Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-10-25

Light Thrown on the Official
Record of Auditor Bierman,
What Will the Democrats Dc
With Judge Willis, Who
Takes Pride in Being a Third
Party Man.
The Democrats Of Minnesota. after a
desperate struggle between conscience
md expediency, have at last got q
ticket in the field. The convention OF
the party held in st. Paul on Wednes-
day last was a curious spectacle. For
weeks beforehand, the Democrats OF
the state had thought of nothing else
but the issue-to fuse, or not to fuse.
III spite Of the melancholy experiences
OF two years ago, there was a very
large element of those hungry for local
Office who insisted on another joiut
campaign with the Populists. To the
credit Of the party it must be said, how
ever, that there were enough stead.
Easily opposed to this program to defeat
1t When the convention assembled
there was no one who dared stem the
tide CT anti-fusion sentiment, or give to
the fusion scheme anything more than
q covert support This would have been
more praiseWorthy if the party had not
given the lie to all its fine pretensions
Ut the last moment by indorsing one Of
the candidates, and that one perhaps
the most Objectionable Of them all,
named in the Popnlist ticket.
oiFcinl Record OF Auditor Bierman.
The only two candidates Of any par
tlcular interest in this convention were
those of Mr.. Bierman for state auditor
and Judge Willis for associate justice of
the supreme court. The remainder of
the offices are filled with such Demo
Gratis as would consent to accept nom.
nations; most of them quite respect
able, and most of them, except General
Becker and Mr.. Ludwig, known to very
few people outside Of their Immediate
constituencies. Whatever may have
been his private reasons for fighting
Mr. Bierman, Mr.. Doran's head was ex-
ceedingly level when he declared that
the Democratic party could not afford
70 carry into the coming campaign the
handicap of its present state auditor.
huge frauds have already been I'M.
carthed in the matter of state pine
lands that have been carried through
during the incumbency of Mr.. Bierman.
A large amount of money has been re.
covered to the state from those who
proiited by these illegal transactions. It
is said by one OF the committee, now at
work on timber frauds, that the total
misrepresentation of state property dis
covered up to date will exceed Il million
dollars. 1t would be a very difficult
matter to persuade any voter that mis-
demeanors of this number and amount
could be committed, and a record of the
transactions passed through the state
al3itor's Office, without any suspicion
upon his part of misdoings. If Mr..
Biex1man's conduct of his office has been
thoroughly honest, then he is too care
less q man to trust with the immense
interests of the state i'll its public lands.
As far as he is concerned, the Demo
cratic campaign must be. o defensive
enc from first to last
What VIII Democrats Say About Willise
Less eycusable will the straight out
Democrats OF the state consider the nc
ton of the convention in indorsing the
Populist candidate for associate Justice
OF the supreme court If there is one
place in the government to which
Populist should not be admitted under
any circumstances OF on any plea, it is
its highest judicial tribunal. The Peo-
pies party has no respect Tor law In
every state in which it has been in
power it has assumed that might
makes right as thoroughly as any des-
pot who ever lived 70 put such men
rs this upon the bench is to say that
justice shall 10 longer be considered,
and that laws shall be interpreted ac-
cording to the personal or political in
terests of those who administer them.
Tried by this test, Judge Willis is as
good a Populist as any Of them. His
record on the bench of Ramsey county
is the record Of q ranting demagogue
IEe has repeatedly prostituted his hiss
citice TO the basest partisan ends IT
VI us service such as this that endeared
aiGl sufficiently to the Populist party to
mako him their willing and welcome
nominee He has never disclaimed
their principles, and in accepting him
the Democrats of this state have as
sunled all the dishonor of fusion with.
out receiving single compensating adj.
vantage. Nothing can save them from
the consequences of this but a prompt
end public rejection on the part OF
Democratic voters of the Populist can
sGis!a.e.
Democratic Platform Lacks Meaning
The platform adopted does not con.
taina single definite and clear cut prop.
ositian Amy man of any party might
take his stand upon its vague and gilt
tering generalities and declare that
they expressed hiss political faith. We
al of us believe ina safe and sound
currency; in the rights Of labor; in
equal justice to employer and employe;
in just pension system, and in arbi-
traticn as @ method of settling labor
disputes; but as to the specific methods
by WHICH any of these general objects
are to be attained the platform is wholly
silent and wholly worthless. It is as
little inspiring as the ticket nominated
or as the debates of the convention.
They all have the funeral air of one
prepared and resigned to his fate.
Z he leaders Of the Peoples party are
not little chagrined by their failure to
mike a ten-strike out of the observance
of Labor day TWAS down on their
bills to have speakers of their own har.
argue vast crowds Of working nen
everywhere on that day, and call In a
small army of recruits for the Peoples
party in November. 1t was a pretty
good scheme, based on the dissatisfac-
ton Of labor with recent events, and on,
the public advice Of a few heads Of
labor organizations to their members to