was not very enthusi.
astic. Nine-tenths of the delegates who
were in the Peoples convention are Re
publicans, and It is preposterous TO sup.
pose, because Mr.. Mooers declared 1.-THE
ayes seem to have it, on tho motion to
adopt the conference committees re.
port, that the entire convention. or even
a majority Of it. is thus pledged TO sup.
port Gov. .Church's nominee for cor.
|gress, Whatever reason there may
haye been for holding q Peoples con.
vention, it did not grow out Of a desire
on the part Of the people TO vote for a
EL IT'D. f-
candidate to congress who represents
the most corrupt and incompetent ad-
ministratlon ever fastened upon a terri
tory.
As to the legislature, the Democratic
convention Endorsed two men Of their
own political faith in Walsh county and
an elevator man in Ramsey. Messrs.
Bisset and Stewart of Walsh, being Dem
ocrats Of the most violent type, would
of course, il elected, assist Gov. Church
'in'his raids upon the territorial treasury
and the territorial honor. Az partisans
of the Church stamp, they would be
Obliged to 'tstay with" his imported ex.
cellency. As to what Mr.. Moeers would
do, if elected, we have not been able to
learn. His anxiety to 30 TO Bismarck
is much greater than seems justified by
the $500 compensation Of a Legislator.
Being an elevator man of twenty years
experience and q farmer simply by
proxy, we are inclined to look upon his
candidacy with no small or inconsider-
able suspicious The Democratic man
ayers are of course doing what they can
for Church, because Church is the ''big
lnjun" of their party and is the direct
and official dispenser of the spoils.
They nominated Mr.. Mooers because
they thought it might help put MI. Bis.
set IN the council, where he would be OF
service to the governor. II by an un.
fortunate accident Messrs. Bisset, Stew
art and Mooers should be elected, the
Democrats would ut once claim it as "a
great Democratic victory" and the part
the Peoples convention took in the
matter would be entirely lost sight of.
The genuine Farmers OF Walsh and
Ramsey counties will make no mistake
il they cast their ballots for Roger AL.
len, Nate Upham and DR.. Swapston, who
belong to that class OF farmers who do
not monkey" with Church politics and
are not engaged in the elevator business
ct fat salaries, but ride their own sulky
plows and enter personally into the
work of the farm.
AS to the county ticket, the People,
convention was led into an additions,
error, to-wit: Its strength as y conven
ton was weakened when it passed by
Henry Hale and Albert Roberts 1.-TWO rep
resentatlve farmers, aud nominated two
d~ruggists-Messrs. Taylor and Mackey
Kay. There ia nothing that we know Of
against the character and ability Of either
of the two latter gentlemen, but the
Peoples convention was supposed to be
and should have been favorable to farm.
ers. Messls. Hale and Roberts are farm.
ers, and their competency and honesty
cannot be questioned. It is suspected
that they may have failed or neglected
to subscribe to Manager Mooers' eleva,
tor; hence he did not propose to nomi
nate them to Office.
Mr.. Mooers should not have missed
so good an opportunity to indorse real
farmerd. The rare jewel Of political
consistency is so seldom seer in the
deep waters in which Mr.. Mooers is nov
esssying to swim, that it is surprising h,
should have failed to grasp the gen,
while it was within reach.