The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-08-25
"A VACANT CHAIR.
The Democratic Legislative Con-
ventiOn NOminates only Three
Representatives.
The Fourth Place on the Ticket
Reserved for Dickering
Purposes.
A Weak Ticket and the Demo-
Gratis Have no Hope Of
Electing 1t.

| Gratis Have no Hope Of
Electing 1t.
| The report of the Democratic legis-
lative convention held at Little Falls
reached us too late for publ
cation in our last weeks issue. AS
announced in the UNION, only three
| candidates were nOminated-Hon. H.
G. Stivers, of Brainerd; Hon J. H.
Sheets, of Todd; and Henry Raiscot,
ex-sheriff of Morrison county. And.
on motion, of Senator Geissel, the
fourth place was left open to be filled
by man satisfactory to the Farmers
Alliance. Senator Geissel supple
mented his motion by a speech in
which he said that all the opponents of
! the Republican party were anxious for
reform, and that the Democrats desired
to unite with the Peoples Party in de-
feating Republicans in this district.
A laudable ambition on the part of the
| senator. The senator is proud of the
record made by the four Democrats
from the 18th district in the last legis-
lature-the most corrupt and profigate
| legislature that ever assembled in the
State capitol. A legislature that
raised the State taxes to figure never
before approached in the history of the
State. Senator, consult the pages of
the house journal, and then point with
pride to the votes of the Democratic
members from the 10th district on the
interest bill, the Currier distance tariff
bill, the Duluth & Winnipeg land
grant bill, and, in fact, every measure
in which the railroad and banking cor
porations were interested, and in al
most every instance you will find that
the Democratic reformers from the
18th senatorial district voted as the
monopolists would have them vote.
But we digress. More of this with a
full bill of particulars later on in the
campaign.
After Messrs. Stivers, Sheets and
Raiscot had been nominated by &C
clamation, a Legislative committee con-
sisting of F. W. Lyon, B. T. Theigs, E.
E. Price and S. W. Searle was
appointed, and this committee was en-
powered to select the fourth candidate.
Referring to the contest in Mile
Laos over it's one lonely delegate, the
Transcript has this to say: 1.-THE con-
test from Mile Laos was a rather
peculiar affair. The fight at the
county convention was very hot one,
and the convention split. The faction
favorable to E. E. Price for represent
ative elected A. D. Cater as delegate,
and that favorable to Mr.. Cordiner
elected Judge Chas. Keith as delegate.
The feeling was very bitter between
the two opponents, and their represent
atives came over the day before the
convention, with the evident intention
of pressing their claims. However,
before the convention met one side
gave its proxy to Mr.. Geissel and the
other to Mr.. Lyon, and each declared
no candidate was preferable to the
other fellow, and then went home.
! The result is that Mile Laos gets no
representative on the ticket
The contest in Mile Laos was made
the pretext for barring the county
from representation on the ticket.
Todd and Grow Wing counties had
combined to shut out Mile Laos
county, and it did not take the gentle
men who were present from this county
long to discover that that was the pro-
gram, hence the friends of Messrs.
Cordiner and Price did not think it
worth while to remain and see the deal
cOnsumated.
The convention was a tame affair and
those who participated in it plainly
discerned the handwriting on the wall.
They knew that the ticket placed in
| nomination was doomed to defeat at
the polls, hence there was no strug-
gle for places on the ticket.
Time and again the oracles of the
Peoples's Party have asserted that
there could be no fusion between the
Peoples Party and the subservient
! tools of Jim Hill and Mike Doran, alias
the Democratic party. Hon. j. III.
Sheets claims to be a Peoples Party
man, yet he is a delegate to Demo-
cratic convention and accepts q nomin-
alton at the hands of that convention.
Hon. II. 9. Stivers is a member of the
Democratic State Central committee,
and in the last legislature voted against
every cardinal measure proposed and
cham pioned by the Alliance, yet, if the
deal is carried out, his name will be