The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-09-11

Irelmlnaly to our republican county
convention, it is understood that all
the present officers will place them
selves before the convention for re-
nomination, and on their personal
merits We think they deserve we'll
from Republican voters. But the rule
of rotation in office which has hereto
fore prevailed will probably procure
votes for other candidates, and with
the political trading and compromises
inevitable at all conventions, it is hard
" likely that all the old incumbents
viii be re-nominatcd. Two of the
present county officials are serving
their first terms, and from indications
will be rc-nominated without opposi-
ton, as we think they should be, in
conformity to an unwritten law, that
a county official who serves his first
term with credit is entitled to sec
Ond. We refer to our County Treas
urer and Judge OF Probate. Treasur-
or Kucnzli and Judge French will
doubtless be put on the ticket by ac-
clamat;on.
For Representative vox popul has
not yet spoken in unmistakable tones,
but with the separate party movement
taken by the alliance, Of course Mr..
Barber viii not be eligible at the Re
publican convention. Messrs. Kenney
and Shelton, according to tho Reve:lle,
have withdrawn their names from
consideration in that connection, and
tAe only candidate now known to be in
The field is our former representative,
lIr. 0. B. Turrell. The objections that
are likely TO be urged against Mr.. Tur-
rell are that he halls from the county
seat, and that he Goes not pose as a
farmer Public attention has been
directed toward him for the reason
that he has had experience which
qualified him to work for the interests
of his constituents better than any
new man that could be named. His
record for the past twelve years is an
open and honorable one in Redwood
county, and in this part Of the county
at least, he is sure of a STRONG follow
ing.
The GAZETTE still urges that the
farmers attend the caucusas and make
their choice for all nominations known.
The veteran politician who writes
up the Twincite correspondence of
the Northficld News, gives the follow
ing advice to young men:
Intelligent young man, clerk in a
store for three dollars a week and your
chance is good of becoming a million
aire merchant; brake on the railroad
at thirty dollars per month, and you
may become general manager at SlO,-
600 per year; sweep out a bank and
run errands for fifty cents day, and
you are liable to become q rich and
respectable financior; learn to set type
in a printing Office, and while you will
never be great, celebrated or wealthy,
YOU will certainly bego0d, and always
honest and respectable. But eschew
politics. One who has had abundance
Of vita! experience therein assures you
that it don't pay. You can neither
build fortune, character, intelligence
or virtue by running for office Or aid
ing other men to secure public EN-
ployment. The sle2pless struggle for
place and power cultivatas falsehood,
deceit, envy, jealousy, hatred, avarice
all the unclean brood Of bad pas
sions. Politics, like alcoholic stiMu-
lants, is a liar. 1t promises everything
good and gives only evil. 1t feeds you
on Dead sea fruit beautiful to the
sight, ashes to the lips. Chop wood
at seventy five cents per cord; clerk
in livery stable for your board; work
in a saw mill which pays salaries in
s'ab5 do anything but tend bar or
run for office, and you may be happy