St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-14
PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE.
johnson Attempts the Double
Cross on His Party Friends.
Special 10 the Globe.

SpSCidi ~ GlODe-
BISMARCK, Oct. 13.-The angularity
of the North Dakota congressional con-
test demonstrates to nicely the char
acteristies of the two contestants. Mr..
johnson has evidently promised Maj.
Ball that, if elected, he will turn over
the entire Scandinavian force to secure
his (Bali'S) election to the United States
senate. Then comes HanSbrough, who
must be conclliated for his defeat by
Johnson; and it is in evidence, and be-
lieyed by many, that Johnson has made
the same deal with him that was made
with Ball. But now comes Pierce, with
his great political head, who demands
this same support from johnson. Un-
like MIR. Hansbrough, he has no record
to present of anything he has done for
North Dakota while member of the
senate. In fact, it is hard to discover
wherein any Of the representatives have
done anything for the people of this
state worth mentioning; at the same
time it is acknowledged and believed
that Hansbrough has done all he could,
and was entitled to denomination
and the Lord only knows how many
more, are candidates for the
United States senate, and all
of them have the promise of Mr..
Johnson for his Scandinavian fol-
lowing, what sort of man is he?
Is he fit to represent the progress sive
people of North Dakota, or is he not
better fitted for cell in the jamestown
asylum among the healthy imbeciles?
No reflections are intended to be cast
upon the Scandinavian people, only in
this, that they have trotted out half
blood jackass, while they have hun
dreds of far ADLER and better fitted men
for the position, aud no doubt one who
could have been elected. These dis
honest and treacherous deals ought to
defeat any candidate. and must result
in MIR. Johnson's retirement from polit-
ical life, the best thing that could ever
occur to him or his party.
Upon the other hand Mr.. Benton is
in the field untrammeled by any agree
ments or promises to any one. His rec
ord is clear of ali political combinations,
and he stands before the people to-day
as the champion of the best interests of
the farmer, the laboring man and the
business men Of North Dakota. No
one ever questioned his ability, no one
ever spoke a truthful word that
would in any manner reflect upon his
integrity. The only attacks up to the
present time have emanated from i'm
beetle newspapers, who know no way
OF defeating man for office but to
throw mud. and the thinnest kind of
mud at that. As man of intellect, of
ability, of genuine manhood. he stands
far above his competitor. and is repre-
senting what will soon be his conStitu-
eney in manner Of which all the hon
est people OF North Dakota are proud,
and who will reward him at the polls in
November; and more. his honorable
course in the canvass has been such as
friends, and will never be forgotten.
His name will be household word
among the people of his state, and all
will be proud of the record he has made
for himself, aud ever honor him as
man of the people-alWays for the peo-
pie and their interests as against the
combinations, trusts and monopolIes