The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-08-04

stitute the chief element OF our productive
weaith-creating population, are entitled TO tho
cheapest aud best facilities for storing. fhp-
ping aud marketing their products. aud TO tlis
end We favor such laws as will give them cheap
sale and easily obtaimable elevator and ware
house facilities. and win furnish them promptly
and without discrimination, at fair and reason
able rates, proper transportation facilities to
Eighth-Railroad, telegraph and telephone
companies and AL corporations or individuals
charged with and performing any public service
or employment are amenable to public control, |,
and we favor the enactment and enforcement OF
such laws as will compel them TO render the
best and most approved service at q lair, just
and reasonable rate without discrimination as
to persons or places.
AGAINST OPTIONS.
Ninth-The convention approves and re-
adopts the resolutions passed by the last Re-
publican state convention, urging uron con
gress the passage OF the Washburn-Hatch anti
option bill.
Tenth-Realizing the Importance to the peo-
pie OF good pubic highways, we are i'll favor OF
the enactment OF laws Tor the systematic i'm
provement and maintenance OF the same.
PENSIONS.
Eleventh-The debt OF this nation to tn . men
! who preserved it cannot be computed from the
standpoint OF dollars and cents. nations
gratitude is theirs and i'll proof thereof the he
publican party of Minnesota, not grudgingly,
but heartily, cordially and earnestly favors a
system of pensions So liberal as to properly
provide for the living and tender;y protect
from want the widows aud orphans OF tue dead
And we rejoice that the nations growth and
great prosperity of the government they served
warrants us in making this pledge.
Twelfth-We recommend the work and the
object OF the State League OF Republican clubs
and advise continuance OF the same.
Thirteenth-The Republicans OF the state are
heartily in favor of the protection OF its forests
so far as consistent with its general interest
G. X DAVIS NOMINATED
Observation-Disclosures the Republicans OF Min
nesota, recognizing the conspicuous abb lty and
fidelity OF Senator Cushman X. Davis, have
manifested substantial unanimity i'll demand
ing his reelection to the position he has so ably
| filed; and,
Whereas, notable precedents are on record
| for the nomination by state conventions OF men
who ARE evidently the popular choice Tor United
States senator, thus making them the recognized
| candidates OF the party for that high office;
Therefore,
Resolved. That this convention hereby pre-
sents the name OF Cushman X. Davis as the
chosen nominee and candidate OF the Repub-
| ican party of the State of Minnesota for re-
election to the United States senate by the legs-
| lature of 1S93
NELSON NOMINATED.
The convention now being regularly or
| ganized and possessed of platform, was
| ready to transact business. Nominations
| for governor were declared in order and
the first to rise for the purpose of making a
| nominating speech was James A. TaWney
| of Winona. Mounting the platform, he
| gave record of the private life and public
services of Hon. Knute Nelson, and iOl-
lowed up his Biographical sketch by say
ing:
| With a record such as this, such AS he has
| achieved against all the adverse circumstances
| that accompany poverty and lowly birth, is it.
| l ask, at all remarkable that to-day the choice
of all overwhelming ma jority of the Republicans
| OF Minnesota for tie nomination for the office
of governor is Hon. knute Nelson OF Alexandria?
| LCheers
| We are are at this time confronted with ques-
tions OF the most vital Importance to the public
veal; questions we must consider, and. by the
peaceful arbitrament OF the ballot decide on The
| Sth of next November. We have not had, we
will not have, during this last quarter of the
mneteenth century, more important national
issues presented for our consideration and de-
| terminati III than those which to-day divide the
people Of Minnesota into practicalyfiv distinct
| political parties That these questions may be
decided right, decided exclusively
| IN THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE
| Of our state and nation, it becomes us as free
| men, and We owe it to ourselves and to our par
ty, to select its representatives the men whom
| we honestly believe to be the choice of the peo-
| pie. With Harrison and Reid, c. X. Davis and
| Knute Nelson, we can sweep the State OF Mime
| sofa and win for our party and its principles q
| triumphant victory on the Sth OF next Novem-
Der. In behalf therefore, OF Winona county, OF
| large majority OF the Republicans OF this state,
| and especially i'll behalf of the Republicans ol
| Southeastern Minnesota, present to this con-
vention as the nominee Tor the office of gov
| ernor the loyal, patriotic American citizen, Hon.
| Knute Nelson.
| DIR. Smith in a short speech announced
/ that the name OF A. X. McGill had at his
4 request been withdrawn from the contest.
Frank +. Davis of Hennepin then took
| the platform to second the nomination OF
| Knute Nelson lie Said
The face of the Republican party is ever
! turned toward the dawn. 1t batheS itself i'll the
| sunrise of promise ana on the eastern hills o
| progress pitches its tent.
| III the full glow of Gods sunlight, where men
| are prosperous, where happy homes are built
| where wheels OF industry hum, where the face o
| f. eedom lifts itself to the sky and the dark
sp ctre of slavery fees in terror, there it finds
| congenial atmosphere 1t has no field i'll the
shades of night, where unho,y shapes OF want
and famine, OF poverty and calamity revel-
that field it leaves to its opponents. Its orators
| are not calamity orators, its prophets not
| prophets of evil its adherents live not to block
and retard the wheels of progress, but to move
| onward the car of mans advancement and ele
| vatlou into broader fields and higher planes o.
| human existence. Its mission is not ended. Its
mission will not end while unsettled questions
| OF state confront neil in the ever changing Cir
| cumstances of American life.
OBJECTIONS Fave occurred in the ranks OF the
| Republican party i'll the State of Minnesota
| Men have Pravitated from our ranks who have
been loyal for years to our principles and ON
| organizations. We need these forces that have
strayed away from us. They are made of the
men whose hearts are true, put whose judgment
has been led astray BY sophistry, by divers cir
| cumst ance:, Or by misfortune i'll no wise due t
the action or attitude of the Republican party
| lney are among IL CLASS OF yeOmanry WHICH TINS
man can best approach and more completely
reach than any other. Nominate him in this
convention and his shall be the splendid task
not only to be- elected in this campaign, but tC
restore to the Republican party of MinnesotH
the majorties that have made her the envy o
her sister states i'll the West and the admira
ton of her sister statesin the East. He is moi
the choice alone of the country element OF ou
party. / stand here to tender him
THE CORDIAL ENDORSEMENT
OF the mighty metropolis ofthe Northwest. W.
AZ na
and pledge him such a vote in Hennepin county
as Will strike terror into the hearts OF our op
ponents. The cohorts which shall defend hin
aud sustain him i'll is contest will not be draft
ed alone from the brawny sons OF the prairie
but from the men OF the mill, the workshop
the Office and the store, who are as United il
their sentiment that he is the chosen leader o
the campaign before US as are the loyal legon
OF the yeomanry whose choice we know he Is
For Hennepiu county and the city OF Minneap
oils secoud the nomination of Knute Nelson.
After the speech Of Mr. Iavis delegate
rose in all parts of the hall to second th'
nomination Of Mr.. Nelson. w. r. Morris
of Hennepin moved that the nomination
be by acclamation and a rising vote. Th
chairman pat the question, and everybody
with the exc xteption of several Ram ,eJ
county delegates rose ind cheered. Nelsor
| was nominated.
| NELSON SPEAKS.
The chairman appointed a committe!
consisting of J. A. TaWney eK-GoY. BaFtt
and A, Anderson to mott y MIR. Nelson anC
bring him to the hall, and after short alb
sence the committee returned, the applause
welcoming, Mr.. Nelson interrupting tn
nominations for secretary of state. He wa
escorted to the pla form, and after tht
cheering had subsidized he acknowledged
the honor done him in the followIn!
words:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the Conven
ttQn: You have had the goodness to place M
jim qominatton for the high Office Of governo o
} with q qnanimity and under CIRCUMSTANCES gel
dom the lot OF any candidate. For this del Der
ate testimony OF your confidence am gratefu
} beyond measure, and appreciate it all the NOR
because OF the high character and great wpptl
| OF the gentlemen whose names have been asso
Ciated with mine az candidates, and appre
ciate it, oo IRON the fact that we are eon
. fronted with vigilant aud persistent foes CON
templating an active and aggressive campaign
The Democratic party, our old time adverse
| Ey, aside from its snuous history and its lIete
Fogeueals make-up, has taken but faw issue
with Us. and al OF them except one were feigne,
issues.
J member OF congress is o member OF the IegIS
latiVe department. of the federal govepnment
and in voting for such en official tho citi
} zen exercises federal right and per
! forms a federal duty. And any encroacr
| ment upon this right and duty OH the part c
the people authorities Of state, is a dis