St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-28
A Careful and Conservative
Review Of the Field in
North Dakota.
The Republican Majority Will
Be Whitfield Away to a
Small Figure,
And Some of the Democratic
State Candidates May Pull
Through.
There Will Be More Demo-
Gratis in the Legislature
Than Ever Before.
Special to the GLOBE.

Special to the GLOBE.
BISMARCK, n. D., Sept. 2T.-That the
Republicans will carry North Dakota is
not conceded by all. That every ad-
vantage is with the party, that all the
powerful combination for the control
and corruptions of the voters are work
ing in the interest of the Republican
candidates, and that sufficient money
has been supplied 10 enable the party to
make a vigorous campaign, is patent to
all; but there are many who, having
watched the progress of events in the
new state during the past few months,
believe tnat at least some of the Demo
cratic state ticket will be elected. 1t is,
indeed, to be regretted by the friends
of tariff reform that the national Demo-
cratic committee did not act more wisely
with regard to this state. Had the COM
mittee come to the rescue of the Demo-
Gratis of North Dakota. as the Repub-
lican national committee did to the Re-
publicans. very different story would
be told on Oct l. The Democrats of
North Dakota are poor in purse. They
honey of official patronage, their work
ers have been discouraged by years of
SUCCESSIVE DEFEATS
and yet at the first fight for state Off
GERS, a congressman and virtually for
two United States senators, the party in
Dakota is left to It's own financial re-
sources. AS result there is no Demo-
cratic campaign, and the Republicans
are having a high old time prancing
around the territory with their unchal-
lenged fallacieS and unanswered cam
paign buncombe. However, the local
campaigns in the various counties are
interesting, and the Democrats are
doing what lies in their power to hold
their party in line in their respective
localities. The majority which the Re-
publican state ticket will have is eStj-
mated all the way from 5000 to 5000.
l think it will be nearer the former
than the latter. 1t will be nearer 5000
than 10000. Were the Democrats max
ing as vigorous a campaign as the Re-
publicans, it would be nearer than
1000, and in all probability the Demo
cratic candidates for governor and con-
gresSman would be elected. There are
those who believe that as it iS-withOut
an effort on the part of the national
DemOcracy-D. w. Maratta will be
THE FIRST CONGRESSMAN
from the state of North Dakota, and W.
n. Roach will be the first governor. A
larger number of Democrats will be
elected to the legislature than ever be-
fore in the history of the territory, and
the United States senatorial fight will
have many unexpected phases. There
seems to he general concession that
eX-Gov. Pierce will be elected as one of
cient number of Republican legislative
nominees have been instructed for him
to insure his election - provided, of
course, his party's nominees are not de-
feated. With regard to Pierce'S run.
ming mate there is much speculation.
Ex-Gov. Ordway is in the harness, and,
as will be seen by his recent card to the
public, he is there to stay until he is
recognized. His friends claim that at
least twenty of the Republican nom-
inees in the Red River valley are favor
able to him. Ordway claims in his card
that nearly all who have been instructed
for Pierce are favorable to him, and if
both these claims are we'll founded it is
pretty safe to wager that he
WILL BE A WINNER.
p. J. McCumber, of Richland county,
would have a good following if it were
the Scandinavian statesman from La.
kota. Johnson is running on the Farm
ers' Alliance platform; he is also lean
ing no small part of his weight on the
Prohibition structure, and he allows no
other man to get within gunshOt of the
Scandinavian vote. This is no mean
combination when it comes to getting
votes, and Johnson will come to Bis
marck with positive strength. But he
will not be elected United States Sena-
tor unless the other candidates with
draw in his favor, and this does not
seem probable. George Walsh, of
Grand Forks, will be pretty good COM
promise candidate, and, with the ex-
ception of the opposition he will meet
at the hands of Secretary Richardson's
friends, will carry his home county
pretty unanimously. The contests
in the several judicial districts are
among the most interesting and
EXCITING FEATURES
of the compaigu. In the Fargo district
there is little doubt that Judge William
B, Mcconnell will be elected. He is a
staunch Democrat, has hundreds of
friends, and, with the recent ''black
list" exposures that have been made by
the Fargo Argus against Stone & New
man. the defeat of Newman is a fore
gone conclusion In this. the Bismarck
district, John C. Hallembalz, the Demo-
cratic nominee for judge, may not be
elected; but. if he is not. those who have
made a canvass of the district will be
very much surprised. His opponent,
w. II. Winchester, has the support of
the combination, but the Republicans
who believe in nOn-partiSan bench,
and who do not believe in Winchester,
are working vigorously for his defeat.
There is Republican majority of 1,700
in the district to overcome, and, of
course, this is no easy task.
In the jamestown district Judge Rose,
who has been the Democratic incum-
bent during the past two years, will
make a good run. and predictions that
he will defeat Hewitt, the young Re-
publican nominee, are numerous. No
one doubts that Judge Templeton, the
Democratic candidate in the Grand
Forks district, will be reelected, and j.
+. O'Brien. the popular young Demo
crat of Devils Lake, who is one of the
brightest lawyers in the state, will give
the Republicans mighty interesting
contest in his district. The only dis
trict in which the Republican candidate
for Judge seems to have
A WALK-AwAY
is in the Southeastern, where W. l..
Lander, the prim and proper ex-consti-
tutional convention delegate of Rich
land county, is the nominee. The fight
in this district was probably settled
when Lander knocked out Pennington
in the Republican convention. On
Tuesday next the story will be told.
Everything is now in readiness for the
grand finale. North Dakota will be
State with a full set of officers, and
the. f9rluDate candidatesiwhO will have