St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23
The Outlook for Fusion Sue
cess in North Dakota
Couldn't Be Better.
Weaver Electors Certain to
Have a Good Majority in
the State.
The Next Governor of the
State Will Be Hon. E. C.
D. Shortridge.
Very Slight Prospects Of Re-
publics rs Securing ths
Legislature.
Special to the Globe

Special to the Globe
GRAND FORKS, Y. D.. Oct. 22.-The
I Democratic campaign in this state is
moving in a manner highly satisfactory.
Convinced that the only hope of success
lay IN coalition with the Independents,
number of prominent Democrats at
the Fargo convention expressed that be-
lief, the campaign was organized along
that line. and by presenting a solid front
to the common enemy it has been put
to fight all over the state. E. {. ID.
Shortridge is in the city today. and was
seen by the GLOBE correspondent.
Speaking upon the outlook, he said:
Il think the situation very encourage
ing. 1t seems to me the people are on
top in North Dakota this year. l have
been all over the state. and wherever L
have been the large audiences have
listened to my talks with an eagerness
out of all proportion to my ability as
public speaker; and | can account for
tine crowds and their close attention
only on the ground of the deep interest
which the people of the state at large
feel in the questions involved in this
campaign"
GOV ShOrtrIdge
is an old-line Missouri Democrat. He
formerly lived at Macon. Mo-, and has
always been identified with the cause
of the people. He is still true to the
Democratic principles of Jefferson and
Jackson, and there are not few Re
puOlicanS in this state who openly eX-
press the belief that he will be the next
governor. At Democratic state head
quarters there was a scene OF busy act
lgity As the GLOBE correspondent en-
tered this morning. Secretary JOY was
away in Nelson county looking after
his sheep ranch there. and Capt. ID. W.
Maratta was just visible behind large
pile Of newspapers, letters and statute
books. while thin cloud of blue smoke
assembled ENTHUSIASTICALLY as he paused
between the sentences he was debating
to a busy Stenographer.
You see," said the busy chairman,
1--WE are just entering the labyrinthS of
the new Australian ballot in this state.
andt!ie Republican Solons of the last
Legislative assembly have left the mat
ter in such shape that am afraid each
voter will have to be furnished with an
Interpreter on the Sth of November.
III some of the legislative districts our
candidates have been omitted from the
official ballot, and it looked for a time
so squally that | feared we would be
forced to issue an injunction against
the Republican secretary of state to
Lprevent the tickets from being printed
without the names of our candidates.
However. do not think the omissions
were intentional altogether as the re-
suit Of party feeling, but were due
rather 70 that
Uncertainty and Confusion
naturally attendant upon the adoption
of an entirely new method of procedure.
For Instance there was Judge Corliss,
who is the choice of all parties for SUI
preme justice, whose name was left off
the official ballot, and was only placed
upon the ticket after much veXatiOus
red tape.
lone thing that is worrying our Re-
publican friends this year is that they
cannot locate the enemy with sufficient
accuracy to train their guns upon him.
The great Republican cry in the pres
ent cam paign is Where are those 12.000
Democratic votes cast in 1902 While
/ do not myself feel exactly at home in
a fusion fight. yet l can assure the
Republican gunnerS who are out for>
bear that the bear will be found at Bis
marck next winter with hug OH that
legislature that will choke Republican
United States senator into humiliation.
| have stood up in Dakota and fought
for straight Democracy for twenty
years. and seen our party grow from
| handful to $4,000 straight voters, but as
certain of my Democratic friends
preferred present fusion to Sc
cure future effect. [ cqui-
esced. 1t seems quite plain to me
that the next legislature will not have
its erstwhile Republican majority. The
outlook in this state is very favorable
at present to Democratic success"