The Irish standard., 1888-10-20

was nominated because OF his luai0ca-
tions for the Office, and not Tor his
services as politician. He is only So
years old, but can show great deal
more for his time in the law library
than his opponent. He has teen a
resident of Minneapolis for the past IL
years, during which time he has made
many friends. If elected to the bench,
which he is sure to be, he will make s.
wise, learned and conscientious Judge.
and the people will have no reason to
regret the selection Of such an upright
lawyer aud citizen, a great deal more
than can be said Of his opponent.
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Hon. Charles Canning has received
another handsome endorsement from
his friends of toll. "A few DAYS ago The
farmers of Grant, Stevens and Traverse
counties met and adopted resolutions
endorsing him as a true exponent OF taa
Farmers Alliance, and pledglng hina
their political support. Albert SchelfeT
of St. Paul was present at the mestlng,
and in order to keep his promise not &c
speak against Merriam, he contented
himself with asking the farmers to
stand by r. j. Hall, their representative
candidate for the legislature Hespnke
of the Alliance as the only hope OF the
farmer, and advised them to stand by
one another. He did not mention Mr,
Canning's nance, but said q good deal
in favor OF the principles the Norman
county farmer advocates.
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"Where is Mark III. Duunell the Re
publican nominee for Congress III the
First district2" inquiries correspon-
dent. Mr.. Dunnell, as far as we Know,
is doing ali he can to beat Judge Will
son for Congress. He is circulating ali
kinds of campaign lies through this
First district against Mr.. Wilson. The
latter's challenge to discuss matters Of
general interest to the voters Of the
district was only partially accepted BY
MIR. Dnnnell. He wansed to speak Oh
national issues, and Mr.. Wilson
thought it was more important to the
people whose votes they were soliciting,
that the congressional records Of both
candidates be laid bare before their
supporters. This Was too much for hfr.
Dunnell; he was afraid Mr.. Wilson
would show up some Of his official acts
in Washington, and that instead OF
making he would lose votes thereby.
MIR, Wilson was anxious to let the PEG
ple see what Mr.. Dunnell had done for
them during his many terms in Con-
gress, and was willing that his term Of
two years should be open to inspection.
We have got here the exact positions
OF these two candidates: Judge Will
son is not afraid to let the world see his
congressional record, while Mr.. Dun
nell is. This is the man the Republic
cans of the First district want sent to
Congress-; a man who is ashamed Of tbs
record he made there; a man who ID
afraid to let his supporters know Whit
he did behind the scenes in the national
capitol. If such q man is worthy Of y
single vote in that district then why
not put premium on Doodle, and let
the watchword be 'tno honest me,
need apply
The Democrats and Republicans OF
Minneapolis put themselves to q very
unnecessary expense in holding city
conventions this year. 1t was thought
that when the conventions were held
the defeated candidates would take
their medicine without thurman, ex-
cept perhaps in few cases where job
berry triumphed over the people when
the latter were helpless to do anything.
The Eighth ward Republicans were the
first to smash the harness and nominate
an independent ticket. Though the
example was set by Republicans, the
Democrats Of some Of the other wards
thought it was good enough to copy,
and they broke loose in the Seventh
ward. Alderman Dryer, who was
entitled to the nomination, was beaten
in the convention by despicable COM
bination, the like of which was never
known before, and to do his duty he
came out as an independent candidate.
1t looks now as if he would be elected.
In the Ninth ward the Democrats were
not satisfied with the nominees of the
city convention, and have pnt UP three
other aldermen; the same is the case in
the Third ward where Alderman Mills
leads the dissatisfied ones. BE was
fairly beaten i'll the ca'1c;sasses but he
thought differently and now there are
four different tickets in the ward. The
Eleventh is torsl to pieces on all sides,
as also is Tie Sixth where Alderman
Gleason was 50 cowardly defeated. Ali
around the political scondi tion OF affairs
is mixed and it looks IS i nunaber OF
the dle' cor vention nomine would ~ pdee
;teated u ss